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Syrian Local Coordinating Committees on Taking Up Arms and Foreign Intervention
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[The following statement was issued by the Local Coordinating Committees in Syria on Monday August 29, 2011, on their Facebook page.] Statement to the Syrian People: In an unprecedented move over the past several days, Syrians in Syria and abroad have been calling for Syrians to take up arms, or for international military intervention. This call comes five and a half months of the Syrian regime’s systematic abuse of the Syrian people, whereby tens of thousands of peaceful protesters have been detained and tortured, and more than 2,500 killed. The regime has given every indication that it will continue its brutal approach, while the majority of Syrians feel they are ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: James Gelvin, "The Modern Middle East" and "The Arab Uprisings"
James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write The Modern Middle East: A History originally, and what led you to work on this revised and updated edition? James Gelvin: Oxford originally suggested I do the book and I agreed immediately. It was something I had been thinking of doing anyway. Although the book is published by Oxford's textbook division, it is actually an expanded analytic essay that situates modern Middle ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Saadia Toor, "The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan"
Saadia Toor, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan. London and New York: Pluto Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Saadia Toor: I felt compelled to write this book because of the increasingly disturbing discourse on Pakistan in the West, both within the media and within academia. There is a mixture of incomprehension and hawkishness in this discourse when it comes to Pakistan, which is extremely dangerous given the increasing extension of the US/NATO war in Afghanistan into Pakistan. I believe that the ease with which even anti-war liberals (and sometimes Leftists) support, explicitly or implicitly, the covert war in Pakistan ...
Keep Reading »Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Legal Opinion on Palestinian Statehood Bid
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[The following legal opinion on the Palestine statehood bid was issued by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on August 10, 2011.] Opinion Re The Palestine Liberation Organization, the future State of Palestine, and the question of popular representation By Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford--Barrister Introduction I been asked for my opinion on certain issues relating to popular representation (that is, the representation of the views of the Palestinian people) which may arise incidentally to the current proposal to seek recognition of the State of Palestine and observer status for the State in the United Nations. This ...
Keep Reading »For Syria, What is "Left?" (Part 1)
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It is a concrete rationale that fuels opposition to Israel’s apartheid regime and the United States’ duplicitous and violent policies in the Middle East. It is a concrete rationale that imbues the condemnation of and struggle against authoritarian rule in the Arab world. It is a concrete rationale that inspires and necessitates the support of resistance to all the above. This rationale is an expression of the most basic forms of moral and political principles. It is this reasoning that must apply to the brutal suppression of the Syrian uprising. But part of the leftist camp in the region, specifically in Lebanon, faces the unfolding bloodiness of the Syrian scene with a ...
Keep Reading »Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamaphobia Network
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[Below is the latest from the Center for American Progress on Islamaphobia in the United States.] Fast Facts on the Islamophobia Network This in-depth investigation conducted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund reveals not a vast right-wing conspiracy behind the rise of Islamophobia in our nation but rather a small, tightly net- worked group of misinformation experts guiding an effort that reach- es millions of Americans through effective advocates, media partners, and grassroots organizing. This spreading of hate and misinformation primarily starts with five key people and their organizations, which are sustained by funding from a clutch of key ...
Keep Reading »J14: The Exclusive Revolution
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The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as “part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” “All the means we need, we ourselves must create them, like Robinson Crusoe on his island,” Herzl told an interviewer in 1898. The Labor Zionist movement’s chief ideologue, Berl Katznelson, was more blunt than Herzl, declaring in 1928, “The Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of conquest.” More recently, and perhaps most crudely, former Prime Minister and current ...
