Editor’s Note for the 2021 Volume
On the 2021 issue: “Beyond Borders: Middle East In Empire, Diaspora, And Global Transitions”.
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Feature
Informal Control of the Turkish State: Lived Experiences from Kurdish Borderlands
Dilan Okcuoglu’s “Informal Control of the Turkish State: Lived Experiences from Kurdish Borderlands” is part of JMEPP’s upcoming Spring 2021
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Civil Unrest and Popular Discontent: What to know about the recent rift among the Jordanian Hashemites
The morning of Saturday, April 3rd, reports of an alleged national security threat targeted at the reigning Jordanian monarch, King
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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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“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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