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Letter Concerning Revocation of Citizenship of 31 Bahraini Nationals
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[The following letter was written by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] 11 December 2012 His Excellency Lieutenant General Shaikh Rashid Al Khalifa Minister of the Interior Ministry of the Interior P.O. Box 13 Kingdom of Bahrain Your Excellency Shaikh Rashid, I write to you on behalf the Middle East Studies Association and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our deep concern over the revocation of citizenship on 7 November of thirty-one Bahraini nationals. We are especially concerned that this punishment was extended to academics, particularly to Professor Abdulhadi Khalaf. Dr. ...
Keep Reading »Citizenship and the New “State of Palestine”
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In his second attempt to obtain United Nations recognition of Palestine as a state, on 29 November 2012 Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas requested the General Assembly to accept the bid for non-member observer state status. An overwhelming majority of countries—138 of them—voted yes. The vote’s implications are largely symbolic for the time being, but it does mean that “Palestine” signifies the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967. Now, rather than “Palestine” signifying a nation, it can be considered an official state within the parameters of international law. The aftermath of the vote will demonstrate that even decades after most ...
Keep Reading »من القاهرة الجميلة - الجزء الأول
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أما عن القاهرة الجميلة؛ فيأبى قمرها السكون، ويظل يبعثُ لحاله، منذ عدة ليال، بصغار الميدان، لكسر صفاء عواء الكلاب في مدى المدينة الليلي الواسع. يملأ هؤلاء الصغار الشارع بالألوان؛ انتهى عصر اللون الزيتي والرمادي والبناطيل القماش. وفي الشارع الواحد؛ قد تجد عزاءاً فاخراً في مسجد عمر مكرم لميتٍ مات على سريره، زغاريط أمسية فرح في الحي المقابل، ورسّاماً ينقش على الحائط تحديد وجه شهيدٍ مات لتوه بإصابة رصاص في الدماغ. وبين ذلك وذاك، سائق توصيل طلبيات ”بيتزا هت“ يحاول جاهداً اختراق الغاز المسيل، لتوصيل البيتزا ساخنةً للحي على الجانب القريب. القاهرة كما ترى، لاتزال تدفئنا بصوتها في بوادئ الشتاء...وفي نهارها التالي، قد تغمي شمسها قليلاً، فتتماشى سماؤها مع غيام الغاز المسيل للدموع ...
Keep Reading »Joint Statement on the Revocation of Bahraini Citizenship from 31 People
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[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights on 7 November 2012.] The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their grave concern over the King of Bahrain’s decision to revoke Bahraini citizenship from thirty-one individuals. This move is reminiscent of past government crackdowns in the 1980s, when the past Emir, Salman bin Isa AlKhalifa, revoked the citizenship of a number of citizens. A cyber vigilante known by the twitter account @7areghum (which is reportedly linked to the Bahraini authorities) wrote the names of 31 ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Linda Herrera, Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt
Linda Herrera, “Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt.” Harvard Educational Review (Fall 2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Linda Herrera (LH): Schools once served as temples of citizenship education, but this is no longer the case. I came to the realization of the diminished role of schooling in the lives of young Egyptians during a visit to a public high school in 2006. I arrived at a school in the Delta in the middle of the day to interview teachers about curriculum reforms. What I found was a school populated by the teaching and administrative staff but without students! It turned out that with end of year exams ...
Keep Reading »ليلة المجزرة
[تعيد جدلية نشر هذه المادة بالإتفاق مع الكاتبة كشهادة على تبعات أحداث ”هبّة أكتوبر“ التي راح ضحيتها ١٣ فلسطينياً من الداخل عام 2000.] ابن بلدتي الذي لم يكن لي معك لقاء ولا معرفة سابقة، ولربما لم نكن لنلتق أبدا لو أن المجزرة لم تحدث،\ التقينا في مشفى رامبام- في حيفا، في البلدة التي أسكنها منذ سنوات. جمعتنا المجزرة وفرضت اللقاء. التقينا غريبين في مدينة غريبة. التقينا أبناء بلد في لحظة عجيبة. كان لقاؤنا سريعاً، للحظات. أنت حضرت "كشهيد" ابن حي بير الأمير حين خروجك من المشفى في طريقك إلى البيت الى الناصرة. وأنا ابنة حي الخانوق حضرت للمشفى بشعور بنت البلد، حضرت ومعي مشاعر الأم والأخت. أالزمن- قرابة الثانية بعد منتصف الليل- ليلة الغفران- ليلة الهجوم ...
Keep Reading »The Wine Festival at the Big Mosque in Bir el-Sabe
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Although the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Municipality and the local Islamic council eventually compromised and moved the tables selling wine at the Beer Sheva Wine Festival (see Adalah’s Letter to the AG: Stop the Wine Festival) outside of the Big Mosque courtyard, the festival created a general wave of angry reactions among the Arab public. Arab Palestinian politicians and the Arab League condemned the decision to hold the wine festival in the Mosque courtyard for the past several years. The issue received wide coverage in the local and international Arabic, Hebrew, and English media throughout the last month. However, disrespect for the Big Mosque must be seen in ...
