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Exploring and Contesting the (re)production of coloniality in the Middle East: Borders, Transnationalism, and Resistance | 4-6 July 2022 | MECACS, University of St Andrews

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We work to encourage and promote interest in Middle East Studies and to raise awareness of the region and how it is connected to other parts of the world, including the UK.

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Featured Research

Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within (Teodora Todorova)

Recent years have seen the Israeli state become ever more extreme in its treatment of Palestinians, manifested both in legislation stripping Palestinians...

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Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Hedi Viterbo)

In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals...

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No Bread, No Freedom, No Social Justice: How EU– Egyptian Human Rights Discourse Undermines Democracy (Gennaro Gervasio & Andrea Teti)

Conventional approaches to democratization in the Middle East take for granted the priority of some civil–political rights (e.g., voting) over others...

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Sexuality, nationalism and the other: the Arabic literary canon between Orientalism and the Nahḍa discourse at the fin de siècle (Feras Alkabani)

This article examines the dual and paradoxical conception of the Arabic literary canon in Orientalist and Nahḍa discourses in the nineteenth and early...

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'Decolonisation in Performance Studies'. Special Issue of Global Performance Studies. Deadline: 15

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