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Join us on Sunday, 27 July for a conversation with Sam Rose of UNRWA about the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. This episode of Connections will examine the causes and consequences of rapidly accelerating famine in Gaza, and the campaign ag..

I have been interested in ethnographies of labor since I became an anthropologist, and having decided to do my doctoral fieldwork in Israel, I settled on agriculture as the economic sector that is perhaps most closely implicated in the Zionist project.

Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani talks to TRT World about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explains why the US and UK are determined to not support a cessation of hostilities in Gaza.

This book would not exist without Kamal Salibi, who initially suggested that I look into the Lebanese famine of World War I because of our conversations about historical disease and disaster. However, the book in its current form is drastically different ..

The Bogazici University resistance is bound to acquire a unique place in history for being one of the longest uninterrupted struggles for academic freedom and university autonomy ever to be waged. Hundreds of Bogazici faculty members have been resisting the take-over of the university by the Tur..

In this conversation, Zein El-Amine addresses the exploitation of adjuncts in higher education in DC and nationwide.  Specifically, he addresses the labor struggle at American University in the historical context of a pandemic that has spurned multiple labor struggles in workplaces that were pre..

In 2006, two years before I began my doctoral research, children’s literature in the Arab world underwent a serious revival as a result of the convergence of many sociopolitical factors related to publishing, prizing, and educational policy. My soon-to-be docto..

The Netanyahu government’s recent threats to formally annex parts of the West Bank, instigated and supported by the Trump administration, have placed a rare spotlight on a deeply peripheral part of the Occupied Territories, the Jordan Valley. Though pandemic mismanagement, economic crisis and no..

It happened all of a sudden, a little after 6pm on 4 August 2020, the timing of the port explosion forever stamped in memory and mobile. I was on the phone arranging an ambulance ride home for my father from the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) when the line suddenl..

In a webinar dated 12 May 2020, Villanova University Scholar and Jadaliyya Syria Page Co-Editor Samer Abboud examined the emergent "illiberal peace" in Syria. The absence of an internationally mandated or internally negotiated peace process, he argued, has allowed the Syrian regime to c..

Famine Studies is a well-established field that crosses the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, geography, history, sociology, and economics. The existence of a vast literature attempting to define and theorize famine exemplifies a continued urgency in developing a theory that could transla..

Imagine that you are standing at a bus stop alongside one other person, waiting for the bus to arrive. You are both heading in the same direction, but when the bus pulls up, you are not permitted to board. It pulls away without you. Why? Because you were born with the wrong ID. 

Considering women’s health issues in Lebanon and exposing patriarchy within the medical field.

The project started as a “memory” project. I had visited Beirut for many years and became interested in the many, albeit not surprising, state-imposed silences about the country’s recent and remote violent pasts. For me as a historian it was the uncomfortable discrepancy in the commemorati..

In this interview with Radio New Zealand Morning Report, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani examines the content and ramifications of President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The US decision, endorsing Israel's e..

Saudi authorities have arrested dozens of people, including prominent clerics, in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The campaign comes three months after Mohammad bin Sal..

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In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Mohamad Ali Nayel speaks w..

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This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup features stories on the manufacturing of media narratives during war, Egypt’s media laws, and a new ISIS radio show for concerned jihadis.

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