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We Are Fine in Gaza. How Are You?
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In celebrating the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Communist Party in Syria and Lebanon, the Palestinian singer and writer—Khaled El-Hibr sang these words: We are fine in Gaza How about you? We are fine under attack How about you? Our martyrs are under the rubbles Our children now living in the tents And they ask about you We are fine in Gaza How about you? …. The sea is behind us But we fight back The enemy is in front of us But we still fight ...
Keep Reading »On Uprisings and Interventions: An Interview with Vijay Prashad
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Since the start of the events in the Arab World, termed as the so-called “Arab Spring,” Vijay Prashad has been writing about the different countries where people turned against their regimes across the region. He has done so by consistently contextualizing the events, while still providing thorough analyses of local dynamics and histories. In his book--Arab Spring, Libyan Winter-- Prashad discusses the case of Libya, its similarities and differences with other ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel
Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Magid Shihade (MS): One reason was personal. The book begins with a case study of a soccer game between two Palestinian villages: Kafr Yassif, with a dominantly Christian population, and Julis, which is a Druze village. The game ended with a fight between the fans of the two teams and resulted ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Magid Shihade is a faculty member at the Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. His research interests are modernity, violence, identity, and the anthropology and politics of knowledge. In addition to several articles and book chapters, he is the author of recently published book, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel, by Syracuse University Press. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Resistance Studies Magazine, and Interface: A Journal about and for Social Movements.
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