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Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

I have been interested in ethnographies of labor since I became an anthropologist, and having decided to do my doctoral fieldwork in Israel, I settled on agriculture as the economic sector that is perhaps most closely implicated in the Zionist project.

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has implemented major changes to its gender and labor policies, rearticulating the role of Saudi women and migrant workers in the economy. Women’s empowerment is at the heart of the Saudi state’s post-Vision 2030 narrative, the government’s strategic blueprint for s..

The idea for this book originated during the Trump administration's implementation of its maximum pressure sanctions on Iran. In 2019, we launched a comprehensive research project at Johns Hopkins University to deeply investigate the multifaceted impacts of san..

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..

Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling. Clearly, it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide ..

This one-day workshop and public-facing keynote fosters new directions in the critical study of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa. While climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, these regions remain marginal to most discussions on it. Worse still, emerging..

NEWTON Bouquet – The life, work, and legacy of Edward Said (25 September)

Edward W. Said was a pre-eminent scholar, public intellectual, and globally acclaimed advo..

During the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Jadaliyya Syria Page Co-Editor Basileus Zeno received the Best 2022 APSA Paper award from the MENA Politics Section. The award recognizes the best paper presented at the previous meeting. Zeno was selected for his pape..

I grew up hearing that rape was the worst thing that could happen to a “woman.” By the time I was a teenager in the 1990s, mainstream media reported nightly on the rape of Muslim women in the disintegrating Yugoslavia. I had a very crude question at that time—h..

There are a total of thirteen districts in Istanbul's third region. The population of these three districts is around 5,695,000, according to official counts. There are four districts from the third region that are among the twenty most populous districts in Turkey. Therefore, this is an importa..

Turkey prepared for general elections in May after a devastating earthquake from which it had not fully recovered. The country then went through a long and exhausting electoral process, but one full of promise even though the main opposition's hopes were not realized. Despite all this, many prog..

Like any research project, this book emerged from a convergence of personal experience and academic engagement. On the one hand, it springs from a long-term fascination with the ways in which work—particularly everyday, mundane work—forms us as gendered and sta..

This article is part of a broader project I am conducting on the history of development planning in Egypt. There is a rich body of literature that focuses on the origins of planning, on development aid, and on five-year plans in Egypt. I was interested in explo..

December 17, 2020 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian Peninsula. ..

The following statement was published by the 2022 Radcliffe workshop on the Past, Present, and Future of Palestinian Health in June 2022 addressing the past, present, and future prospects of Palestinian health. Click 

In 2010, Qatar, somewhat improbably, won the hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup for soccer, and almost immediately began to build stadia and infrastructure for the games, channeling hundreds of billions of dollars to reinvent itself as a global destination f..

On the US publication of Alaa Abd el-Fattah's You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (Seven Stories Press), please join us for a conversation with Dr. Laila Soueif (Cairo University) and Nora Younis (al-Manassa) about Alaa, his case, and incarceration in Egypt.

When I was doing my PhD fieldwork about the transforming femininities of young Saudi women fifteen years ago, I was shocked by the stereotypical discourses many French residents I met there held on Saudi people. After finishing my PhD, I started working on the ..

Since 2004, I have heard increasing lamentations of hopelessness and suffering from Palestinians living in refugee camps across Lebanon. The common theme has been “min a’eesh bedoun amal” or “we live without hope.”