Keep Reading »George Habash: A Profile From the Archives
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[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.] Name: George Known as: Habash Date of birth: 1926 Date of death: 2008 Name of wife: Hilda Habash Date of marriage: 1961 Children: Maysa/Luma Nationality: Palestine Academic degree: PhD in medicine Category: Politician Profession: Doctor- Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Nickname: ...
Keep Reading »Materialist Analysis in the Service of a Nationalist Thesis: Response to Interview with Tariq Tell on the Hirak Siyasi in Jordan
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[This article was written as a response to a recently published two-part interview with Tariq Tell on the history of state formation in Jordan and regime-society relations in the context of the Arab uprisings. Click here to read Tariq Tell's rejoinder to this response.] Political agitation and social dissidence have become daily occurrences in Jordan. Strikes, demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, denunciatory public statements, public property destruction episodes, altercations and violent clashes with the police and baltagiyya, and cabinet turnover: events such as these have become the daily staple of news coming from Jordan. All of this would qualify as a form of ...
Keep Reading »An Excerpt from The Penguin's Song by Hassan Daoud
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[Born in the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon in 1950, Hassan Daoud moved as a child to Beirut, though like so many Lebanese families, his retained strong links to the village and returned there every summer. Daoud was educated in Beirut and studied Arabic literature at university. He embarked on a career as a journalist and worked as a reporter throughout Lebanon’s civil war. From 1979-1988 he wrote for the daily al-Safir, and then joined the staff of the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat. He has focused on cultural reporting as well as on social issues. He is the editor of the ‘Nawafidh’ cultural supplement of the Beirut daily al-Mustaqbal. His work ...
Keep Reading »Imposition of National/Civil Service Requirement on Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel: An Overview of Political Party Positions
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In February 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court struck down the Tal Law, which for the last ten years afforded an exemption to the religious ultra-Orthodox from serving in the military or national/civil service. As the court found the law unconstitutional, the Knesset would not be able to renew the law in its current form. Following the decision, the Knesset formed a “Committee to Equalize the Burden,” headed by Knesset Member Yohanan Plesner (Kadima), to determine how to enlist all sectors of Israeli society, including Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, into army service and/or national civil service. Although the Plesner Committee did not directly recommend imposing ...
Keep Reading »أزمة اليمين في مصر: من مبارك إلى الإخوان
قد يكون من المبكر القطع بتوجه الإخوان الاقتصادي، وموقفهم النهائي من قضايا العدالة الاجتماعية والنمو والتوزيع ودور الدولة في الاقتصاد إذ أن البرلمان الذي حظيت فيه الجماعة بأكثرية نسبية كان قصير العمر كما أن الرئيس المنتخب محمد مرسي لم يقض أكثر من شهر فحسب في المنصب الجديد. بيد أنه بالإمكان الحديث عن الميول العامة والتصورات الحاضرة لدى جماعة الإخوان فيما يتعلق بالسياسات العامة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية من واقع برنامج حزب الحرية والعدالة التابع للجماعة ومشروع النهضة والبرنامج الانتخابي للرئيس مرسي. ولا شك فإن هذه الوثائق مضافاً إليها ما صدر من قرارات وقوانين ومشروعات قوانين عن البرلمان المنحل ومن الرئيس حديث الانتخاب تكشف لنا بشكل مبدئي ومبكر عن طبيعة الانحيازات الاجتماعية ...
Keep Reading »Signs of New Feminism? Promises of Morocco's February 20
The absence of established figures from feminist organizations is one of the most striking features of the 20 February movement in Morocco. Nevertheless, the movement shows modes of engagement with feminism, such as the call for gender equality and a practice of parity, which suggest that feminist discourse has not only penetrated the social imaginary of younger generations of activists, but also informed their practices. Signs of new gender arrangements were already visible in the first calls for ...
Keep Reading »الحياة الحزبية في مصر بعد الثورة ... بين الإنطلاق والتعثر
أخرجت ثورة 25 من يناير 2011 الحياة السياسية في مصر من حالة الإنسداد والجفاف، التي ألمّت بها طيلة العقود الماضية، وفتحت أبواب المشاركة السياسية أمام ملايين المصريين، لتدخل مصر مرحلة التحول الديمقراطي، التي تنتقل بموجبها من النظام السلطوي اللاديمقراطي، إلى النظام التعددي الديمقراطي، القائم على المشاركة، والمنافسة الديمقراطية، والتداول السلمي للسلطة، عبر الإنتخابات الحرة النزيهة. وتُعد عملية تأسيس الأحزاب السياسية، التي تعبر عن المرحلة الجديدة من أهم سمات هذه المرحلة، فما هي أهم ملامح التجربة الحزبية ...
Keep Reading »Conditions on Aid and the Politics of Development
It is mid-August and the heat in the eastern occupied West Bank is oppressive. The air is dry, wind whips up dust, and sand makes its way into the crevices of shoes, pores, and hair. The landscape is covered with settlement agricultural plantations, military outposts, and winding stretches of asphalt. In between this matrix of settlements and outposts are the stretches of makeshift Palestinian encampments – tin shacks and tents that look as though they would fly away with the slightest gust. Goats, ...
