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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“The pain of refugees is a part of me . . .”
Interview with Jay (Jihad) Abdo. Photo credits to Fadia Afashe. On 24 October 2020 Syrian-American Hollywood actor Jay (Jihad) Abdo
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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 Biden Administration and the Middle East: A conversation with Dr. Daniel Pipes
Photo: President-elect Joe Biden speaking at Harvard Kennedy School in 2014. Photo credit: AP Michael Johns was joined by Dr.
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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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