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The End of an Era: The Less than Grand Opening of the New Ottoman Archives
![[Main gate of the old Ottoman Archive, 11 March 2013. Photo by Michael Christopher Low.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2013-04-25at8.58.46AM.png "[Main gate of the old Ottoman Archive, 11 March 2013. Photo by Michael Christopher Low.]")
[The following status update on the new Ottoman Archive Center in Kağıthane was written by Patrick Adamiak, Jeffery Dyer, and Michael Christopher Low.] For generations, historians of the Ottoman Empire and its former territories in the Balkans and the Arab Middle East participated in a rite of passage linking them to the Ottoman bureaucrats they studied. Going to work at the Ottoman Archives (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi) entailed the humbling experience of passing through the famous gates at Bab-ı Ali, or as it came to be known in the West, the Sublime Porte. During Ottoman times, Bab-ı Ali housed the offices of the Grand Vizier and the heart of the Ottoman bureaucracy. ...
Keep Reading »NEWTON Author Nergis Ertürk Receives MLA First Book Prize
We are very happy to report that Nergis Ertürk, whose book Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey was featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) in 2012, is the recipient of the Nineteenth Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. She will receive the award, together with the other winners of 2012 MLA publication prizes, on 5 January at the 2013 Annual MLA Convention in Boston. This gives us the opportunity to congratulate four other 2012 NEWTON authors who were also awarded major prizes for their books: Rochelle Davis, whose book Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced was a co-winner of the 2011 Albert Hourani Book Award, ...
Keep Reading »Tadween Publishing Joins The Jadaliyya Community Today
Tadween Publishing is a new kind of publishing house that seeks to institutionalize a new form of knowledge production. A subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute, Tadween aims both to publish critical texts and to interrogate the existing processes and frameworks through which knowledge is produced. Specifically, Tadween is dedicated to four fundamental goals: To join the current that challenges the monopoly of the mainstream publishing world by expanding and deepening the notion of what is publication-worthy; To offer readers thoroughly interactive products that bring the benefits of technology to refined ...
Keep Reading »Bidayat: New Beginnings for All Seasons of Change
![[Cover of the Winter/Spring issue of Bidayat.]](/content_images/3/sm_jscreen-capture-4.jpg "[Cover of the Winter/Spring issue of Bidayat.]")
[The following article was translated from Arabic to English by Mark Marshall and Assaf Kfoury.] The idea for this journal emerged from our growing desire to be present and take an active role in the development and reinvigoration of an agenda for the Left in the Arab world. The final impetus for this journalistic venture was the outbreak of the popular Arab revolutions, with all the new beginnings that they contain and inspire. We believe that despite the inundation of “social networks” and the tyranny of the electronic media, there is still a place for periodical publications. That place lies somewhere on the continuum between the intellectual “fast food” that is ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya's New (and super user-friendly) iPad App is Here!
Finally, after months of tweaking to incorporate all pages, sections, and sidebars, we are happy to announce the new Jadaliyya iPad App! And, آًكيد, it's free, and includes our expanded Arabic section or, as Fouad Ajami says, عarabic section. Previously, you had to access Jadaliyya via the tiny iPhone App on the iPad. Not only is the App in full resolution today, but it actually covers all Jadaliyya content and pages, divided into rows of pages that you can flick through. Once you land on a page/post, and finish, just flick to the left with your finger to get to the next post, or click the drop-down menu above to go to another page/section altogether. You can ...
Keep Reading »Fall 2012 Internships At ASI
The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) is now offering new internship opportunities that involve training and production at various levels in one of ASI’s five organizations: Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs, Quilting Point, and Tadween Publishing (launching soon!). The internships offered are in several areas, but we are particularly looking for the following: Area (A): Research and Administrative Assistant (with Database Management Skills) Area (B): Video Editors (with knowledge of Final Cut Pro) Area (C): Graphic Designer/Artist (Mac User with Photoshop skills or equivalent) Area (D): Media ...
Keep Reading »Summer 2012 Internships at Jadaliyya/Arab Studies Institute
The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) is now offering new internship opportunities that involve training and production at various levels in one of ASI’s four organizations: Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, (FAMA) Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs, and Quilting Point. The internships offered are in several areas, but we are particularly looking for the following: Area (A): Research and Administrative Assistant (with Database Management Skills) Area (B): Video Editors (with knowledge of Final Cut Pro) Area (C): Graphic Designer/Artist (Mac User with Photoshop skills or equivalent) Area (D): Media and Social ...
