Follow Us
From the Editors
Jadaliyya Launches DARS Page: Daily Acts of Resistance and Subversion
Tadween Publishing Blog is here! Check it out
Jadaliyya's first book is now available! Click here.
Want to find out about new books? Visit our expanding NEWTON page. Click here.
Interested in writing a Review for Jadaliyya? Visit our Call for Reviews here.
الآن . . . القسم العربي بحلة جديدة
Jadaliyya Launches Photography Page (click here!)
Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Agnes Czajka
The Love Affair with Erdogan (Part 2)
![[PM Tayyip Erdogan at the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Prime_Minister_of_Turkey_Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan.jpg "[PM Tayyip Erdogan at the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[The following is part two of a two-part piece on Tayyip Erdogan. Part one was posted Monday, 27 August.] How, then, has Erdoğan managed to escape with his international reputation relatively unscathed, and his domestic popularity only marginally diminished? One might be tempted to argue that although his domestic record leaves a lot to be desired, it is his impressive performance in the international arena that sustains his international reputation. “Sultan Erdoğan,” ...
Keep Reading »The Love Affair with Erdogan (Part 1)
![[Image by FLAGELLVM·DEI]](/content_images/3/sm_ErdoğanImage.jpg "[Image by FLAGELLVM·DEI]")
[The following is part one of a two-part piece on Tayyip Erdogan. Part two will be posted Monday, 3 September.] Since his election to the helm of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2003, but even more so following the party’s reelections in 2007 and 2011, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has played the darling of the proverbial international community. Gradually relinquishing their fear of an Islamist agenda, European and North American governments ...
Keep Reading »Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising, Take Two: A Response to Rabab el-Mahdi and Her Interlocutors
![[Image from www.crazyjunkyard.com]](/content_images/3/sm_responsetorabab.jpg "[Image from www.crazyjunkyard.com]")
Published by Jadaliyya on April 11 2011, Rabab el-Mahdi’s “Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising” precipitated a spirited discussion both in online comments on the article and offline discussions among Jadaliyya readers. While it is impossible to do justice to the article and the debates it has generated, the crux of el-Mahdi’s argument is that the Egyptian uprising – as distinguished from revolution – has been “orientalised” by international and local media, academics, ...
Keep Reading »Securing the People (or State?): Efforts in Governing Through Fear
![[Image courtesy of 2011 Universal Press Syndicate.]](/content_images/3/sm_Mideast-Protests.jpg "[Image courtesy of 2011 Universal Press Syndicate.]")
Traditionally conceptualised as pertaining to the state and achieved through its safeguarding against the interests (territorial or otherwise) of other states, security has become an increasingly and intensely contested concept. Two assumptions that structured the field of security studies – grounding the meaning of security and determining the mechanisms and strategies for its attainment – have been fundamentally challenged. The widening and deepening of the security ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Agnes Czajka is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University College Cork in Ireland. Prior to joining the UCC, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo.
©2010-2013 by the Arab Studies Institute. All Rights Reserved. info@jadaliyya.com
site by concepcion design