What We Ignore, We Empower: Five Decades of Despair Under the Assad Regime
JMEPP’s 21st edition, Middle East Beyond Borders: Empire, Diaspora, and Global Transitions for spring 2021 offers its first preview of the edition with an
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Feature
“The only thing I could give the revolution and the Syrian people is my voice … it’s all I have.”
Lubana Al Quntar is a rare talent that, if given the proper support, has the power to uplift her entire nation, putting Syria, and the Arab World, on the map of classical opera globally. Yet, in Assad’s Syria talents like hers are systematically eliminated.
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Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision as Foreign Policy Signal
On July 10, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order which would allow the disintegration of Hagia Sophia’s
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“It’s about human life. It’s not about Americans or Syrians. I am trying to heal patients.”
Syrians believe in the American ideals of liberty, the right to peaceful assembly, equality and the pursuit of happiness, that are now echoing across the American cities.
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Deposits Made “Sacred”: The Dangerous Red Line of Lebanon’s Elites
Facing the ashes of an economic model based on sectarianism and cronyism, Lebanon currently endures a perfect storm of overlapping
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The Need to Partner Humanitarian Aid and Academic Research in the Middle East
In 2016, I was working at a UNHCR clinic in a refugee camp in South Beirut, Lebanon as a medical
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Editor’s Note for the 2020 Volume
The Spring 2020 edition, The Second Wave of the Arab Uprisings, allows us to reflect upon a decade of popular protests that have come to define the contemporary Arab world.
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