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News/Events

Jadaliyya celebrate its 9th anniversary!
The 2019 Political Economy Book Prize Winner is announced!
Jadaliyya relaunched its Egypt Page on November 25th!
Jadaliyya launched its new Iran Page on September 4th!
Status Hour launched The Real Football Podcast!
STATUS/الوضع Hour Audio Magazine launches website to accommodate continuous publishing. Visit the site here.
Jadaliyya launches The Nerdiest Show to discuss publications sent to the Arab Studies Institute, and how they might best be utilized in and out of the classroom. Visit the site here.
Jadaliyya and Orient XXI host the Critical Online Knowledge on the Middle East in Paris, France on July 4th, 2019. Learn more about the event here.
Middle East Studies Pedagogies Initiative officially launched at its inaugural conference from June 15th-June 16th, 2019.
Political Economy Summer Institute took place from June 7th - June 10th, 2019. More info here.
Part 2 of the Town Hall at George Mason University: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Discrimination in The Name of Religion drew a large crowd and provoked a wide-ranging discussion about religion and tolerance at George Mason University.

Publications

Jadaliyya, MESPI, and Tadween Publishing announce JadMag: The Pedagogy Edition 2019
Jadaliyya announces its Top 100 Articles of 2019.
Jadaliyya and Tadween Publishing announce the Spring 2019 Issue of JadMag.
The Fall 2019 issue of ASJ has been published
Click here for details.STATUS/الوضع ISSUE 6.2 is live on statushour.com
Chapter 6 of The Nerdiest Show on the Internet is live on statushour.com
Tadween Publishing has released the third issue of the Syria Quarterly Report.
New JadMag, Cities, edited by Sherene Seikaly, available for order at Tadween Publishing.
New JadMag, 1967, edited by Sherene Seikaly, available for order at Tadween Publishing.
Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative publishes its Essential Readings Series.

Projects

MESPI Project

Political Economy Summer Institute

Status/الوضع

Knowledge Production Project

MESPI NEWSLETTER

We are happy to announce the first issue of the MESPI Newsletter, featuring articles, interviews, updates on our field, pedagogic news, and more. Should you be interested in contributing to the newsletter, please email us at newsletter@mespi.org

Please enjoy the first three pages of the MESPI Newsletter, featured below. The entire newsletter can be read here.

JADALIYYA TURNS NINE

This (past) fall, Jadaliyya turned nine. We are proud of what we have already achieved, and excited about our paths forward.
Read "Jadaliyya Turns Nine," to learn more about some of Jadaliyya's many developments and achievements from this past year.

F A M A - M E S A 2 0 1 9

Thank you to all who visited the Arab Studies Institute's reception at MESA 2019-New Orleans!

For a review of ASI's public events and affiliated panels at MESA 2018, as well as for information on the progress of ongoing Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs projects, please read the Arab Studies Institute at MESA 2019-New Orleans summary below:

H I G H L I G H T S

JadMag: The Pedagogy Edition 2019

We are excited to announce the fourth issue of the new JadMag (Jadaliyya in Print). This particular issue explores pedagogical questions surrounding Middle East Studies.

Arab Studies Journal Fall 2019 Issue Out Now!

Volume XXVII No.2 of the Arab Studies Journal is proud to feature another collection of insightful articles that are theoretically rich and empirically grounded.

Jadaliyya's Top 100 Articles of 2019

A compilation of the e-zine's most read articles from last year.

2019 Political Economy Book Prize Honoree

The Political Economy Project announces the 2019 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize: Adam Hanieh's Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East.

Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative Hosts Inaugural Conference June 15th-16th 2019

Our June meeting was an internal gathering of the MESPI Board and the MESPI Team of researchers that planned out the next steps with the project. Among the activities and discussions that took place are efforts aimed at theoretically and practically integrating the Knowledge Production Project into the program, as well as the creation of a Syllabus tool that will help teachers develop their own syllabi or to fill in units about the Middle East. We also aimed at creating materials towards a general survey course, where users can gather information/materials by focusing on the time they have available to teach, or they can search by specific topic.