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The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2024). The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide. Diacritics, 52(1), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a955192

This essay examines the pro-Palestine student encampment movement of 2024 within the framework of political debates concerning comparisons between Palestinian and Jewish historical experience. I turn to recent efforts to compare Gaza with the Warsaw... Read More about The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide.

Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids (2024)
Journal Article
Hamamra, B., Gould, R. R., & Mayaleh, A. (2024). Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids. Third World Quarterly, 45(13), 1929-1946. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2024.2409917

Palestinian women’s engagement with politics and their appropriation of conventionally masculine acts of martyrdom during the Second Intifada (2002–2005) have been subject to intense public debate, media scrutiny and contested cultural representation... Read More about Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids.

Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech (2024)
Journal Article
Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 56(13), 1317-1331. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2391857

This article examines the factors contributing to the suppression of free speech in Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. We argue that anti-democratic politics and restricted public discourse in both public and academic spheres are mutually rein... Read More about Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech.

The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity (2024)
Journal Article
Mayaleh, A., Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2025). The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 46(1), 172-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2374557

Further developing Stephen McCloskey’s argument that the war on Ukraine has revealed a hierarchy of victims that is rooted in racial and other forms of prejudice, we show how refugees from the Muslim world and Africa are stereotyped as potential crim... Read More about The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity.

Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743824000266

Although translation and commentary are often treated as distinct, separable activities in literary and intellectual history, the Persian tradition of Qur'an exegesis demonstrates that they are best understood in relation to each other. Introducing t... Read More about Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges.