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On Thursday 14 December 2023, the White House National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, visited Israel. It is understood that Sullivan will be asking Israeli government officials for a timetable for the ongoing war. In this interview, Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat, discusses the power and op..

Over half a million people have been murdered in the global war on terror. In Afghanistan, the war on terror has made itself so much at home, it is now peripheral to analysis on the challenges facing the country. Certainly, that the ..

Neda Maghbouleh, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto, begins The Limits of Whiteness, her groundbreaking study of Iranian Americans and race, with the story of a teenager named Roya for whom the ordinary task of fill..

I must confess that I was never particularly interested in pirates as a child, and I do not find them to be particularly romantic or sympathetic figures now. However, I was attracted to the topic of piracy because it allowed me to explore the intersection of social, legal, and diplomatic h..

[The following letter was issued by the 

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup looks at several important issues facing the MENA mediascape. Al-Jazeera examines how

During his campaign, Donald Trump demonstrated no knowledge on the issues, an abundance of childish invective, and plenty of outright scandals yet none of that deterred his predominantly white base. Exit polls show that white voters, who make up sixty-nine percent of the total, voted

[City Talks provides a platform for conversations around the social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental transformations that define the historical and contemporary geographies of the Middle East and beyond. Bringing together voices from critical scho..

Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Translated from Hebrew by Orin Gat. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.

As the “enlightened public” and guests from Dessau’s Bauhaus Institute celebrated UNESCO’s recognition of Tel Aviv’s “Bauhau..

[The following report was authored by Richard Rothstein and published by the Economic Policy Institute.]

The Making of Ferguson:..

 [This Migrant Rights report sheds light on the r..

 [The analysis and data in this article refer to the period prior to the Israeli ground invasion.]

On 7 July 2014, Israel unleashed Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. When it launched a ground invasion on 18 July 2014, Israel had already killed 230 Gazan Palestinians, of w..

[The following open letter was originally published by Falling Walls Initiative.]

This Ramadan, many American Muslim leaders are anxiously awaiting to hear whether they have made the cut for the annual White House Iftar. An invitation to this iftar, as with similar events the <..

[This is a collection of news updates on Syria compiled from multiple sources by the editors.]

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On 11 June, in the midst of the return of the Istanbul police forces to Gezi Park and Taksim Square, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rose in the Turkish parliament and expressed his frustrations with the protestors occupying the park. The protests began as an effort to save one of Istanbul’s..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roun..

The Senate Armed Services Committee did not mention drones a single time during Senator Chuck Hagel`s confirmation hearings last week. That oversight, however, says a l..

The staircase of Zaha Hadid Architects’ recently opened Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing is sleek and straightforward. Its intention is functional; its design is simple (as simple as a contorted, suspended mass can be). A departure from the use of a tr..

I heard about what was unfolding in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, last Sunday when I saw the words “shooting” and “Sikh temple” on the screen of CNN as I walked into a hotel lobby. It felt like a punch in the stomach. Despite the lack of concrete information, I and other Sikhs who I talked with in ..

In “Whiteness as Property,” Cheryl Harris tracks the construction of whiteness in the United States as legalized power, specifically as property. Defining property as the expectation of the right to property, Harris paints whiteness as a legaliz..

I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to retain white friends, you must adhere to a number of sacred rules: the stuff white people like<..

The fiftieth anniversary of the death of revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was commemorated this past December. In late February, the