The inaugural issue of the MENA Writing Studies Journal, “On Our Terms” has just been released. This project seeks to unite writing studies of the region and the diaspora and begin to document and build capacity for theories and priorities in the region. You can access the issue here.

The first issue includes content regarding discussion-based pedagogies in Saudi Arabia, writing in nursing curriculums in Qatar, implementing writing centers across Lebanese high schools, negotiating language acquisition between home languages and English, combatting AI use within academic writing centers, and developing institutional memory with an interview on the Symposium of the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon.