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Between 2015 and 2016, as I was completing my previous book, Media in New Turkey, I observed a significant uptick in the Erdoğan government’s external communication efforts. The government launched TRT World to reach English-speaking audiences around the world and to ..

As we near the fifth month of Israel’s war on Gaza, discussions have increased over what happens the “day after” a permanent ceasefire. While it is difficult to contemplate this at the current moment, it is crucial that Palestinians and their supporters counter this and articulate a vision for w..

A specific event inspired the conception of this book: a demonstration of approximately 180,000 people in London in support of Palestinians in May 2021, concurrent with the latest Israeli attack on Gaza.

The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced. The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and faciliates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the Uni..

In the Fall of 2022, the authors of this article published an edited book exploring the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror.[1] It was the first work of its kind to explore the complexities and depths of Islamophobic trends as an outgrowth of the War on Terror across six continents,..

On 25 May 2023, the MESA Global Academy and Arab Studies Institute hosted an online panel of experts to discuss the recent presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey.

The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced in North America.

The following is the MESA Global Academy Winter 2023 Newsletter.

Over the past two weeks, Moroccans worldwide have been on a wild ride as their team pushed far into the 2022 World Cup elimination stages. In the round of 16, the heroic saves of the Montreal-born and Casablanca-grown Moroccan goalkeeper, Yassine “Bono” Bounou, and the Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi’..

From the earliest stages of conceptualizing the research project that eventually became Argentina in the Global Middle East, I knew that I wanted to do work that would take me to a diverse array of Argentine geographies.

After spending two summers in Cairo interning in the offices of global aid organizations, where I was researching questions around medicine and globalization in the Middle East, I noticed how children and youth were so frequently the targets of global health an..

On behalf of the Security in Context (SiC) initiative, we are excited to introduce Global Insecurity, SiC’s online magazine and blog. 

This two-week immersive course will help students deliberate all these questions by placing the modern Middle East in its global context without losing sight of local and regional dynamics, cultures, and political traditions. It is informed by critical engagement with international relations sch..

Applications are invited for a fully funded three-year CHASE doctoral studentship, jointly supervised within the Departments of Politics and International Studies (SOAS University of London), History, Classics and Archaeology (Birkbeck College, University of London), and the Arab and African Res..

The MESA Global Academy is an interdisciplinary initiative of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) designed to sustain essential research collaborations and knowledge production among MENA-focused academics by providing competitive scholarships to displaced scholars from t..

On Thursday, 18 November, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Cas Mudde about the global far right. This episode of Connections examines whether the far right is today ascendant or in decline, and the extent to which it forms a coherent global movement. 

I first started thinking about this project over a decade ago when, like many friends and colleagues, I was becoming increasingly frustrated by the nature of the dominant discourse about Muslim women.

Join us on Thursday, 18 November for a conversation with Cas Mudde about the global far right. This episode of Connections will examine whether the far right is today ascendant or in decline, and the extent to which it forms a coherent global movement. 

In 1912, the Egyptian Islamic reformist journal al-Manar published a one-page piece on revolution (al-thawra) by a young Shi‘i scholar in Najaf, Iraq (to use the geographical terms in the article’s signature), Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani. The previous year, Shahrastani had shut..

Nubian displacement is a known consequence of the construction of the Aswan High Dam (1960-71). Centering this displacement in histories of Afro-Arab solidarity, however, sheds new light on the hydropolitics that shaped the dam’s construction as well as on the contradictions of      Bandung-era ..

On Wednesday, 1 September, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with digital rights campaigner Marwa Fatafta and  about recent revelations concerning the NSO/Pegasus digital espionage program and its broader implications. This episode of Connections..

Join us on Wednesday, 1 September for a conversation with digital rights campaigner Marwa Fatafta about recent revelations concerning the NSO/Pegasus digital espionage program and its broader implications. This episode of Connections will examine the human and political and dimensions of digital..

Imprisonment has long been a central tactic for managing and confining members of populations deemed to be risky, hostile, or superfluous. Today, we are witnessing the expanding reach of carcerality with effects extending beyond prison walls. Our conference is an invitation to reflect upon this ..

Even though we, two Middle East studies enthusiasts, had thought for some time about the need for such a book for teaching and informing a general audience, the proposition for it originally came from the University of California Press.