Open Source Material at MESPI
As teachers, students, and researchers limit their in-person contact, below are some open access resources in the form of online articles, audio interviews, and video segments to facilitate classroom learning and additional research on the Middle East and North Africa. Below, we’ve curated threads on the topics of the Uprisings; the making of modern Iran; gender; political Islam; infrastructure and vulnerability; and environment, climate change, health, and disease.

Teachers Teach-In on Current Events in the Arab World: Return to Business As Usual after the Uprisings?
featuring Samia Errazzouki, Sama’a Al-Hamdani, Bassam Haddad, Mouin Rabbani, and Hibba Abugideiri
Toward a Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings (Part One)
by Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan
Toward a Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings (Part Two)
by Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan
Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings
featuring Nathan Brown, Asef Bayet, John Voll, and Jillian Schwedler
The New Mobilization Dynamics of #Sudan’s Popular Uprising: The Virtue of Learning from the Past
by Khalid Medani
Quick Thoughts on Algeria’s Protests by Thomas Serres
by Thomas Serres
The Lebanese Intifada: Observations and Reflections on Revolutionary Times
by Jeffrey G. Karam and Sana Tannoury-Karam
The Lebanon Revolution Takes on The Media: A Resource on Alternative News Outlets
by Diala Lteif
REVISIT: Daily/Weekly Updates on Protests in Beirut/Lebanon
by Jadaliyya Editors
Essential Readings: Uprisings, Resistance, and Popular Mobilization
by Asef Bayat
Revolutionary Protests Spread Across Central and Southern #Iraq and Are Ongoing
by Omar Sirri
The Global Wave of Mass Protests: A Panel Discussion
hosted by @WCCIAS
Essential Readings: The Syrian Uprising
by Raymond Hinnebusch

How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East
by Maya Mikdashi
Decolonizing Middle East Men and Masculinities Scholarship: An Axiomatic Approach
by Frances S. Hasso
Here We Go Again: Saving #Muslim Women and Queers in the Age of Trump
by Nadine Naber
“1979 Generation”: Manijeh Nasrabadi interviews Homa Hoodfar on Feminism and Revolution in Iran
by Manijeh Nasrabadi
Women & War in Yemen: Actors or Victims?
by Mira Nabulsi for VOMENA Radio
Woman Healers with Rola Yasmine
“The Arab Uprisings: Why Women Matter”
by Hibba Abugideiri
The Empty Promise of State-Sponsored Feminism in the Arabian Peninsula
by Saher Naumaan
Women and the Iraqi Revolution
by Zahra Ali
Who’s Your Daddy: Why a Feminist Lens and Praxis are Necessary for the Lebanese Revolution
by Maya El Helou
Manifesto Against the Woman
by Mona Kareem
Women’s Candidacy and Violence against Women in the Politics of Iraq
by Mona Tajali and Sarah Farhan
Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism
by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Sarah Ihmoud, and Suhad Dahir-Nashif
How the West Undermined Women’s Rights in the Arab World
By Nicola Pratt
Reflecting on Multiple Fragmentations in a City of Men
by Zahra Ali
Annotated Bibliography on Women & Gender; Migration; Arab Uprisings
by Wilson Chacko Jacob, Judith Tucker, and Jeffery Fitzgibbons
Annotated Bibliography on Masculinity in the Middle East
by Farha Ghannam
“Trapped Escape: Young Palestinian Women and the Israeli National-Civic Service”
Suhad Daher-Nashif

