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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..

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..

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..

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..

Hamma Hammami is the Secretary General of the Tunisian Workers’ Party (est. 1986, legalized 2011) and a leader of the Popular Front for the Realization of the Objectives of the Revolution (est. 2012). He is the editor of the newspaper Sawt Achaab, author of eleven books on politics and ..

With the conclusion this summer of both UEFA Euro 2020 and CONMEBOL Copa America, qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar during November-December 2022, are set to resume next month. To a greater extent than previous tournaments, the Qatar World Cup has been mired in contr..

Turkey’s AKP (Justice and Development Party)-MHP (Nationalist Action Party) coalition government, also known as the People’s Alliance, withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence—better known as the “Istanbul Convention”..

The following text is a composite of three interviews conducted by Samirah Abed Al’Alem (Gaza Strip) and Anan Quzmar (West Bank) in November/December 2020 as part of fieldwork for the “Labour in Palestine and Covid19” project funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Regional Office in Palestine an..

The months of struggle to win a cost of living adjustment (COLA), launched in fall 2019 by grad workers at UC Santa Cruz, concentrated a broad wave of political assertion. In addition to the grad workers’ strikes—first our collective non-submission of final grades and then a full teaching strike..

The capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil (Hawler in Kurdish), with its 1.5 million residents, plus a large number of Syrian refugees and displaced persons from the nearby Mosul region, have been going through a development boom since 2003, a date that marks the end of Saddam Hussein’s regi..

The year 2017 did not end on a good note for Egyptian workers. It was a long year that witnessed renewed trouble for laborers across the country. For instance, the military trial of twenty-six workers at the Alexandria Shipyard – originally a state-owned company that the army ac..

Thousands of Tanzanian women toil as domestic workers in the Middle East, cleaning, caring, and cooking for their employer’s families. Each year, hundreds more follow, often with promises of salaries ten times what they could earn at home. Some find decent working conditions and good salaries. M..

In the weeks and months following the al-Qa` bombings that occurred near the Lebanese-Syrian border on 27 June 2016, the Lebanese government has intensified its repressive measures against Syrian refugees. This has taken place in the form of illegal curfews, political hate speech, and arbitrary ..

Joel Beinin, Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.

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During the summer of 2015, India suffered an extreme heat wave. Over 2500 people—primarily from the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana—

[The below piece was written before the current wave of protests in Kasserine in the marginalized southern region of Tunisia. The protests, which soon expanded to the whole country, started after a young unemployed man climbed an electric power tower and was electrocuted. He was protesting in..

Cemile Çağırga: A Girl is Freezing Under State Fire

“As a child born in the southeast, after the ‘90s, you’re not really a kid. During your infancy, you’re really a child between 1-5 years old. As a 6-year old, you’ve actually grown up and are conside..

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[The following report presents the status of localization efforts in Qatar`s labor force and proposes recommendations to achieve better results based on an ongoing Qatarization study supported by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). The study, which is carried out by

CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD), in partnership with the Arab Studies Institute (ASI), presents:

Workers and Revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia

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Joel Beinin..