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New Texts Out Now: Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ziad Fahmy: Growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, I experienced firsthand the marked difference between the modern standard Arabic (MSA) that I was taught in school and the colloquial Egyptian I spoke with my parents, relatives, and friends. In elementary school, I struggled with the complex grammar rules and regulations we had to learn, which had little relevance to the everyday language we spoke. Though I was obviously aware of the dissimilarity between fusha (classical Arabic) and ‘ammiyya ...
Keep Reading »الإخفاقات الأولى للحكومة الملتحية
كنا قد حللنا في مقال سابق الظروف التي فاز فيها حزب العدالة والتنمية بالانتخابات في المغرب بموازاة تحليلنا التاريخي لنشأة الأحزاب المشكلة للتحالف الحكومي الحالي، إذ بحثنا في الظروف التاريخية لولادتها وعرجنا على مشاربها الفكرية والإيديولوجية—إذا كان فعلا ممكنا الحديث عن إيديولوجية حزبية لدى هذه الأحزاب—في ظل نظام سياسي مؤسس الطاعة والولاء في إطار البيعة "التي تطوق أعناق المغاربة"، فتوصلنا في نهاية التحليل إلى أن المخزن المغربي لن يسمح ببروز قوة سياسية تنافسه في شرعيته السلطوية، كما أن شرعيته الدينية في مأمن لأن إمارة المؤمنين تقف سدا منيعا دون أي تغيير في هذا الإطار. بفضل إمارة المؤمنين تستطيع الملكية القضاء على كل من شق عصا الطاعة بالاستناد إلى ...
Keep Reading »خواطر في الربيع السوري: من العبث إلى الرجاء
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هو شخص ممزق مسكين، تطرده الشرطية فيشعل النار في جسده! هو حالة من فيض اليأس في وجود من اللامعنى. هو البوعزيزي كظاهرة عبثية وجدت في العدم خلاصاً! لكن، لم يتسنَ لهذا الذي أشعل النار في جسده يائساً أن يرى كيف أحرقنا بلهيبه، وكيف امتدت ألسنة نيرانه غرباً وشرقاً لتصل إلى سوريا. هذا الذي كان في ذاته حالة من فقدان المعنى، تحول في الفعل الثوري إلى فيض من المعنى، عندما انتقلنا من الحالة العبثية إلى عبثية استمرار هذه الحالة، أي عندما تحول تمرد البوعزيزي على حياة مجردة من المعنى إلى تمرد شعبي على ظلم يُفقدنا المعنى. هكذا، انقلب انتحار اليائس تجلياً: تجلي رغبتنا العميقة في وطن! تنشد الرغبة هذه وطناً لا تراه، فالحاضر أسود، ودماؤنا في عيون من يضغطون على الزناد رخيصة. لكن رغبتنا التي ...
Keep Reading »سؤال الساعة: هى العيال دى عايزة إيه؟
![[المصدر موقع رؤية]](/content_images/3/sm_mesr_33.jpg "[المصدر موقع رؤية]")
لا أحد على الإطلاق يمكنه الزعم بالقدرة على تحريك شباب ميدان التحرير الثائر والمحتج الآن فى منطقة الغضب (التحرير وما يحيطه من شوارع)، حيث وضع الجيش أسوارا حجرية، يؤكد بها فشله فى التعامل مع الأزمة، فكلما جاءته أو فاجأته مشكلة أو افتعل أو اصطنع مواجهة بنى لها سورا، وكأننا أمام سياسة الحواجز الحجرية، وهى ليست فى الشوارع فقط، بل هى فى دماغه ورأسه، بل وفى قلبه تجاه هؤلاء الشباب، الذين كان لا يفهمهم، ثم صار لا يطيقهم، ثم بات قاتلهم كذلك! القوى المحتجة فى التحرير وشوارعه هى شابة بالضرورة، ثم هى منتمية إلى جماعات وتيارات سياسية، لكن على طريقتها المتحررة المنطلقة، لا على طريقة العجائز رموز هذه التيارات، ثم هناك كذلك مجموعات لا تنتمى إلى تنظيم ولا إلى فريق سياسى، بل يوحدهم الحلم ...
