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December 28, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
"The occupation has remained unchallenged by an international order that seems willing to legitimise it as long as there is no accepted agreement to end it." Sara Roy's succinct...
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December 20, 2021
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Usman Butt
"Tyranny is the origin of every perversity," claims the author of The Nature of Tyranny and the Devastating Results of Oppression. "Tyranny corrupts the mind by restrictions, and degrades...
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December 16, 2021
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Zakariya Othmani
The author of Reinventing the Sheikhdom: Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed bin Zayed's UAE had his own brush with the security apparatus in the sheikhdom when he was...
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November 30, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Memory trajectories and their loss are well portrayed in Mustafa Kabha and Nahim Karlinsky's book, "The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950" (Syracuse University Press, 2021). In the...
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November 9, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Situating the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) within the colonial and humanitarian context provides a great deal of insight into the...
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November 8, 2021
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Amelia Smith
In a village in Palestine long ago the women are not allowed to leave or learn to read, and the elders have banned bright clothes because they consider them...
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November 1, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...
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October 29, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Without oral testimonies, a good part of history is thrown into oblivion. What remains, then, is the reported, or publicised façade, one that disseminates a rudimentary sketch while abandoning...
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October 25, 2021
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Sally Stevens
As Saudi Arabia announces its first art Biennale as a part of its cultural growth plan, we need to keep in mind that the post-pandemic art world needs to operate in new, sustainable modalities
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October 25, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
If Palestine is treated as an exception, the settler-colonial narrative is legitimised. Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick's book, Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics is an...
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October 18, 2021
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Maha Salah
Growing up, taking a zeit and za'atar sandwich to school for lunch was not cool, nor was my humous and falafel sandwich. The delicious food my grandmothers, mother, and...
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October 15, 2021
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Anjuman Rahman
Whether it is Israeli soldiers assualting and detaining groups of Palestinian schoolchildren, Syrian refugee children stranded in camps in sub zero temperatures without protection and food, or Uyghur minors...
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October 13, 2021
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Amelia Smith
When Jana returns home from studying abroad in Paris, her hometown Beirut is not what she remembers. A disappearing view of the sea at her parents' house and a...
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October 11, 2021
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Amelia Smith
Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel is a deep dive into the complexities of being a Muslim immigrant family in America
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October 4, 2021
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Anjuman Rahman
"Walking through the town square in El-Bireh, I'd noticed a little Palestinian boy selling Wrigleys — they call it taxi gum — five shekels for five pieces. The child...
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September 27, 2021
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Omar Ahmed
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is often described as the most militant of the main Palestinian resistance factions yet, when compared with the likes of Hamas and Fatah, little is...
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September 18, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The decolonial approach in this collection of studies offers an important and at times over looked perspective of how Palestinians have become ensnared in a settler-colonial and neoliberal project....
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September 16, 2021
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Amelia Smith
In parts 'The Man Who Sold His Skin' requires a little imagination, but this romance meets drama meets satire is at the same time an urgent revisiting of the refugee crisis
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August 26, 2021
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Usman Butt
This new book by Cigdem Oguz, who teaches history at Bologna University, reveals the growing concern in Ottoman society during the First World War about the decline in public...
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August 12, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Capital and State Building in the West Bank
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August 3, 2021
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Omar Ahmed
The sheer speed and scale of the early Islamic conquests following the death of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in 632 CE has captivated the imaginations of historians...
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July 27, 2021
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Usman Butt
The author of The Last Great War of Antiquity makes the point that its writing was "no easy task… but given the importance of the war, it is worth...
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July 26, 2021
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Omar Ahmed
It is safe to say that Ali Ibn Abi Talib is one of the most important figures in early Islamic history, recognised as the fourth Rightly Guided Caliph by...
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July 14, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
So many stories of Palestine and Palestinians remain untold. The brevity associated with news reports barely scratches the surface of the ramifications of Israeli settler-colonialism, let alone allow non-Palestinians...
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June 25, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
At a time when Palestine is becoming increasingly isolated, and the Palestinian struggle for liberation is being smothered under the normalisation agreements, the importance of internationalist solidarity cannot be...
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June 18, 2021
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Jehan Alfarra
The webinar followed Israel’s 11-day bombardment of Gaza last month, which killed at least 254 Palestinians
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June 17, 2021
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Usman Butt
In post-World War One Iraq, Britain was the occupying power. At a celebration of Prophet Muhammad's birthday in 1920 (peace be upon him) in Baghdad's Haydar-Khana Mosque, blind poet...
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June 9, 2021
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Usman Butt
Tancred Bradshaw concludes in his new book – The End of Empire in the Gulf: From Trucial States to the United Arab Emirates – that, "The British imperial project...
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May 24, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Somdeep Sen's introductory observation in his book Decolonising Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020) is a telling statement that also reflects on the...
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I've read several books on Islam's Sunni-Shia split, with each having provided informative insights on this ancient schism steeped in both theology and politics. The latter is the primary...
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April 30, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
"Occupation is akin to an earthquake, and so are immigration and desolation and everything people leave behind." This rumination by Nidal, the protagonist in Sahar Khalifeh's literary novel, My...
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April 23, 2021
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Omar Ahmed
There is a common assumption that the Islamic Republic of Iran's strategic thinking and foreign policy are fundamentally different from those of the pre-revolution era. The theocratic government's worldview...