Middle East Scholar Barometer The Middle East Scholar Barometer is a project of the University of Maryland’s Critical Issues Poll…
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Revolution in Syria, The Journey Home, and Lebanon’s Banking Crisis (S. 11, Ep. 2)
Kevin Mazur, a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, talks about his latest book, Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression,…
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POMEPS Studies 44 – Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach
In February 2020, the editors of this volume organized a POMEPS workshop that explored the origins of the disciplinary divide…
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Helmi Sharawy’s Critique of Racial and Colonial Paradigms in Egyptian African Studies
Helmi Sharawy’s Critique of Racial and Colonial Paradigms in Egyptian African Studies Zeyad el Nabolsy, Cornell University[1] This paper…
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Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach
Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, Program on African Social Research …
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Disarticulating blackness or the semantics of (anti)blackness in Tunisia
Disarticulating blackness or the semantics of (anti)blackness in Tunisia Afifa Ltifi, Cornell University Some ten years ago I was astonished…
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Reflections on Race Formation in Comparative Context
Reflections on Race Formation in Comparative Context Ann McDougall, University of Alberta, Canada There’s something happening here But what it…
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Narrating Nubia: Between Sentimentalism and Solidarity
Narrating Nubia: Between Sentimentalism and Solidarity Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan In 2011, Dina Shaaban, then a naive twenty-year-old,…
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Race after Revolution: Imagining Blackness and Africanity in the “New Sudan”
Race after Revolution: Imagining Blackness and Africanity in the “New Sudan” Zachary Mondesire, University of California, Los Angeles …
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Who counts as “People of the Gulf”? Disputes over the Arab status of Zanzibaris in the UAE
Who counts as “People of the Gulf”? Disputes over the Arab status of Zanzibaris in the UAE Noora Lori, Boston…
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The Seduction of Comparisons: Untouchability beyond Caste in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
The Seduction of Comparisons: Untouchability beyond Caste in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East Diana S. Kim, Georgetown University …
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