Keep Reading »Undocumented and Afraid
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They took them in, shackled their brown hands, threaded out their thick hair, and told them “We will now turn you into soldiers, fighting against hope, warring against life. You have two choices: death or death.” They stared at the hours, then removed their eyes, hanging each upon its nail. Then they waited and waited for the funeral of memory to start. They set the light on fire and recited myths, fairytales, and stories about their fathers, their stupid fathers, who were once heroes and are now nothing but cowards. Why did you leave us in this trap without any poems? Why did you color the sky yellow? Why did you give us stars to hang our hearts on? We did not do ...
Keep Reading »The Making of a Secular Democracy: Law, Marriage, and Empirical Irrelevance in Israel and Lebanon
![[Left: Israeli couples marrying in Cyprus. Image from Reuters. Right: Travel agency advertisment in Lebanon. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2011-10-28at11.21.42AM.png "[Left: Israeli couples marrying in Cyprus. Image from Reuters. Right: Travel agency advertisment in Lebanon. Image from unknown archive.]")
On any given weekend, Israeli and Lebanese citizens can be found standing together in an orderly line before a Cypriot magistrate. They shuffle forward, couple by couple, in line to get married. The distance to Cyprus is roughly the same for an Israeli or a Lebanese couple, as is the reason why these couples choose to get married there. And no, it is not due to the beautiful weather, the beaches, or the nightlife in Cyprus, which most Israelis and Lebanese would insist to the reader, with a swish of nationalist bravado, are inferior. These are not marriages between Lebanese and Israelis. Rather, these couples leave their countries and travel by boat or by plane to a ...
Keep Reading »Nour Merheb, RIP (1985-2011)
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On September 16, 2011, Nour Merheb killed himself. Nour did not leave a wife, husband, or children behind. He did not publish any books, did not write opinion pieces for influential newspapers, and did not parade himself in front of television cameras to provide expert opinions. He did not die in a protest facing down an authoritarian regime, he was not killed by an occupier's bullet, and his death will not inspire a popular uprising in Lebanon. He was not what academics would call an intellectual, nor was he what politicians would claim as a martyr. But it feels wrong to let his death go unmarked, as if his citations, or markings, could only ever be found in books, ...
Keep Reading »The Space Between: March 14, March 8 and a Politics of Dissent
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This week a pro-Syrian protest was staged at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. A group of about fifty people gathered to express their solidarity with the Syrian people against the atrocities currently being committed by the Asad regime. As reported in Jadaliyya and elsewhere, this pro-Syrian protest was met violently by pro-Asad counter-demonstrators. Many of the pro-Syrian protestors sustained injuries, some of which were serious enough to require trips to the emergency rooms of nearby hospitals. Since the incident on Tuesday night, a sometimes vitriolic online debate has unfolded between pro-Syrian and pro-Asad activists in Lebanon. Many of these activists, ...
Keep Reading »Politics in a Time of Politicians
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Last week the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) released the names of four men indicted in the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice. For years now, the question of Hariri's assassination, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, has been one of two topics that have saturated the political field in Lebanon. The other topic of interest has been the question of whether or not Hezbollah should be disarmed. Hariri and Hezbollah, that is all we have been hearing about for years. Every political, social, or economic issue in Lebanon since 2005, and especially since the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, has been hijacked by political factions that disagree ...
Keep Reading »My Coming Out Story
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I am a Sunni. Yes, I said it. I am a Sunni from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. I was born in a hospital that no longer exists, having been torn down to make way for a tower that houses, most probably, more Sunnis. After being born in that hospital that no longer exists, I was bundled up and sent home with my parents to Tariq al-Jadidah, a neighborhood that is known as the “Sunni bastion of Beirut". I grew up there, a blonde little thing with a working mother who spoke, at best, broken Arabic, a father who was a professor, and two older siblings. I roamed the streets (when there was a ceasefire) with a pack of cousins who all lived either in the same building or in ...
Keep Reading »The Long and Invisible Road
Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel. Directed by Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan. Belgium/France/Germany/UK, 2003 Today Palestinians commemorate the nakba, or day of catastrophe. At the same time, the state of Israel seeks to criminalize this expression of an autonomous Palestinian national consciousness, which threatens to fragment and disrupt Israel’s historical self-narrative. This year, the nakba finds itself in the shadow cast by the Israeli Knesset law, approved on 23 March 2011, which denies state funding to any organization that “undermines the foundations of the state and contradicts its values.” The new law, referred to in popular discourse ...
