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Essential Readings on the Left in Kurdistan

Jul 15, 2021 | 0

[This Essential Reading is the “Left in Kurdistan” installment of a focused series on...

Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement

Jul 8, 2021 | 0
Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on the Arab Uprisings, Ten Years On

Jun 17, 2021 | 0

Essential Readings on the Left in Kurdistan

Jul 15, 2021 | 0

[This Essential Reading is the “Left in Kurdistan” installment of a focused series on...

Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement

Jul 8, 2021 | 0
Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on the Arab Uprisings, Ten Years On

Jun 17, 2021 | 0

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Essential Readings on the Left in Kurdistan

by MESPI Editors | Jul 15, 2021 | Essential Readings | 0 |

[This Essential Reading is the “Left in Kurdistan” installment of a focused series on...

Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement

by Rochelle Davis | Jul 8, 2021 | Essential Readings, featured | 0 |
Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on the Arab Uprisings, Ten Years On

by MESPI Editors | Jun 17, 2021 | Engaging Books | 0 |
Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2020/2021 (Part 4)

by MESPI Editors | May 27, 2021 | featured, Peer-Reviewed Articles, Peer-Reviewed Articles Winter 2020/2021 | 0 |
Palestine: Sheikh Jarrah, Expulsion, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism (Middle East Learn & Teach Series)

by MESPI Editors | May 17, 2021 | Articles, Critical Readings for Educators, Other Resources | 0 |

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Essential Readings on the Left in Kurdistan

Essential Readings on the Left in Kurdis...

Jul 15, 2021

Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement

Essential Readings on Refugees and Force...

Jul 8, 2021

Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on the Arab Uprisings, Ten Years On

Engaging Books Series: Stanford Universi...

Jun 17, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2020/2021 (Part 4)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

May 27, 2021

Palestine: Sheikh Jarrah, Expulsion, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism (Middle East Learn & Teach Series)

Palestine: Sheikh Jarrah, Expulsion, Occ...

May 17, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2020/2021 (Part 3)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

May 13, 2021

Engaging Books Series: Saqi Books Selections on the Arab Uprisings

Engaging Books Series: Saqi Books Select...

May 3, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2020/2021 (Part 2)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 29, 2021

NEWTON: Embodying Geopolitics

NEWTON: Embodying Geopolitics

Apr 27, 2021

NEWTON: Street Sounds

NEWTON: Street Sounds

Apr 22, 2021

Teaching the Mediterranean: An Interview with Julia Clancy-Smith, by Jacob Bessen

Teaching the Mediterranean: An Interview...

Apr 19, 2021

NEWTON: Decolonizing Palestine

NEWTON: Decolonizing Palestine

Apr 19, 2021

NEWTON: Egypt’s Housing Crisis

NEWTON: Egypt’s Housing Crisis

Apr 15, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2020/2021 (Part 1)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 15, 2021

NEWTON: The Son King

NEWTON: The Son King

Apr 12, 2021

NEWTON: Global Middle East

NEWTON: Global Middle East

Apr 9, 2021

Engaging Books Series: New York University Press Selections on the Arab Uprisings

Engaging Books Series: New York Universi...

Apr 7, 2021

NEWTON: A History of Arab Graphic Design

NEWTON: A History of Arab Graphic Design

Apr 7, 2021

NEWTON: Quagmire in Civil War

NEWTON: Quagmire in Civil War

Mar 31, 2021

Essential Readings: Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa

Essential Readings: Uprisings, Resistanc...

Mar 31, 2021

NEWTON: The Muslim Brothers in Society

NEWTON: The Muslim Brothers in Society

Mar 25, 2021

Teaching Anthropology of the Economic from the Middle East: An Interview with Julia Elyachar, by Jacob Bessen

Teaching Anthropology of the Economic fr...

Mar 25, 2021

NEWTON: Neither Settler nor Native

NEWTON: Neither Settler nor Native

Mar 23, 2021

NEWTON: Imperial Bodies

NEWTON: Imperial Bodies

Mar 19, 2021

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

Middle East Learn and Teach Series: Iraq...

Mar 19, 2021

Essential Readings: Revolutions in the Contemporary Middle East

Essential Readings: Revolutions in the C...

Mar 18, 2021

NEWTON: Turkish-Saudi Relations

NEWTON: Turkish-Saudi Relations

Mar 17, 2021

Sherine Hafez Book Talk – Women of the Midan

Sherine Hafez Book Talk – Women of...

Mar 12, 2021

Engaging Books Series: Hoopoe Selections on New Fiction from the Middle East

Engaging Books Series: Hoopoe Selections...

Mar 11, 2021

NEWTON: Return to Ruin

NEWTON: Return to Ruin

Mar 8, 2021

NEWTON: Byzantine Intersectionality

NEWTON: Byzantine Intersectionality

Mar 5, 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 7 Digest – March 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 7 Digest – March ...

Mar 5, 2021

Essential Readings on Uprisings, Popular Protest, and Resistance

Essential Readings on Uprisings, Popular...

Mar 2, 2021

NEWTON: At the Margins of Academia

NEWTON: At the Margins of Academia

Mar 1, 2021

NEWTON: Imperial Mecca

NEWTON: Imperial Mecca

Feb 25, 2021

Teaching the Arab Uprisings

Teaching the Arab Uprisings

Feb 25, 2021

NEWTON: “Colonial Capitalism and Imperial Myth in French North Africa”

NEWTON: “Colonial Capitalism and Imperia...

Feb 22, 2021

NEWTON: You Can Crush the Flowers

NEWTON: You Can Crush the Flowers

Feb 15, 2021

The January 25 Uprising at Ten: Incomplete Struggles and Evolving Trajectories in Egypt

The January 25 Uprising at Ten: Incompl...

Feb 12, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020 (Part 4)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020...

Feb 11, 2021

NEWTON: “Regional Militaries and the Global Military-Industrial Complex”

NEWTON: “Regional Militaries and the Glo...

Feb 11, 2021

NEWTON: A History of False Hope

NEWTON: A History of False Hope

Feb 8, 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 6 Digest – February 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 6 Digest – Februa...

Feb 5, 2021

Reflections on Mass Protests & Uprisings in the Arab World

Reflections on Mass Protests & Upri...

Feb 1, 2021

NEWTON: A Revolution in Rhyme

NEWTON: A Revolution in Rhyme

Feb 1, 2021

2020 Essential Readings

2020 Essential Readings

Jan 29, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020 (Part 3)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020...

Jan 26, 2021

NEWTON: Coups and Revolutions

NEWTON: Coups and Revolutions

Jan 22, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020 (Part 2)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020...

Jan 18, 2021

NEWTON: Women in Place

NEWTON: Women in Place

Jan 15, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020 (Part 1)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2020...

