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Holding an event on Palestine in the era of Genocide and Teslocracy has become slightly complicated, even as Nazi salutes are bravely defended by the ADL. The stenc..

As an American Jew, we are literally taught an alternate reality, taught an alternate history. The Zionist project of creating the state of Israel is a world building project. The reality we live in is like science fiction, and that surrealness was one of the biggest inspirations for the science..

As Academics for Peace from Turkey, we organized the “Stop the State of Israel!” petition campaign on November 7, 2023. [1] In the two months following our call, the massacres of the Israeli state in Gaza continue to elevate. We observe with utmost concern that the atrocious cr..

As scholars in feminist, queer, and trans studies who are rooted in social justice praxis, we refuse to stay silent while a genocide is ongoing in Gaza and a brutal war is unleashed to ethnically cleanse Palestine once again. 

In the last several weeks leading up to the 75^th commemoration of the Nakba, we were reminded of the multitude of ways Israel continues its colonization of Palestine and its blatant disregard for Palestinian life. From the martyrdom of an imprisoned hun..

My research for this book started as a PhD thesis, which I defended at Sciences Po Paris in 2015. I consider it important to publish a book about Tripoli, a city long neglected in the literature—the most recent 

The following is a list of the top 100 articles published on Jadaliyya in 2022.

The revolution in Rojava is often described as “utopian,” due to its secular, democratic dream in “a region like the Middle East.” Commentators point to the revolution’s assertion of inter-group coexistence, women’s liberation, a communal economy model, and so forth. By taking a sup..

This project to fashion a musical history of modern North Africa long called out to me—well before the idea of going to graduate school ever crossed my mind. Its genesis can be traced to a record store in Casablanca which I had t..

In Episode 7 of the Real Football Podcast, our hosts discussed the potential winners, failures, and ceilings of the 2022 World Cup field including the last hurrahs of Messi's Argentina and Ronaldo's Portugal. Also covered is the enigma of France, whether host nation Qatar, Gareth Bale or Christi..

Following the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, the three of us were shocked by the “medieval nature” of the assassination of the Saudi journalist. Here was a major country of the Middle East, awash with resources, resorting to one of the crudest form..

This is a list of the top 100 most read articles in 2021.

In 2010 I started a research project that examined the relationship between families and cities. Urban studies has often thought about cities as spaces that (crudely put) destroy family life.

On 12 May, the United States blocked the release of what otherwise would have been a unanimous statement of the UN Security Council criticizing the latest round of violence in Israel and occupied Palestine. This was followed by US rejection on Thursday of a request to urgently hold an open meeti..

A recent article in the New Republic titled “Climate Change is Going to Hit Palestine Particularly Hard” rehearses a cluster of arguments that are familiar to scholars and activists working on climate change in Palestine. These arguments are that Palestinians are and will be more vulner..

I first began thinking about some of the questions that animate Imperial Mecca as early as 2004 or 2005. At the time, I was a master’s student in World History at Georgia State University.

This is a list of the top 100 most read articles in 2020.

Things are dire in Palestine. Not only politically, but also environmentally. Palestinians are so continuously forced to live inundated by wastes and a sense of their own wastefulness, that waste and the environment have collapsed to form a single ecology. This ecology shapes much about social, ..

I received a phone call one day from a man working in Hebron municipality in the southern West Bank. He asked whether I would be interested in joining the municipality’s sewage team. I froze. The idea seemed absurd. The chasm between what I did (anthropology) and what the team did (engineering) ..

In the morning of 10 July 2020, an expectant crowd gathered outside the Hagia Sophia museum, a World Heritage Site laden with political and religious meaning and marked by controversy. The Byzantine basilica, a cultural icon of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, served as the imperial cathedral unti..

The immediate genesis of this book began with a walk in Istanbul. Passing the walls of his old high school with a friend back in 2010, he stopped and said, “I remember a day in 1977 when the whole class protested in the quadrangle, in lines like soldiers, with ..

Historians often demure when asked what concrete lessons can be drawn from the past. Meanwhile, purported irrelevance threatens the place of the humanities in higher education. That crisis of confidence, made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for a renewed engagement with practical que..