Reposted by Esmat Elhalaby
Vol. 49, Number 2 (Summer 2026 issue):
@esmat.bsky.social critically examines the intellectual origins of JSAMES and the role that its founding editor, Hafeez Malik, played in shaping knowledge about the Middle East and South Asia.
Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
![To anticipate is to take steps before, to prepare for the future. Compliance is abiding by laws, standards, guidelines. But we are not in a system [End Page 418] after 2025 that is creating rules lawfully, with fair standards or lawful guidelines. Rather, I would submit that the hushed feeling that captures the institutional mood of our moment is, more accurately, complicity, defined in Oxford Languages as "the state of being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing." In our moment now, higher education in the United States has found itself in its era of willful wrongdoing, of anticipatory complicity. And perhaps nowhere is this clearer than the standing of women, gender, and sexuality studies (WGSS) in the university right now. The university never really treated WGSS as a field of knowledge production, which helps to explain the current rush to complicity. The call against "gender
ideology" is coming from inside the house.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i2a7pc3y64feb7jhwfoitegt/bafkreieqqesz7wn73kukcfxpbotzgyyq62jraxx4rkp4c3mwe67ykqt7tq)
