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As I note in the Preface of my book, Stuart Schaar suggested I write a book about Edward Said similar to the book he had written about our mutual friend, the late Eqbal Ahmad. After this, I experimented with the idea through talks delivered at various universit..

After several years working and teaching in France, I felt, in the United States, more encouraged to develop an active research agenda focused on North African literature and cinema through a decolonial perspective. While acknowledging the legacies and traumas ..

December 17, 2020 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian P..

On May 15, 2022, Lebanon held its first parliamentary elections since the 2019 national uprising. While political parties were frantically spending money on their campaigns, the anti-establishment groups were scrambling to form electoral alliances.  Although the elections were held under d..

Certain opposition groups in Turkey have issued statements critical of the pending (and now ongoing) Turkish military campaign in northeastern Syria. Below are a set of such statements published as of 12 October 2019.

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.

Many of those condemning the regime today include a cross-section of US government, think tank, and media personalities that are themselves guilty at best of ignoring, and at worse covering up, the authoritarian nature of the Saudi regime and the various forms of systematic violence it deploys. ..

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.

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.

On June 24, Turkey takes to the polls in the highest-stakes elections in recent memory. Voters will vote in the parliamentary elections and the first round of the presidential elections. However, the elections are also about the country’s and Erdoğan’s political future. Every opposition party ha..

With the economy worsening, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to hold elections a year earlier than planned. Since the June 24 date was announced, however, the lira has fallen 5% relative to the euro and 12% relative to the dollar. If the trend continues, the gov..

With the economy worsening, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to hold elections a year earlier than planned. Since the June 24 date was announced, however, the lira has fallen 5% relative to the euro and 12% relative to the dollar. If the trend continues, t..

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.

Like many Egyptians, Amr Hamzawy had to pay a price for speaking out against the military takeover of the country’s nascent democracy. A renowned intellectual and former member of Egypt’s People’s Assembly, he was fortunate to safely leave Egypt for the United States. But according to Hamzawy, E..

[The following statement was issued by the Middle East Studies Association of North America on 27 July 2017 in response to the Congressional move to enact a "Israel Anti-Boycott Act" law.]..

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For the last several months, Moroccan politics has been dominated by the results of the October 2016 parliamentary elections, the subsequent blocage in the Islamist Justice and Development Party(PJD) creating a governing coalition, and the announ..