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A conversation with Gaza based human rights activist and legal researcher for the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Mohamad Abu Hashem, about the Great March of Return. April 5th, 2018 | English Interviewed by Mira Nabulsi Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA)

Learn how European governments are actively supporting a system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libya’s Coast Guard, its detention authorities and its smugglers in order to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean. Guests: Marwa Mohamed, Libya researcher at Amnesty International’s Regional Office for North Africa / Gabriele Proglio, researcher at the Centre for Socia...

On Friday 30 March 2018, thirty-thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip organized the largest civil protest in recent history in Palestine. The effort, known as the March of Return, is meant to commemorate the Land Day protests organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel in response to Israeli land confiscations and to last through the Palestinian Nakba on 15 May 2018, also known as Israel’s indep...

VOMENA (Voices of the Middle East and North Africa) Producer Shahram Aghamir spoke with Dr. Cengiz Gunes who is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in the UK about the Turkish invasion of Afrin, an enclave in North Western Syria, on January 20th. March 22nd, 2018 | English Interviewed by Shahram Aghamir Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA)

A well-known figure in the tight-knit Beirut music scene is Fadi Tabbal - a Lebanese-born musician, band manager and engineer who founded Tunefork Recording Studios in Burj Hammoud. In this conversation, Fadi speaks of his decision to return to Beirut after studying in Canada, current projects, and his hopes for the future of the city's music scene. February 22nd, 2018 | English Interviewed by Pao...

Meet Lebanese composer, producer and guitarist for the band Kinematik, Anthony Sahyoun or Mme Chandelier. Rather, Anthony Sahyoun with Mme Chandelier. The two are interchangeable - the same person, yet two sides to the same coin. February 22nd, 2018 | English Interviewed by Paola C. Messina

لقاء مع الفنانة التشكيلية السورية عتاب حريب المقيمة في اميريكا, يتناول اللقاء مجموعة اسئلة عن الوطن والمنفى, عن رحلة البحث عن الحرية داخل وخارج الوطن. تحدثنا عتاب عن تجربتها الخاصة في سوريا واميريكا, عن الاحلام و الخذلان. يتطرق الحوار أيضا الى سياسات ادارة الرئيس الاميريكي ترامب تجاه الاجئين و الاثر الذي تركته هذه السياسيات في حياة عتاب و حياة السوريين بشكل عام. March 8th, 2018 | Arabic Interviewe...

Circa 2012, a refurbished house in the Beiruti neighborhood of Ras El Nabeh became a space for practitioners and lovers of the visual arts. A collective - of those looking to practice, connect and exchange experiences on everything from printmaking to animation - was formed. David Habchy, one of the founders of the NGO and a Lebanese multimedia artist, describes WARAQ as a space that allows for a...

A young filmmaker investigates the legend of 'Manivelle', an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak out and the myth that 'Manivelle' has constructed around himself starts to unravel. This is the synopsis of "The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow" (آخر أيّام رجل ا...

Muhammad Isa Waley discusses his experience working for over four decades with manuscripts from the Islamic world and provides a broad, rich overview of the study of Islamic manuscripts from various eras and regions in this lecture at George Mason University. Hosted by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies February 6th, 2018 | English

Yemeni journalist and political commentator Sama'a Al-Hamdani discusses current events in the Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia's continued war in Yemen and arrests of members of the royal family, the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the ongoing diplomatic crisis in the GCC, its legal implications, and more. Courtesy of Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies January 19th, 2018...

Omar Youssef Souleimane, a Syrian award-winning poet and journalist, discusses his new book Le Petit Terroriste (“The Little Terrorist”) (2018) which was published in French by Flammarion, Paris and reflects on the seventh anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. March 17th, 2018 | Arabic

In the third and final installment of the panel on Authoritarian Leaders in Asia and the Middle East, the speakers discuss the relationships that the leaders have with their military. They then take questions from the audience.

In Part II, the panelists delve deeper into their respective case-studies, highlighting similarities and differences between certain authoritarian leaders, while addressing other topics, such as how each leader makes use of 'grievances' as a tool to maintain power. Courtesy of Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) February 15th, 2018 | English

In Part I, the speakers introduce themselves and speak of examples of authoritarianism in countries such as Turkey, China, North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Courtesy of Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) February 15th, 2018 | English

In a talk based on his most recent book, Dr. Lahouari attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. While the revolutionary regimes promised economic and social development and sought the unity of Arab nations, they did not account for social transformations, such as freedom of speech, that would eventual...

In early January, the New Orleans City Council passed a resolution imposing a human rights screen to prevent municipal investments in initiatives that make the city complicit in human rights abuses. That resolution included projects that enhance Israel’s apartheid regime. Max Geller and Tabitha Mustafa, of the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee, discuss the campaign that culminated in th...

Courtesy of the LSE Middle East Centre. Seven years since the popular uprising that shook Egypt, the relationships between state, society, social movements and corporate power have been reconfigured, perhaps even disfigured. On the eve of the anniversary of the January 25 revolution, Adel Iskandar reflects on these changes and asks how they have affected our understanding of social, cultural and p...

Angela Davis, UC Santa Barbara by Status/الوضع

Judith Butler, UC Berkeley by Status/الوضع

Closing Comments - Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara by Status/الوضع

This panel was held on November 19th, 2017 at the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) annual conference. Panel Presenters: Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley Angela Davis, University of California Santa Barbara Noura Erakat, George Mason University Samera Esmeir, University of California Berkeley Organizer and Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, University of California Santa Barbara F...

This panel was held on November 19th, 2017 at the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) annual conference. Panel Presenters: Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley Angela Davis, University of California Santa Barbara Noura Erakat, George Mason University Samera Esmeir, University of California Berkeley Organizer and Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, University of California Santa Barbara F...

This panel was held on November 19th, 2017 at the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) annual conference. Panel Presenters: Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley Angela Davis, University of California Santa Barbara Noura Erakat, George Mason University Samera Esmeir, University of California Berkeley Organizer and Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, University of California Santa Barbara F...

This panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the aftermath of media and the Arab Uprisings. It interrogates the images, political dynamics, and cultural forms that have emerged in the years since Bouazizi, Tahrir, and Asad became familiar names beyond the Middle East. Speakers will contextualize the politics of aesthetic practices in the period since the Uprisings a...