Articles
Arab Barometer: What Algerian Citizens Think
As a country that survived the Arab uprisings of 2011, this year’s protests in Algeria caught most...
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What a Seventeenth-Century Peer Teaching Evaluation from the Muslim World Has to Say about Teaching Today
In the wake of the recent college admissions scandal, educators have been discussing teaching and...
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Religious Difference, Hole-ier Than You Might Think! Angie Heo’s “The Political Lives of Saints” Reviewed
What happens when God appears on Earth? What does it mean and to whom? Inevitably, there is no...
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On Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Many scholars of the Middle East follow, with grave concern, and some modest hope, the fate of...
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The Discursive Power of Calls for Papers: Observations of an Ottoman-Kurdish Historian
By: Nilay Özok Gündoğan In the past decade or so, a new generation of scholars has expanded the...
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Syria: Donor Conditionality, Sanctions, and the Question of Justice
The question of donor conditionality and how it could be used to influence behavior and promote...
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Misery in Hindsight: On Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum
By: Edwin Nasr In 1955, filmmaker Satyajit Ray—regarded as the “godfather” of modern Indian...
Read MoreCritical Voices in Critical Times: Peter Mayo on Gramsci, Egypt and Critical Pedagogy
This interview is part of the series “Critical Voices in Critical Times” coordinated and edited by Linda Herrera. In this interview, Peter Mayo, a professor at the University of Malta and renowned scholar on Gramsci and Freire,...
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Exporting Palestinian Education to Palestinians: Documenting Yet Another Step Forward
By: Sam Bahour “The Palestinian people today face problems of formidable proportions.” —Excerpt...
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Who Told You History is an Open Buffet? On Facts, Fiction and Absence in the Archives
By: Salma Shamel The chronoscope in Isaac Asimov’s 1956 short science-fiction novel The Dead...
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“Juridical Colonialism, International Law, and the Ottoman Response”
By: Mostafa Minawi This talk took place in November of 2017, and it was meant to...
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Limitations to Film in Pedagogy: Bar Bahar as a Case Study
By: The Tadween Editors Bar Bahar (or its English title, In Between), has been increasingly...
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