Discussion on food sovereignty and agro-ecology, and Anglophone rural sociology have
blind spots when it comes to the Middle East/North African (Arab) region. This article …

Equating the emissions of Annex 1 developed countries with those of the former Soviet bloc
and China equates industrialization linked to the North's historical abrogation of other …

This is the first part of a two-part article which considers the US-Israeli attack on Palestine in
general and the Gaza Strip in particular in a world-historical and regional context. In contrast …

The argument for sidestepping state and nation is that nation-states and calcified core-
periphery distinctions no longer help people understand development and maldevelopment …

Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in Syria between 2008 and 2011, this
article explores the consequences of policies of economic reform and market liberalisation …

December 24, 2021 was a long-awaited day for many Libyans, regional stakeholders as
well as anyone who has been following the events of the preceding decade. After multiple …

Unlike most pathways of the Arab Spring, the head of the Syrian regime remained in power
despite the atrocities committed and the evolution of peaceful protests into a militarized …

This article assesses Syria's agriculture under conflict by employing newly published official
data up until 2019. It explains how the land reforms of the 1960s and state support for the …

This research seeks to look into a different public perception of the large community of
Syrian agricultural laborers in a northeastern Beqaa village, away from the populist …

To have one's bottom up and head down would be to assume or to become insecurely
posthuman and monstrous, yet postcolonial imperial “developmental'projects have prized …