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The privatization of education is hotly debated across the world. It hardly represents a uniform set of policies with experts, economists, civil society organizers, and state officials weighing potential gains and losses. Iran has been no exception to this pattern. As most theoretical literature..

Arab cities today are undergoing rapid transformations with the rise and intensification of capitalist globalization.  While the securitized cityscape of Dubai has become emblematic of contemporary trends, cities as diverse as Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Rabat, and Tunis also scramble for po..

Ouarzazate is a beautiful town in south-central Morocco, well worth visiting. It is an important holiday destination and has been nicknamed the "door of the desert." It is also known as a famed location for international filmmaki..

“The sidewalk was like a mirror
Now, a sanitation worker collects the bodies of dead people […]
My memories died yesterday
But a tree smiling in Abu Nuwas has enlivened them”
– Iraqi poet Fadhil Abbas. 

This essay examines the wa..

David McDonald, editor, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South. London: Zed Books, 2014.

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

Public water and electricity are back in vogue. Yet, many state-owned utilities are now undergoing “corporatization,” i.e. they have legal autonomy and manage their own finances. Is this a positive development in the struggle for equitable public services or a slippery slope toward privatization..

We have recently learned that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to develop a design for a projected development on a prime sea-front location in Beirut (Lebanon): the Dalieh of Raoucheh. Proposing a private development over such a prime social, national, archeo..

In a rather low-key, overlooked way, the Tunisian Minister of Culture, Mourad Sakli, 

Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights to sue current prime minister and others for corrupt sell-off of state assets.

The head of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), Khaled Ali, and political activist Hamdi Fakhrany have announced their intention ..

Months have passed since the uprising of 25 January and yet many of the struggles for transformative change that the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak attempted to advance remain at best incomplete and at worst under attack. Immediately after Mubarak’s resignation, it was hard..

As the global economic crisis begins to fade, new opportunities are emerging for some of the countries in the region. For its part, Syria was able to avoid this crisis for the most part