Keep Reading »رحلة الموت إلى الفردوس المفقود
يعملون أربع عشرة ساعة يومياً. ويملؤهم الخوف من أن تلقي الشرطة القبض عليهم فلا يتركهم ويصبح هذا الخوف أكثر أصدقائهم وفاءً لهم. ويقولون عبر سماعة الهاتف لأمهاتهم إن كل شيء على ما يرام وإنهم وجدوا الجنة المفقودة. إنهم المهاجرون الأجانب الذين يعيشون في إوروبا بصورة "غير شرعية". ولا تعرفهم من أين أتوا بالأسماء! هل هي التي تناديهم بها أمهاتهم أم أنها أسماء اختاروها لتساعدهم على الفرار من الشرطة يقومون بتبديلها كلما بدلوا مكان عملهم. هذه المواضيع وغيرها مما يتعلق بحياة المهاجرين "غير الشرعيين" في أوربا وتحديداً في ألمانيا هي هاجس المخرج مهدي معين زاده في مسرحيته "غير شرعي". ومعين زاده (م. 1978) من أصول إيرانية وجاء مع والديه إلى ألمانيا ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Gilbert Achcar on the Libyan Rebels
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This is an interview conducted with Gilbert Achcar on Wednesday, August 24, in regards to news of the Libyan rebels entering Tripoli. The interview addresses the events surrounding this development, highlighting the dynamics of the NATO intervention and discussing the identities and interests that make up the rebel forces. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. Libyan rebels have consolidated their grip on the capital of Tripoli by capturing Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound, but the whereabouts of the Libyan leader remain unknown, and he has vowed his forces would resist "the aggression with all strength" until either victory or death. ...
Keep Reading »A Light Bulb
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Last summer, I posted a piece about electricity outages in Lebanon. In the year that separates that article from this one, one March 14 led Lebanese government has been brought down and another March 8 led government has been formed. Popular uprisings have swelled the Arab world with possibility as Ben Ali, Mubarak, and now Gaddhafi were overthrown. The US-Saudi-Israeli mix and match trifecta has seen its influence waning, and is leading counterrevolutions in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria. Lebanon’s response to the Syrian uprising has easily mapped into the old political divisions of March 14 and March 8, but it has also been the impetus behind an ongoing ...
Keep Reading »An Old Regime in New Sudan: Politics After Secession
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The government of Sudan is entering into a period of extreme instability. When the newly independent country of South Sudan seceded from the north on 9 July, it left behind a political and economic system on the verge of collapse. Many of the same conditions that prevailed in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya on the eve of their popular protests are present in Sudan as well, including rising commodity prices, high unemployment, and spectacular examples of official corruption. President Omar al-Bashir is deeply unpopular in many parts of the country, and as the economy slows he will find it increasingly difficult to pay the wages of the country’s bloated security ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Mohammad R. Salama, "Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History"
Mohammad R. Salama, Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun. London and New York: I. B Tauris, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Mohammad Salama: There were a few reasons that compelled me to write this book. First, I am a Muslim who has been living in the US since the September 11 attacks, and I have witnessed the dire consequences of those events on personal and public levels. After so much misinformation about Muslims and Islam invaded the public sphere and was unfortunately widely believed, I felt that it was urgent to address the roots and history of Islamophobia so that the reader ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: The Back to School Edition
Just in time for the new semester, we are happy to present a series of eminently teachable texts in the latest edition of NEWTON: James Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History and The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims Saadia Toor, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan We hope that the author interviews and excerpts from these texts, together with the others we have featured thus far in New Texts ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Stephen Sheehi, "Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims"
Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Stephen Sheehi: Undoubtedly, the assault on decency, sanity, and justice under the Bush regime inspired the book at the most immediate level. More compelling than the neocon-Vulcan agenda, however, was how, when one looks at it structurally (beyond the veneer of its rhetoric), one sees only how it activated the racist unconscious of the American ...
Keep Reading »John Quigley Critique of Goodwin-Gill Legal Opinion on Palestine Statehood Bid
[The following critique by John Quigley was issued on August 28, 2011, in response to a legal opinion by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on the Palestine statehood bid at the United Nations.] To: Interested parties From: John Quigley Re: Legal Opinion of Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on the representation issue Date: August 28, 2011 The Goodwin-Gill legal opinion provides no sound basis for not pursuing any of the initiatives ...
