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This project originated in the Society for Armenian Studies conference “‘Diaspora and Stateless Power’: Social Discipline and Identity Formation Across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century” that was held at the University of California, Los A..

I grew up listening to the music of Fairouz through my parents who would start their days by playing her songs. However, she became more meaningful to me as I left home to pursue my degrees in higher education. There was a particular moment I remember when I wa..

On Tuesday, 18 October, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Hesham Sallam discussed class and identity politics in Egypt. This episode of Connections examines the interplay between class, identity, and the state in contemporary Egypt, and how these dynamics contribute to the persistence of aut..

Join us on Tuesday, 18 October for a discussion about Egypt with Hesham Sallam. This episode of Connections will examine the interplay between class, identity, and the state in contemporary Egypt, and how these dynamics contribute to the persistence of authoritarian rule and weak..

I speak Tamazight. It is my mother tongue. A language that has been both within and out of reach. Both close and distant. Both intimate and elusive. Tamazight has always been available to me at home and in familial settings, but it was never part of my academic or intellectual instruction. In my..

The proliferation of Amazigh culture for the sake of sustainability, maintenance, and resistance has taken assorted modes of expression and dissemination. While Amazigh intellectual production was slowed down by various factors, Berber/Amazigh music has thrived in the middle of a politically and..

I began to reflect on my experiences with the Palestinian community in Chicago during the 1990s as I was finishing my first book, Identity and Reli..

EP4 - Chapter 7: Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity: Revised and Updated Edition

In this podcast, Omar Shanti will trace Raï throughout its history from its inception in the 1930’s until the early 2000’s. Raï is analyzed not only as a strictly musical phenomenon, but as a vehicle for articulating and embodying complex narratives. With special thanks to LMNT @digitalmnt for t..

“All of Israel is Iraqi,” the Israeli tabloid Israel Ha-Yom declared following the sell-out concert of musician Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis, where the audience sang Tassa’s Arabic lyrics in unison. His revival of the al-Kuwaiti brothers’ music has been part of a cultural renaissance amo..

The project started as a personal one. I was considering quite a few topics for my MA thesis, but I could not settle on one. I decided to do something completely different and find out what I could about my grandfather’s time working for Egypt’s largest beer co..

Shifaa Alsairafi began writing the following graphic novel as a children’s book dedicated to telling the story of Yazidi refugees, as she felt there was a dearth of information on the group. Little is known about the Yazidi population and the international community has largely ceased to mention..

The Arabic word ghurba, which literally means estrangement or separation, is typically used to refer to the state of being a foreigner in a land away from home, hence evoking feelings of alienation, loneliness and a strong yearning for loved ones. In our cont..

Since the 1990s, official silences in France surrounding the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962) have increasingly been lifted, and sensitive archival collections have been brought to light by historians such as Benjamin Stora and Raphaëlle Branche. Yet given the ensuing “memory wars” tha..

My objective in writing this book is to bring to light the potential of an approach which examines early Islamic historiography of the pre-Islamic period to see what it can tell us about the Muslim authors of historical texts as well as the issues and controversies t..

For Maral G. H. (2004-2016)

Cancer, I have learned, insists on the visibility of ethnic belonging.[1]

Cancer shrinks the topography of one’s worl..

Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, the perception of national identity among Syrians has changed radically. Many factors have contributed to this: the country became de facto divided among different groups; thousands of non-Syrian jihadists, such as the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (also known..

Jonathan Wyrtzen, Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Ramy Aly, Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity. London, Pluto Pre..

Noah Haiduc-Dale, Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Wasif Jawhariyyeh, The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948. Edited and intro..

Hicham Tiflati (HT): In my research on identity formation and the sense of belonging of young Muslims in Quebec, I have been finding that most of my participants deny their Quebecness and insist on being only Canadians. However, some of them cannot be anything else but Québécois because of th..

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Professor Olivier Roy, Head of the Mediterranean Program at the European University Institute discusses the development of the concept of laicite in France, from its emergence as a tool for the management of diversity, to its rebranding as an ideology of excl..