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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..

My current research project focuses on tribes and other societal groups—such as youth, women, and marginalized communities—in achieving transitional justice and national reconciliation in post-war Yemen.

The direct answer is: the originality of this grassroots movement and, in retrospect, its “anticipatory” character—the fact that some world-historical autonomous movements of more recent times have emerged and sustained themselves through participatory ways wit..

The main reason behind writing this book stemmed from a sense of moral responsibility towards a group of young Palestinian filmmakers who dedicated their lives in service to the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation. This group of exceptional and pioneer..

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 ..

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.”

I began this book eight years ago at the intersection of my observations within the American Jewish community and my own scholarly interests. I had long seen American Jewish community leaders and laypeople marginalize American Jews who dissented from unconditio..

Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).

Marc Lamont Hill discusses the latest move towards recognising Palestinian statehood with analyst Mouin Rabbani.

I started my research in anthropology around the time the Arab revolutions began. I was then researching alternative politics and decolonial thought and practices. Something radically new and different seemed to be happening in Syria with the emergence of new f..

I met the Kurdish movement in 2000. Since then, I have been involved with it both politically and academically. The people in the movement related to me always with great care. They were protective of me as much as they were persistent in their demands for soli..

We first discussed the idea of comparing our respective work on Iranian and Palestinian history of the late 1970s during the early lockdown. This period is incredibly interesting because during these years after 1976 or so, social movements formed during the Ma..

I have been writing this book without knowing I was writing it. It was a journey that spanned the better part of a decade. I started to write in the summer of 2013, what I call in the book “the summer of massacres.”

The impetus behind writing this book stemmed from our recognition of the profound ways in which the digital revolution has impacted the Middle East. The peculiarities of the ongoing changes were such that we felt a pressing need for a deeper understanding of ho..

I felt called to pursue this project shortly after the January 25 revolution’s start. Not only was I drawn in by the moving scenes of my fellow Egyptians stepping into their power, but as a grad student at UC Davis studying social movements, I was also struck b..

In my book, I discuss how many revolutionary actors brought ideas such as El Naddaha (النداهة or “the caller”), a myth or a legend particularly prominent in Egypt’s countryside about a female spirit that calls men to the Nile, leading to t..

Early coursework on African-American and Soviet history piqued my interest in “hidden transcripts” and how subaltern populations tell their stories while living under oppression. When I started to delve more into the history of post-independence Algeria, I was ..

Yasmin El-Rifae and Lucia Carminati first met in March 2023 in Cairo, when El-Rifae presented her book Radius. A Story of Feminist Revolution at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Zamalek in dialogue with Sally AlHaq. What follows is a conversation that took place later, between Londo..