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Reports Roundup (November 3)
![[Screenshot from controversial University of Jordan sexual harassment video. Image from youtube.com]](/content_images/3/sm_reports11312web.jpg "[Screenshot from controversial University of Jordan sexual harassment video. Image from youtube.com]")
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] Four Arab Artists and Intellectuals Receive 2012 Prince Claus Fund Award The annaul Prince Claus Fund Awards recognize individuals whose cultural achievements have a positive impact on the development of their societies. This years' laureates include Sami Ben Gharbia of Tunisia, Habiba Djahnine of Algeria, Yassin al Haj Saleh of ...
Keep Reading »Conference: Palestine Center Annual Conference (Washington DC, 9 November 2012)
![[Image from thejerusalemfund.org]](/content_images/3/sm_usandmiddleeastelectionsweb.jpg "[Image from thejerusalemfund.org]")
Where Are We Headed? The US and Middle East After Elections Palestine Center Annual Conference 9 November 2012 Washington, DC The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public. Established in 1991, it is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development. The ...
Keep Reading »Remi Kanazi: Normalize This!
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Bringing together a great crew of creative minds and shot throughout Brooklyn, Normalize This! tackles the multitude of ways Israel attempts to normalize its policies and whitewash its crimes against Palestinians. As an avid proponent of the fast growing, rights-based Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, and as an artist who refuses to sign onto projects that promote a false symmetry between occupier and occupied, Remi Kanazi felt this was ...
Keep Reading »Ithaca Event: Moving Beyond Sterile Negotiations (Today 1 November 2012)
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Moving Beyond Sterile Negotiations Noura Erakat, Georgetown University, Temple University 5pm on Thursday 1 November 2012 Morrison Hall, Room 146 Cornell University Ithaca, NY This lecture will focus on the failure of the two-decade long peace process between Israel and Palestine, as well as the timeliness, justification, and feasibility for shifting to a rights-based strategy and solution, as well as consider the reorientation of political forms in the ...
Keep Reading »Tunisian Unionists on Strike in Kasserine Province
![[UGTT union federation executive member Mohamed Saghaier Saihi. Image from menasolidaritynetwork.com]](/content_images/3/sm_mohamed_sghaierweb.jpg "[UGTT union federation executive member Mohamed Saghaier Saihi. Image from menasolidaritynetwork.com]")
[The following statement was issued by Mohamed Sghaier Saihi, a UGTT union federation executive member in Kasserine province, Tunisia, via MENA Solidarity Network on 21 October 2012.] Tunisia has seen waves of strikes and protests against the policies of the Islamist Ennahdha Party in recent months. In the Kasserine region, for example we saw general strikes in Majel Bel Abbès two months ago, in Thala three weeks ago, in Laayoun two weeks ago, in Sbiba last Tuesday ...
Keep Reading »Statement by Comrades from Cairo: We Refuse Economic Bondage -- Stop the Loans
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[The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo on 31 October 2012] Dear friends, In the coming period we will again be facing a familiar enemy that many of you have and continue to battle. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) like the IMF have long had a hand in plundering the Egyptian economy and dispossessing the Egyptian people. We aim to resist these institutions and their depredations, but we know that this struggle is a global one and so we ...
Keep Reading »Trailer: THIS IS also GAZA (Video)
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As the name suggests, THIS IS also GAZA aims to present an alternative vision of Gaza, one nurtured through the eyes of its most compelling contemporary cultural producers. For the last half-century and longer, Gaza has been viewed almost exclusively – both regionally and internationally–through the camera lens of war, occupation, in-fighting, and humanitarian strife. Through an innovative cross-disciplinary program, THIS IS also GAZA aims to ...
Keep Reading »The London Statement: Members of Global Media Community Speak Out on Journalist Safety
![[Tribute to Aljazeera journalists in Doha. Image by masondan via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_aljazeerajournalisttributeweb.jpg "[Tribute to Aljazeera journalists in Doha. Image by masondan via Flickr]")
[The following statement was issued by members of the global media community, including the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, on 18 October 2012.] The London Statement on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity Addressed to the UN Inter-Agency Meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity in Vienna on 22-23 November 2012, organized by UNESCO and co-hosted by the United Nations Development Program, Office of the ...
Keep Reading »Cairo Event -- Revolts and Transitions in the Arab World: Towards a New Urban Agenda? (7-9 November 2012)
![[Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales logo. Image from ema.revues.org]](/content_images/3/sm_CEDEJlogoweb.jpg "[Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales logo. Image from ema.revues.org]")
Revolts and Transitions in the Arab World: Towards a New Urban Agenda? 7 - 9 November 2012 French Institute of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt The CEDEJ, a French research center in Cairo, is organizing a conference on the urban aspect of the current events that are reshaping the region. The event will include short lectures by academics and experts on the region, followed by a debate. The final session on 9 November will include an open debate on the ...
Keep Reading »Sexual Harassment Video that Led to Removal of Rula Quawas as Dean at the University of Jordan
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The following video was produced by students of the University of Jordan's Feminist Theory class during the fall semester of the 2011-2012 academic year. The video addresses sexual harassment experienced by female students on the University of Jordan campus. It was uploaded to YouTube on 9 June, 2012. The video's public release created "a controversy" both in print and online media in Jordan. In light of the video's supposed "harmful effect" on ...
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