Jan 6, 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 5 Digest – January 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 5 Digest – Januar...

Jan 5, 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 5 Digest – January 2021

Live with ASI: Episode 5 Digest – ...

Jan 5, 2021

NEWTON: Intoxicating Zion

NEWTON: Intoxicating Zion

Dec 22, 2020

NEWTON: Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

NEWTON: Heritage and the Cultural Strugg...

Dec 17, 2020

Essential Readings: The Hirak (Algerian Uprisings of 2019)

Essential Readings: The Hirak (Algerian ...

Dec 16, 2020

NEWTON: When Blame Backfires

NEWTON: When Blame Backfires

Dec 14, 2020

Teaching the Middle East in the Middle East: Political Science

Teaching the Middle East in the Middle E...

Dec 14, 2020

NEWTON: Beyond Exception

NEWTON: Beyond Exception

Dec 10, 2020

NEWTON: War and the City

NEWTON: War and the City

Dec 8, 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 4 Digest – December 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 4 Digest – ...

Dec 5, 2020

NEWTON: Alien Citizens

NEWTON: Alien Citizens

Dec 3, 2020

Essential Readings: Land, Water, and the Environment in Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories (by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins)

Essential Readings: Land, Water, and the...

Dec 2, 2020

NEWTON: Indian Sex Life

NEWTON: Indian Sex Life

Nov 30, 2020

Teaching the Middle East in the Middle East: History

Teaching the Middle East in the Middle E...

Nov 30, 2020

NEWTON: Showpiece City

NEWTON: Showpiece City

Nov 27, 2020

NEWTON: The Ideological Deportation of Foreigners and “Local Subjects of Foreign Extraction” in Interwar Egypt

NEWTON: The Ideological Deportation of F...

Nov 24, 2020

NEWTON: “Glitzy” Malls and Coffee Shops

NEWTON: “Glitzy” Malls and Coffee Shops...

Nov 19, 2020

Field Notes from Middle East Studies: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on BRISMES

Field Notes from Middle East Studies: Th...

Nov 18, 2020

NEWTON: Winning Lebanon

NEWTON: Winning Lebanon

Nov 13, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 2020 (Part 4)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Nov 11, 2020

Course Syllabus and Primer: Understanding the Modern Middle East

Course Syllabus and Primer: Understandin...

Nov 10, 2020

NEWTON: Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks

NEWTON: Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Tu...

Nov 9, 2020

NEWTON: The Middle East in 1958

NEWTON: The Middle East in 1958

Nov 5, 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 3 Digest – Novemb...

Nov 3, 2020

NEWTON: Unexpected State

NEWTON: Unexpected State

Nov 2, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 2020 (Part 3)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Oct 28, 2020

NEWTON: The Syrian Crisis

NEWTON: The Syrian Crisis

Oct 27, 2020

NEWTON: Time’s Monster

NEWTON: Time’s Monster

Oct 23, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 2020 (Part 2)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Oct 23, 2020

NEWTON: Enforcing Silence

NEWTON: Enforcing Silence

Oct 19, 2020

NEWTON: The Clash of Values

NEWTON: The Clash of Values

Oct 16, 2020

Announcing JadMag Issue 7.3 (Jadaliyya in Print)

Announcing JadMag Issue 7.3 (Jadaliyya i...

Oct 15, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 2020 (Part 1)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Oct 13, 2020

NEWTON: Triadic Coercion

NEWTON: Triadic Coercion

Oct 12, 2020

NEWTON: Human Shields

NEWTON: Human Shields

Oct 6, 2020

Announcing Status/الوضع Issue 7.2

Announcing Status/الوضع Issue 7.2

Oct 5, 2020

Field Notes from Middle East Studies: MESA and the Pandemic

Field Notes from Middle East Studies: ME...

Oct 4, 2020

NEWTON: Anxiety of Erasure

NEWTON: Anxiety of Erasure

Sep 28, 2020

NEWTON: Archive Wars

NEWTON: Archive Wars

Sep 24, 2020

Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on Heritage Politics

Engaging Books Series: Stanford Universi...

Sep 23, 2020

NEWTON: Contesting the Iranian Revolution

NEWTON: Contesting the Iranian Revolutio...

Sep 21, 2020

NEWTON: Arab Americans in Film

NEWTON: Arab Americans in Film

Sep 18, 2020

NEWTON: The Wandering Holy Man

NEWTON: The Wandering Holy Man

Sep 16, 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 1 Digest – September 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 1 Digest – Septem...

Sep 14, 2020

NEWTON: Generations of Dissent

NEWTON: Generations of Dissent

Sep 11, 2020

Live with ASI Broadcast, Episode 1 Part 2

Live with ASI Broadcast, Episode 1 Part ...

Sep 10, 2020

NEWTON: Imagining Afghanistan

NEWTON: Imagining Afghanistan

Sep 9, 2020

NEWTON: Selling War and Peace

NEWTON: Selling War and Peace

Sep 4, 2020

NEWTON: Oilcraft

NEWTON: Oilcraft

Aug 31, 2020

NEWTON: An Army Like No Other

NEWTON: An Army Like No Other

Aug 26, 2020

Secondary Education Module Official Launch

Secondary Education Module Official Laun...

Aug 24, 2020

NEWTON: Cosmopolitan Radicalism

NEWTON: Cosmopolitan Radicalism

Aug 24, 2020

NEWTON: The Runaways: A Novel

NEWTON: The Runaways: A Novel

Aug 20, 2020

Palestine, Israel, and Race: Peer-Reviewed Articles 1979-2019

Palestine, Israel, and Race: Peer-Review...

Aug 18, 2020

Essential Readings on the Left in Mandate Palestine (by Musa Budeiri)

Essential Readings on the Left in Mandat...

Aug 14, 2020

NEWTON: Reforming Modernity

NEWTON: Reforming Modernity

Aug 14, 2020

Engaging Books Series: Brill Publishers Selections on Muslim Minorities

Engaging Books Series: Brill Publishers ...

Aug 12, 2020

Race and the Middle East in the United States: Peer-Reviewed Articles 1979-2019

Race and the Middle East in the United S...

Aug 11, 2020

Essential Readings on Marxism and the Left in Egypt (by Joel Beinin)

Essential Readings on Marxism and the Le...

Aug 10, 2020

NEWTON: Genocide in Libya

NEWTON: Genocide in Libya

Aug 5, 2020

Race in the Middle East and North Africa: Peer-Reviewed Articles 1979-2019

Race in the Middle East and North Africa...

Aug 4, 2020

NEWTON: Sacrificial Limbs

NEWTON: Sacrificial Limbs

Jul 30, 2020

Middle East Learn and Teach Series: Syria

Middle East Learn and Teach Series: Syri...

Jul 28, 2020

NEWTON: Religious Statecraft

NEWTON: Religious Statecraft

Jul 27, 2020

NEWTON: The Autocratic Parliament

NEWTON: The Autocratic Parliament

Jul 23, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 2020 (Part 4)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 22, 2020

NEWTON: Palestinian Chicago

NEWTON: Palestinian Chicago

Jul 21, 2020

Essential Readings on “Democracy Promotion” (by Benjamin Schuetze)

Essential Readings on “Democracy P...

Jul 21, 2020

NEWTON: Political Repression in Bahrain

NEWTON: Political Repression in Bahrain

Jul 17, 2020

Engaging Books Series: OneWorld Press Selections on Radical Histories of the Middle East

Engaging Books Series: OneWorld Press Se...

Jul 15, 2020

NEWTON: Arab Modernism as World Cinema

NEWTON: Arab Modernism as World Cinema

Jul 13, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 2020 (Part 3)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 13, 2020

NEWTON: Disruptive Situations

NEWTON: Disruptive Situations

Jul 9, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 2020 (Part 2)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 8, 2020

NEWTON: Forgiveness Work

NEWTON: Forgiveness Work

Jul 6, 2020

NEWTON: How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

NEWTON: How the West Stole Democracy fro...

Jul 3, 2020

NEWTON: Istanbul, City of the Fearless

NEWTON: Istanbul, City of the Fearless

Jul 1, 2020

NEWTON: Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank

NEWTON: Palestinian Theatre in the West ...

Jun 25, 2020

Call for Contributors: Precarity & Pedagogy Roundtable

Call for Contributors: Precarity & ...

Jun 25, 2020

NEWTON: Tehrangeles Dreaming

NEWTON: Tehrangeles Dreaming

Jun 23, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 2020 (Part 1)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jun 23, 2020

NEWTON: We Are Iraqis

NEWTON: We Are Iraqis

Jun 22, 2020

NEWTON: Cleft Capitalism

NEWTON: Cleft Capitalism

Jun 19, 2020

Engaging Books Series: AUC Press Selection on Cairo Architecture

Engaging Books Series: AUC Press Selecti...

Jun 17, 2020

NEWTON: Armenians Beyond Diaspora

NEWTON: Armenians Beyond Diaspora

Jun 16, 2020

NEWTON: The Palestinian Idea

NEWTON: The Palestinian Idea

Jun 12, 2020

Alert: The 2020 Political Economy Project Book Prize submission deadline is June 30, 2020!

Alert: The 2020 Political Economy Projec...

Jun 11, 2020

“The Arabic Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership” by Ami Ayalon (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)

“The Arabic Print Revolution: Cult...

Jun 10, 2020

NEWTON: Exile and the Nation

NEWTON: Exile and the Nation

Jun 9, 2020

NEWTON: A Slave Between Empires

NEWTON: A Slave Between Empires

Jun 5, 2020

NEWTON: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

NEWTON: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Jun 3, 2020

Curriculum Materials from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University

Curriculum Materials from the Center for...

May 30, 2020

Islam and Politics: A Curriculum Resource

Islam and Politics: A Curriculum Resourc...

May 30, 2020

IRCV Materials: Emergence of Renaissance

IRCV Materials: Emergence of Renaissance

May 28, 2020

IRCV Materials: Beyond A Thousand and One Nights

IRCV Materials: Beyond A Thousand and On...

May 28, 2020

NEWTON: My Shadow is My Skin

NEWTON: My Shadow is My Skin

May 28, 2020

IRCV Materials: The Crusades from Medieval European and Muslim Perspectives

IRCV Materials: The Crusades from Mediev...

May 28, 2020

IRCV Materials: Images of the Orient

IRCV Materials: Images of the Orient

May 28, 2020

IRCV Materials: Muslim Women Across the Centuries

IRCV Materials: Muslim Women Across the ...

May 28, 2020

Islamic Spain, Cities of Light

Islamic Spain, Cities of Light

May 28, 2020

American Women Writers of Muslim Heritage

American Women Writers of Muslim Heritag...

May 28, 2020

“Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution” by Nadia Yaqub (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)

“Palestinian Cinema in the Days of...

May 27, 2020

Essential Readings: Politics and Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

Essential Readings: Politics and Popular...

May 27, 2020

NEWTON: Our Women on the Ground

NEWTON: Our Women on the Ground

May 26, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 2019/2020 (Part 4)

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

May 25, 2020

NEWTON: Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt

NEWTON: Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt

May 22, 2020

On Teaching Gender and Islam in The Middle East: An Interview with Lila Abu Lughod

On Teaching Gender and Islam in The Midd...

May 20, 2020

Engaging Books Series: Stanford University Press Selections on Transregional Connections in the Middle East and Central Asia

Engaging Books Series: Stanford Universi...

May 18, 2020

NEWTON: Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel

NEWTON: Poetics of Visibility in the Con...

May 18, 2020

NEWTON: Sinews of War and Trade

NEWTON: Sinews of War and Trade

May 14, 2020

Essential Readings on Iranian Socialism and Communism (by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi)

Essential Readings on Iranian Socialism ...

May 14, 2020

“Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon” by Natalie Khazaal (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)

“Pretty Liar: Television, Language...

May 13, 2020

NEWTON: Watermelon Democracy

NEWTON: Watermelon Democracy

May 11, 2020

Announcing the 2020 Political Economy Book Prize Competition (Political Economy Project)

Announcing the 2020 Political Economy Bo...

May 6, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

May 6, 2020

NEWTON: Reforming Family Law

NEWTON: Reforming Family Law

May 4, 2020

NEWTON: Beauty in the Age of Empire

NEWTON: Beauty in the Age of Empire

Apr 30, 2020

Essential Readings: Environment and Politics in the Middle East

Essential Readings: Environment and Poli...

Apr 22, 2020

NEWTON: Spaceship in the Desert

NEWTON: Spaceship in the Desert

Apr 22, 2020

Engaging Books Series: Georgetown University Press Selections on the Gulf States

Engaging Books Series: Georgetown Univer...

Apr 20, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 20, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 15, 2020

Public Books Database

Public Books Database

Apr 6, 2020

NEWTON: The Closed Circle

NEWTON: The Closed Circle

Apr 6, 2020

NEWTON: Medieval Islamic Sectarianism

NEWTON: Medieval Islamic Sectarianism

Apr 3, 2020

NEWTON: Politics of Rightful Killing

NEWTON: Politics of Rightful Killing

Mar 31, 2020

NEWTON: In a Pure Muslim Land

NEWTON: In a Pure Muslim Land

Mar 27, 2020

NEWTON: Polarized and Demobilized

NEWTON: Polarized and Demobilized

Mar 24, 2020

NEWTON: 32

Mar 18, 2020

NEWTON: The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam

NEWTON: The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...

