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Call to National and European MPs: For an Audit of Tunisia's Debts to the EU
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[The following statement was issued on 16 March 2012 by a diverse group of European parliamentarians calling for an audit of Tunisia's debt to the European Union.] With dictator Ben Ali ousted from power since 14 January 2011, Tunisia bears the burden of a public external debt amounting to $14.4 bn, which is a major obstacle to the development of the Tunisian people since repayment (capital plus interests) drains on an average an annual sum 6 times larger than the health ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Real Democracy and the Revolutions of Our Time (Loughborough University, 3-5 September 2012)
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Call for Proposals for the "Real Democracy and the Revolutions of Our Time" Sessions 2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference: "Making Connections" Loughborough University, United Kingdom, 3-5 September 2012 Not since the 1960s has there been such global interest in the prospects and possibilities of revolution. From the Middle East to the metropolises of Europe, South Asia, and the Americas, large number of people have taken to the streets in ...
Keep Reading »Dallying with Reform in a Divided Jordan
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[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Jordan.] Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (IX): Dallying with Reform in a Divided Jordan Middle East Report No. 118 12 March 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Something is brewing in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is not so much that protests have been spreading since 2011; the country has experienced these before and so far they remain relatively small. It is, rather, who is behind ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: 1962, A World (Oran, Algeria, 14-16 October 2012)
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Call for Papers: 1962, A World
Oran, Algeria
14–16 October 2012
Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2012
The symbolic and exemplary resonance of Algeria’s independence escapes the limits of either Algerian or French history. The interdisciplinary colloquium “1962, A World”
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Reel Syria 2012: Festival of Syrian Films, Music, and Theater (London & Edinburgh, 15-18 March 2012)
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At a time when Syria appears engulfed in violent conflict, the Reel Syria Festival will present a nuanced portrait of the country and its people. On the anniversary of the uprising, Mosaic Initiative for Syria will also raise funds for Syrians displaced and affected by the current violent crackdown. Highlights of the festival include a Syrian film programme as part of DoxBox Syria Global Day 2012, including a screening of ‘A Flood in Ba’ath Country’ directed by ...
Keep Reading »Faculty Petition on NYPD Failure of Leadership
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Updated: Over Four Hundred Faculty Nationwide Call for NYPD Commissioner’s Resignation Today, more than four hundred faculty from across the country wrote to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, adding theirs to a multitude of voices calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Brown to step down. A response to the NYPD’s over-reaching and indiscriminate surveillance of Muslim student associations along the Northeast seaboard, this is the ...
Keep Reading »"Why Don't We Dialogue?" Walk Out on IDF Presentation at UCLA (Video)
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On Tuesday, 28 February 2012, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA organized a Gaza memorial as part of its annual Palestine Awareness Week. In response, Bruins for Israel and StandWithUs invited IDF soldiers to campus to present a whitewashed version of the IDF's actions in Operation Cast Lead, the 2008-2009 assault on the Gaza Strip which resulted in over 1,400 casualties and, to date, no accountability for documented war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. ...
Keep Reading »House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East
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Anthony Shadid has been widely hailed as the best foreign correspondent of his generation. For Arab Americans, he was much more than that. How many times did we send one of Anthony's dispatches from Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Libya or Syria to our friends so that they might ...
Keep Reading »Lecture on Arab Uprisings by Fawwaz Traboulsi at AUB's Issam Fares Institute
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As part of its Arab Uprisings Lecture Series, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs recently hosted Fawwaz Trabulsi. In his presentation, entitled: “Revolutions Also Topple Ideas: How the Uprisings Shattered the Prevailing Political Constructs of the Arab world,” Traboulsi critically reviewed how the uprisings have called into question the main concepts that have dominated intellectual production and public practices in the Arab ...
Keep Reading »In a Different Light (Nazareth, 16 February - 6 March 2012)
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The opening of ‘In a Different Light’, a photography exhibition by Katie Ramadan, will be at the Sudfeh Gallery-Restaurant in Nazareth on Thursday, February 16 2012, from 8-11pm. The exhibition includes thirty photographs broken into eight separate series. The aesthetic flow of the series, meaningful and exciting to the eye, includes explorations of the home, public spaces and individuality. Curated by Walid Mawed, the exhibition is sponsored by Sudfeh ...
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