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This article provides intimate insights into workers’ everyday experiences of inhabiting Jordan’s dormitory migrant labor regime. It uses illustrations derived from participatory mapping and drawing workshops with garment workers of diverse nationalities who live and labor in Jordan’s two larges..

The organizing committee invites scholars and activists wishing to participate to reflect upon the conference’s themes including carceral tactics and surveillance, the political economy of war, resistance strategies against militarization and carcerality, and the militarization of urban space. T..

In writing this book, I took on monuments that I kept seeing in France and Algeria, ubiquitous presences that made me stop and look. For example, in 1990 when I first came to Oran, Algeria’s second largest city, I lived near the magnificent monument to the mart..

My current research focuses on nineteenth-century architecture in Iran, particularly madrasas and their integration with other spaces like mosques.

Traces of this dis-invention persist all over the landscape today. To travel around 1948 lands is to happen upon places that just eighty years ago constituted a civilization and today are levelled: the well crumbling and filled with stagnant water, the pastures overgrown and twisted with cacti, ..

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..

I wrote this article because the case of Yemen during the four decades before the beginning of World War I highlights an important aspect of the environmental history of the late Ottoman frontier that earlier scholarship has not addressed, namely the intersecti..

The urban experience and subjectivities of people are constituted in each other, both affect and shape the other. Peoples’ bodies, as humans and urban subjects, move in places that are materially produced in relation to urban political economic decisions which evolved over time. The monolith of ..

My previous work on energy and technology made me acutely aware of how often the physical world is absent from our analysis of social and political realities in the Middle East and elsewhere. Conversely, I noticed how crucial social, political, and cultural asp..

Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement is a feminist abolitionist book. It speaks of carceral holds, the sedentarization of people, and the bordering of lives, which would otherwise be—and for generations have b..

The book tries to understand what it means for the Persian Gulf to be a region and how the multiple conceptions and social processes of region-making reflect struggles and generate conflicts. I have come to think of regionalism as aspirational, representational..

The book was borne out of many frustrations—I was frustrated by the Orientalist narratives about places like Dubai, especially because I found these narratives much more subtle than the common Orientalist discourse which is easier to spot and critique.

Amman has been a constant obsession in my writing. For a start, it is my hometown, where my memories of society and place were formed. The memories of my father Abdel Fattah (born in Amman in 1937) and my aunt Isaaf al-Diraniyyeh (born in Amman in 1919) were in..

This book grew out of my PhD dissertation research and was motivated by two strands of inquiry. First, I was gripped by an interest in the makings of inequality during my formative college years on the American University in Cairo's (AUC) downtown Cairo campus ..

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..

Like a lot of “first books,” this book grows out of my dissertation, which I completed in 2016. I went to graduate school at UCLA and was lucky to benefit from a strong geography department and an incredibly vibrant Middle East area studies community. One initi..

The book project emerges out of two affinities. The first was our affection for and admiration of Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s seven volume photographic albums in Beirut and Athens tracing the modernity of Jerusalem and Palestine from the 1870s to 1948.

This article is part of the Roundtable Discussion: “Remembering Gezi—Beyond Nostalgia Ten Years On" produced by Jadaliyya’s Turkey Page Editors. Read the roundtable introduction by guest editors Birgan Gökmenoğlu and Derya Özkaya and see the other articles of this roundtable