Keep Reading »الجاليات العربية والمسلمة في ألمانيا بين الإندماج والوقاية [Arab and Muslim Communities in Germany between Assimilation and Prevention]
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”هذا البلد، هو بلد ذو طابع وقيم مسيحية-غربية ممتدة عبر عصور، وأتمنى أن يكون هذا أمراً واضحاً لا شك فيه.“ بكلمات كهذه أراد وزير الداخلية الألماني هانس بيتر فريدريش (عن الحزب الإجتماعي المسيحي البافاري) وضع النقاط على الحروف في إفتتاح ”المؤتمر الإسلامي الألماني“ السادس الذي عقد في التاسع والعشرين من شهر اذار/مارس الماضي في برلين. لكن يبدو أن الوزير الجديد أخطأ الحروف فتحول المؤتمر إلى خلاف بدل أن يكون مؤتمر حوار لوضع خطط تساعد على ”إندماج“ المسلمين في المجتمع الألماني ووصل الأمر إلى أن تطلب النائبة عايدان ازوغوز (عن الحزب الديمقراطي الإجتماعي الألماني) من المسلمين أن يقاطعوا المؤتمر مستقبلاً إلى أن يأتي من هو أكفأ وأجدر من وزير الداخلية، ليترأس مؤتمراً من هذا ...
Keep Reading »اماكن التجمع والمسيرات ليوم 25 يناير 2012
أماكن التجمع والمسيرات ليوم 25 يناير 2012 1- ميدان مصطفى محمود امبابه التجمع الساعه 12 امام كنيسة الوحده بشارع الوحده بجوار كشري الاستاذ 2- جامع الاستقامه بميدان الجيزه *العمرانيه التجمع امام جامع خاتم المرسلين بشارع خاتم المرسلين الساعه 11 صباحا *فيصل التجمع بمحطة الطالبيه فيصل الساعه 11 صباحا *الهرم التجمع امام جامع السلام الساعه 11 صباحا *المنيب وساقية مكي مكان التجمع ميدان محطة مترو المنيب الساعه 11 صباحا (على ان تتقابل المسيرات السابقه في ميدان الجيزه الساعه الواحده والنصف ظهرا وتتجه ...
Keep Reading »هوَجٌ يخدم الصهيونية
حين دعا نائب رئيس حكومة إسرائيل لهجرة اليهود التوانسة أجابه رئيسهم: لا دخل لأيّ أجنبي في الشؤون التونسية، نحن نحب بلادنا وسنبقى فيها.. أما النّفر الغبي الذي هتف قبل أيام في تونس "قتل اليهود فرض واجب"، فهو يقدّم هديّة مجانية لحكّام إسرائيل. لدى وصول الزعيم في حماس اسماعيل هنية الى تونس، قبل أيام، إختار نفرٌ قليل الخروج عن هتافات التوانسة الثورية الصادقة. فقد ارتفع وعلا هتاف “الشعب يريد تحرير فلسطين” في الاستقبال الشعبي لهنيّة، لكن ذلك النفر السّلفي كما يبدو اختار إعلان جهله من خلال الهتاف ...
Keep Reading »نحن؛ ضمير غائب
عن التطبيع الذهني الذي يفرضه الإستعمار في فلسطين في الذكرى الخمسين لغياب فرانتس فانون في العام 1948 احتل المستعمر الصهيوني أرض فلسطين وأقامَ عليها دولة "إسرائيل". تلك واقعة تاريخية. النتيجة المباشرة والحتمية لأي استعمار هي انقلاب موازين القوى السياسية والاجتماعية والاقتصادية بين المُستعمَر والمُستعمِر كما تشهد على ذلك الحالات الاستعمارية جمعاء. في فلسطين، اتخذ طابع هذا الإنقلاب شاكلة دولة بات المستعمَرون فيها مواطنين بفعل عوامل سياسية مختلفة. على الرغم من أنَّ هؤلاء "المواطنين" لم ...