Mar 10, 2020

Curricular Justice: Arab American Studies and the Struggle for California’s Schools

Curricular Justice: Arab American Studie...

Mar 10, 2020

Engaging Books Series: De Gruyter Selections on Islamic Studies

Engaging Books Series: De Gruyter Select...

Mar 4, 2020

NEWTON: Insurgent Aesthetics

NEWTON: Insurgent Aesthetics

Mar 3, 2020

Unprecedented Dismissal of Graduate Students in California for Labor Strike

Unprecedented Dismissal of Graduate Stud...

Mar 2, 2020

Essential Readings in Druze History

Essential Readings in Druze History

Mar 2, 2020

The 2019 Pedagogy JadMag

The 2019 Pedagogy JadMag

Feb 28, 2020

NEWTON: Drugs Politics

NEWTON: Drugs Politics

Feb 28, 2020

NEWTON: Gendered Morality

NEWTON: Gendered Morality

Feb 25, 2020

Summer School in Languages – Mejlis Institute Announcement

Summer School in Languages – Mejli...

Feb 23, 2020

NEWTON: Resisting Disappearance

NEWTON: Resisting Disappearance

Feb 21, 2020

A Database of Summer Language Programs in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

A Database of Summer Language Programs i...

Feb 21, 2020

NEWTON: Modern Things on Trial

NEWTON: Modern Things on Trial

Feb 18, 2020

“The Two World Histories”

“The Two World Histories”

Feb 18, 2020

“Collaborative Argumentation: Tenth Graders Read Modern Iranian History”

“Collaborative Argumentation: Tenth Grad...

Feb 18, 2020

“Student Response to Title VI Notice on UNC-Duke”

“Student Response to Title VI Notice on ...

Feb 18, 2020

“Islam at the Center: Technological Complexes and the Roots of Modernity.”

“Islam at the Center: Technological Comp...

Feb 18, 2020

NEWTON: Algérie, la nouvelle indépendance

NEWTON: Algérie, la nouvelle indépendanc...

Feb 14, 2020

NEWTON: Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution

NEWTON: Enlightenment on the Eve of Revo...

Feb 10, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2019...

Feb 6, 2020

NEWTON: Philosophy in the Islamic World

NEWTON: Philosophy in the Islamic World

Feb 6, 2020

NEWTON: Precarious Hope

NEWTON: Precarious Hope

Feb 3, 2020

NEWTON: Electrical News in Colonial Algeria

NEWTON: Electrical News in Colonial Alge...

Jan 30, 2020

NEWTON: The Mexican Majhar

NEWTON: The Mexican Majhar

Jan 27, 2020

NEWTON: The Lived Nile

NEWTON: The Lived Nile

Jan 21, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2019...

Jan 16, 2020

NEWTON: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

NEWTON: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

Jan 16, 2020

Engaging Books Series: Gingko Selections on the Making of Modern Iran

Engaging Books Series: Gingko Selections...

Jan 15, 2020

NEWTON: The Making of the Modern Mediterranean

NEWTON: The Making of the Modern Mediter...

Jan 14, 2020

NEWTON: Feast of Ashes

NEWTON: Feast of Ashes

Jan 9, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2019...

Jan 6, 2020

NEWTON: The Women of the Midan

NEWTON: The Women of the Midan

Jan 6, 2020

NEWTON: Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

NEWTON: Popular Fiction, Translation and...

Jan 1, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2019...

Dec 30, 2019

NEWTON: Iran and Palestine

NEWTON: Iran and Palestine

Dec 24, 2019

NEWTON: Age of Coexistence

NEWTON: Age of Coexistence

Dec 20, 2019

Essential Readings on Islam in the US (by Zareena Grewal)

Essential Readings on Islam in the US (b...

Dec 18, 2019

NEWTON: Egypt’s Beer

NEWTON: Egypt’s Beer

Dec 16, 2019

Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Arab Studies Journal, Fall 2019)

Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle...

Dec 16, 2019

NEWTON: Islamic Maps

NEWTON: Islamic Maps

Dec 12, 2019

Jadaliyya Talks: Negar Razavi on The Systemic Problem of “Iran Expertise” in Washington

Jadaliyya Talks: Negar Razavi on The Sys...

Dec 9, 2019

NEWTON: Familiar Futures

NEWTON: Familiar Futures

Dec 9, 2019

NEWTON: “The Inevitable Prison / L’inévitable prison,” Special Issue of L’Année du Maghreb 20, no. 1 (2019)

NEWTON: “The Inevitable Prison / L’...

Dec 6, 2019

NEWTON: “Citizenship as Domination”

NEWTON: “Citizenship as Domination...

Dec 2, 2019

Roundtable: Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 2)

Roundtable: Iran’s Domestic Politics and...

Dec 2, 2019

NEWTON: Waste Siege

NEWTON: Waste Siege

Nov 29, 2019

NEWTON: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism

NEWTON: Potential History – Unlear...

Nov 26, 2019

Roundtable: Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 1)

Roundtable: Iran’s Domestic Politics and...

Nov 26, 2019

NEWTON: Foreign Policy as Nation Making

NEWTON: Foreign Policy as Nation Making

Nov 25, 2019

NEWTON: Dispossession and Hybridity

NEWTON: Dispossession and Hybridity

Nov 22, 2019

‘MESPI Talks’: A Conversation with Katy Whiting of the Sijal Institute on Arabic Education in Amman

‘MESPI Talks’: A Conversatio...

Nov 21, 2019

NEWTON: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

NEWTON: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Und...

Nov 18, 2019

NEWTON: Authoritarian Apprehensions

NEWTON: Authoritarian Apprehensions

Nov 15, 2019

NEWTON: The Universal Enemy

NEWTON: The Universal Enemy

Nov 14, 2019

Engaging Books Series: University of Texas Press on Egyptian Cultural Studies

Engaging Books Series: University of Tex...

Nov 13, 2019

NEWTON: Interrogating Secularism

NEWTON: Interrogating Secularism

Nov 11, 2019

NEWTON: Algérie, les écrivains de la décennie noire

NEWTON: Algérie, les écrivains de la déc...

Nov 7, 2019

NEWTON: Black Power and Palestine

NEWTON: Black Power and Palestine

Nov 4, 2019

NEWTON: Globalizing Morocco

NEWTON: Globalizing Morocco

Oct 31, 2019

NEWTON: Giving to God

NEWTON: Giving to God

Oct 28, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Oct 24, 2019

NEWTON: City of Black Gold

NEWTON: City of Black Gold

Oct 23, 2019

Essential Readings: Masculinity in the Middle East

Essential Readings: Masculinity in the M...

Oct 17, 2019

NEWTON: Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I

NEWTON: Ottoman Children and Youth durin...

