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Jul 131 min read

Tunisia Podcast Series: "Episode 1. Tunisia’s Amatuer Autocrat: The Rise of Kais Saied"

Episode 1: Tunisia’s Amatuer Autocrat: The Rise of Kais Saied This episode delves into the current state of democracy in Tunisia and...

Jul 713 min read

The Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon

Wadad Halwani Carmen Abou-Jaoude Ziad Achour On Friday, June 28th, 2024, the...

Jun 284 min read

Exploring Chinese Investment and Infrastructure in Egypt: Key Discussions on Infrastructure, Finance, and Public Opinion

On June 25, 2024, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, directed by Professor Paul Amar, hosted the inaugural live...

Jun 276 min read

Education and Identity in Egypt: Insights into Neoliberalism, Discipline, and Citizenship

Hania Sobhy Gehad Abaza This article highlights Hania Sobhy's...

Jun 247 min read

How we Talk about Tunisia: Interrogating Dominant Narratives

Tarek Kahlaoui Ayoub Menzli Shreya Parikh The events of July 25,...

May 212 min read

Enduring Injustice: Apartheid’s Environmental Legacy in South Africa

On Wednesday, May 15th, Sharad Chari, Associate Professor of Geography and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley,...

May 195 min read

Shifts in Business and Investment Models in Angola-China Relations: Key Sectors of Construction, Agriculture, Technology, and Education

In recent years, China has shifted its investment strategy in Angola, moving beyond traditional large-scale, standardized, and high-yield...

May 195 min read

Liberalism’s Fantasy and the Making of Muslim Immigrant Informants

Amir Aziz examines how anti-Muslim racism and state surveillance exploit vulnerable immigrants, revealing the deep entanglement of...

May 165 min read

Ongoing Shifts in China-Angola Relations: Urban Expansion, Media Coverage, and New Online Markets

For two decades, oil has been the cornerstone of Sino-Angolan relations. Now, as Angola transitions into a post-oil, post-lending era,...

Apr 3010 min read

A Conversation with Rania Ahmed on the Digitized Militarization, Securitization and “Sanitation” of Egyptian Football/Soccer Stadiums

Rania Ahmed is a researcher interested in the economics and politics of sports, nationalism, and public space. Our discussion focused on...

Apr 295 min read

Global Human/ities: Robots, Retroviruses, and the Rest of Us

Long T. Bui introduces the Model Machine Method , a nuanced framework to understand the dehumanization of Asians through stereotypes of...

Apr 166 min read

From Zines to Scholarly Publishing: A Talk by Dylan Kyung-Lim Bentley White

Dylan Kyung-Lim Bentley White discusses how Zines foster community-building On April 17th, 2024, Dylan Kyung-Lim Bentley White, Stanford...

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