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Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen
![[Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Almog.]](/content_images/3/sm_israelisupremecourtcc.jpg "[Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Almog.]")
On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusalem, from entering into Israel for the purpose of family unification. This law was amended in 2007, further prohibiting the entry of spouses who are citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. To explain the concrete consequences of this law, take the following example: A Palestin
Keep Reading »الثورة المصرية فى مرآة التاريخ
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عندما يُؤرَخ للثورة المصرية التي تحلّ ذكراها الأولى فإن أقرب ما قد توصف به هو أنها كانت "ثورة الأطراف المهمّشة" Peripheries’ Revolution . فمن أطلق شرارة الثورة ودفع ثمنها، ولا يزال، هي تلك الكتلة "الحرجة" التي عاشت عقوداً على الهامشيْن السياسي والاجتماعي للدولة المصرية ولم ترفل فى رغد السلطة أو تتمتع بحقوق المواطنة الكاملة. بل على العكس فقد دفعت ثمناً باهظاً لفساد رجال الحكم وانحرافاتهم الداخلية والخارجية. Keep Reading »
A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Timeline [Updated]
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[This timeline is part of a series entitled "Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak." Click here to read Part 1.] JANUARY 26: Protesters marching from Tahrir Square towards state television building in Maspero to
Keep Reading »War Talk: The Obama Administration and Iran
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“Let there be no doubt,” President Obama declared in his 2012 State of the Union address. “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” The comment drew a rousing and sustained standing ovation from the US Congress. “But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible,” the President continued to a smattering of applause that tumbled awkwardly across the silent chamber. The spectacle would suggest war on Iran seems not just a viable but perhaps even a highly popular prospect on Capital Hill. <
Keep Reading »Uproar at PENN over a BDS Conference
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A Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) conference is set to take place next week at the University of Pennsylvania (PENN). As one would expect, the fact that the conference is taking place has created a furor. The President of the University, Amy Gutmann, released an anodyne statement disavowing any connection with the conference. She released no such statement, however, last year when the faculty and students were incensed about a talk to be delivered on campus by Eric Cantor on the theme of income inequality (Congressman Cantor eventually cancelled his appearance). The goose and gander do n
Keep Reading »The Mother of Tahrir Square
![[Protestors gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square to call for the release of detained military officers. Image by Patrick Galey.]](/content_images/3/sm_PatrickGaleyimage.png "[Protestors gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square to call for the release of detained military officers. Image by Patrick Galey.]")
Sipping juice in one of downtown Cairo's heirloom coffee houses, Khadiga Hennawi lights a cigarette with her hand bound in plaster, which is the only indication of what she has witnessed since the revolution. A steady stream of young adults approaches her table, alternatively encouraged or admonished by the lady they call “Mama” who flashes kind looks from her remaining good eye. She may only have three biological children—grown-up and working overseas with high-paid jobsKeep Reading »
Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon a Quest for justice or a Political Intervention?
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In 2007, in response to a request by the 2005 Lebanese government, the UN Security Council established he Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Based in the Netherlands, the STL seeks to prosecute those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and twenty-two others on 14 February 2005 as well as for a select number of other attempted assassinations in Lebanon between 2004 and 2006. Though Lebanon and the UN established the STL by treaty, the Lebanese parliament never ratified it due to political divisions. This prompted then Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Karima Khalil, Messages from Tahrir
Karima Khalil, editor, Messages from Tahrir. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you put this book together? Karima Khalil: One of the first things I saw when I went to Tahrir for the first time on 29 January 2011 was a man standing quietly, holding a sign in Arabic saying: “I used to be afraid but I became Egyptian.” I thought this was an incredibly powerful statement, coming as we did from thirty years of r
Keep Reading »Year One of the Egyptian Revolution: Some Lessons
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Revolutions, as students of the French and the Russian ones know well, require an inflammatory event, something that Vladimir Lenin described as a spark (the name of his newspaper in Russian): something which poor Mr. Bouazizi provided in Tunisia and the confrontation with the armed security police in Cairo a month later. Sparks unleash an unruly momentum in which more and more people are involved on both sides, some as active revolutionaries determined to root out all traces of the old regime, some as reactionaries equally determined to defend the old order. Just as important, the
Keep Reading »One Year On, Labor Revolution Is Stalling
![[Hundreds of Alexandria's harbor workers staging protest before gate 10 on 15 January 2012. Workers protested against retired military officials who still occupy leading harbor administrative positions and demanded disbursement of their bonuses. They warned of going on an open-ended strike. Image from Mahmoud Taha, http://www.almasryalyoum.com]](/content_images/3/sm_tswyr_mhmwd_th_6_0.jpg.crop_display.jpg "[Hundreds of Alexandria's harbor workers staging protest before gate 10 on 15 January 2012. Workers protested against retired military officials who still occupy leading harbor administrative positions and demanded disbursement of their bonuses. They warned of going on an open-ended strike. Image from Mahmoud Taha, http://www.almasryalyoum.com]")
On 30 January 2011, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established in since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some three hundred independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers. But nearly one year later, these unions remain unrecognized by the interim government. Many workers say they have yet to see conditions change, despite their critical role in t
Keep Reading »ديناميتان للثورة السورية: المستقبل في الحاضر
لم يعد هناك أدنى شك في أن النظام السوري سائر نحو السقوط، وأن الأمور تتجه بثبات إلى نقطة الانكسار التي يبدأ عندها بالانهيار النهائي. واضح أكثر فأكثر أنه يفقد ثقته بالجيش النظامي، ويعجز بصورة مضطردة عن التحكم بديناميات تفتته، وأن ضرباً من توازن القوى يتحقق لعناصر «الجيش الحر» في مواجهة قوى النظام العسكرية والأمنية و»الشبيحة» في بعض مناطق البلد (حول دمشق، وفي معظم محافظة إدلب، وفي مناطق من حمص وحلب).
