Articles
Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Arab Studies Journal, Fall 2019)
Omar Dewachi, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford...
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A Case for Discussing BDS at APSA, or: What Really Happened at the Foundations Meeting in DC
At this year’s American Political Science Association (APSA) conference in Washington DC, the...
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Duke Faculty Respond to Title VI Notice on UNC-Duke Middle Eastern Studies Program
[This letter, originally published in the Duke Chronicle, follows an unaffiliated letter...
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Student Response to Title VI Notice on UNC-Duke
On 19 September 2019, the Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos ordered the UNC-Duke...
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InsideHigherEd.com Article: Education Department Probes Middle East Studies Program
By Elizabeth Redden, September 17, 2019. Original article can be found here. The Department of...
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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...
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