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Thinking Citizenship in a Revolutionary Arab World: The Intransigence of Difference
![[The Perfect Arab Citizen. Illustration by Khalid Albaih]](/content_images/3/sm_5592776649_a46391463d.jpg "[The Perfect Arab Citizen. Illustration by Khalid Albaih]")
The ongoing Arab uprisings that began in Tunisia in late 2010 have demonstrated that citizenship in the Arab Middle East is a subject in need of much critical scholarship and intervention. Many scholars, working from an archive of political philosophy that begins with Rousseau's social contract, have assessed the Arab national project of producing citizens skeptically, as Suad Joseph has demonstrated. Moreover, there is tendency in political theory to view members of ...
Keep Reading »The Gendered Body Public: Egypt, Sexual Violence and Revolution
![[Women March to Tahrir; Image by Gigi Ibrahim]](/content_images/3/sm_cairowomengigi.jpg "[Women March to Tahrir; Image by Gigi Ibrahim]")
We must acknowledge, sit with, and address the sexual violence that has, is, and will occur in and around Tahrir Square. How do we do this work in a responsible and ethical manner that is in solidarity with Egypt's ongoing (and multiple) revolutions? How do we retain and respect political, economic, and social complexity in the face of the horrors of mass and public sexual assault? How to write when all you want to do is shout? Friday, 25 January 2013 was the second ...
Keep Reading »Translation of Statements Made by Minister of Electricity Gebran Bassile and MP Nayla Tueni
![[Minister Bassile and MP Tueni send telepathic messages to each other about important stuff]](/content_images/3/sm_4.png "[Minister Bassile and MP Tueni send telepathic messages to each other about important stuff]")
There are over 170,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon. These men, women, and children have come to Lebanon fleeing the ongoing and deteriorating violence in Syria. In addition, thousands of Palestinians have fled their refugee camps in Syria to brother camps in Lebanon. These people have no other place to go. Since arriving in Lebanon, Syrian and Palestinian refugees (it is worth noting that Palestinian refugees in Syria and in Lebanon have suffered multiple removals and ...
Keep Reading »Exile, Part One
![[Still number 72. Image by Randa Mirza]](/content_images/3/sm_airlplane.JPG "[Still number 72. Image by Randa Mirza]")
My mother's mother tongue is not Arabic. This singular fact shaped much of my life and my education in Lebanon. When she moved to Beirut, she had two children, and then me in her belly. She met a student named Maya and thought the name sounded beautiful and strange. She has not lived in the country in which she was born - the country in which her family lives, celebrates holidays, and has grown older - for over three decades now. This fact terrifies me. Prior to her moving ...
Keep Reading »From Gebran Bassil To Con Edison: Ten Lessons New Yorkers Can Learn From Beirutis About The Dark
![[Beirut Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Illustir. NY Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Reeve Jolliffe]](/content_images/3/sm_BeirutNY.png "[Beirut Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Illustir. NY Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Reeve Jolliffe]")
This week, Hurricane Sandy devastated large swaths of New York City's electrical grid, and almost a million city dwellers were left without power and/or water. With electricity gone and much of the city's infrastructure damaged, no internet or phone service was available. South of Thirty-fourth Street on the East and West sides, most stores were closed, and those that were open quickly ran out of supplies. People used their flashlights to scan the shelves of these stores, to ...
Keep Reading »What is a Car Bomb?
![[A Lebanese fire-fighter carries an injured boy from the scene of car bomb Achrafiyeh, Beirut. Hussein Malla/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_697094-lebanon-bomb.jpg "[A Lebanese fire-fighter carries an injured boy from the scene of car bomb Achrafiyeh, Beirut. Hussein Malla/AP Photo]")
It is surreal to wake up to news of a car bomb back home, now thousands of miles away. Immediately, the war-shaped body is both numb and preoccupied with images of death and destruction. The mind wanders and sutures the past, present, and future seamlessly. Phone calls, emails, and texts begin. The space between a call and its response seems immense, and the time it takes to hear from blood and choice family--particularly when they live or work or frequent the targeted ...
Keep Reading »#MuslimRage, #Propaganda, #Empire
![[Subway ad, still from Innocence of Muslims.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-10-06at10.39.07AM.png "[Subway ad, still from Innocence of Muslims.]")
I would like to address the ways in which paid advertisements recently mounted on the New York City public transportation system are connected to the release and circulation of the “Innocence of Muslims” video. Both are made legible through the now-hegemonic grammar of the War on Terror and an archive of Orientalist tropes and themes. It is that same grammar that scripts the protests and violence that erupted across Muslim majority states in reaction to the video (a reaction ...
Keep Reading »Beirut: Security, Surveillance, Navigation
![[Security Deployment, Beirut. Image by IsmailKupeli]](/content_images/3/sm_BeirutSecurity.jpg "[Security Deployment, Beirut. Image by IsmailKupeli]")
This essay was originally part of a collection of writing on the securitization of Beirut's landcape. In this publication, the proliferation of security measures was examined through the use of both mapping techniques and the narration of life as it is lived under these circumstances. Such a document serves as a call to all those who move through, and those who police, that lived space of the city, a space which is always already refracted through gendered, economic, ...
Keep Reading »ما هو الاستعمار الاستيطاني؟
![[الأجداد. الصورة من أرشيف الكاتبة]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-07-16at11.25.28AM.png "[الأجداد. الصورة من أرشيف الكاتبة]")
في أسبوع الرابع من تموز في كل عام تقريباً تقوم عائلتي برحلة الساعات الإثنتي عشرة من منزلهم في ميشيغان إلى مكان يسمونه "المزرعة". امتلكت أسرتي هذه الأرض منذ أن أنشئت محمية " قبيلة باد ريفر" على بحيرة سوبيرير بموجب معاهدة 1854 بين أوجيبوي والولايات المتحدة. تملك عائلتي وثائق تثبت حقها في الأرض التي تحاذي نبع بير، ولكن، وحسب نصوص المعاهدة، فإن الولايات المتحدة تحتفظ بالملكية الكاملة للأرض وقد قامت بتأجيرها للسكان الأصليين وورثتهم مدى الحياة، طالما أن هؤلاء ...
Keep Reading »What is Settler Colonialism?
Almost every year, for the week of the Fourth of July, my family makes the twelve-hour drive from their homes in Michigan to what they call their “farm.” The land has been in my family since the 1854 treaty between the Ojibwe and the United States created the Bad River Tribe Reservation on Lake Superior. My family has papers “proving” their rights to land that borders Bear Creek, but according to the treaty the US government retains ultimate ownership over the land and has ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. Maya is currently a Faculty Fellow and Director of Graduate Studies at the NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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