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Artist Call: NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond (New York, 16 July Deadline)
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Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, New York 11217 | p. 718.230.0492 | f. 718.230.0246 Important Dates: July 16, 2012: Submission deadline August 1, 2012: Artists announced via e-mail and web Exhibition Dates: October, 2012 – January, 2013 Exhibition Theme Be it in New York, Paris, or Bamako, the world is experiencing a paradigm shift that began in Africa. Worldwide, members of the financial and racial majority are no longer ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants: Arab Feminist Knowledge Production Meeting (Beirut, 27-31 July 2012)
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Arab Feminst Knowledge Production Meeting 27-31 July 2012 Beirut, Lebanon What are We Calling for Exactly? Young women activist, writers, and feminists have been setting up alternative electronic media websites/blogs to provide more critical coverage and points of views on various issues in the Arab region, including gender issues, Islamophobia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the recent uprisings in the region. Many of these websites, journals, and even ...
Keep Reading »AUB President Responds to Criticisms of 2012 Honorary Degree Recipient Selection
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[The following letter was issued by the AUB Office of the President on 3 July 2012 in response to critiques of and opposition to a recent honorary degree recipient at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Click here to read "Open Letter from AUB Anti-Normalization Groups at the AUB Opposing 2012 Commencement Speaker."] Dear Members of the AUB Community, I would like to share with you a personal note, in view of several e-mails that have been circulating ...
Keep Reading »المعارضة السورية تطالب أمريكا بتسليحها وتجاوز مخاوفها من الإسلاميين
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طالبت بعض فصائل المعارضة السورية الولايات المتحدة الأحد بالبدء بتسليحها "لإظهار الرغبة بالتخلص من نظام الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد"، وحضتها على "تجاوز مخاوفها" من وجود إسلاميين على الأرض قالت إنهم يقاتلون في صفوف المعارضين. فقد نقلت وكالة رويترز للأنباء عن معارضين سوريين وقادة في "الجيش السوري الحر" المعارض قولهم إن مقاتلي المعارضة "يحتاجون إلى أسلحة، كالصواريخ المضادة للدبابات وطائرات الهليكوبتر التي يستخدمها الأسد في إخماد الانتفاضة، ويمكن ...
Keep Reading »Egypt After the Election: An Interview with Mona El-Ghobashy and Joshua Stacher
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Both fresh off of field research trips to Egypt during the presidential election, political scientists Mona El-Ghobashy (Barnard College) and Joshua Stacher (Kent State University) discuss the state of the political transition on Wisconsin Public Radio's Kathleen Dunn Show. Professors El-Ghobashy and Stacher debate the election results and the prospects for a Mohamed Morsi presidency with SCAF lurking in plain sight. They also discuss the state of the revolution, the ...
Keep Reading »Testimony of Bahrain Political Prisoner Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to Supreme Court of Appeals
[Below is the translated text of the statement given by Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja before the Bahrain Supreme Court of Appeals on 22 May 2012. This particular text was made available by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) on 26 June 2012, the International Day Against Torture. For more on Al-Khawaja's trial and the Bahrain uprising, see the links at the bottom of this post. For background on the trial of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, read Jadaliyya's "Abdulhadi ...
Keep Reading »Announcement of New Publication: "On Torture"
[The following excerpt is the introductory section to a newly published edited volume entitled "On Torture." The volume is co-published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. Chapters are based on presentations from an April 2011 workshop entitled "Securing Accountability for Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment (CIDT) in Israel: New Trends and Comparative Lessons." Contributors ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: International Delegation to Attend Trial of Ayse Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey
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[The following press release was issued in English on 25 June 2012 by members of an international delegation that will observe the trial of Ayse Berktay.] Press Release International Delegation to Attend Trial of Ayse Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey During the past three years, the Turkish state has imprisoned some 8000 citizens under the guise of fighting terrorism. In a wave of detentions known as the “KCK operations,” it has targeted activists, academics, ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Anti-Normalization Groups at the AUB Opposing 2012 Commencement Speaker
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[The following open letter was organized by "anti-nomalization groups" at the American University of Beirut (AUB). It was originally published on the Sawt al-Niswa website on 21 June 2012. Click here to read the letter from the AUB Office of the President in response to this and other similar statements opposing the commencement speaker.] Can AUB find only those Complicit with Zionism to Honor? An Open Letter from anti-normalization groups at the AUB In the ...
Keep Reading »Caterpillar Removed from TIAA-CREF’s Social Choice Funds
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[The following press release was issued by wedivest.org on 21 June 2012.] For Immediate Release Caterpillar Removed from TIAA-CREF’s Social Choice Funds Victory for Pro-divestment Advocates June 21, 2012- Pension fund giant TIAA-CREF has removed Caterpillar, Inc. from its Social Choice Funds portfolio. As of May 1, 2012, financial data posted on TIAA-CREF’s website valued Social Choice Funds shares in Caterpillar at $72,943,861. Today it is zero. “We applaud this ...
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