Follow Us
From the Editors
Jadaliyya Launches DARS Page: Daily Acts of Resistance and Subversion
Tadween Publishing Blog is here! Check it out
Jadaliyya's first book is now available! Click here.
Want to find out about new books? Visit our expanding NEWTON page. Click here.
Interested in writing a Review for Jadaliyya? Visit our Call for Reviews here.
الآن . . . القسم العربي بحلة جديدة
Jadaliyya Launches Photography Page (click here!)
Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya Reports
The Rise of Egypt's Workers
![[Egyptian workers protesting in 2011. Image from Google Images]](/content_images/3/sm_egyptworkersprotest.jpg "[Egyptian workers protesting in 2011. Image from Google Images]")
[The following report was authored by Joel Beinin and published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on 28 June 2012.] The Rise of Egypt's Workers Summary Workers have long sought to bring change to the Egyptian system, yet the independent labor movement has only recently begun to find a nationwide voice. As Egypt’s sole legal trade union organization and an arm of the state for nearly sixty years, the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) has had a ...
Keep Reading »Kuwait: Bidoun Nationality Demands Can't Be Silenced
![[Refugees International logo. Image from refugeesinternational.org]](/content_images/3/sm_RIlogo111.png "[Refugees International logo. Image from refugeesinternational.org]")
[The following report was issued by Refugees International on 6 March 2012.] KUWAIT: BIDOUN NATIONALITY DEMANDS CAN'T BE SILENCED As many as 100,000 people living in Kuwait are stateless. They are called “bidoun,” and over the last twelve months thousands have been gathering peacefully in Taima Square to insist that the government recognize their Kuwaiti nationality. Tear gas, rubber bullets, and beatings have all been used to quell the demonstrators. Refugees ...
Keep Reading »Yemen: Enduring Conflicts, Threatened Transition
![[ICG logo. Image from crisisgroup.org]](/content_images/3/sm_Image-ICG-Logo.jpg "[ICG logo. Image from crisisgroup.org]"){kind=logo}
[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on Yemen.] YEMEN: ENDURING CONFLICTS, THREATENED TRANSITION As messy as it has been and unfinished as it remains, Yemen’s transition accomplished two critical goals: avoiding a potentially devastating civil war and securing the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled the impoverished country for over three decades. It also cracked the regime’s foundations, while making it ...
Keep Reading »Racism and Segregation at Lebanese Beaches (Video)
![[Logo for Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon. Image from antiracismmovement.com]](/content_images/3/sm_antiracismmovement.jpg "[Logo for Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon. Image from antiracismmovement.com]")
Recently, the Ministry of Tourism in Lebanon issued a memorandum banning discrimination in the country's private pools and beaches. Such a ban came after many years of the barring of entry or other forms of discrimination against migrant domestic laborers and those assumed to be migrant domestic laborers. In an effort to monitor and encourage the implementation of this recent official ban on discrimination, the Lebanese group Anti-Racism Movement has produced the ...
Keep Reading »Letter to EU High Representative on the EU-GCC Ministerial Meeting
![[Human Rights Watch logo. Image from Google Images]](/content_images/3/sm_hrwlogo.jpg "[Human Rights Watch logo. Image from Google Images]")
[The following letter was issued by Human Rights Watch on 25 June 2012.] Baroness Catherine Ashton High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission Dear High Representative, In advance of the upcoming EU-GCC Ministerial Meeting we write to request that human rights form a significant part of your dialogue with your GCC counterparts. We specifically call on you to make unmistakably ...
Keep Reading »Academics Call on EU Commission to Exclude Israeli Companies from EU-Funded Research
![[Image from imemc.org]](/content_images/3/sm_Image-BDS-Symbols.jpg "[Image from imemc.org]")
[The following letter was issued by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to the EU Commisioner for Research, Innovation and Science on 10 July 2012. The letter was signed by 250 academics from over fourteen different countries, mainly in Europe but also inlcuding the United States and elsewhere. It urges the European Commission to take action to prevent Israeli arms companies and other companies involved in abuse of Palestinian human rights from ...
Keep Reading »BDS at 7: Celebrating, Reflecting, and Further Mainstreaming
![[Palestinian BDS National Committee Logo. Image from bdsmovement.net]](/content_images/3/sm_bds.jpg "[Palestinian BDS National Committee Logo. Image from bdsmovement.net]")
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian BDS National Committee on 9 July 2012.] Occupied Palestine, 9 July 2012 – Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of the world who ...
Keep Reading »Committee to Protect Journalists Condemns Recent Attacks on Palestinian Journalists
![[Protests in Front of PA Headquarters in Ramallah. Image from Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_negotiationsprotestramallah.png "[Protests in Front of PA Headquarters in Ramallah. Image from Flickr]")
[The following statement was issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists on 2 July 2012.] The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned attacks by Palestinian security forces on at least four journalists who were covering protests against the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah on Saturday and Sunday, according to news reports. "Palestinian journalists have a right and a duty to document demonstrations," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Short Papers on Youth Movements for Social Change / Youth Organizations (25 July Deadline)
![[Berkman Center for Internet and Society logo. Image from Google Images]](/content_images/3/sm_berkmanlogo.png "[Berkman Center for Internet and Society logo. Image from Google Images]")
The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series Submissions due 25 July Boston Published by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is delighted to announce a Call for Papers for The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series (danah boyd and John Palfrey, editors) presented by the Berkman Center and the Born This Way Foundation, and supported by the ...
Keep Reading »Human Rights Watch Calls for Due Process for Detained Libyan Ex-Prime Minister
![[Former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi. Image from Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_libyapic.png "[Former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi. Image from Wikimedia Commons]")
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 6 July 2012.] The Libyan authorities have yet to bring former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi before a judge or inform him of the charges against him though he was extradited from Tunisia on 24 June, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting al-Mahmoudi in his prison cell in Tripoli. Al-Mahmoudi said that he had not suffered any abuse during his detention in Libya, but that he had been ...
Keep Reading »Bio
These are articles, reports, stories, statements or emails sent to Jadaliyya for the purpose of dissemination. Sometimes, they include images and videos of on-the-ground situations. They do not necessarily reflect the point of view of Jadaliyya editors.
©2010-2013 by the Arab Studies Institute. All Rights Reserved. info@jadaliyya.com
site by concepcion design