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This project was inspired by my grandmother. In 1971, she, along with my mother who was twelve years old at the time, had to flee East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) due to civil war. A widow and already ultra-poor, she was working at a restaurant to take care of he..

My research examines debates among sanitary engineers in Cairo during the British colonial period. These debates are important for two main reasons. First, they enrich our understanding of the hierarchies of colonial Cairo by highlighting their manifestations in everyday life. Second, they give ..

There is a sense of being in the midst of a maelstrom. 2,750 tonnes of an explosive substance have blown up the port of Beirut, its concentric circles of death, destruction, and displacement shattering through parts of the city and the lives of people there. Floods have rushed through Yemen, whe..

I was intrigued by a local event that left virtually no trace in the secondary literature on Cairo, a controversy concerning the taste and purity of potable water that erupted between 1905 and 1910, when Egypt was under British ..

During the past week, a Hamas delegation paid an official visit to Egypt, which these days is news in and of itself. During its time in Cairo, the delegation also met with former Fatah warlord Muhammad Dahlan, which is even bigger news.

The Hamas delegation w..

On 3 June 2013, Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a nineteen-year old university student in Eskisehir, was participating in nonviolent peaceful protests against the Turkish government when he was brutally clubbed and beaten by a group of police officers and civilians. The protestors were demanding the retract..

To the layman’s eye, the recent results of Tunisia’s legislative elections read like the triumph of progressive secularism over backward Islamism. Champions of modernization and secularization theory, in

[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconi..

Who I Am

I am Noor Omar Shaban Ismail, a sixteen year-old teenager who lives and grew up in one of the most dangerous ..

[Syria’s Apex Generation highlights post-uprising art as an introduction to the rich history of painting in Syria. Featuring the works of Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Nihad Al Turk, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi, and Kais Salman, the exhibition and its accompanying publication explore a new sc..

[Syria’s Apex Generation highlights post-uprising art as an introduction to the rich history of painting in Syria. Featuring the works of Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Nihad Al Turk, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi, and Kais Salman, the exhibition and its accompanying publication explore a new sc..

Let me make the hardest list of my life, for those who have not followed what has happened in Turkey during and in the wake of the Gezi Protests that began in the summer of 2013. On 1 June, Ethem Sarisuluk, a twenty-six-year-old laborer and activist, was shot in the head by a policeman in Ankara..

Boğaziçi University’s decision to honor sociologist İsmail Beşikçi with an honorary doctorate is doubtless a very important symbolic gesture. Beşikçi is a scholar who has devoted his life to researching the Kurdish question, for which he has paid a very heavy price, and a testament to academic f..

[The following press release was issued by the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activi..

Beşikçi ve Kürdistan’ın gerçekliği

Ömrünü Kürt sorununu araştırmaya adamış, bunun için çok ağır bedeller ödemiş, akademik ifade özgürlüğünün abidesi sosyolog İsmail Beşikçi’yi Boğaziçi Üniversitesi`nin Fahri Doktora unvanı ile onurlandırması çok önemli sembolik bir tavırdı kuşkusuz...

[The following is an email exchange between writer Glenn Greenwald and Professor Alan Dershowitz. The context for the exchange was a public campaign by certain politicians to pressure the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College to rescind its sponsorship of an event discussing the b..

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In my nine years as a journalist I was accused of being an agent for the Americans, Iranians, Israelis, Qataris, the Afghan government, and others. We journalists are used to these silly and ignorant slurs. The Taliban sentenced me to execution once because they thought I was a spy. But they are..