Jadaliyya
| Co-editors | Ziad Abu-Rish Anthony Alessandrini Sinan Antoon Ibtisam Azem Rosie Bsheer Elliott Colla Noura Erakat Bassam Haddad Lisa Hajjar Maya Mikdashi Mouin Rabbani Hesham Sallam Nadya Sbaiti Sherene Seikaly Mohamed Waked |
|---|---|
| Categories |
Ezine (free) Social networks Scholarship News |
| Circulation | 70,000 weekly |
| Publisher | ASI (Arab Studies Institute) |
| Year founded | 2010 |
| First issue | September 21, 2010 |
| Country | Global |
| Language | English, Arabic, French, and Spanish |
| Website | Official website |
Jadaliyya ("dialectic") is a free ezine founded in 2010. It features English, Arabic, French, and Spanish-language content by academics, journalists, activists, and artists from and/or on the Middle East and is produced by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI).
In Arabic, جدلية Jadaliyya (derived from the word جدل “jadal”), means “dialectic."
All of Jadaliyya's co-editors are unpaid volunteers and it does not accept advertising. While most of Jadaliyya is either self-funded or funded by barter for "big projects," it has received grants from the Open Society Institute. According to Portal 9: "The Arab uprisings, which gained momentum only a few months after Jadaliyya was established, firmly catapulted it to the forefront of critical debates and analysis of the Arab world."
One of the founding editors, George Mason University professor Bassam Haddad, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that Jadaliyya aspires to "offer a scholarly, left-of-center ‘counter discourse’ to the mainstream conversation about the Arab world."Georgetown University professor and contributor Elliot Colla also noted in the Chronicle that, “I couldn’t say there’s a dogma; in fact there’s a lot of argument and debate [….] but there is a political project." Finally, another professor described Jadaliyya to the Chronicle as "friends publishing friends on issues they agree upon."
Jadaliyya is one in a series of knowledge production projects under the rubric of the Arab Studies Institute. These include an academic research journal (est. 1992), a documentary film collective (est. in 2003), and a publishing house (est. 2012). According to Haddad (who is also founder of the Arab Studies Institute) the impetus behind Jadaliyya originated in 2002 with the intent to create "a publication that would have a wider circulation" than the scholarly, peer-reviewed Arab Studies Journal. Haddad and his colleague Sinan Antoon believed that "good knowledge was being hoarded in journals that are largely inaccessible to the general public" and wanted "to reach beyond the academic community." The idea was shelved, however, after the Iraq War began in 2003 and their team focused instead on documentary film production producing three films in a period of six years (About Baghdad, What is Said About Arabs and Terrorism, and The Other Threat).
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