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Making a Space: Negotiating Discourses Within the Jordanian Women's Movement
(Georgetown University, 2023)The ways women organize and create space for themselves have been of great interest in recent decades. Literature published by academics, journalists, and civil society leaders reveals how women occupy space, form ... -
Nass el Ghiwane: Radical Aesthetics in Moroccan Popular Music
(Georgetown University, 2023)In the 1970s, the Casablanca band Nass el Ghiwane led a folk revolution in Moroccan popular music. By repackaging long-marginalized Sufi, Black, and Amazigh genres in the form of mass-mediated popular music, the band ... -
Everyday Leisure Spaces in Sitra: Challenging Precarity and Performing Healing
(Georgetown University, 2023)Twelve years after the Arab uprisings, we still know very little of how communities are coping with the aftermath of the protests. Based on my field study in the island of Sitra in Bahrain, I argue that ‘informal’ leisure ... -
Securing the Seas: A Comparative Analysis of Emirati and Saudi Foreign Policies in the Red Sea
(Georgetown University, 2023)Throughout history, the importance of securing seas and littorals as trade routes and means of power projection has been paramount for defending nations and protecting valuable resources. However, the existing literature ... -
'A Broken Puzzle Box': Governance, Localization, and Depoliticization in Moroccan Civil Society
(Georgetown University, 2023)Recent scholarship on Morocco has often focused on its status as a hybrid regime that has successfully managed to diffuse popular discontent by coopting, fragmenting, or repressing political and civil society. However, ...
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