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Reports Roundup (September 1)
![[A boy outside his school after a bombing in Gaza, 2009. Image by Al Jazeera English via Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_gazaboy.jpg "[A boy outside his school after a bombing in Gaza, 2009. Image by Al Jazeera English via Wikimedia Commons.]")
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] Egyptian Government Attempts to Suppress Media The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on government censorship, particularly at the state run Al-Akhbar newspaper. InCABI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement The Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel issues a statement ...
Keep Reading »Syria: Joint Rapid Food Security Needs Assessment
![[Syrian herder in 2011. Image by Joel Bombardier via Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_syrfarm.jpg "[Syrian herder in 2011. Image by Joel Bombardier via Flickr.]")
[The following report was issued by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in June 2012.] Syria: Joint Rapid Food Security Needs Assessment Summary of Findings Crops and livestock sectors are the most affected by the ongoing crisis in the country. Table 1 summarizes the total damages and losses in the nine governorates in the crop, irrigation and livestock subsectors. Majorly affected crops are the strategic crops, such as ...
Keep Reading »Conference: Politics, Art, and Society - The Arab Uprisings of 2011 and After (28 September 2012, Cleveland, Ohio)
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Politics, Art, and Society: The Arab Uprisings of 2011 and After 28 September 2012 Cleveland, Ohio Religion, Social Movements, and Protest in the Middle East 9:30 a.m., Dolan Center for Science and Technology, John Carroll University Well before the popular uprisings of 2011, there was a robust history of diverse social groups. Challenging and protesting political leadership across the Middle East. Change, however fitful, seems now possible in many countries. ...
Keep Reading »Moroccan State Propaganda and the Western Saharan Conflict
![[Uniformed police officer attacking nonviolent protestor. Laayoune, Aug. 25, 2012. Image by Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo/Huffington Post.]](/content_images/3/sm_2012-08-28-3.jpg "[Uniformed police officer attacking nonviolent protestor. Laayoune, Aug. 25, 2012. Image by Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo/Huffington Post.]")
On the first day of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights’ visit to the Western Sahara “to assess the human-rights situation in both Western Sahara and the Algerian refugee camps where displaced Sahrawi live,” Kerry Kennedy, the president of the center, gave an account for the Huffington Post. Her piece details a crude encounter with the DST (Moroccan intelligence services) after her delegation witnessed DST officers brutalizing a peacefully protesting ...
Keep Reading »Gaza in 2020: A Liveable Place?
[The following report was issued by the United Nations Country Team in the occupied Palestinian territory in August 2012.] Gaza in 2020: A Liveable Place? Summary By the year 2020, the population of Gaza will increase to around 2.1 million, from an estimated 1.6 million people today. The substantial population growth rate will thus add some 500,000 people to a living area which is restricted and already heavily urbanized. Fundamental ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Islam, Political Islam, and Islamophobia (Bloomington, Indiana, 29-30 March 2013)
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Islam, Political Islam, and Islamophobia: An International Conference 29 - 30 March 2013 Indiana University Bloomington Muslims representing all strata of society throughout the world face an extraordinary degree of negative attention from both public and government eyes often resulting in discriminatory practices. These practices, born of stereotypical descriptions and definitions of “Islam” and “Muslims,” are connotative of the level of fear and hatred in many ...
Keep Reading »Kuwaiti Government Official Condemns Twitter
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[The following statement was issued by the Arab Network for Human Rights Information on 13 August 2012.] ANHRI denounced the statements of the Under Secretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information (Suleiman Hamoud), in which he attacked the use of the social network website Twitter, saying that it is being used by hostile countries to spread discord in the Gulf countries in general and in Kuwait in particular. Hamoud said the following in a press ...
Keep Reading »Beirut Event: هذا البحر لي - This Sea is Mine (28 August - 8 September 2012)
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InCABI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
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[The following statement was issued by the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on 24 August 2012.] We, a group of academics, activists, and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. (Visit our website www.incacbi.in for more information.) In yet another instance of India ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Ready for Democracy? Religion and Political Culture in the Orthodox and Islamic Worlds (Bloomington, Indiana, 28 February - 2 March 2013)
![[An imam in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian protests. Image by Sherif9282 via Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_tahrirbanner.jpg "[An imam in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian protests. Image by Sherif9282 via Wikimedia Commons]")
Ready for Democracy? Religion and Political Culture in the Orthodox and Islamic Worlds February 28-March 2, 2013 Indiana University Bloomington The Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University invites advanced graduate students and recent PhDs (those who received their degrees in 2009 or after) to submit proposals for a conference to be held at Indiana University Bloomington February 28-March 2, 2013. Pending funding, REEI will cover travel and ...
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