America’s political elite has been busy searching for explanations as to why cities and campuses across the country have erupted in protests over Israel’s recent mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. As they portray it, this…
“In Palestine, over 1 million people – half of the population of the Gaza Strip – is expected to face death and starvation by mid-July.” Even the staid UN FAO-WFP, ever striving for apolitical ‘neutrality,’…
Colonialism is not a thinking machine, is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in the state of nature and can only bow to greater violence. – Frantz Fanon[1] Before the dust had…
The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America is acutely concerned with and heartbroken by the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives over the last week. There can be no…
The Maydan Podcast · Knowledge And Its Producers Ep07 – Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley Welcome to Knowledge and its Producers, a limited series from the Maydan produced by me, NA Mansour. In each episode,…
Welcome to Knowledge and its Producers, a limited series from the Maydan produced by me, NA Mansour. In each episode, we’ll be talking to people who are at the forefront of knowledge production, typically away from…
In late May 2021, with Gaza reeling in the wake of an extensive bombing campaign conducted by the Israeli military, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyah in Arabic, or “Hamas”) held a festival in…
Penny Sinanoglou’s Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire is a richly-researched book interrogating the legal and political mechanics of the British empire’s management of mandatory Palestine. The book dissects the British Empire’s…
Does Palestine Need a Tarab Icon? A Short History of Mohammad ‘Assaf If the Palestinian people were to sit down to pick an anthem, a contender would certainly be Fairuz’s 1967 song Zahrat al-Mada’in, translated…
INTRODUCTION – Abdullah Al-Arian, Roundtable Organizer and Editor of Critical Currents in Islam page: Five years ago, we brought together the leading scholars of the study of political Islam and invited them to weigh in on…