Keep Reading »A Note on the Palestinian Diplomatic Initiative at the United Nations (UN)
[The following statement was issued by a group of Palestinians on August 29, 2011.] A note on the Palestinian diplomatic initiative at the United Nations (UN) Your excellences, The chairman and members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Leaders of Palestinian political parties and factions Leaders of Palestinian trade unions and NGOs Emphasizing the importance of the Palestinian diplomatic initiative at the UN, and in order for it to ...
Keep Reading »Interview with Ali Ahmida, Gilbert Achcar, and David Smith on Situation in Libya
AUDIO PLAYER BELOW The fall of Qaddafi's Tripoli to Libyan rebels has raised a host of new questions and intensified existing debates about the nature and fate of the Libyan uprising. As the peaceful uprising in Libya shifted towards an open rebellion in the face of a violent response by Qaddafi's regime, various calls for intervention by the Libyan people mobilized and polarized world powers, solidarity activists, and everyday observers as to the nature and legitimacy of the Transitional National ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Statehood Blocked: Equality Struggle Ahead
As the start of the UN General Assembly's 66th Session quickly approaches, it seems that "statehood" has sucked the air out of every room where Palestine is discussed. Worse, in Washington, where the Obama Administration has taken a firm stance against the UN approach, the statehood bid is seen as a radical move. President Obama's planned veto of Palestinian statehood in the UN Security Council will affirm what Palestinians and their Israeli counterparts already know: the de facto ...
Keep Reading »The Politics of Royal Pluralism in Jordan
While the people have demanded the fall of their regimes in streets and squares across the Arab world this year, those regimes have offered a persistent, if predictable, reply: “the people just aren’t ready for us to go yet.” This accusation of unpreparedness has taken a few different forms in different contexts: “The people are too sectarian” (Bahrain and Syria); “too tribal” (Libya and Yemen); “too Islamist” (Egypt, Libya, Syria); “too underdeveloped,” “too radical” “too violent,” “too weak and ...
Keep Reading »Sudan: Slippery Slope
After three months of conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, the Sudanese authorities on 23 August declared a temporary ceasefire. This was despite the failure two days earlier of another round of peace talks between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army – North (SPLM/A-N)1 and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Given the deep mistrust between the parties and the rampant militarization of the area, the fighting could well resume over the coming weeks. The initial phase of ...
Keep Reading »Religious Liberty, Minorities, and Islam: An Interview with Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, ethics and politics, agency and freedom. Her book Politics of Piety, a study of a grassroots women’s piety movement in Cairo, questions the analytical and political claims of feminism as well as the secular liberal assumptions on the basis of which such movements are often judged. In the volume Is ...
Keep Reading »Whitey on the Moon
On numerous occasions this past month, I’ve been asked my opinion on the “social justice” protests in Israel. There is much bellowing beneath my short “shu bi‘a`rifni” (hell if I know). Some believe that literature and storytelling convey truth better than facts; accordingly, I will use the words of two late and missed writers Mahmoud Darwish and Gil Scott-Heron to express why many are uninspired by the 14 July movement. Gil Scott-Heron sang the poem Whitey on the Moon in 1970 responding to Neil ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Nadine Naber, "Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism"
Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press (Nation of Newcomers Series), forthcoming in 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Nadine Naber: As part of my work in Arab American Studies for the last fifteen years, this book is, in part, an internal critique of my own field and much of my own previous scholarship. Most Arab American Studies research—important and necessary as it is—has taken one of two approaches. First and foremost, ...
Keep Reading »The Suspicious Revolution: An Interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where he is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Distinguished indeed: with books like Genealogies of Religion and Formations of the Secular, as well as numerous articles, Asad’s work has been formative for current scholarly conversation about religion and secularity, stressing both global context and the ways in which their ...
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