Keep Reading »Arab Studies Journal Announces New Issue and Call for Papers
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Jadaliyya’s sister organization, Arab Studies Journal, marks with this Spring 2012 issue the passage of twenty years since the founding of Arab Studies Journal. In 1992, our editors prepared the first issue for publication at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Eight years later, in 2000, the journal became a fully peer-reviewed publication. By 2002, ASJ was operating its book review section out of New York University. This coming spring in 2013, we will be producing our official anniversary issue, exactly two decades after our first edition appeared. (Visit our website for updates: www.ArabStudiesJournal.org.) This issue features ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report Spring 2012
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PULL OF THE POSSIBLE Are the upheavals in the Arab world revolutions? Uprisings? Perhaps all such terms are misnomers, in that they imply an end point to processes that may not have a terminus. Regimes may fall or stand; movements may sputter or succeed in establishing a more democratic system. It often seems as if there are two parallel universes, one of revolution and one of retrenchment, which periodically collide with varying degrees of violence. The key, as argued in the spring 2012 issue of Middle East Report, “Pull of the Possible,” is that the status quo ante cannot be restored. John Chalcraft searches through critical social theory to ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: MENA Regional Program Director (Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO)
![[Solidarity Center logo. Image from job announcement.]](/content_images/3/sm_solidaritycenterjob.jpg "[Solidarity Center logo. Image from job announcement.]")
The Solidarity Center, founded in 1997 by the AFL-CIO to tackle the enormous challenges workers face in the global economy, now works with union and community group partners in more than 60 countries through a network of 26 field offices. This not-for-profit organization offers education, training, research, legal support, and organizing assistance to help build strong and effective trade unions and other worker organizations and more just and equitable societies. Its programs promote democratic rights and respect for workers; raise public awareness about abuses of the world’s most vulnerable workers; and, above all, help the world’s workers secure a voice in their ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches O.M.A.R. Page: On Media and Reporting
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Jadaliyya is hereby launching its new On Media and Reporting (O.M.A.R.) page. You can access the page here. We will soon be issuing a Call for Reports/Papers/Interviews/Videos that address reporting on the region. This effort is intended to analyze critically the lenses through which the region and various related topics/parts are portrayed/represented/reported in all media, locally, regionally, and globally, with emphasis on the media in the Mlddle East, Europe, and the United States. We are accepting submissions at post@jadaliyya.com. Our first bouquet of articles addresses, among other topics, blogging in the Arab Gulf, the media in Egypt after the revolution, ...
Keep Reading »Arab Studies Institute (ASI) Announces Internship Opportunities
The Arab Studies Institute (ASI), Jadaliyya's parent organization, is now offering four new internship opportunities that involve training and production at various levels in one of ASI’s four organizations: Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs, and Quilting Point. The internships offered are in the following areas: Research Associate Editors (Text and/or Video) Designers/Graphic Artists Media and Social Media Management [Knowledge of, or proficiency in, Arabic is preferable for some positions] ASI is looking for candidates who are self-motivated, prone to collaborative efforts, and eager to develop their skills in a ...
Keep Reading »Spring 2013 Internships at ASI . . . Now Available!
The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) is now offering new internship opportunities that involve training and production at various levels in one of ASI’s five organizations: Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs, Quilting Point, and Tadween Publishing. The internships offered are in several areas, but we are particularly looking for the following: Area (A): Research (with writing Skills) Area ...
