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In late 2010 and early 2011 Tunisia was catapulted to the forefront of regional and international attention. The people of this small North African country had started a revolution, not only quickly bringing down a ruthless dictator but also setting off a trend..

January 3, 2025 – In an unprecedented move, the leadership of the Modern Language Association, one of the largest humanities o..

The media were determined to amplify the claims of the political class that the events in Amsterdam were solely the product of a purported Antisemitic culture by ME..

We are all in awe (tears, really) of our University presidents, administrators, and fellow faculty member for unanimously supporting with every bone in their body the valiant efforts of our students as they protest war/Genocide and call for ceasefire and divestment f..

A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of settler coloniality. I define settler coloniality as the settler colonization of land and people, which includes the transfer of carceral, surveillance, policing, and military technologies used in the process of the settler colonizat..

On Monday, 26 June, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Wael Tarabieh about the ongoing mass protests in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. This episode of Connections examines the demands of the demonstrators and th..

Join us on Monday, 26 June for a conversation with  Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Wael Tarabieh about the ongoing mass protests in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. This episode of Connections will examine the ..

In this episode of Flow Podcast, Bassam Haddad speaks with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, who addresses the various lineages of protest in Iran. In his own words, "I provide an interpretive-theoretical framework through which to understand the manifold crises which generated the conditions for the..

In the early 2000s, I shared some political science articles on Jordan—including my own work—with one of my Jordanian colleagues. I later asked what they thought, and the comment was devastating: “I just don’t recognize Jordan.”

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it—and the spatial dynamics of protests..

After Jina Mahsa Amini was murdered by the morality police (ershad) on 16 September 2022, and protests spread both inside and outside of Iran, Iranians started using Twitter more than ever before. Many tweets began by explaining why people have taken to the streets to protest against Ir..

On 16 September 2022 protests broke out in multiple cities and towns across Iran in reaction to the death in custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman named Mahsa Jina Amini. These protests have primarily been sustained by young Iranian women and men who have also borne the brunt of the Isl..

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it—and the spatial dynamics of protests play ..

In a nutshell, I wanted to write this book because I wanted to convey what I felt to be a resonance of the demand of dignity in the Arab Uprisings, particularly as a student of postcolonial theory and as an Arab person with keen interests in Nasserism and polit..

We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America to express our deep concern regarding the detention and prosecution of Professor Ayman Mansour Nada, the chair of the Radio and Television Department at Cairo University’s Facul..

Eight years ago, in late May 2013, people in Turkey woke up to the news that the tents of peaceful protestors in Istanbul’s Gezi Park were set on fire by the police. What followed was months of mass protests. The Gezi Park protests initially aimed at protecting the Gezi public park in the middle..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..