Jadaliyya Reports

Video of Sunday's Attack on March to Maspero & Aftermath

[The following footage was shot by Sarah Carr and edited by Mostafa Hussein.] The below video shows the march at its beginning in Shubra, the first attack at the Shubra underpass, and the final assault by the army at Maspero, where protesters were shot and crushed by APCs. The video includes GRAPHIC scenes of the dead, and concludes with the funeral in the Abbaseyya Cathedral the next day.  

Call for Global Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners (12 October 2011)

Many Palestinians and their supporters will go on a mass hunger strike worldwide for 24 hours on Wednesday, October 12.

 Show your support by tweeting the following: Join Us! RT: My name is ( ) and I'll go on a hunger Strike on Wednesday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Follow the strike on on twitter: #TweepStrike & #HS4Palestine #RightsPrisoners #HungerStrike

 In some cities those going on hunger strike will organize gatherings and sit ins to raise ...

Israeli International Festivals: Occasions for Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it?

[The following is the latest from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).] Israeli International Festivals: Occasions for Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it? While cultural talks go on] in the nice cinematheques of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, it is hell on earth in Gaza and I would not want to be there basically. [1]--Mike Leigh Once again, the Israeli cultural establishment is attempting to put itself on the ...

Cartoons: Carlos Latuff on Egypt

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

[The following statement was issued on 29 September 2011 by the NYC General Assembly.] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that ...

Chart: Ratio of Pay Between CEOs and Workers in Various Countries

[The following table illustrates the pay separation between the average worker and CEO in various countries. It was originally published on The Middle of the Road.]    

Report on Jadaliyya's Conference on Teaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

Introduction “Teaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions…Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Neoliberalism,” a conference sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, and by the Arab Studies Institute (which includes Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya), brought together forty participants for an intense conversation on 13-14-May 2011 at ...

Statement by Bahraini Medics Sentenced on 29th September 2011

[The following statement was issued by Bahraini medics in Arabic and English on 29 September 2011. It was recently published on Bahrain Online.] 

Statement by Bahraini Medics sentenced on 29th September 2011: On September 29, 2011, a group of 20 Medics was sentenced in the Bahrain National Safety Court, a military court, to between five and 15 years in prison each. During the times of unrest in Bahrain, we honored our medical oath to treat the wounded and save lives. And ...

Statement on Press Restrictions in Jordan's New Anti-Corruption Bill

[The following statement was issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists on 30 September 2011.] New York, September 30, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is disheartened by the passage in Jordan's lower chamber of Parliament of a draft anti-corruption law which would allow heavy fines for publishing information on corruption, and calls on the upper chamber to reject the bill.  On September 27, the chamber of deputies passed the draft law, which would ...

Statement by OWFI President on Kidnapping and Torture of Aya Al Lamie

[The following statement was issued in English on 30 September 2011 by the president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) as a Facebook note.] 20 Year Old OWFI Activist Aya Al Lamie: Kidnapped from Tahrir Square and Tortured Although the numbers of demonstrators became much less in the Iraqi Tahrir square, Aya Al Lamie insisted to join the demonstrators every Friday of the last months. She insisted to put a woman's face on the Tahrir ...