Oct 17, 2019

NEWTON: Electrical Palestine

NEWTON: Electrical Palestine

Oct 14, 2019

NEWTON: Peaceful Families

NEWTON: Peaceful Families

Oct 10, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Oct 9, 2019

Essential Readings: The Iraqi Revolution of 1958

Essential Readings: The Iraqi Revolution...

Oct 7, 2019

A Case for Discussing BDS at APSA, or: What Really Happened at the Foundations Meeting in DC

A Case for Discussing BDS at APSA, or: W...

Oct 7, 2019

NEWTON: Beyond Shariati

NEWTON: Beyond Shariati

Oct 7, 2019

Duke Faculty Respond to Title VI Notice on UNC-Duke Middle Eastern Studies Program

Duke Faculty Respond to Title VI Notice ...

Oct 4, 2019

NEWTON: Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

NEWTON: Routledge Handbook on Middle Eas...

Oct 3, 2019

NEWTON: For God or Empire

NEWTON: For God or Empire

Sep 30, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Sep 30, 2019

Student Response to Title VI Notice on UNC-Duke

Student Response to Title VI Notice on U...

Sep 27, 2019

NEWTON: Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period

NEWTON: Palestinian Women and Muslim Fam...

Sep 26, 2019

NEWTON: Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora

NEWTON: Women, Art, and Literature in th...

Sep 23, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Sep 19, 2019

NEWTON: Islands of Heritage

NEWTON: Islands of Heritage

Sep 19, 2019

InsideHigherEd.com Article: Education Department Probes Middle East Studies Program

InsideHigherEd.com Article: Education De...

Sep 18, 2019

NEWTON: Partitions

NEWTON: Partitions

Sep 16, 2019

NEWTON: Between Iran and Zion

NEWTON: Between Iran and Zion

Sep 13, 2019

NEWTON: The Missing Pages

NEWTON: The Missing Pages

Sep 10, 2019

NEWTON: The Palace of Angels

NEWTON: The Palace of Angels

Sep 6, 2019

Arab Barometer: What Algerian Citizens Think

Arab Barometer: What Algerian Citizens T...

Sep 5, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Cambridge University Press Selections on Cosmopolitanism and Political Reform in Iran

Engaging Books Series: Cambridge Univers...

Sep 4, 2019

NEWTON: Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History

NEWTON: Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinem...

Sep 4, 2019

NEWTON: Revolution and its Discontents

NEWTON: Revolution and its Discontents

Sep 4, 2019

Jadaliyya Talks: Arash Davari and Sina Rahmani on “Divorce, Iran-America Style”

Jadaliyya Talks: Arash Davari and Sina R...

Sep 4, 2019

Essential Reading Bouquets: Women & Gender; Migration; Arab Uprisings

Essential Reading Bouquets: Women &...

Sep 2, 2019

NEWTON: The Persianate World

NEWTON: The Persianate World

Aug 28, 2019

NEWTON: Inside Arabic Music

NEWTON: Inside Arabic Music

Aug 24, 2019

What a Seventeenth-Century Peer Teaching Evaluation from the Muslim World Has to Say about Teaching Today

What a Seventeenth-Century Peer Teaching...

Aug 20, 2019

NEWTON: Breaking Broken English

NEWTON: Breaking Broken English

Aug 19, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Comma Press Selections on Short Story Collections from the Arab World

Engaging Books Series: Comma Press Selec...

Aug 14, 2019

NEWTON: Between the Ottomans and the Entente

NEWTON: Between the Ottomans and the Ent...

Aug 12, 2019

NEWTON: Economics for People and the Planet

NEWTON: Economics for People and the Pla...

Aug 8, 2019

NEWTON: Banking on the State

NEWTON: Banking on the State

Aug 5, 2019

NEWTON: How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

NEWTON: How Information Warfare Shaped t...

Aug 1, 2019

NEWTON: Urban Restructuring, Power and Capitalism in the Tourist City

NEWTON: Urban Restructuring, Power and C...

Jul 29, 2019

Religious Difference, Hole-ier Than You Might Think! Angie Heo’s “The Political Lives of Saints” Reviewed

Religious Difference, Hole-ier Than You ...

Jul 29, 2019

NEWTON: Rest In My Shade: A Poem about Roots

NEWTON: Rest In My Shade: A Poem about R...

Jul 25, 2019

NEWTON: The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank

NEWTON: The Palestinian Authority in the...

Jul 22, 2019

NEWTON: Revival From Below

NEWTON: Revival From Below

Jul 19, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Syracuse University Press Selections on Women’s Writing in the Arab World

Engaging Books Series: Syracuse Universi...

Jul 18, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 16, 2019

NEWTON: Escaping the Nation?

NEWTON: Escaping the Nation?

Jul 15, 2019

NEWTON: Silenced Resistance

NEWTON: Silenced Resistance

Jul 12, 2019

NEWTON: Twilight Nationalism

NEWTON: Twilight Nationalism

Jul 8, 2019

NEWTON: Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon

NEWTON: Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon

Jul 3, 2019

Sorbonne Event: Jadaliyya and Orient XX1 Editors’ Panel on Knowledge Production (Paris, 4 July 2019)

Sorbonne Event: Jadaliyya and Orient XX1...

Jul 2, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring (P...

Jul 2, 2019

Essential Readings: Levantine Mandates and the Mandate System

Essential Readings: Levantine Mandates a...

Jun 28, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jun 26, 2019

NEWTON: Palestinian Culture and the Nakba

NEWTON: Palestinian Culture and the Nakb...

Jun 20, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jun 20, 2019

Essential Readings: Modern North African Jewish History

Essential Readings: Modern North African...

Jun 13, 2019

A Hirak Glossary: Terms from Algeria and Morocco

A Hirak Glossary: Terms from Algeria and...

Jun 13, 2019

A Profile on the Arab Council for the So...

Jun 11, 2019

NEWTON: Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar

NEWTON: Teach for Arabia: American Unive...

Jun 10, 2019

Engaging Books Series: University of California Press Selections on Occupation and Militarism in Palestine/Israel

Engaging Books Series: University of Cal...

Jun 10, 2019

Essential Readings: Memory, Trauma, and Amazigh Activism in Contemporary Maghrebi Literature

Essential Readings: Memory, Trauma, and ...

Jun 6, 2019

NEWTON: Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel

NEWTON: Stone Men: The Palestinians Who ...

Jun 5, 2019

Essential Readings: Hashemite Rule in Jordan

Essential Readings: Hashemite Rule in Jo...

May 30, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Ohio University P...

May 22, 2019

NEWTON: For the War Yet To Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers

NEWTON: For the War Yet To Come: Plannin...

May 16, 2019

Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 2)

Roundtable on the Past and Present of El...

