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The urban experience and subjectivities of people are constituted in each other, both affect and shape the other. Peoples’ bodies, as humans and urban subjects, move in places that are materially produced in relation to urban political economic decisions which evolved over time. The monolith of ..

Taking our lead from the Kurdish slogan “women, life, freedom” and from the feminist origins of the current uprising in Iran, we offer these readings to encourage critical engagement and debate within a transnational context. This unprecedented feminist revolutionary movement has challenged many..

The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting an “Essential Readings” list on a topic/theme pertinent to their research/speci..

The Arab world has not urbanized in isolation. There is a vast literature that has tried to come to grips with the planetary scale of urbanization over the past fifty years within the field of urban studies. This work led by critical urban studies scholars Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and more ..

The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two and a half years—I am writing in the spring of 2022—has brought with it a renewed interest in public health and, when it comes to the Middle East, broader interest in how populations there e..

The last century of political ruptures and upheavals in Palestine was also one of remarkable urban transformation. Until recently, scholarship on the modern history of Palestine overlooked the material and spatial changes that cities underwent as they entered the nineteenth and twentieth centuri..

The quest for a sense of self dominated much of contemporary Arab thought in general and contemporary Arab philosophy in particular. The search for a thought of one’s own that positions the self vis-à-vis the dominating West had become a major preoccupation in the second half of the nineteenth c..

Studies of the Kurds and their struggle for self-determination largely focus on nationalism and ethnic/minority relations within countries that Kurds are divided between (i.e., Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey). Most of these studies associate Kurdish political organizations in a given state to a b..

Some of the best material for understanding the breadth and depth of displacement frames the refugee movements in historical, political, environmental, social, legal, and economic contexts. This type of writing contrasts with the reports by aid providers or policy work, which are more descriptiv..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

We are pleased to share this annual review of our Essential Readings (ER) series. Individual ERs serve as teaching and research resources a specific geographic, temporal, and/or thematic subject by providing annotated lists of key works on the subject. Be..

This collection of texts in English, Arabic and French is a first attempt to gather secondary sources discussing the revolutionary mobilization that started in Algeria in February 2019. Since then, the four-term President Bouteflika has been forced to resign and the longstanding Chief of Staff o..

Things are dire in Palestine. Not only politically, but also environmentally. Palestinians are so continuously forced to live inundated by wastes and a sense of their own wastefulness, that waste and the environment have collapsed to form a single ecology. This ecology shapes much about social, ..

The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting ..

This Essential Reading is the “Egypt” installment of a focused series on “The Left" in the Middle East. Encompassing a broad range of entry points to researching and teaching the left, the series emphasizes communist and socialist components, while allowing authors to define the specific paramet..

The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting an “Es..

As Joel Gordon remarks in a review article published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies in 2018, pop culture studies in our field have come a long way over the past two decades. Yet, it remains relatively understudied within Middle Eastern studies in comparison to what ..