Office: B349L
E-mail: mayyash@mtroyal.ca

Education:
Ph.D. Sociology, York University
M.A. Sociology, Carleton University
B.A. (Honors) Sociology, Dalhousie University

My interdisciplinary research draws from anti-racist, decolonial, and critical hermeneutic approaches to social theory and analysis. Driven by questions about relations of power, justice, as well as political and social change, my research has largely focused on violence, settler colonial sovereignty, decolonial sovereignties, as well as social movements, particularly focusing on the Palestinian struggle. I teach contemporary social theory, decolonial theory, social movements, and sociology of violence.

 

 

Book Publications
Ayyash, Mark M. (2019). A Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ayyash, Mark M. & Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba (eds.) (2017). Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Publications
Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates about Race and Racism.” Critical Sociology, online first: 1-14.

Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “Vaccine Apartheid and Settler Colonial Sovereign Violence: From Palestine to the Colonial Global Economy.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23 (2-3): 304-326.

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Palestine as Stage.” Journal of Visual Culture, 20 (2): 307-311.

Ayyash, Mark (2020). “A Pandemic in an Age of Omnipresent Sovereign Power: The Plight of Palestine.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 41: 123-131.

Ayyash, Mark (2018). "An Assemblage of Decoloniality? Palestinian Fellahin Resistance and the Space-Place Relation". Studies in Social Justice, 12 (1): 21-37.

Ayyash, Mark (2017). "Rethinking the Social-Political through Ibn Khaldûn and Aristotle". Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 19 (8): 1193-1209.

Ayyash, Mark (2013). "The Paradox of Political Violence". European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (3): 342-356.

Ayyash, Mark (2013). "Carrying the Burden of Past Violences: A Comparative Analysis of Transnational Palestinian Youth Movements". In a special issue of Sikh Formations titled, Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations, 9 (3): 279-297.

Ayyash, Mark (2010). "Hamas and the Israeli State: A 'Violent Dialogue'". European Journal of International Relations, 16 (1): 103-123.

Ayyash, Mark (2010). "Edward Said: Writing in Exile". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 30 (1): 107-118.

Ayyash, Mark (2007). "The Appearance of War in Discourse: The Neoconservatives on Iraq". Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 14 (4): 613-634.

Book Chapters
Ayyash, Mark M. (2020). “Jerusalem and Violence: The Transformation of Secular and Sacred Interpretations.” In Cultural Violence and Destruction of Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives, pp: 95-115. New York: Routledge.

Ayyash, Mark M. & Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba (2017). "Conceptualizing Generations and Protests". In Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean, pp: 1-23. Leiden: Brill.

Opinion

Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “For Canadian universities, the Palestinian is the ‘toxic other’”, Al-Jazeera, 30 November: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/30/anti-palestinian-racism-on-canadian-campuses  

Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “When will the settler colonial siege of the Gaza Strip end?”, Al-Jazeera, 6 August: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/8/6/the-settler-colonial-siege-of-the-gaza​

​Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “Pressure and Escape: In Palestine, nature and poetry are lifelines”, The Baffler, 30 June: https://thebaffler.com/latest/pressure-and-escape-ayyash

​Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “Palestine’s voice will never be silenced”, Al-Jazeera, 14 May: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/14/palestines-voice-will-never-be

Ayyash, Mark M. (2022). “The cause, and the goal, of Israeli violence”, Al-Jazeera, 20 April: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/20/the-cause-and-the-goal-of-israeli-violence

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “What is Israel’s word worth?”, Al-Jazeera, 7 December: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/12/7/what-is-israels-word-worth

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “The Toronto District School Board’s real scandal is anti-Palestinian racism”, The Breach, 6 October: https://breachmedia.ca/the-toronto-district-school-boards-real-scandal-is-anti-palestinian-racism/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “The choice is between Israeli colonialism vs. decolonial justice”, Mondoweiss, 22 July: https://mondoweiss.net/2021/07/the-choice-is-between-israeli-colonialism-vs-decolonial-justice/?utm_content=buffer5e186&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Indigenous Sovereignty & Canadian Settler Colonialism”, Politics Today, 13 July:  https://politicstoday.org/indigenous-sovereignty-canadian-settler-colonialism/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Urgently needed – a ‘Palestinian-Montrealer’!”, Al-Jazeera, 25 May: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/25/urgently-needed-a-palestinian

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Building from the Rubble: Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation”, The Baffler, 19 May: https://thebaffler.com/latest/building-from-the-rubble-ayyash

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Break the fear barrier and speak up for Palestine”, Al-Jazeera, 11 May: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/11/break-the-fear-barrier-and-speak-up-for-palestine

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is an orientalist text”, Al-Jazeera, 21 April: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/21/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-is-an-orientalist-text

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Why the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is a clear and present danger to academic freedom”, Canadian Dimension, 1 April: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/why-the-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism-is-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-academic-freedom

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Racial logics and the epistemological space of Palestine”, Culturico, 14 March: https://culturico.com/2021/03/14/racial-logics-and-the-epistemological-space-of-palestine/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “The path to peace in Israel-Palestine is through decolonization”, Al-Jazeera, 17 February: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/17/the-path-to-peace-in-israel-palestine-is-through-decolonisation

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021).“Distinguishing between Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression”, Mount Royal Faculty Association Faculty Forum, 15January: https://mrfa.net/distinguishing-between-academic-freedom-and-freedom-of-expression/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2021).“Vaccine politics: It's time to rethink the colonial global economy”, MiddleEast Eye, 20 January: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/vaccine-politics-its-time-rethink-colonial-global-economy

Ayyash, Mark M. (2020). “The IHRA definition will not help fight antisemitism.” Al-Jazeera, 23 November: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/23/the-ihra-and-the-palestinian-struggle-for/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2020). “Fighting for Palestine.” Al-Jazeera, 10 October: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/10/fighting-for-palestine-2/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2020). “Israel is a settler colony, annexing native land is what it does.” Al-Jazeera, 7 July: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/israel-settler-colony-annexing-native-land-200706130812834.html 

Ayyash, Mark M. (2020). “Palestinians and Black Lives Matter are united against oppression.” Middle East Monitor, 4 June: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200604-theres-no-justice-just-us/

Ayyash, Mark M. (2019). “The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and public discourse”, Middle East Monitor, 14 May: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190514-the-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-campaign-and-public-discourse/