May 9, 2019

NEWTON: Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know

NEWTON: Modern Egypt: What Everyone Need...

May 9, 2019

NEWTON: The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perceptions and Realities—Opportunities and Perils

NEWTON: The Arab Gulf States and the Wes...

May 3, 2019

Essential Readings: Emigration from the Levant, 1870-1930: A Primer in Mahjar Studies

Essential Readings: Emigration from the ...

May 2, 2019

Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 1)

Roundtable on the Past and Present of El...

May 2, 2019

On Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

On Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern an...

May 2, 2019

NEWTON: Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

NEWTON: Justice for Some: Law and the Qu...

Apr 29, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 25, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Hurst Publishers ...

Apr 18, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 18, 2019

NEWTON: Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance

NEWTON: Palestine and Rule of Power: Loc...

Apr 12, 2019

NEWTON: Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo

NEWTON: Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawin...

Apr 10, 2019

Masculinities and the Middle East in Pee...

Apr 9, 2019

The Discursive Power of Calls for Papers: Observations of an Ottoman-Kurdish Historian

The Discursive Power of Calls for Papers...

Apr 5, 2019

NEWTON: Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

NEWTON: Preventing Palestine: A Politica...

Apr 3, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Apr 3, 2019

NEWTON: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

NEWTON: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitari...

Apr 1, 2019

NEWTON: No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization

NEWTON: No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Je...

Mar 30, 2019

Islamist Rebels and Women in Peer-Review...

Mar 27, 2019

NEWTON: Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria

NEWTON: Shooting a Revolution: Visual Me...

Mar 25, 2019

Syria: Donor Conditionality, Sanctions, and the Question of Justice

Syria: Donor Conditionality, Sanctions, ...

Mar 20, 2019

NEWTON: Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson

NEWTON: Islam and World History: The Ven...

Mar 18, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter 20...

Mar 18, 2019

Misery in Hindsight: On Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum

Misery in Hindsight: On Nadine Labaki’s ...

Mar 13, 2019

“Women, Gender, and Turkey” in Peer-Revi...

Mar 11, 2019

Engaging Books Series: Akashic Books Selections on Middle East Noir

Engaging Books Series: Akashic Books Sel...

Feb 27, 2019

Essential Readings: Media and the Arab Uprisings

Essential Readings: Media and the Arab U...

Feb 22, 2019

Essential Readings: Gender and Empire

Essential Readings: Gender and Empire

Feb 7, 2019

NEWTON: On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings

NEWTON: On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and ...

Feb 5, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2018...

Jan 31, 2019

NEWTON Bouquet: “Morocco Matters” (January 2019)

NEWTON Bouquet: “Morocco Matters&#...

Jan 25, 2019

Engaging Books Series: NYU Press Selecti...

Jan 24, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2018...

Jan 22, 2019

NEWTON: From Mandate Borders to the Dias...

Jan 19, 2019

NEWTON: Epicures and Experts: The Drinking Water Controversy in British Colonial Cairo

NEWTON: Epicures and Experts: The Drinki...

Jan 15, 2019

Essential Readings: Piracy in the Persian Gulf

Essential Readings: Piracy in the Persia...

Jan 15, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2018...

Jan 10, 2019

NEWTON: Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis Before the Storm

NEWTON: Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Cri...

Jan 9, 2019

NEWTON: Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran

NEWTON: Soundtrack of the Revolution: Th...

Jan 5, 2019

NEWTON Bouquet: “All Things Syria” (December 2018)

NEWTON Bouquet: “All Things Syria&...

Dec 31, 2018

Engaging Books Series: Saqi Books Select...

Dec 12, 2018

NEWTON: Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East

NEWTON: Money, Markets, and Monarchies: ...

Dec 11, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall 2018...

Dec 7, 2018

Essential Readings: History of Modern Famine in the Middle East

Essential Readings: History of Modern Fa...

Dec 6, 2018

NEWTON: Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea

NEWTON: Margins of the Market: Trafficki...

Dec 3, 2018

NEWTON Bouquet: “Urbanization, Urbanism, and Metropolitanism in the Middle East” (November 2018)

NEWTON Bouquet: “Urbanization, Urb...

Dec 2, 2018

Essential Readings: Revolutions in the Contemporary Middle East

Essential Readings: Revolutions in the C...

Nov 27, 2018

Arab Studies Institute at 2018 MESA Rece...

Nov 17, 2018

Engaging Books Series: The University of Chicago Press Selections On “Applied Islam”

Engaging Books Series: The University of...

Nov 15, 2018

NEWTON: Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change

NEWTON: Youth Activism and Contentious P...

Nov 3, 2018

Essential Readings: North African France

Essential Readings: North African France

Oct 30, 2018

Studying and Teaching the Mediterranean

Studying and Teaching the Mediterranean

Oct 25, 2018

New Archive on Middle Eastern Photography

New Archive on Middle Eastern Photograph...

Oct 16, 2018

Essential Readings: Asef Bayat on Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization

Essential Readings: Asef Bayat on Uprisi...

Oct 16, 2018

The Arab Barometer

The Arab Barometer

Oct 15, 2018

Visualizing Palestine

Visualizing Palestine

Oct 15, 2018

HAZINE

Oct 15, 2018

Maydan

Oct 15, 2018

Essential Readings: John Chalcraft on Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization in the Middle East

Essential Readings: John Chalcraft on Up...

Oct 2, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Sep 30, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Sep 18, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Sep 10, 2018

NEWTON: “How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History”

NEWTON: “How I Met My Great-Grandfather:...

Sep 7, 2018

Essential Readings: Said’s Orientalism, Its Interlocutors, and Its Influence

Essential Readings: Said’s Orientalism, ...

Sep 6, 2018

NEWTON: “The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950: Politics, Social History and Culture”

NEWTON: “The Press in the Middle E...

Sep 4, 2018

NEWTON: “Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention”

NEWTON: “Islamists and the Politic...

Aug 28, 2018

NEWTON: “Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts”

NEWTON: “Medieval Empires and the ...

Aug 24, 2018

NEWTON: “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq”

NEWTON: “Compulsion in Religion: S...

Aug 21, 2018

Essential Readings: Authoritarianism

Essential Readings: Authoritarianism

Aug 21, 2018

Round Two Responses: Samer Shehata

Round Two Responses: Samer Shehata

Aug 16, 2018

Round Two Responses: Francesco Cavatorta

Round Two Responses: Francesco Cavatorta

Aug 16, 2018

Round Two Responses: Courtney Freer

Round Two Responses: Courtney Freer

Aug 16, 2018

Round Two Responses: Peter Mandaville

Round Two Responses: Peter Mandaville

Aug 16, 2018

Round Two Responses: Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Round Two Responses: Stacey Philbrick Ya...

