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The reason for writing this book is deeply rooted in my personal and professional journey as an architect from Baghdad who has lived experiences of trauma, war, and loss. Having grown up during the Iraq-Iran War and the subsequent multitudes of aggression and d..

Nearly 12 years ago, I sat in a building along the Cola circle, a block from my own apartment, to interview a leader of the General Union of Palestinian Women in Lebanon about her movement work between 1970 and 1982 when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was headquartered in Lebanon. J..

I have written this book for three interrelated reasons. Firstly, the significant increase in the number of fictional works written about the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the aesthetic leaps these works are inducing in the history of fiction writing in Iraq..

Regional Responses to the War on Gaza featuring Mouin Rabbani, Safaa Al-Ahmad, Amal Saad Ghorayyeb, Hesham Sallam, Omar Sirri, and Ziad Abu-Rish.

Disasters reveal and intensify already existing relations of power and forms of discrimination and exclusion. Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria have not been exception to this harsh reality since several cities were fatally hit by earthquakes beginning on February 6. This disaster has ..

Over the past three months, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the global neoliberal logics which make most societies unable to manage the ensuing socioeconomic and health crises. Between the ramifications of highly privatized healthcare systems and the lack of social safety nets, corporate inter..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 30 January 2020 in res..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 12 February 2020 in response to the US De..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 27 January 2020 in response to the US Depa..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association on 4 February 2020 in response to Hebrew University's letter on poli..

I would like first thank the convenors of the meeting for their invitation to discuss the papers about circulation and vulnerability. Until recently, this was a gap in research, particularly so for Lebanon and the Middle East. These presentations demonstrate the rise of a new generation of resea..

The question around which this panel pivots is how to constitute refugee vulnerability in ways that take account of the social links, economic disparities, and political relations that form the context of refugee life in the global South more broadly and in Lebanon more specifically.  I want to ..

This article reads notions of ‘vulnerability’ employed in the humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon against recent feminist and urbanist debates on the links between infrastructure and vulnerability. In doing so, it seeks to introduce and grapple with some of the key term..

This interjection makes no claim to an exhaustive account of recent events, but has been conceived with an eye to supplementing nuanced commentaries and penetrating delineations of Iran’s post-revolutionary political economy, and to sharpen reflection on both the imperial context of the recent p..

On 19 September 2019, the Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos ordered the UNC-Duke Middle East Studies program to remake itself 

On 31 May, Jadaliyya published a response by a Senior Associate at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), M. Uveys Han, t..

In an article published on 6 May 2019, “A Muslim Counter-Hegemony?: Turkey’s Soft Power Strategies and Islamophobia,” authors Sinem Adar and Halil Ibrahim Yengin claim t..

On 5 January 2019, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Board of Directors reversed their decision to award Dr. Angela Davis the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. It was later revealed that the decision was based on Dr. Davis’s support for Palestinian human rights and freedom, generally. D..

We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to express our deep concern regarding the series entitled “The ISIS Files,” which The New York Times began to publish in installments on 4 Apr..

This talk took place in November of 2017, and it was meant to introduce Minawi's colleagues to his current research project. His goal for the talk was to present a trajectory for his research as it morphed and developed over the past two years, from the first book to the current project. Even th..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East ..

[This is the final installment of a book symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi`s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, consisting of six reviews and a response by the author. The symposium was originally published by 

By Mike Thomson

BBC News

9 February 2017

It takes a special kind of person to run a radio station in an area controlled by Islamist militants in northern Syria. Music is forbidden, so are women prese..

Wednesday, February 1 (New York, New York) 

On Thursday, February 2, Yemeni grocery store owners across five New York boroughs will close 1,000 stores from 12pm to 8pm in response to the Trump administration’s infamous “Muslim Ban” executive order. This shutdown of grocery stores and bod..