A Fifa council member, the man behind Morocco’s ascendancy in world football and arguably the ultimate powerbroker in African football, Fouzi Lekjaa has made a shift in domestic politics. Is this a fi...

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Cuneiform Cultures, tenure track.

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The kingdom’s World Cup ambitions stretch far beyond the pitch, intertwining football with diplomacy, domestic politics and the contested future of Western Sahara.

Why black magic remains one of football's most enduring—and controversial—subjects.

Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...

The MENA region has quickly become a host destination for FIFA's World Cup tournament, as well as a lucrative source of revenues for football's global governing body.

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.

Enough footballers were killed by the Iranian Islamist regime in the space of forty-eight hours in January to make up two full teams. Fifa’s response? Silence.

This six-week course examines the 2026 World Cup as a lens for understanding the political, cultural, and economic power of global football.

Welcome to The Overlap's football history podcast, It Was What It Was.Each week Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper will be talking about the key episodes in football history that have shaped the footballi...

On March 20, 2003, a U.S.-led coalition began its invasion of Iraq. Approximately one month later, on April 10, 2003, U.S. soldiers were on standby while looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq...

A new report from the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association reveals how civil rights law has been used to suppress Palestine activism on U.S. campuses.

The Department of Middle East Studies invites applications for the James A. Bellamy Professorship, with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2026.

After trans women were recently banned from the women’s game, attention is now turning to new restrictions on trans men, who must sign a declaration all are refusing to accept.

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By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…

They took language out of the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that limited courts' powers, but now want to price people out of being able to sue the government at all.

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

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This week, Francesco switches seats—co-hosting and guesting—as he and Guy dive into a lively discussion about football in and from the Middle East, inspired by a brand-new report from the Sectarianism...

Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.