Tadween Publishing

Mission A subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute, Tadween seeks to institutionalize a new form of publishing press by contributing to breaking down barriers and preconceived notions of the publication world. By expanding the scope of what is deemed publication worthy, particularly in regards to the Middle East, Tadween seeks to interrogate the notion of publishable knowledge. Tadween will publish in Arabic, English, and French. Description By expanding the scope of what is deemed publication worthy, particularly in regards to the Middle East, Tadween seeks to interrogate the notion of publishable knowledge. Tadween will publish in Arabic, English, and French. For more information: Visit our website and Facebook page.

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New Book - The Political Theology of ISIS: Prophets, Messiahs, & “the Extinction of the Grayzone”

Check out our new book, The Political Theology of ISIS: Prophets, Messiahs, & “the Extinction of the Grayzone,” by Dr. Ahmad Dallal.

More than any other actor on the contemporary Arab political landscape, ISIS represents the most expansive and potent threat to the territoriality of the modern Arab nation states, and it has exceeded the expectations of all observers in its expansiveness and resilience. While it is true that the rise of ISIS was enabled by a confluence of interests, it is now abundantly clear that ISIS has a dynamic project of its own and is not a mere proxy for such interests. ISIS entirely rejects the current order and its beneficiaries, and as such, it claims to carry the revolutionary project to its conclusion. The ISIS alternative to the failed Arab states is not just a normative Islamic cultural identity that guides the actions of the state, but an Islamic State that is itself the embodiment of the imagined new order. By examining the political theology of ISIS, this essay aims to understand the challenge posed by ISIS to the struggle for justice in the contemporary Arab and Muslim World.

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Coming Soon! Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle In Iraq

Release Date: Late Spring 2015

Ebook: $8.99 Print: $11.99 For more information, click here.

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New JADMAG: The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution

The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution  Edited by Muriam Haleh Davis   E-version: $3.49 Paperback: $5.99 Combo: $7.99

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Revisiting JADMAG: Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula

Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Edited by Rosie Bsheer and John Warner

Electronic copy: $4.99 Paperback: $7.49 Combo: $9.99 

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The (Ir)relevance of Academia? Academics Lash Back at Kristof for NYT Column

Has academia become a wasteland of intelligence? This is not the first time such an argument has been brought to light. A recent column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times titled “Professors, We Need You!” has attracted a significant amount of attention from across the web over his argument that professors and the work they produce are becoming closed off from reality and do not have the practical impact they should. Read more on Tadween's blog.

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New JADMAG: “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey

“Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey  Edited by Anthony Alessandrini, Nazan Üstündağ, and Emrah Yildiz

Electronic copy: $6.99 Paperback: $10.99  Combo: $12.99

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New JADMAG: Gaza Revisited

Gaza Revisited Edited by Noura Erakat Electronic copy: $5.49  Paperback: $7.99  Combination package: $9.99

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New Texts Out Now: Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement

Tadween (T): What made you write this book?

Sunaina Maira (SM): I wrote this book because I was deeply moved, in the first instance, by the hip hop coming out of Palestine and by the searing critique of settler colonial dispossession and racial violence in the songs of rappers such as DAM. Listening to the music coming out of Lid, Acca, and, increasingly, Ramallah, Dheisheh camp, and other places across Palestine underscored for me the ways in which young Palestinians were using a global cultural idiom and recreating hip hop as the poetics of Palestinian protest.

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MOOCs Coming to the Arab World

The growing phenomenon of MOOCs (massive open online courses) is no longer contained to the English language. After announcing partnerships that will create MOOCs in Chinese and in French, EdX recently announced that it will be partnering with the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development to offer Arabic-language MOOCs.  Read more on Tadween's blog.

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New JADMAG: Beyond Dominant Narratives on the Western Sahara

Beyond Dominant Narratives on the Western Sahara Edited by Samia Errazzouki and Allison L. McManus  Electronic copy: $3.99  Paperback: $6.99  Read more on Tadween's blog.

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Spotlight: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)

Tadween Publishing interviewed Peter Magierski and Chuck Jones, founders of the blog Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR), as part of Tadween’s campaign to highlight individuals, groups, and organizations who play a role in the open access movement and knowledge production and preservation.  Read more on Tadween's blog here.

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Education in the Arab World

With a series of articles that range in focus from universities in the Gulf to Hezbollah’s private schooling, the Financial Times released a special report on 20 October 2013 highlighting education in the Arab world. Unfortunately, the Financial Times is under a paywall, where users can only access up to eight articles a month unless they pay a subscription fee. As there are ten articles in the special report, above the restricted limit for free users, Tadween has created a roundup of the articles with links to the original pieces below.   Read more on Tadween's blog here.

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Interview: Sarah Kendzior on Open Access in Academia

Tadween Publishing interviewed Sarah Kendzior, a researcher and op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English, about the growth of the open access movement in academia and the rise of MOOCs (massive open online courses). You can follow her on Twitter at @sarahkendzior. Tadween (T) : You have written extensively on the debate over open access to academic publications. With the success of online portals such asAcademia.edu and recent changes to JSTOR, do you find that the open access movement is succeeding?  Sarah Kendzior (SK): It is succeeding in terms of changing mindsets but not in terms of changing business models. Scholars are increasingly unwilling to accept the prohibition of their work from public view. They want recognition for their efforts and the ability to communicate their findings to a broader audience. Read more on Tadween's blog.

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New Texts Out Now: Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani, Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures

Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani, editors, Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures. Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing, 2013.

Tadween (T): What made you write this book?

Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani (NE & MR): The book represents a compilation of articles and documents published by Jadaliyya during the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in 2011-2012. We felt this moment represents – for better or worse – a critical juncture in Palestinian history and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, deserving of proper analysis and contextualization. It will either mark the moment at which Palestinians began to definitively disengage from the Oslo framework that has dominated their world for the past two decades and must, alongside the 1948 Nakba, be seen as the most catastrophic development in contemporary Palestinian history. Alternatively, it forms yet another attempt by a leadership lacking in strategic vision, tactical acumen and political dynamism, to revive Oslo yet again. As such, it marks the last hurrah of the Palestinian national movement as we have known it since the 1950s. Thus far the latter interpretation certainly seems the more sensible. Read more on Tadween's blog.

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Social Networking Provides a New Avenue for Open Access in Academia

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have played an instrumental role in transforming how educators and scholars connect with their audiences and their students. Websites like Academia.edu, a platform for sharing academic research that was launched in 2008, are attempting to push the public’s interaction with academia further and change the static system of peer review. According to Academia.edu’s website, “4,647,363 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 1,628,174 papers and 876,309 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 5 million unique visitors a month.” Read more on Tadween's blog.

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ديوان النثر العربي لأدونيس في أربعة أجزاء

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