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Words that are in danger of remaining unspoken when we say “it is too complicated” or “I don’t know enough about the issue” or “it is too divisive” or “it hurts my feelings.” It is critical commonplace that the unspoken as resounding silence indexes nothing less than a repressive apparatus: in t..

On 5 December 2023, the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing they titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism." The hearing featured presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Elizabeth Magill of Penn, and Sally Kornbl..

On 4 November, 2023, Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat spoke to 300,000 people who came out to DC in protest of the ongoing US-sponsored genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

On Wednesday, 1 November, the Palestine Festival of Literature an event in New York titled, "But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience". Thalie Diaz, a conversation between Rashid Khalidi and Ta-Nehisi Coates moderated by Michelle Alexander, a letter from the JVP Rabbinical ..

[After her speech as the student elected speaker at the 2023 CUNY Law commencement in which she commended her class for organizing for Palestinian liberation, Fatima has been made the target of a smear campaign by a variety of organizations who seek to use her ca..

On 19 March 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Evian Accords. This agreement between the French state and the Algerian FLN (National Liberation Front) introduced a cease-fire in the midst of a violent war of liberation (1954-1..

Marc Lamont Hill is a scholar, activist, and media personality. On 29 November 2018, Hill gave a speech at the United Nations as part of the United Nation's International Day ..

On March 19, 2018, a group of students from the Society for Islamic Research (BISAK) at Istanbul’s Bogazici University opened a stand at the campus to distribute sweets (lokum/Turkish delight) to commemorate Turkish soldiers killed in Turkey’s capture of the northern Syrian town of Afri..

Trinity College Dublin
12 September 2017

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Academic freedom includes the liberty of individuals to express freely opinions..

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup discusses several important stories affecting the MENA mediascape. According to CNN and CBS, the recent “electronics ban” by the Trump administration was largely prompted b..

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup features stories on the manufacturing of media narratives during war, Egypt’s media laws, and a new ISIS radio show for concerned jihadis.

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This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup revolves around a number of issues dealing with freedom of expression, dictators on social media, and memes as a political vehicle.

A newly published report entitled “140 Characters” claims that

On the morning of Sunday 25 September 2016, a gunman shot Jordanian writer and opposition figure Nahed Hattar outside of the Jordanian Palace of Justice. At the request of Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki, the government accused Hattar of “inciting sectarian strife” and “insulting religion” and issu..

On 22 March 2016, Yıldıray Oğur, a pro-government media figure, wrote a column targeting the Academics for Pe..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of 

On 2 June 2013, a Jordanian news website employee contacted Ahmed Theban, a columnist for Jordan’s al-Rai newspaper. The purpose of the call was to ask Theban to recommend a collea..

This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal

[The following statement and call to action was issued by BirGün, an independent left daily newspaper in Turkey that is being prosecuted for covereage of th..

[The following is a speech delivered by Heghnar Watenpaugh in Armenian and Turkish on behalf of Project 2015 at a ceremony commemorating the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. The ceremony was held in Taksim Squa..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association on 25 March 2015]

His Excellency Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Minister of the Interior, United Ar..

At the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) this past November 2014, the business meeting passed a resolution that affirmed the principles of freedom of speech and academic freedom, specifically condemned the intimidation and censuring ..

Steven Salaita has filed a lawsuit filed in Champaign County Court against the University of Illinois’ Board of Trustees. Salaita and his legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) maintain that the university administration has failed to comply with the Freedom of Information..