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On Mubarak's Trial, Presidential Elections, and the Return to Tahrir: An Interview with Sharif Abdel Kouddous
In the following interview Egyptian journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous discusses developments in Egypt in the wake of last Saturday's verdict in the Mubarak trial. The interview begins with an overview of the verdict, the legal process that led up to it, and the erruption of protests in its aftermath. It then tackles the broader context within which the trial and verdict unfolded: the struggle to define the scope of revolution in Egypt. Sharif discusses the (re)emergence of ...
Keep Reading »So What If Iran Has The Bomb?
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Whether it is simply a product of political jockeying associated with the US presidential election season or a "real" concern of the institutional networks that constitute the US foreign policy establishment, there has been a marked increase in the rhetorical—and even the practical—mobilization around Iran's potential nuclear capabilities. Initially, such mobilizations centered on the question of whether and to what degree Iran would grant weapons inspectors access ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali (Part 2)
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This is Part 2 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and objectives with regards to the Middle East. In this second part of the interview, Asli discusses Turkey’s foreign policy in the face of the Arab uprisings, with particular reference to Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The interview was conducted on 11 February 2012. It was transcribed by Ziad Abu-Rish and Kristina Benson. Edited Transcript (Complete audio file ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali (Part 1)
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This is Part 1 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and obejectives with regards to the Middle East. In Part 1, Asli tackels the question of whether Turkey's foreign policy positions vis-a-vis the Middle East have changed with respect to what is otherwise described as a "western orientation." She also explores whether whatever changes have occured can be traced directly to the AKP's rise to power within Turkish ...
Keep Reading »Turkish Politics, Kurdish Rights, and the KCK Operations: An Interview with Asli Bali
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Turkey recently has witnessed a massive police operation against activists, advocates, academics, and publishers who are pro-Kurdish on the grounds of alleged links to the outlawed “Union of Communities in Kurdistan” (sometimes also referred to as the Kurdish Communities Union), known by its Kurdish-language acronym, the KCK. In the following interview, Aslı Bali provides some context for the “KCK Operations,” with particular reference to the role of the Justice and ...
Keep Reading »Leyla Halid'le Soylesi: Yasanmis Gundelik Bir Deneyim Olarak Direnis ve Devrim
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[This interview was conducted in Arabic by Ziad Abu-Rish and translated/published from English into Turkish by SOL KÜRE.] Leyla Halid’le Söyleşi: Yaşanmış Gündelik Bir Deneyim Olarak Direniş ve Devrim [Aşağıdaki metin, yazarın 2007 yazında Leyla Halid’le yaptığı söyleşi dizisinin 1. bölümüdür.] İşgal terörizmdir; bir mülteci olmak cehennemdir; yurdunuzun çalınması bir suçtur; bir özgürlük savaşçısı olmak özgürleşmektir. Bu tümcelerle başladım, çünkü Filistinli ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 4)
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[This is Part 4 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, here to read Part 2, and here to read Part 3] After a brief training period in Jordan in 1969, I found myself in Lebanon meeting with Dr. Wadi Haddad. He asked me if I was ready to die. I replied that I was and asked why. ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 3)
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[This is Part 3 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, and here to read Part 2.] The 1960s were particularly formative for many activists and thinkers in the Middle East, Leila Khaled among them. It was the high point of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), one of the major political ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 2)
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[This is Part 2 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, and here to read Part 1.] The 1940s through the 1960s were decades of intense social and political mobilization throughout the Arab world, ones in which strikes, protests, and marches were regular occurrences. They stand in sharp contrast to the post-1970s era, which was ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Intro)
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The protests and uprisings that have taken hold across the Arab world have given new contours to processes of politicization, as well as the use of the term “revolution.” Before 2011, references to “the revolution” around the Arab World would conjure images of Gamal Abdul Nasser, Abdul-Karim Qassim, Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, George Habash, and Yasser Arafat, among others. Put differently, “the revolution”—and all that the term entailed in terms of hopes, dreams, belonging, ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Ziad Abu-Rish is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently serves as the Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Ziad is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. More of his Jadaliyya articles can be found here and here. You can follow him on Twitter at @ziadaburish.
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