‘This fascinating collection of essays examines a range of political and social issues through a decolonial lens in Arab-majority countries. Covering subjects as diverse as the scarcity of green spaces in Beirut, the double burden faced by Arab scholars at home and in the diaspora, the role of race and extractive colonialism, and many more subjects besides, the authors in this volume ask us to rethink received political and heuristic categories and think with the people of the region.’ Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter

‘In this excellent volume Ali Kassem brings together a new generation of scholarship, from and on the region, working out what a decolonial approach means for the study of the Arab-majority world. Ranging across disciplines, and spanning from Morocco to Qatar, the chapters wrestle reflexively with theory and method as they take on a spectrum of topics including the state, race, aid, development, and urban planning and conservation. The book, with its incisive introduction and concluding chapters, is a must-read for those interested in decolonial knowledge production and praxis in the region in the 21st century.’ Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University

‘A vital, multivocal exploration of South–South dialogues. Ali Kassem curates a groundbreaking volume, forging new paths beyond centers of power/knowledge. This is essential reading for scholars of transnational imperial legacies and decolonial resistances.’ Santiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University

‘The is a timely contribution to decolonial scholarship by researchers from and of the Arab world. Appearing at a moment of conflict and geopolitical transformations on a global level, it challenges the genocidal and epistemic violence of coloniality that has enabled the hegemonic normalization of western discourses and knowledges, and the marginalization and erasure of non-western epistemes and realities. It is a must read for anyone interested in the production of liberatory knowledges for alternative futures.’ Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University

Introduction: Decolonization and Arab-Majority Region(s) - Ali Kassem

Part 1: The Colonial Condition: Structures and Concepts

1. A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and the Modern/Colonial State - Andrew Delatolla

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

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

4. Thinking Localization, Refugee Leadership, and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment or Systemic Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi

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

Part 2: Toward Decoloniality: Toward Decoloniality: Tensions, Resources, and Sites of Struggle

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

7. Knowledge Production in the Arab- Majority Region and Unlearning in the Field: Autoethnographic Reflections from Lebanon towards Alternative Research Politics - Ali Kassem

8. Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab- Majority Region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Dina M. Taha

9. (Re)Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward a Decolonial Political Ecology - Adam Cherkawi

10. Modernity’s Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through ’Irfan - Mohamad Baker Elharake

Part 3: Concluding Discussions

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 Region - Ali Kassem, Seteney Shami, and Moushira Elgeziri

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