Open Source Material

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