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Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

The article is an attempt to both historicize and open up onto the ethnographic fieldwork I did in Jeddah and Mecca from 2017 to 2019. My fieldwork examines how, in the aftermath of oil, the Saudi state is attempting to remake Mecca into a laboratory for new sciences..

In the Fall of 2022, the authors of this article published an edited book exploring the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror.[1] It was the first work of its kind to explore the complexities and depths of Islamophobic trends as an outgrowth of the War on Terror across six continents,..

The Nation of Islam, or NOI, was founded in 1930 as a politico-religious movement for Black empowerment in the United States. From 1960 onward, it intersected with other US liberation movements under the auspices of Elijah Muhammad, who served as NOI leader from 1934 until his death in 1975. Bes..

The indiscriminate criminalization of the various strands of political Islam, including the most legalistic kind, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, both in the European forums, France included, and in those of its partners from the Middle East, constitutes one of the most harmful diplomatic, polit..

La criminalisation indistincte des courants de l’islam politique, y compris les plus légalistes (tels les Frères musulmans), apparait aujourd’hui comme l’une des plus néfastes et des plus coûteuses contre-performances diplo..

The paranoid over-politicization of the social dynamics of a small fringe of the French population as well as the demonization of political Islam appear as a deep denial of the republican ideal. It comes down to criminalizing, for an illegal exercise of politics, whole sections of this small min..

The Post-Conflict Cities Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is hosting a two-day graduate student conference titled “Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions,” to be held on February 16-17, ..

The current protests in Iran that started in mid-September around the slogan ‘women, life, liberty’ have grown into a formidable challenge to the socio-political structures of the Islamic Republic. In this podcast, we explore the development and nature of these protests with Peyman Jafari...

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions

Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University

The Post-Conflic..

Partners in life and art, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal traveled the world in exile, searching for new landscapes and ideas. But the images they returned to again and again were rooted in the rust soils of Mount Lebanon, the cerulean horizon of the Mediterranean, and mythologies from Mesopotamia ..

Much has been written about the purported Islamist turn in Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the last two decades. In its first decade in power, the AKP frequently presented itself as the Muslim and Turkish equivalent of Europe’s Christian Democratic parties. Indee..

What is Islamism? This is not an easy question to answer because Islamists generally see Islamism as a conceptual superimposition by infidels. They are Muslims, not Islamists. They work to live Islam. They work to make Islam prevail. They work to govern their Dar al-Islam. However, we know that ..

Turkey has become an emerging humanitarian actor in the last decade, with increasing activities of its government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) abroad. The Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), which was established in 1992, became an influential actor in provid..

I am reading Utku Balaban and Nihat Celik’s most helpful contributions at a time when massive fires are burning forests across the country and the AKP government is failing in its response. The Turkish Lira is on a free fall in its value, the pandemic is not under control, once almost tangible d..

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..

I love the way this question displaces the author as master and asks how other forces made me write a book. I write within an ethnographic tradition of researchers who are transformed, transfigured, and replaced through research and the relationships that remak..