Keep Reading »Du « péril noir » au Maroc
La récente publication du numéro 998 de Maroc Hebdo, dont la première page titre « Le péril noir », a déclenché une vive polémique au Maroc et sur la toile. Si elle met à jour une réalité bien souvent tue, elle surprend aussi un pays qui a récemment affirmé son « unité forgée par la convergence de ses composantes arabo-islamique, amazighe et saharo-hassanie (…) nourrie et enrichie de ses affluents africain, andalou, hébraïque et méditerranéen. »[1] Une publication à resituer ...
Keep Reading »Joint Letter to Kuwaiti Emir on Bidun Rights
[The following letter was issued by Refugees International, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International on 27 September 2012.] His Highness Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah Al Diwan Al Amiri Seif Palace – Building 100 State of Kuwait Your Highness, We write to you regarding the more than 100,000 stateless residents of your country, commonly referred to as the Bidun. The legal, social, and economic vulnerability of the Bidun has long been a source of unease to our organizations and ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Conditions "More Brutal" Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker (Interview Transcript)
Alice Walker has been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palestinians. Last summer, she was one of the activists on the U.S. ship that attempted to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla aimed at challenging Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Alice Walker also serves on the jury of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international people’s tribunal created in 2009 to bring attention to the responsibility other states bear for Israel’s violations of international law. Walker describes her ...
Keep Reading »Nasser Weddady on Youth Protests in Mauritania and Social Media
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight prominent voices in and from the Middle East and North Africa.] Jadaliyya: What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting and Twitter? Nasser Weddady: The most gratifying aspect of Twitter for me is to get work done! The platform is a superb networking tool allowing users - if used right- to build new contacts all over the globe. So, more than once, I have ...
Keep Reading »Beirut: Security, Surveillance, Navigation
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, political dynamics. Initially, I had ...
Keep Reading »"استراتيجيات بديلة للنضال السياسي: من الأرض وحتى وثائق "التصور المستقبلي
في سنة 1964، وبعد محاولات متكررة وفاشلة للحصول على مصادقة قانونية في إسرائيل، قامت حركة الأرض بإرسال رسالة للأمم المتحدة تشرح من خلالها ضائقة المواطنين الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل وتطالب بتدخل المجتمع الدولي. بعد حوالي 40 عامًا، وفي حين بقيت معظم المشاكل على حالها، قررت مجموعات فلسطينية في إسرائيل أن تنشر وثائق تعرض السرد التاريخي لهم ومطالبهم بالحقوق الجماعية (هذه الوثائق تتضمن التصور المستقبلي للعرب الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل الصادر عن لجنة المتابعة العليا للجماهير العربية في إسرائيل ، مشروع الدستور الديمقراطي ...
Keep Reading »Seam Zones Turn 50,000 Palestinians into "Internally Stuck Persons"
Seam zones are sections of Palestinian land within the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) which fall between the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and the 1949 Armistice Line (The Green Line) and are therefore severed from the OPT. These swaths of land have been designated by Israel as closed military areas. Access to these isolated areas is controlled by an Israeli-controlled permit system thereby severely restricting Palestinian access to their lands. Statistics suggest that approximately 50,000 ...
Keep Reading »صواريخ ملونة لا تبعث على البهجة
أعشق الصواريخ الملونة التي تطلق في الهواء فتنير السماء. تبتسم شفتاي رغماً عني أينما كنت إذا ما رأيت صواريخ ملونة. أعرف صوتها جيداً، وأميزه وسط أي ضوضاء. يتحرك رأسي باتجاهها، وكأنما يجذبه مغناطيس للاتجاه الصحيح. غالباً أكون أول من يرى الصورايخ الملونة. أقفز فرحة في الهواء، وكأنني أود أن أصعد أنا أيضاً في اتجاه السماء لأمسك بهذه النجوم التي تتلألأ لثوان معدودة ثم تختفي. آلاف النجمات في تشكيلات متلألاة، متداخلة، ينفجر بعضها نوراً من داخل بعض. الصواريخ الملونة علامة من علامات الفرح التي تدخل على قلبي ...
Keep Reading »وقوع الغريب على نفسه
يحتل سؤال الهوية الشائك مساحة كبيرة في رواية 'سارق النوم: غريب حيفاوي' (دار الجمل) للكاتبة الفلسطينية المقيمة في برلين، ابتسام عازم. وتتبلور إشكاليات الهوية في العنوان الفرعي 'غريب حيفاوي'، والذي يطابق اسم الشخصية الرئيسية التي تسرد أحداث الرواية، والذي يحمل دلالات وأبعاداً رمزية يتردد صداها في زوايا النص وتفاصيله. فبينما تحيلنا مفردة 'حيفاوي' إلى ارتباط راسخ بالمكان والأرض والجغرافيا، فإن الأسم الأول، 'غريب، يذكرنا باغتراب الفرد ونفيه داخل الوطن الذي يعيش فيه على الهامش، لأن المتن تحتله دولة قامت وتقوم ...
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