MESA Global Academy

06/04/2026

Hayat, a Palestinian scholar from Gaza who has earned a fully funded PhD in Management at the University of Bristol, needs your help getting to the UK. Consider donating to her campaign:

I have secured a full scholarship to pursue a PhD at the U… Hayat Ghunaim needs your support for Help PhD Scholar Hayat Pay Her Visa & NHS to Reach Bristol

06/03/2026

Check our Nijmeh Ali's recent article on debates on Palestinian resistance here:

This article interrogates the dominant framing of Palestinian resistance through the questions “why do Palestinians resist?” and “how should they resist?”, arguing that both emerge from colonial ep...

06/03/2026

Check out Dr. Fateh Saeidi's recent article on Syria’s renewed conflict with Kurdish-administered regions here:

This article examines the resurgence of state-sponsored religious language as a technology of wartime governance in Syria’s renewed conflict with Kurdish-administered regions since late 2025. Altho...

05/26/2026

This Friday!

Join us for Dr. Gokhan Demir's talk on June 29th! We send our thanks to our partners at Marburg University! Register here: https://forms.gle/TUNMaaEX8KHuohodA

05/21/2026

Watch Hayatullah Ahmadzai's talk "Climate Shocks, Household Food Security, and Welfare in Afghanistan" here:

Speaker: Hayatullah AhmadzaiModerator: David LobellDate: Wednesd...

05/18/2026

Join us for Dr. Gokhan Demir's talk on June 29th! We send our thanks to our partners at Marburg University! Register here: https://forms.gle/TUNMaaEX8KHuohodA

05/14/2026

Catch our fellow Dr. Najeeb Alomaisi's talk explaining structural drivers of war and peace in Yemen here: https://youtu.be/PJ5eoIa-oUk
A special thank you to our colleagues at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)!

"Conflict Economies and Multi-Alignment: Structural Drivers of War and Peacebuilding Failure in Yemen"

04/27/2026

We are happy to share the most recent article of our fellow Malaka Shwaikh. Read it here:

In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

04/27/2026

Our friends at Arab Political Science Network (APSN) are inviting you to a webinar discussion titled "Political Economy of Sanctions and War".
Tuesday April 28, 3 pm Cairo / 8 am EST
Registration:

The Arab Political Science Network (APSN), in partnership with the Project on Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism at the American University in Cairo, invite you to a webinar discussion titled "The Political Economy of Sanctions and War" This session aims to examine war as a geopolitical and security phen...

04/27/2026

Check out our fellow Dr. Nijmeh Ali's recent piece here:

Essay traces Palestinian women’s revolutionary roles—from early groups to icons—arguing their agency is rooted in anti-colonial struggle, not liberal feminism.