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Sustaining Higher Education in Gaza – With 6 Gaza Scholars

Organized by @MESA_1966 and Gaza in Context, Co-Sponsored by @jadaliyya @ScholarsAtRisk @ScholarRescue @OfficialBrismes @NSMES_ME @UIEConsortium. In this panel six professors from the Gaza Strip discuss their efforts to sustain higher education in the face of genocide and scholasticide. Our guests...
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Resisting Repression in Academia and on Campus w/ Emmaia Gelman

George Mason's Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine presents Resisting the Ratcheting Up of Repression in Academia and on Campus Featuring: Emmaia Gelman Moderator: Bassam Haddad, Bethany Letiecq Co-sponsored by the Gaza In Context Collaborative Teach-In Series   This conversation will...
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Essential Readings on Urban Geography, Subjectivity, and Security

[The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting an “Essential Readings” list on a topic/theme pertinent to their...
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Review of “Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864”

[This is a review published by the Arab Studies Journal Spring 2024 issue, which is now available for purchase. Click here to subscribe to Arab Studies Journal.] Ozan Ozavci’s Dangerous Gifts is an ambitious treatment of great-power politics in the Ottoman provinces of Greater Syria and Egypt in...
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Engaging Books

Engaging Books is a series that highlights important new texts by various publishers on a given theme, along with an excerpt from each volume, for teaching, review, and research purposes. Click here for E.B. posts. 

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Archives Module

MESPI’s Archive Module will host a wide array of open source archival resources and documents to serve educators and researchers. Researchers will also have the opportunity to upload documents to archives module.

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Syllabus Tool

True! MESPI is working on its biggest project yet: A Syllabus-Building Tool, geared primarily for the survey course. It will draw on both the MESPI community and curated resources as well as on the Knowledge Production Project to furnish a variety of choices and models. Educators would select the topic or country on which they seek resources, identify the category (Book, Peer-Reviewed Article, etc.), reading load (number of pages/week), and level (introductory, intermediate, advanced). The interactive tool would guide them through the retrieval of these resources.

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Sustaining Higher Education in Gaza – With 6 Gaza Scholars

Gaza and the Struggle in Politics, Law, and Knowledge Production (Part 1)

Resisting Repression in Academia and on Campus w/ Emmaia Gelman

Academic Freedom and the War on Gaza w/ Sami Al-Arian

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Europe and the Middle East Podcast

by Status Audio Journal Hosts

Does the Arab Region have an Agrarian Question?

by Max Ajl

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Middle East Learn and Teach Series: Iraq with Panel Discussion on the 18th Anniversary of US-led Invasion of Iraq

Jadaliyya Editors

19 March 2021 marks eighteen years since the US-led invasion of Iraq. Jadaliyya’s editors have prepared this bouquet of articles, podcasts, live event recordings, and more as part of the Arab Studies Institute’s (ASI) Middle East Learn and Teach (MELT) series. You will find materials from ASI’s various platforms, including Jadaliyya, Status/الوضع, and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI).

Middle East Learn and Teach Series: Syria

Jadaliyya Syria Page Editors

Syria has been less and less in the news, but by no means is this a reflection of developments on the ground. In an effort to keep our readers/listeners/viewers engaged with Syria’s current moment and significant developments, we bring you this curation of knowledge production on Syria, published recently by various ASI platforms. Educators, researchers, and knowledge seekers in general may find these materials productive for their purposes.

MESPI's one-stop Shop

MESPI is a curated interactive platform for Middle East Studies resources, specifically tailored for the needs of teachers, researchers, and students. It is a one-stop-shop for course design on the macro level, lesson planning on the micro level, and for scholarship vis-a-vis specific topics, countries, and disciplines. The MESPI project strives to reorient the way educators and students research, learn, and teach the Middle East. 

Our Global community

The MESPI platform makes approaching scholarship and teaching accessible to all, through creating  a community/network of educators and  building partnerships with research centers, organizations, and projects that will constitute its evolving decision-making body. This project thus becomes that of a community interested in providing a more critical alternative to existing mainstream pedagogic materials/approaches.

Syllabus tool & bank

MESPI’S Syllabus-Building Tool will draw on both the MESPI community and curated resources as well as on the Knowledge Production Project to furnish a variety of choices and models. Educators would select the topic or country on which they seek resources, identify the category, reading load, and level of instruction. The interactive tool would guide them through the retrieval of these resources.

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