Keep Reading »بانتظار علياء
[المقال نشر على موقع جدلية باللغة الإنجليزية وترجمه إلى العربية يوسف حداد] من السهل مشاهدة صور لنساء عاريات أينما نظرنا من حولنا. فصورهن موجودة في كل مكان على مواقع الإنترنت وفي المعارض الفنية وعلى شاشات التلفزة وفي الأفلام السينمائية طبعاً. أما صور النساء ”شبه العاريات“ فهي الأكثر رواجاً. إذ نراها تنتشر على لوحات الإعلانات، في الأغاني المصورة، وفي الدعايات التلفزيونية، حيث تدعونا بجسدها وبنظرات "الإغراء" لشراء المزيد والمزيد. إن صور المرأة العارية و "شبه العارية" تنتشر في شتى ...
Keep Reading »Waiting for Alia
It is quite easy to see a woman naked. In fact, naked women are always only an internet search, an art gallery, a television show, or film away. The semi-naked, alluring female form is even more pervasive. These images stare at us from billboards, music videos, and television advertisements asking us with their flesh and their “fuck me” expressions to buy more and more things. Yes, images of naked women and/or semi-nude women are everywhere, including in the Arab world. They are meant to be consumed. But ...
Keep Reading »Humanitarian and Humane Subjects in Lebanon: The Problem of Social Change
The ubiquitous presence of humanitarian organizations in Lebanon since the 2006 war has created a variety of well-paid jobs and careers and sought to produce new forms of Lebanese subjectivities. Primarily, the humane subject who performs humanity as an ethical sentiment of traumatic shock when faced with dehumanizing violence and the humanitarian subject whose activism regulates violations of human rights.i While the former has been met with resistance in Lebanon, at least within certain social classes ...
Keep Reading »Honoring the Law: Honor, Gender and Crime in the Lebanese Penal Code
Last month the Lebanese judiciary repealed an article of the penal code commonly referred to as “the honor crime” law. Years of pressure from activist groups and national and international human rights non-governmental organizations led to the repeal of article 562. Its text stated that a man who “finds his wife or his sister or one of his female agnates in the act of (witnessed) illegitimate sexual relations and kills or harms one of the actors” can receive a lesser sentence from the presiding judge. ...
Keep Reading »What is a Citizen? (Or, What if Layla Were Prime Minister?)
On the surface, the question “What is a Citizen?” seems easy to answer. A citizen is a person who is endowed with legal rights by, and duties to, the country of which one is a citizen. Thus, a U.S. citizen is someone who is allowed to vote in U.S. state and federal elections, to serve in the U.S. armed forces, to pass that citizenship on to their spouse and/or children, is entitled to state and federal social services, and who must file state and federal taxes. Similarly, in Lebanon, a citizen must also ...
Keep Reading »USAlafis?
A radical Christian group appeared at the Arab American Festival in Dearborn, MI (June 18-20), carrying offensive signs and uttering derogatory language. One of its members instigated a fight and the police ordered the group to remove itself to cheers from the crowd. Enjoy!
Keep Reading »The Year of the Citizen
During the Spring of the so-called Arab Spring, the euphoria that characterized the Winter of 2010/2011 has increasingly given way to more somber attitudes associated with Winter. For those who were expecting a linear progression towards freedom, in which vain autocrats and sclerotic regimes would fall with growing ease and rapidity, despondency is an appropriate response to the increasing ferocity with which ruling elites seek to remain in power. Yet in the life of peoples, as in life itself, linear ...
Keep Reading »The Ongoing War; Lebanese Leaders Against the Lebanese
It has been 21 years since the end of the Lebanese civil war. 21 years since the last spasms of violence reverberated through the country’s cities, towns and villages. More than two decades ago, a country torn apart, in ruins and in rubble, suddenly found itself at “peace.” Almost immediately, the reconstruction began. In these years, landmarks such as Nasser, Modca, Horshoe, and the Carlton were torn down and replaced with uniforms of the new global order; cheap clothing made in china, chain restaurants ...
Keep Reading »The Bidun of Kuwait: A Look Behind the Laws
In Kuwait, some young Bidun men and women often wonder what more they could offer the country to get accepted as one of its own. Their fathers had lost their lives liberating Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion in the 1990 Gulf War. Their ancestors had settled in Kuwait for three consecutive generations but Bidun today have yet to be afforded any state recognition. Other Bidun question when they will become “pure enough” in the eyes of the Kuwaiti state and society to get recognized as equal humans, if ...
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