Keep Reading »Tadween Blog Comes To Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya's sister organization, Tadween Publishing, launched recently (see announcement here). Tadween is a new kind of publishing house that seeks both to produce knowledge and to scrutinize the process of knowledge production. It will produce thoroughly interactive publications in both hard-copy and e-book formats, and its content will be disproportionately geared towards pedagogy and the classroom. As part of the new Tadween project, we are happy to announce the discussion forum Tadween Blog, ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Photography Page
With this bouquet of articles and photo essays, Jadaliyya is hereby launching a Photography Page. The Photography Page aims to provide a space for reflection on photography in its various forms and uses in the Middle East. We showcase the work of photographers active in the region and cultivate critical thinking about photographic practices, representations, and history. The page publishes photo essays, articles, interviews, reviews and more. It also provides information on photographic archives, ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya's First Book is Now Available from Pluto Press
Jadaliyya Co-Editors are excited to announce the release of The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of An Old Order?, published by Pluto Press. This book is the first publication produced by the Arab Studies Institute, co-edited by Jadaliyya Editors, and featuring Jadaliyya contributors. The volume is currently available in paperback and Kindle format at these and other locations: In the US: Macmillan and Amazon US In the UK: Pluto Press and Amazon UK ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Celebrates Its Two-Year Anniversary
Jadaliyya completes its second year today. In trying to keep up with events and expectations, we slept even fewer hours during this year. We are happy to do it all over again, at least for a few decades. There is so much to keep up with, so we will not write much here. Suffice it to say that we really (really) appreciate the support of our readers who made Jadaliyya what it is. With nearly zero advertising, our content travelled the globe on a daily basis. It was emailed, tweeted, facebooked, tumblred, ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report Fall 2012
PIVOT, REBALANCE, RETRENCH A 2011 poll of Washington savants found that, Democrat and Republican, most of them view the Middle East as declining in strategic value in relation to Asia and the Pacific. On cue, the Obama administration rolled out its plan to “pivot” to Asia in deploying the US Navy and investing diplomatic energy. It turns out, however, that a major reason for this “rebalancing” is to police China’s access to the Indian Ocean and, from there, the Persian Gulf. Is US grand strategy really ...
Keep Reading ». . . مرايا تبحث عن محررين
تبحث شركة لافانت لابوراتوريز{مختبرات المشرق}، الناشرة لمجلة شهرية فكرية جديدة مستلهمة من الربيع العربي، عن محررين في مجالات الاقتصاد والأخبار وشبكة الإنترنت لمكاتبها في بيروت ولندن. على المتقدمين أن يكونوا متمكنين من اللغة العربية، ويفضل المتخرجين حديثاً من الجامعة. وأن يكونوا مهتمين بقضايا المواطنة والعدالة الاجتماعية وهي أسس المجلة. الرواتب مغرية في محيط عمل تقدمي ومنفتح وحيوي. على المهتمين إرسال سيرة مهنية كاملة مع رسالة تقديم و نموذج من كتاباتهم أو بورتفوليو إلى العنوان التالي: ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Revamps Arabic Section
Jadaliyya has revamped its Arabic section and reappears today with a bouquet of posts that reflect, in their variety and their approach, the open, critical and ambitious space Jadaliyya established more than a year and a half ago for writers and readers alike. Our bouquet reflects our trajectory as we move forward: Ibtisam Azem interviews Lebanese novelist Huda Barakat Nasser Rabat writes about the history and politics of public squares in the Arab world. Brahim ElGuabli contemplates Ibn Rushd’s ...
Keep Reading »Anthony Shadid Is No Longer with Us
Anthony was a dear friend and colleague to so many of us at Jadaliyya. We are shocked and devastated by this loss. We have very little to say at this point, except to offer our deepest condolences to his family. Jadaliyya Editors From the New York Times (Thursday Evening): At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East ...
Keep Reading »New Year's Bouquet
2012 begins with another cultural nosegay of winter flowers: * Another installation of Hamdy El-Gazzar's series of short stories on the Egyptian revolution, translated by Nancy Linthicum. * Four poems by Joyce Mansour, translated by Gaelle Raphael * An excerpt from Tarek Eltayyeb's novel The Palm House, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. * An excerpt from Kamel Riahi's novel Gorilla, translated by Elliott Colla. * Four poems by Hussein Habasch, translated by Sinan Antoon. * Part ...
Keep Reading »Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya needs captivating photographs of the Arab world. As a primarily volunteer ezine, Jadaliyya depends on the solidarity and generosity of friends and supporters. We need your help now! Tens of thousands of unique viewers a month will see your work if you choose to let us display your photos under a Creative Commons license. Your name and bio will appear on the Contributors Page with a link to your website or photo feed. Whenever a photo of yours is used it will be credited to you, with your ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers - Language Change and Gender Discourse(s) in the MENA Region: The Case of e-Arabic (Sfax University 12-14 April 2012)
Call for Papers Language change and gender discourse(s) in the MENA region: the case of e-Arabic Sfax University, Tunisia (12-14 April 2012) Deadlines: Abstracts on the 15th January 2012 The Arab Revolutions have accentuated and sometimes exaggerated the role of social media (Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube) and satellite television (Al-Jazeera) in the MENA region. Among Western analysts, some have spoken West’s failure to predict the Arab revolutions, which recalls the old Orientalist ...
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