In The Media

GM Sociology's Dr. Manski told El Mercurio, Chile's major daily, that the current Palestine "protest wave has much more in common with the student divestment campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s," than with the protests of the 1960s.

Just weeks before the presidential elections in the United States, and with the focus squarely on the prospects and possibilities of another four years under Donald Trump, at Status/الوضع, we stubbornly profess the importance of issues that go beyond and behind the headlines. So while we will likely examine the repercussions of this election in reflective ways, we chose not to churn out the usual (and increasingly tired) analyses and prognostications around US politics.

This issue of Status الوضع comes at an extraordinary time in our contemporary history, not just as a community of scholars, activists, writers, and artists concerned with the circumstances facing the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa, but rather as human beings around the world coming to terms with our collective ecology, economy, and politics.

On July 1,2020 just two days after the MESA statement was released, George Mason MEIS faculty confirmed their support of a Black Lives Matter statement

Bassam Haddad is interviewed on NPR about the latest developments in Syria.