Aug 16, 2018

Round One Responses: Samer Shehata

Round One Responses: Samer Shehata

Aug 16, 2018

Round One Responses: Francesco Cavatorta

Round One Responses: Francesco Cavatorta

Aug 16, 2018

Round One Responses: Courtney Freer

Round One Responses: Courtney Freer

Aug 16, 2018

Round One Responses: Peter Mandaville

Round One Responses: Peter Mandaville

Aug 16, 2018

Round One Responses: Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Round One Responses: Stacey Philbrick Ya...

Aug 16, 2018

Roundtable Introduction: The future of Political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa under the changing regional order

Roundtable Introduction: The future of P...

Aug 16, 2018

NEWTON: “Jerusalem, We Have a Problem”: Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy and the Impetus of Dystopic Imagination”

NEWTON: “Jerusalem, We Have a Problem”: ...

Aug 15, 2018

NEWTON: “Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies”

NEWTON: “Rentier Islamism: The Inf...

Aug 7, 2018

Essential Readings: Infrastructure

Essential Readings: Infrastructure

Aug 4, 2018

NEWTON: “Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know”

NEWTON: “Shariah: What Everyone Ne...

Aug 3, 2018

NEWTON: “Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia”

NEWTON: “Salman’s Legacy: Th...

Aug 1, 2018

Essential Readings: Education in the Middle East (Historical Works)

Essential Readings: Education in the Mid...

Aug 1, 2018

NEWTON: “Civil War in Syria: Mobilization and Competing Social Order”

NEWTON: “Civil War in Syria: Mobil...

Jul 29, 2018

NEWTON: ““Wise Cities” in the Mediterranean? Challenges of Urban Sustainability”

NEWTON: ““Wise Cities” in the Medi...

Jul 25, 2018

Essential Readings: Women’s and Gender History in the Early Modern/Modern Middle East

Essential Readings: Women’s and Ge...

Jul 25, 2018

NEWTON: “Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata”

NEWTON: “Mediterranean Encounters:...

Jul 20, 2018

Essential Readings: The United States and Iraq before Saddam Hussein’s Rule

Essential Readings: The United States an...

Jul 20, 2018

NEWTON: “Auto-centered development and indigenous technics: Slaheddine el-Amami and Tunisian delinking”

NEWTON: “Auto-centered development and i...

Jul 13, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 11, 2018

NEWTON: “Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East”

NEWTON: “Making the Arab World: Na...

Jul 10, 2018

Exporting Palestinian Education to Palestinians: Documenting Yet Another Step Forward

Exporting Palestinian Education to Pales...

Jul 9, 2018

NEWTON: “The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World”

NEWTON: “The Middle East and the M...

Jul 6, 2018

NEWTON: “Lissa: A Story of Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution”

NEWTON: “Lissa: A Story of Medical...

Jul 4, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jul 3, 2018

NEWTON: “Space and Mobility in Palestine”

NEWTON: “Space and Mobility in Pal...

Jun 29, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Spring 20...

Jun 27, 2018

NEWTON: “The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control Over the Occupied Palestinian Territory”

NEWTON: “The ABC of the OPT: A Leg...

Jun 26, 2018

NEWTON: “Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance”

NEWTON: “Hamas Contained: The Rise...

Jun 22, 2018

Essential Readings: Migration and the Gulf

Essential Readings: Migration and the Gu...

Jun 21, 2018

NEWTON: “Perspecta 50: Urban Divides”

NEWTON: “Perspecta 50: Urban Divid...

Jun 19, 2018

Essential Readings: The Arab State

Essential Readings: The Arab State

Jun 19, 2018

NEWTON: “Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought”

NEWTON: “Islam without Europe: Tra...

Jun 15, 2018

Essential Readings: Reading Postrevolutionary Iran

Essential Readings: Reading Postrevoluti...

Jun 13, 2018

NEWTON: “Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey”

NEWTON: “Hotels and Highways: The ...

Jun 12, 2018

NEWTON: “Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring”

NEWTON: “Revolution without Revolu...

Jun 8, 2018

Mouin Rabbani: Why 1967?

Mouin Rabbani: Why 1967?

Jun 5, 2018

Bassam Haddad: 1967, Syria, and the Others

Bassam Haddad: 1967, Syria, and the Othe...

Jun 5, 2018

Hesham Sallam: An Ongoing Naksa: When Every Day Is 1967

Hesham Sallam: An Ongoing Naksa: When Ev...

Jun 5, 2018

Adel Iskandar: 1967 from Cataclysm to Simulacrum

Adel Iskandar: 1967 from Cataclysm to Si...

Jun 5, 2018

NEWTON: “Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace”

NEWTON: “Religion as Critique: Isl...

Jun 5, 2018

Anthony Alessandrini: 1967: An Absence at the Heart of Postcolonial Studies

Anthony Alessandrini: 1967: An Absence a...

Jun 5, 2018

Maya Mikdashi: The Temporalities of Settler Colonialism: Paper, Trees, and Pockmarks of Law and Land

Maya Mikdashi: The Temporalities of Sett...

Jun 5, 2018

Muriam Haleh Davis: 1967 in Algeria and Palestine: Two Revolutions and the Question of Historical Time

Muriam Haleh Davis: 1967 in Algeria and ...

Jun 5, 2018

Lisa Hajjar: Meir Shamgar’s Long Shadow

Lisa Hajjar: Meir Shamgar’s Long Shadow...

Jun 5, 2018

Nadya Sbaiti: The Tendrils of 1967

Nadya Sbaiti: The Tendrils of 1967

Jun 5, 2018

Ziad Abu-Rish: Beyond the Epistemological Crutch of 1967

Ziad Abu-Rish: Beyond the Epistemologica...

Jun 5, 2018

Omar Dahi: 1967 and Third Worldism

Omar Dahi: 1967 and Third Worldism

Jun 5, 2018

Noura Erakat: Establishing a Legal Mechanism of Exception for the Non-Exceptional

Noura Erakat: Establishing a Legal Mecha...

Jun 5, 2018

Roundtable Introduction: The 1967 Defeat and the Conditions of the Now

Roundtable Introduction: The 1967 Defeat...

Jun 5, 2018

Essential Readings: Marriage in the Middle East

Essential Readings: Marriage in the Midd...

Jun 4, 2018

NEWTON: “Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook”

NEWTON: “Postrevolutionary Iran: A...

Jun 1, 2018

Who Told You History is an Open Buffet? On Facts, Fiction and Absence in the Archives

Who Told You History is an Open Buffet? ...

May 15, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter/Sp...

May 14, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter/Sp...