Vulnerability, Infrastructure, and Displacement: The Role of Public Services in Lebanese Spaces of Migration
by Hanna Baumann and Samar Kanafani
Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 1)
featuring Ziad Abu-Rish, Owain Lawson, Joanne Nucho, Eric Verdeil, and Dana Abi Ghanem
Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 2)
featuring Ziad Abu-Rish, Owain Lawson, Joanne Nucho, Eric Verdeil, and Dana Abi Ghanem
Structured Precarity: The Plight of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
featuring Cihan Tekay
Annotated Bibliography on Infrastructure
by Joanne Randa Nucho
For the People of the River, Not Investors: Toward a “Declaration of Principles” Guaranteeing Farmers’ Rights to the Waters of the Nile
by Sakr Al-nour
Racism and Syrians in Turkey: The Political Economy of Discrimination
by Helen Mackreath
Do Fuel Prices Define the Fate of the People’s Politics in Iran?
by Omid Mehrgan and Setareh Shohadaei
Roundtable: Considering the Past and Future of UNRWA
featuring Karen Koning AbuZayd, Francesca Albanese, Ardi Imseis, Jo Kelcey, Mouin Rabbani, and Terry Rempel
The European Union’s Complicity in Refugee Abuse in Libya with Marwa Mohamed and Gabriele Proglio
Infrastructure Crises in Beirut and the Struggle to (Not) Reform the Lebanese State”
by Eric Verdeil

Documenting Anglo-Iranian Oil at the BP Archive
by Katayoun Shafiee
Oil Nationalization and the 1953 Coup in Iran: A Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian
by Malihe Razazan
“1979 Generation”: Homa Hoodfar on Feminism and Revolution in Iran
by Manijeh Nasrabadi
Covering Race and Rebellion
by Naveed Mansoori
Roundtable on Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 1)
featuring Arash Davari, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Zep Kalb, Arang Keshavarzian, Azam Khatam, Saira Rafiee, and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Roundtable: Backdrop & Reverberations of Soleimani’s Assassination (Part 1: Iran)
by Maryam Alemzadeh, Eric Lob, and Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Roundtable on Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 2)
featuring Arash Davari, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Zep Kalb, Arang Keshavarzian, Azam Khatam, Saira Rafiee, and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Annotated Bibliography on Postrevolutionary Iran
by Arang Keshavarzian

The Climate of Middle East Studies
by Owain Lawson
Climate Change and Water Rights in Palestine with Muna Dajani
The Ouarzazate Solar Plant in Morocco: Triumphal ‘Green’ Capitalism and the Privatization of Nature
by Hamza Hamouchene
The Violence of Climate Change in Egypt
by Mika Minio-Paluello
Imider vs. COP22: Understanding Climate Justice from Morocco’s Peripheries
by Koenraad Bogaert
Vulnerability, Infrastructure, and Displacement: The Role of Public Services in Lebanese Spaces of Migration
by Hanna Baumann and Samar Kanafani
We Made Every Living Thing From Water: An Interview with Karim Eid-Sabbagh
by Kieran Garrard
Algeria Seen from the Sea
by Thomas Serres
Bio-Istanbul: A Speculative, Segregationist, and Sustainable Urbanism
by Elvan Arik
Cancer, Catharsis, and Corruption in Lebanon
by Joelle M. Abi-Rached
The Toxicity of Everyday Survival in Iraq
by Omar Dewachi
Battling Cancer with Spirit in Gaza
by Lara Aburamadan
For Iranians, Coronavirus Quarantine Not That Novel
by Donna Honarpisheh
Lebanon’s Economic Context, The Protest Movement, and Covid-19
Shahram Aghamir Interviews Ziad Abu-Rish

ROUNDTABLE: Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings
featuring Nathan Brown, Asef Bayet, John Voll, and Jillian Schwedler
ROUNDTABLE: The Future of Political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa under the Changing Regional Order
by Francesco Cavatorta, Courtney Freer, M. Tahir Kilavuz, Peter Mandaville, and Samer Shehata, Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam with Lahouari Addi
Hassan Al-Banna: A Profile from the Archives
Sayyed Qutb: A Profile from the Archives
The United States and the Muslim Brotherhood: A Century of Mistrust and Realism
by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Undoing the ‘Terrorist Metanarrative’ with Abdullah Al-Arian
Ennahda: A Party in Transition
by Fabio Merone and Francesco Cavatorta
Annotated Bibliography on Political Islam
by Peter Mandaville