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As evidenced by recent initiatives, scholars in Middle East studies (MES) are beginning to show a greater interest in pedagogy. That said, classroom teaching and learning remain subsidiary to most MES scholars’ research-focused agendas. More than relegating pedagogy to a lower status, I believe ..

We have shared a long editorial commitment to investigating the many cultural forms that human rights expressions can take and to bringing voices of survivors of human rights violations to the public. Our interest in the artwork of Moath al-Alwi, still detained..

I come to Palestine with questions about borders. That national borders are spaces of state violence is not new information. But, the current graphic articulation of borders as exertion of state power is breathtaking. The violence of mundane forms of settler-colonialism comes together with what ..

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Egypt has demolished whole unplanned neighborhoods, commonly referred to as ashwa’yat, and relocated thousands of its own citizens. The government has often justified its decision to demolish areas as for the sake of developmen..

Wednesday, 5 August 2020, the day after the Beirut port explosion. Filmed in Achrafieh near Balamand University. 

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup covers several important topics affecting the MENA mediascape. A terror attack in London prompted the British government to ask that

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup looks at several issues facing the MENA mediascape. The Iraqi army found Daesh’s media center hidd..

Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, editors, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution. Berlin: From Here to Fame Publishing, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Don Karl and

Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail. Washington, DC: Tadween Books, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What was the idea behind putting together this collection of politic..

Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Naomi Davidson.

As I grope for understanding in these dark times, for reasons not entirely clear to me, I find myself assailed by the Brothers Grimm tale, 

There were an impressive number of Palestinians at the 19 May opening in Ramallah of Keep Your Eye on the Wall, a photographic exhibit. “The Wall<..

[This is the first of a series of articles that seek to reflect on the ways in which social mobilization, creation of space, and new modes of resistance intersect within the Sahrawi community. Between the..

Since April 2007, Baghdad has been experiencing a walling strategy designed by the US-led Multi-National Forces (MNF) occupying Iraq then. Between 2005 and 2008, kidnappings, assassinations and population displacements became the main tactics used by the Sunni insurgency and Shiite militias in t..

[The following report was published by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association on 7 January 2014]

Courageous Voices, Fragile Freedoms: Israel`s Arrest and Detention of Palest..

Janet Abu-Lughod was a remarkable woman whom I had the privilege of knowing over a long period of time. A person of enormous intellectual curiosity, she approached the task of learning with an openness that was admirable. Throughout her scholarly life, she listened to her interlocutors and wrest..

“Gated communities,” which started to emerge in the US in the 1980s, have quickly spread around the world and became “a global commodity and cultural icon eagerly consumed by urban elites world-wide” (Genis 2007: 771). Since the mid-1990s, dozens of these communities have spread around Cairo. Mo..

Why do urban struggles matter in projects of social change? What is the importance of reclaiming public space in social movements? And at this gloomy global moment of extreme urban disparities and social inequalities, how do we re-think what is possible? For insights on these..

Palestinian visual artist Khaled Jarrar’s award-winning documentary film, Infiltrators, documents how Palestinians defy Israel’s twenty-six-foot apartheid wall by jumping over the wall or going through underground tunnels. Thousands of Palestin..

Nathan Schneider, Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Nathan Schneid..

[The following letter from Pink Floyd`s co-lead vocalist and basist Roger Waters was published on 29 May 2013 by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). It was written as a f..