Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4054-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region? What possibilities exist for decolonial futures?

This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore power, resistance and knowledge production across diverse social, political and ecological landscapes. From refugee leadership and humanitarian aid to race, education, urban space and environmental crises, the book moves beyond simplistic narratives, engaging deeply with a variety of lived experiences and theoretical insights.

In the shadow of ongoing colonial violence, this collection is both an urgent critique and a hopeful call for new ways of knowing, resisting and reimagining the future of the Arab-majority region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kassem, Ali

Weitere Mitwirkende

Taha, Dina

Taha, Hebatalla

Delatolla, Andrew

Elturkey, Samaa

Abdelnabi, Dina

Najdi, Watfa

Saidani, Mounir

Shami, Seteney

Ellgeziri, Moushira

Yassni, Yassine

Youness, Yassni

Cherkawi, Adam

El Harake, Mohamad Baker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Decoloniality from, in, and/or for an Arab-majority Region - Ali Kassem

Part 1: The Colonial Condition

1. Thinking Refugee Leadership and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment and Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi

2. Identifying Colonial Power in contemporary SRHR in Egypt: Reflections from the Field - Samaa Elturkey and Dina Hamouda

3. Rethinking Israeli development towards Palestinians of ‘48: Economic Policies and Colonial Structures - Hebatalla Taha

4. Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward A Decolonial Political Ecology - Adam Cherkawi

5. Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab-majority region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Dina Taha

Part 2: Toward Decoloniality

6. Knowledge Production in the Arab-majority Region and Unlearning in the field: Auto-ethnographic Reflections from Lebanon toward Alternative Research Politics - Ali Kassem

7. A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and (Re)Conceptualizing the Modern State - Andrew Delatolla

8. On Reclaiming Fanon: From and For the Arab Maghreb - Mounir Saidani

9. Race as a Category for Analyzing Social Inequalities in Contemporary Morocco: Making a Case - Yassni Yassine and Yassni Youness

10. Modernity’s Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through ‘Irfan - Mohamad Harake.

Conclusion:

11. Thinking (alongside) the Arab Council for Social Sciences: Conversation with Seteney Shami and Moushira Elgeziri on Decoloniality, Knowledge, and Praxis, and/in/for the Arab-majority Region - Ali Kassem, Seteney Shami, Moushia Elgeziri

12. Decoloniality after Gaza or, Toward a Global Intifada - Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

Über Autor(innen)

Kassem, Ali
Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Delatolla, Andrew
Andrew Delatolla is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. His research examines the global politics of race and sexuality in the context of the Middle East. He is the author of Civilization and the Making of the State in Lebanon and Syria (2021) and Sexuality as a Standard of Civilization (ISQ, 2020).

Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.