It publishes articles in Arabic, French, English and Turkish, and is run primarily on a volunteer basis by an editorial team, and an expanding pool of contributors that includes academics, journalists, activists and artists.
"[1] George Mason University professor Bassam Haddad, its founding editor, said that Jadaliyya aspires to "offer a scholarly, left-of-center ‘counter discourse’ to the mainstream conversation about the Arab world."
Haddad and his colleague Sinan Antoon stated that "good knowledge was being hoarded in journals that are largely inaccessible to the general public" and wanted "to reach beyond the academic community.
Updated daily, the site boasts about half a million unique visitors a month, and its articles are widely shared on social media [....] Jadaliyya’s reception has been largely positive among scholars of the Middle East.
[8]Media outlets such as The Atlantic,[9] The Christian Science Monitor,[10] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[11] The Guardian,[12][13][14]Inter Press Service,[15]La Stampa,[16] London Review of Books,[17] The New York Times,[18][19][20][21][22] NPR,[23] and PBS[24][25] referenced Jadaliyya when discussing events related to the Arab Uprisings, as well as the Middle East more generally.
The Guardian stated that "the Arab [Studies] Institute’s Jadaliyya website is an invaluable resource",[13] while Al-masry Al-youm (English Edition) suggested that it "quickly became a port of call for many wanting to understand the tumultuous events unfolding across the region" by offering "more nuanced, in-depth coverage than most, but without the delays and exclusivity of academic journals.
"[26] Various international and regional media outlets including the Agence France-Presse (AFP),[27] Al Jazeera English,[28][29] BBC,[30] China Central Television,[31] China Radio International,[32] CNN,[33] Democracy Now,[34] Deutsche Welle,[35] El Mundo,[36] The Guardian,[37] Le Figaro,[38] MSNBC,[39] The PBS NewsHour,[40] Russia Today,[41] The Wall Street Journal,[42] and The Washington Post[43] have featured interviews with Jadaliyya co-editors.
In addition, media outlets such as The Guardian[44] and Courrier International[45] have republished Jadaliyya articles[46][47][48][49][50][51] The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order?, was edited Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu-Rish.