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The idea for this volume originated years ago when I chaired and co-organized an international interdisciplinary conference, “The Unfinished Project of the Arab Spring: Why the Middle East Exceptionalism Is Still Wrong.”

This panel discussed the impacts of anti-Palestinian racism and the modes of solidarity movement organizing in comparative settler colonial contexts.

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting 15 June. Watch this discussion on how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonization, demilit..

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting June 15th.  Join us for a discussion of how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonizat..

In this talk, Hesham Sallam will discuss his recent book Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022). The book offers a counterint..

I began this project in 2015 because of the avalanche of writing in the United States and Europe about the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria and the constant implication, or even assertion, that such cult-like groups were somehow an expression of an Islami..

The strengths of Utku Balaban’s account are the parsimony and the emphasis on Islamists’ relation to the world economy. The role of small industrialists in the success of Islamist parties is crucial. They have been central to almost every major twist and turn in Turkish Islamist politics. Howeve..

In this special episode, Huma Gupta and China Sajadian discuss abolition geographies and environmental movements with renowned geographer and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. She is the author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and ..

In late June 2020 the Trump administration deployed federal troops to Portland, Oregon, claiming it needed to restore order to a city riven by chaos and violence. The deployment in fact led to a sharp increase in violence, overwhelmingly by the federal forces themselves, as well as the use of po..

This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya.

This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya.

 مقابلة مع المدربة والناشطة المصرية في مجال حقوق الإنسان علا شهبه عن سنوات عديدة من العمل الهام الذي حققته حملة العمل والمنظمة المدنية المعروفة باسم الحرية للشجعان. 

In her recent op-ed in the New York Times, titled “Gaza Screams for Life,” Gaza-based writer Rawan Yaghi describes her visit to the site of the Great March of Return protest at the border two days after Friday’s massacre. She writes, “I left the protest thinking of the rest of Gaza — shellshocke..

Dr. Esra Özyürek and host Nazlı Özkan discusses the interplay and dynamics between Islam, Christianity, secularism and nationalism in the context of Turkey and Europe.

To this day, a statue of Abu Nawwas (756-814 AD) is still standing on an important street running aside the east bank of the Tigris, along with two parks in Baghdad that are named after him. After all, Abu Nawwas was one of the most celebrated Arab poets, who also happened to be unap..

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..

Joel Beinin, Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Joel Be..

Ali Issa, Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq. Washington, DC: Tadween Books, 2015.

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Chiara Sebastiani, Una città, una rivoluzione. Tunisi e la riconquista dello spazio pubblico. Co..

[The following report, the executive summary of which is excerpted here. was issued by the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network. The full report may be read here

[The following article on R-Shief was written by Ursula Lindsey and published in The Chronicle for Higher Education on 9 March 2015 under the title