Book Publications

Monographs

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

Edited Books
Wildeman, J. & Ayyash, M. M. (Eds.) Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ayyash, M. M. (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, M. M. (2023). “Hyphenation and Conciliation in the Settler Colony.” In Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.

Ayyash, M. M. & Wildeman, J. (2023). “Introduction.” In Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “The Egyptian Uprising and Sexual Violence.” In The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism: Unfinished Social Movements, pp: 301-316. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Ayyash, M. M. (2022). “Building from the Rubble: Palestinian Resistance and the Road to Liberation.” In Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization, pp: 373-376. Québec: Daraja Press. 

Ayyash, M. 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, M. M. & Hadj-Moussa, R. (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.

Policy Brief
Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project.” Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/liberal-zionism-a-pillar-of-israels-settler-colonization-project/ 

 

Opinion

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “A genocide is under way in Palestine”, Al-Jazeera, 2 November: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/2/a-genocide-is-under-way-in-palestine

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine”, The Conversation, 19 October: https://theconversation.com/the-wests-double-standards-are-once-again-on-display-in-israel-and-palestine-215759

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Against the Imposters: To fight for truth and justice is to fight for Palestinian freedom”, The Baffler, 17 October: https://thebaffler.com/latest/against-the-imposters-ayyash

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Palestinians are showing that they will not be erased”, Al-Jazeera, 10 October: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/10/palestinians-are-showing-that-they-will-not-be-erased  

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Biden says the U.S. would have to invent an Israel if it didn’t exist. Why?”, The Conversation, 24 July: https://theconversation.com/biden-says-the-u-s-would-have-to-invent-an-israel-if-it-didnt-exist-why-210172

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Let’s talk about Jenin”, Al-Jazeera, 11 July: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/11/lets-talk-about-jenin  

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Weaponisation of anti-Semitism is bad for Palestinians – and Jews”, Al-Jazeera, 22 June: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/22/weaponisation-of-anti-semitism-is-bad-for-palestinians-and-jews  

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “Israeli violence is the problem”, Al-Jazeera, 10 April: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/10/israeli-violence-is-the-problem

Ayyash, M. M. (2023). “For Palestine, justice is not a question of law”, Al-Jazeera, 8 February: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/2/8/it-will-be-justice-not-law-that-liberates-the-palestinians 

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

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

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

Ayyash, M. 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, M. 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, M. 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/