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.

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

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