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Join us for this critical and timely conversation on matters of rights and activism–on campus and beyond. Our illustrious group of speakers will address First Amendment rights, lessons from other movements, the suppression of free speech, the weaponization of Antisemitism, and strategi..

This is the third teach-in installment for Gaza in Context. This teach-in will address the humanitarian ramifications of Israel’s assault on Gaza, as the death toll, missiles, and destruction continue to rise. The speakers will examine the nature and consequences of the collective punishment imp..

In early 2017, I received an invitation to speak at an event in Stockholm organized by the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (SIIA) to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Or so I thought. But when the publicity materials were circulated..

In this talk, Dina Hadad addresses socio-legal changes with regard to women's rights in Syria. She explores parallels between intersectionality and critical approaches to international law to examine other social categories beyond gender and to position gender within the global economy and..

The talk will address socio-legal changes with regard to women's rights in Syria. It will explore parallels between intersectionality and critical approaches to international law to examine other social categories beyond gender and to position gender within the global economy and the vulne..

The new government of Israel – sworn in on 29 December 2022 – has made explicit the coalition parties’ long-standing intent to further entrench Jewish supremacy and Palestinian repression throughout the State of Israel and the occupied West Bank through a two-tiered system of governance on all l..

The Arab world has not urbanized in isolation. There is a vast literature that has tried to come to grips with the planetary scale of urbanization over the past fifty years within the field of urban studies. This work led by critical urban studies scholars Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and more ..

On Wednesday, 13 April Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Sarah Leah Whitson discussed human rights in the Middle East. This episode of Connections examines the current state of human rights in the Middle East, the struggles to attain individual and collective rights in the region, ..

Join us on Wednesday, 13 April for a discussion about human rights in the Middle East between Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Sarah Leah Whitson. This episode of Connections will examine the current state of human rights in the Middle East, the struggles to attain individua..

On Friday, 5 November, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Raja Shehadeh about Israel’s campaign to criminalize Palestinian human defenders and civic organizations. This episode of Connections examines the context and implications of Israel’s l..

Join us on Friday, 5 November for a conversation with Raja Shehadeh about Israel’s campaign to criminalize Palestinian human defenders and civic organizations. This episode of Connections will examine the context and implications of Israel’s latest initiatives, and assess efforts..

Public and academic debates on Israel/Palestine suffer from two fundamental flaws, both of which this book sets out to tackle. First, such debates tend to rest on misguided assumptions about law, human rights, and childhood.

Although I was originally planning another topic for my dissertation, I had taken a seminar on Arabic prison literature and also became involved in a collective project to translate Faraj Bayraqdar’s poetry collection Dove in Free Flight. ..

I wanted to go beyond a number of impasses that emerge in discussions about Iran. One is the narrative about Iran as a static space that can only be understood through a repressive state apparatus.

Over 45 years ago the international community, acting through the United Nations General Assembly, adopted a landmark resolution which determined that “Zionism is a form o..

This conversation, which aired on 9 June 2021, features International Press Freedom Award-winning journalist and Human Rights Watch Yemen Researcher, Afrah Nasser, hosted by Carly A. Krakow, Jadaliyya 

Join us on Wednesday 9 June 2021 for a conversation featuring award-winning journalist and Human Rights Watch Yemen Researcher, Afrah Nasser, hosted by Carly A. Krakow, Jadaliyya Managing Editor for Special Projects and Environment Page Co-Editor.