May 3, 2018

Round Two Rejoinders: John Voll

Round Two Rejoinders: John Voll

May 2, 2018

Round Two Rejoinders: Nathan Brown

Round Two Rejoinders: Nathan Brown

May 2, 2018

Round Two Rejoinders: Asef Bayat

Round Two Rejoinders: Asef Bayat

May 2, 2018

Round Two Rejoinders: Jillian Schwedler

Round Two Rejoinders: Jillian Schwedler

May 2, 2018

Round One Responses: Nathan Brown

Round One Responses: Nathan Brown

May 2, 2018

Round One Responses: John Voll

Round One Responses: John Voll

May 2, 2018

Round One Responses: Jillian Schwedler

Round One Responses: Jillian Schwedler

May 2, 2018

Round One Responses: Asef Bayat

Round One Responses: Asef Bayat

May 2, 2018

Roundtable Introduction: Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings

Roundtable Introduction: Political Islam...

May 2, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Winter/Sp...

Apr 25, 2018

NEWTON: “Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation”

NEWTON: “Women and Gender in Iraq:...

Apr 13, 2018

Essential Readings: Middle East Studies

Essential Readings: Middle East Studies

Apr 10, 2018

Essential Reading: Sufism

Essential Reading: Sufism

Apr 3, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall/Wint...

Mar 25, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall/Wint...

Mar 11, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Fall/Wint...

Feb 26, 2018

Essential Readings: Political Islam

Essential Readings: Political Islam

Feb 12, 2018

“Juridical Colonialism, International Law, and the Ottoman Response”

“Juridical Colonialism, Internatio...

Jan 19, 2018

Essential Readings: Morocco

Essential Readings: Morocco

Jan 9, 2018

Essential Readings: The Syrian Uprising

Essential Readings: The Syrian Uprising

Dec 19, 2017

Limitations to Film in Pedagogy: Bar Bahar as a Case Study

Limitations to Film in Pedagogy: Bar Bah...

Dec 19, 2017

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Dec 18, 2017

Essential Readings: Algeria

Essential Readings: Algeria

Dec 14, 2017

Essential Readings: Labor in the Middle East

Essential Readings: Labor in the Middle ...

Dec 12, 2017

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Dec 7, 2017

Peer-Reviewed Articles Review: Summer 20...

Dec 2, 2017

Education in the Time of Virality

Education in the Time of Virality

Aug 30, 2017

Academic Challenges

Academic Challenges

Aug 22, 2017

Engaging Books Series: Lynne Rienner

Engaging Books Series: Lynne Rienner

Jun 16, 2017

Generations of Resistance

Generations of Resistance

May 12, 2017

Bassam Haddad and Brian Edwards Discuss Middle East Studies and Public Scholarship

Bassam Haddad and Brian Edwards Discuss ...

Apr 19, 2017

Kerem Altıparmak: On Being Hopeful

Kerem Altıparmak: On Being Hopeful

Apr 10, 2017

Bilgin Ayata: The Constitutional Referendum and The European Diaspora of Turkey

Bilgin Ayata: The Constitutional Referen...

Apr 10, 2017

Hakan Sandal: Queering Turkey’s Referendum

Hakan Sandal: Queering Turkey’s Referend...

Apr 10, 2017

Duygu Parmaksızoğlu: Urban Transformation and the Referendum

Duygu Parmaksızoğlu: Urban Transformatio...

Apr 10, 2017

Mehmet Sinan Birdal: Voting on the Court Society

Mehmet Sinan Birdal: Voting on the Court...

Apr 10, 2017

Roundtable Introduction: Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum

Roundtable Introduction: Turkey’s Consti...

Apr 10, 2017

Engaging Books Series: Pluto Press Selections on Radical Politics

Engaging Books Series: Pluto Press Selec...

Oct 31, 2016

Engaging Books Series: Cornell University Press Selections on Lebanon

Engaging Books Series: Cornell Universit...

Sep 15, 2016

Engaging Books Series: Stanford Universi...

Aug 9, 2016

Roundtable Introduction: New Media, New Politics? Revolutions in Theory and Practice

Roundtable Introduction: New Media, New ...

Nov 5, 2015

Question 4: What should international agencies and others be doing differently to address this crisis moving forward?

Question 4: What should international ag...

Oct 31, 2015

Question 3: How do you assess the policy response of the European Union, United States, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to the refugee crisis?

Question 3: How do you assess the policy...

Oct 31, 2015

Question 2: Are Syrian refugees fleeing directly from Syria or from neighboring countries where they previously sought shelter?

Question 2: Are Syrian refugees fleeing ...

Oct 31, 2015

Question 1: Has there been a real surge in refugee outflow to Europe or is the media only now paying attention to an ongoing issue?

Question 1: Has there been a real surge ...

Oct 31, 2015

Roundtable On Refugee Crisis: Historical Legacies, Political Context, and Legal Mechanisms

Roundtable On Refugee Crisis: Historical...

Oct 31, 2015

‘Lines Drawn on an Empty Map’: Iraq’s Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State (Part 2)

‘Lines Drawn on an Empty Map’...

Jun 3, 2015

‘Lines Drawn on an Empty Map’: Iraq’s Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State (Part 1)

‘Lines Drawn on an Empty Map’...

Jun 2, 2015

Activism on the Move: Mediating Protest Space in Egypt with Mobile Technology

Activism on the Move: Mediating Protest ...

Nov 5, 2014

Keynote Address: Some Reflections on the Role of Media in Egypt’s January 25th Revolution

Keynote Address: Some Reflections on the...

Nov 5, 2014

Online and Offline Maneuverings in Syria’s Counter-Revolution

Online and Offline Maneuverings in Syria...

Sep 5, 2014

The Built-In Obsolescence of the Facebook Leader

The Built-In Obsolescence of the Faceboo...

Sep 5, 2014

The Meme-ing of Revolution: Creativity, Folklore, and the Dislocation of Power in Egypt

The Meme-ing of Revolution: Creativity, ...

Sep 5, 2014

Still Standing: Algeria’s Future Past

Still Standing: Algeria’s Future Past

Nov 4, 2013

Testing Diversity, Researching the Invisible: The Jew, the Israelite, and the Margins of Algerian National Identity (in France)

Testing Diversity, Researching the Invis...

Nov 4, 2013

1962 As Event and Metaphor in Women’s Oral Histories in Algeria

1962 As Event and Metaphor in Women’s Or...

Nov 4, 2013

“Give Us Back Our Oil:” Claims for Justice in Light of Algeria’s Colonial Past

“Give Us Back Our Oil:” Claims for Justi...

Nov 4, 2013

Reimagining the Belle Epoque: Remembering Nation-Building in an Algiers Neighborhood

Reimagining the Belle Epoque: Rememberin...

Nov 4, 2013

Impossible Opposition: The Magic of the One-Party Regime

Impossible Opposition: The Magic of the ...

Nov 4, 2013

Roundtable Introduction: The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution

Roundtable Introduction: The Afterlives ...

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