Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

• Introduction: Decoloniality from, in, and/or for an Arab-majority Region - Ali KassemPart 1: The Colonial Condition 1. Thinking Refugee Leadership and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment and Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi 2. Identifying Colonial Power in contemporary SRHR in Egypt: Reflections from the Field - Samaa Elturkey and Dina Hamouda3. Rethinking Israeli development towards Palestinians of ‘48: Economic Policies and Colonial Structures - Hebatalla Taha 4. Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward A Decolonial Political Ecology - Adam Cherkawi 5. Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab-majority region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Dina Taha Part 2: Toward Decoloniality 6. Knowledge Production in the Arab-majority Region and Unlearning in the field: Auto-ethnographic Reflections from Lebanon toward Alternative Research Politics - Ali Kassem 7. A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and (Re)Conceptualizing the Modern State - Andrew Delatolla 8. On Reclaiming Fanon: From and For the Arab Maghreb - Mounir Saidani 9. Race as a Category for Analyzing Social Inequalities in Contemporary Morocco: Making a Case - Yassni Yassine and Yassni Youness 10. Modernity’s Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through ‘Irfan - Mohamad Harake.Conclusion:11. Thinking (alongside) the Arab Council for Social Sciences: Conversation with Seteney Shami and Moushira Elgeziri on Decoloniality, Knowledge, and Praxis, and/in/for the Arab-majority Region - Ali Kassem, Seteney Shami, Moushia Elgeziri12. Decoloniality after Gaza or, Toward a Global Intifada - Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

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