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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 17)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors...
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What's Trending?: A STATUS/الوضع "Quick Thoughts" report by Laila Shereen Sakr
"What is Trending on Social Media in the Middle East?" is a regular feature of the "Quick Thoughts" special segment on Status. It offers insight into subjects that dominate online discussion in the...
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Syria Media Roundup (March 16)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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Four Years On: No Easy Answers in Syria (Part 1)
After four years of killing and mayhem, the truth remains that there are no easy answers in Syria. What might appear to be natural liberal solutions are not only lacking in realism, but are also...
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NEWTON in Focus: Critical Studies of Islam
Since September 2001, the term “Islam” has proliferated throughout Western media and popular culture. In recent months, there has been a particular level of hysteria to media and cultural discourses...
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"The Amir of Bahrain and the Beautiful Scottish Lady": Political Satire in...
The Arab world has a rich satirical tradition that has appeared in numerous forms throughout its history, ranging from satirical al-hija1 poetry of the pre-Islamic era to the satirical newspaper Abou...
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Quick Thoughts on the Saudi Transition and Beyond: A STATUS/الوضع...
With the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, there is much press speculation about change in the Kingdom. In this Quick Thoughts interview for Status, Toby Jones parses through these debates and...
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Syria Media Roundup (March 16)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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Reading Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary
“You are holding me because your country is strong enough to be unjust.”Guantánamo Diary, written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi,[i] depicts the continuing incarceration of this Mauritanian national in the...
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Picture an Arab Man
Picture an Arab Man is a portrait series started in 2009 to capture young Arab men of diverse backgrounds.The conceptual aim of this portrait series is two-fold. First, to try to uncover and break the...
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Kareem Lotfy and Andeel: New Folder (2)
Egyptian artist Kareem Lotfy and cartoonist Andeel were prompted by Nile Sunset Annex in Cairo to collaborate remotely and put together a show of extremely large drawings, video art, sculpture, and...
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On Palestinian Cinema: An Interview with Film Director Najwa Najjar
Najwa Najjar is a Palestinian filmmaker based in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. She has worked in both documentary and fiction. Her debut film was the feature Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009), and...
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Twelve Years After Iraq Invasion: An Interview with Rijin Sahakian, and “ A...
On 19 March 2015, twelve years will have passed since the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Today, the country is back in the headlines because of the brutality with which ISIS has been trying to...
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Kurdish Alevi Music and Migration: An Interview with Ozan Aksoy
For Kurdish Alevis, music serves as a mode of articulating and transmitting ideas about collective history, identity, and connections to the geography of former homes in the countryside of Anatolia....
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (March 16-22)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
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Boycott, Sovereign Anxieties, and the Decolonizing Temporality of Return: A...
And so it is not I who make a meaning for myself, but it is the meaning that was already there, pre-existing, waiting for me. – Frantz Fanon[1]It is fair to say that the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment...
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Turkey Media Roundup (March 24)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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What is the Role of Academia in Political Change?: The Case of BDS and...
In addition to a collection of rich individual interviews and special segments, Status also publishes panels and lectures with every issue of the audio journal. For Issue 2.1, we highlight the debate...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 24)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors...
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New Vision for 13th Festival of Young Creators
The French Institute in Cairo has been organizing an annual festival since 2003 to support the work of emerging theater groups in Egypt. This year, the institute developed its vision to accommodate and...
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