Videos
Publishers’ Roundtable: Trends in Publishing on the Middle East
Publishers’ Roundtable: Trends in Publishing on the Middle East Featuring Elizabeth Briggs, Editorial Director at Saqi Books (London) Nadia Naqib, Senior Acquisitions Editor at American University in Cairo Press (Cairo) Hope...
Read MoreCelebrating Michael Gilsenan’s Career
By : Lila Abu Lughod, Talal Asad, Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Michael Gilsenan, Zachary Lockman, Brinkley Messick, Maya Mikdashi, and Timothy Mitchell Intro On 5 December 2022, friends and colleagues gathered at NYU to celebrate Michael...
Read MoreSophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins’ Essential Readings: Land, Water, & the Environment in the OPT
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins talks with Gabi Kirk, co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Environment Page, about the intersection of occupation, environmental degradation, and pedagogy in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territory....
Read MoreJohn Chalcraft’s Essential Readings: Uprising, Resistance, & Popular Mobilization in the Middle East
John Chalcraft speaks with Jacob Bessen, MESPI’s Essential Readings Coordinator, about his Essential Reading and teaching Middle Eastern and North African uprisings and popular mobilization....
Read MoreLive with ASI: Episode 5 Digest – January 2021
Live with ASI is a new monthly broadcast program that showcases recently published content from...
Read MoreBook Launch: A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
The above roundtable marks the official launch of the first volume of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa. This book is the first of its kind to provide a critical lens to a survey of political...
Read MoreAnnual MEIS Keynote Lecture – Cooking in the Cauldron: Suad Joseph on Middle East Studies 1966-2020 (Event Video)
[On 19 November 2020, GMU’S Middle East and Islamic Studies Program presented the Annual MEIS Keynote Lecture: “Cooking in the Cauldron: Middle East Studies 1966-2020” featuring Suad Joseph and moderated by Jadaliyya...
Read MoreLive With ASI: MESPI Knowledge Production Roundup with Mekarem Eljamal
Mekarem Eljamal highlights some of MESPI’s recent work. ASI’s Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative, or MESPI, is an educational resource that curates and collects Middle East studies material for both educators and...
Read More“The Arabic Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership” by Ami Ayalon (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)
Welcome to another Chapter of The Nerdiest Show on the Internet: A Glorified Books Received List!...
Read More“An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera’s Struggle in America” by William Youmans (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)
Welcome to another Chapter of The Nerdiest Show on the Internet: A Glorified Books Received List! This is Chapter 3 from Episode 4 of the show, featuring Nadia Yaqub’s “Palestinian Cinema in the Days of...
Read More“Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution” by Nadia Yaqub (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)
Welcome to another Chapter of The Nerdiest Show on the Internet: A Glorified Books Received List!...
Read More“Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon” by Natalie Khazaal (The Nerdiest Show on the Internet)
Welcome to another Chapter of The Nerdiest Show on the Internet: A Glorified Books Received List!...
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