Eman Elshaikh @mataahef

In her latest exhibition “Audible Inaudible,” which recently appeared at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai (September 18-October 22), Iraqi-born artist Hayv...

Sara Ouhaddou is a French-Moroccan artist and designer of Amazigh descent who works with traditional craftsmen in the Ourika Valley of Morocco to reinvent...

The U.S. government may make an important change in the upcoming census, adding a new category for those who identify as Middle Eastern or North African. The...

In an essay for Mondoweiss, Palestinian scholar-activist Nada Elia remembers the important life and work of the late Edward Said. She argues that, in order to...

Dialogue sounds like a nice thing to do. It is evocative of collaboration, open-mindedness, peace, and a free exchange of ideas. It conjures images of...

Zionists have an enviable ability to use language creatively to serve their political goals. Magically, through hasbara whispers, anti-Zionist critiques and...

The hoopoe answered him: “Dear nightingale, This superficial love which makes you quail Is only for the outward show of things. Renounce delusion and...

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about mapping Palestine. The recent Google Maps snafu that resulted in a mislabeling of the West Bank and...

What’s in a name? Quite a lot. Physical wars rage, but they are not the only sites of violence: violence is enacted in the very language we use. In her...

The violence in Gaza does not happen in a vacuum, but most Western media outlets would have you believe it does. Undoing that narrative is precisely what the...

Most contemporary maps do not acknowledge the existence of an independent Palestine; typically, one can locate the regions of the West Bank and Gaza, but only...

There has been a lot of alarmist discourse about the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency. While this is certainly a worrying prospect, it has wrongly been...

On Wednesday July 20, Israel’s Knesset passed an “Expulsion Law,” which allows members of the legislative body to unseat elected representatives by a...

More than 150 writers have petitioned Israel to release Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, who is currently under house arrest for her pro-Palestinian poetry and...

In an article for 972 magazine, Israeli activist and blogger, Noam Rotem, discusses the recent revelation that Israeli police are authorized to shoot stone...

The famous French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard once said that “film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.” Sadly, the award-winning...

After Israeli soldiers attacked the Turkish ferry, Mavi Marmara, in international waters in 2010, killing ten Turkish activists, an icy relationship between...

This Tuesday, June 21, a group of human rights organizations announced it would be filing a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents...

In an essay for Jacobin magazine, researcher Jonah Walters writes about how Israel’s rapidly expanding settlements are part of a billion-dollar industry....

Memory is a powerful thing, as is the absence of it. Recognizing this, Israel has manipulated the phenomenon of forgetting in many ways to try and rewrite its...

Traveling in a car in the 1980s with an American visitor and a Palestinian friend (Said Kutab) and passing by Canada Park (nearby Jerusalem) the tourist asked...

In a suburb of Berlin, on the first day of spring in 1921, the last grand vizier of the former Ottoman Empire was shot dead. As Talaat Pasha, who had also...

May 15, 2016 marked the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, the systematic, forcible transfer of Palestinians from their land by proto-Israeli Zionist militias....

Book Review: Guapa by Saleem Haddad. Other Press 368 pages • ISBN-10: 1590517695 • ISBN-13: 978-1590517697 Release Date: March 8, 2016. Saleem...

In 2008, historian Joseph Massad wrote an essay for Electronic Intifada, which called for resisting the Nakba, the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their...

Though Israeli officials often insist they are interested in peace, they do so in bad faith. In reality, Israel is committed to unbridled expansion, and will...

As laborers around the world commemorated May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, on May 1, a group of migrant workers in Mecca set fire to buses...

While most Western liberals are quick to denounce, mock, and distance themselves from the unbridled racism and incitement to violence at the rallies of U.S....

This past Sunday, April 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a special cabinet meeting in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. This was the first...

The Status Hour Audio Journal podcast recently featured an interview with Heba Y. Amin, an Egyptian artist and academic. Perhaps best known for her part in...

Since late 2015, a Palestinian uprising has been gathering momentum. Though Palestinian resistance has existed in many forms for over half a century, many are...

When an incapacitated suspect lies immobile and seriously injured on the ground, desperately in need of medical attention, and then is shot and killed by a...

Last week, I wrote about some of the ways Israel and its lobbying groups in the United States are engaged in egregious historical revisionism. Whether...

This month, a major American textbook publisher removed a political science textbook from its website, proceeded to destroy as many copies as possible, and...

I have criticized Western media many times for its problematic coverage of Palestine and Israel (see here, here, and here). More specifically, I have been...

Publishing on March 8, Guapa, a debut novel from Saleem Haddad, dives into the life of Rasa, a twenty-something-year-old gay man living in an unnamed Arab...

After a series of disappointments, Rasmea Odeh may finally be getting a glimpse of the justice she deserves. Last week, a U.S. federal appeals court...

Numerous Western media outlets have been reporting on the so-called “Third Intifada,” which they describe as beginning in late 2015. Most of these outlets...

The Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement is succeeding in many places, most recently in the form of a robust academic boycott in Italy, where over...

Many Western news outlets are very selective in their reporting about Israel and Palestine. This is evident in coverage of the on-going “third intifada,”...

While Israel is often billed as the only democracy in the Middle East, it hardly lives up to the claim. Given Israel's lack of commitment to equality, it...

Alaa Abd El Fattah, an Egyptian blogger and activist who is currently serving prison time for his political activities, reflected on the January 25 revolution...

The fifth anniversary of Egypt's 2011 revolution is this Monday, January 25. In the lead up to this historic day, the government has taken dramatic measures...

As settler colonial states often do, Israel is expanding. The Israeli government has and continues to invest in increasing its illegal settlements in the...