Keep Reading »In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are interested in trash? You’ll love this place, it is full of it!” And we were off. What struck me most when we finally made our way through an orgy of fresh fruits and vegetables, sold-off stands and carts in Jenin’s hisba ...
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[نشرت هذه المقالة لأول مرة باللغة الإنجليزية على صفحات جدلية تعقيباً على المقابلة التي أجرتها ”وول ستريت جورنال“ مع رئيس المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي برهان غليون. ترجم المقالة إلى العربية يوسف حداد.]
The Revolutionaries Will Return on January 25
While 25 January 2011 marks the first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, for many Egyptians, January twenth-figth is not a day for celebration but a day to complete unfulfilled promises of the revolution they started a year ago: bread, freedom, and social justice. Produced by the Mosireen collective, the following clip highlights different voices from Egyptian society affirming their determination to continue the revolution they began on 25 January 2011.
Keep Reading »Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections is a mere eight. Indeed women do not exceed two percent of the total number of elected members. To be more precise, they constitute one and a half percent of the “Parliament of the Revolution.” What can a revolution against "dictatorship" amount to in reality and practice if men who have been dictating policy and social life norms, continue to do so? ...
Keep Reading »الدولة المصرية العميقة وسيناريو الفشل: نبيذ ديناصوري قديم في زجاجات جديدة
بعد مرور عام على قيام ثورة 25 يناير، يبدو مطلوباً الآن القيام بكشف حساب لما آلت إليه الأمور في مصر. وبرغم اقتناعي بالفوارق المهمة بين تجربتَي التحول الثوري في 1952 و 2011 ، والتي تجعل القياس على المآلات والنتائج في التجربة الأولى قياساً فاسداً على المستويات التحليلية المختلفة، إلا أني لا أملك إلا استحضار الدلالة الرمزية لإحدى وقائع تلك المرحلة البائدة. ففي عام 1954 (العام المفصلي الذي حسم مصير ثورة يوليو) وبينما كان الناس في مصر منهمكين بحواديت ومسرحيات
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ziad Fahmy: Growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, I experienced firsthand the marked difference between the modern standard Arabic (MSA) that I was taught in school and the colloquial Egyptian I spoke with my parents, relatives, and friends. In elementary school, I struggled with the comp
Keep Reading »مَن لا ميدان له لا برلمان له
حاول المجلس العسكرى -طيَّب الله ذكره- أن يقدم البرلمان الذى بدأ جلساته أمس باعتباره أحد منجزات المجلس العسكرى، والحقيقة أن البرلمان وما سبقه من إجراء اتتخابات حرة (لا أقول أبدا ديمقراطية!) هو منجَز للثورة، لم يفعل فيه «العسكرى» شيئا إلا إفساده عبر الموافقة على أحزاب دينية يخالف فيها كل الدساتير والقوانين بمنتهى الاستخفاف والخفة، وكذلك عبر قانون انتخابات مشوه ونظام تصويت معقد أفسد أكثر مما أصلح، لكن يبقى أن مجلس الشعب وقد انعقد أخيرا يقف بنوابه وأحزابه فى مفترق طرق، هل سينحاز إلى الميدان وثورته أم إلى النظ
Keep Reading »Video of Security Force Violence in Mohamed Mahmoud Street Battles
The following video, recently released by hoqook.com, shows Egyptian security forces shooting protesters at face and chest levels during the Mohamed Mahmoud battles near Tahrir Square last November. During the week from 19 to 24 November 2011, at least forty people were killed and thousands injured in the clashes between security personnel and unarmed protesters. To date, no person has been held accountable for these attacks and concomitant deaths
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