In an increasingly interconnected world, with technology and media making knowledge of other peoples and places accessible at the click of a button, it...

Western media has historically failed to produce accurate and thorough coverage of the Middle East. As Sarah Moawad argued for Muftah recently, Western...

Israel has a history of "making the desert bloom." The Israeli government, in tandem with various Israeli NGOs, has drastically transformed the landscape of...

A lot of the current discourse around the Middle East is focused on war crimes committed by dictatorial Arab regimes and other non-state armed groups in the...

On August 14, 2013, the young photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as "Shawkan", was arrested by Egyptian security forces as he covered the...

This month, the UN Security Council unanimously decided to appoint Egypt as the head of the UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee, effective January 2016. ...

Israel likes to gives its young citizens certain protections under the law. This is why the names of the two Israeli teenagers found guilty on November 30 of...

Electronic Intifada editor and writer Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed fellow Electronic Intifada contributor Budour Youssef Hassan, a Palestinian writer and...

In August 2014, Palestinian-American Professor Steven Salaita received an email from Phyllis Wise, the chancellor of the University of Illinois at...

Mobilizing public voices is the best way to deliver a message and to force those in power to respond to these mobilized and collective demands—or to force...

On a Monday night in early June 2015, twenty-three-year-old Esraa al-Taweel and her two friends, Souhaib Saad and Omar Ali, were out having dinner along...

Dear Readers, From ISIS to Sisi, masculinity in the Arab world is being performed and negotiated in a number of ways. But what does it mean to be a man in...

On October 25, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed seventeen-year-old Dania Arsheid at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque neighborhood in Hebron. Her...

My love is mangoes and apples My love is honey, everyone else is bland I would migrate to him so I can rest Oh, my love. So sings Alsarah, a Sudanese...

In Cairo, on the banks of the Nile, stands the Maspero building, a tall, conspicuous structure that is home to the state-run Egyptian Radio and Television...

This month marks the fifteenth anniversary of the killing of thirteen Palestinian protesters by Israeli police, in a series of incidents often referred to as...

On the morning of September 22, 2015, eighteen-year-old Hadeel Salah Al-Hashlamoun was on her way to school. As the Palestinian teenager attempted to...

On the eve of Sunday, September 20, the Jerusalem city council approved thirty new Hebrew street names in the predominantly Arab neighborhoods of East...

This week, Jadaliyya featured a video interview with Egyptian artist Ali Abdel Mohsen, produced by Medrar TV and the British Council in Egypt. In the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not known for making nuanced statements. Both he and his staff are, however, exceedingly aware of how his comments...

This week, the world witnessed an Israeli soldier violently attack an eleven-year old child in the midst of ongoing demonstrations against the Israeli...

On August 16 2015, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a new anti-terrorism law, which was drafted the previous July in the wake of the...

In her essay for Mondoweiss, professor and author Irene Gendzier reflects on narratives about beaches in Israel and Palestine. By analyzing two different...

On August 6, Egypt inaugurated its “New Suez Canal,” an $8.5 billion expansion of the original Suez Canal, which both deepened and widened the main...

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was a founding member of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...

On July 14, 2015, the P5+1, a group including the UN Security Council’s five permanent members plus Germany, reached a deal with Iran about the latter's...

As journalist Noam Sheizaf explains in an essay for +972 Magazine, the European Union’s efforts to improve life for Palestinians living under the Israeli...

In an op-ed for Jadaliyya, photographer and writer Sarah Carr describes Egypt’s “New July Republic” in very bleak terms. She argues that, by instituting...

In 2014, a record sixty million people were forcibly displaced from their homes. This year has been the deadliest so far for refugees attempting to negotiate...

On Monday, June 29, the Freedom Flotilla III was intercepted by the Israeli navy. Carrying dozens of anti-occupation activists and humanitarian aid, the...

In an op-ed for The Nation, Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan and founder of the Informed Comment blog, argues that Egypt's...

Many have casually dismissed the power of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), but on-going developments show it has the potential to...

5 Broken Cameras, released in 2012, is an award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary film directed by Emad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer, and Guy Davidi, an...

After enduring months of solitary confinement and a hunger strike that lasted nearly five hundred days, Egyptian-American activist and political prisoner...

Since the July 2013 military coup in Egypt, sexual violence and assault has increased, worsened, and changed in fundamental ways. While these practices have...

Shehab Awad profiles the Egyptian artist Ahmed Badry in a striking photo essay in Mada Masr, titled “Ahmed Badry: Meticulously structured chaos.” In the...

On May 9, The New York Times published a front-page article about reactions to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on U.S. college campuses....

On April 23 and 26, thousands of Ethiopian-Israeli protesters respectively took to the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to demonstrate against racism and...

Several days before she was murdered by unidentified gunmen, Sabeen Mahmud received a bullet attached to a letter*. This, among numerous other death threats,...

Last week, the Israeli high court upheld a 2011 anti-boycott law. The Law for the Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel penalizes those who advocate for...

On Saturday April 11, the Giza Criminal Court in Egypt sentenced thirty-seven people to life in prison, including Egyptian-American activist Mohamed Soltan....

Nearly a year ago, the UN extended the mandate for MINURSO to April 30th of this year. Since its establishment in 1991, MINURSO, which stands for Mission for...

Doha—which has doubled its population in the past decade—is at once bustling and desolate. Ahead of the 2022 World Cup, and in line with its goal to become...

One of the most consistent motifs in modern Middle East history is the intervention of Western powers. In his essay for Open Democracy, Maged Mandour argues...

Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem now have a total population of over half a million, and accelerating settler activity...

In a recent interview with  Der Spiegel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi provided many outlandish explanations for the state of affairs in Egypt. He...