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On Being "Wrong" on Iraq
![[Iraqi protesters in Liberation Square in Baghdad. Image via http://new-middle-east.blogspot.com]](/content_images/3/sm_IraqLiberationSquarte2011-03-11t142052z_01_btre72a13ux00_rtroptp_3_iraq-protests.grid-6x2.jpg "[Iraqi protesters in Liberation Square in Baghdad. Image via http://new-middle-east.blogspot.com]")
This is not another article about Christopher Hitchens. This may come as something of a relief, given the spilling of ink occasioned by Hitchens’ untimely death last week, with Neal Pollock’s fine parody hopefully bringing this outpouring to an end. After an initial set of hagiographies, it was encouraging to see a number of pieces reminding readers of Hitchens’ role in forcefully and bloodthirstily advocating for the war on Iraq, and for the “war on terror” more generally, as part of a deeply racist and Islamophobic current in his work over the past decade (or more). What has struck me in the articles that have followed, both those that praise and those that condemn ...
Keep Reading »Public Prosecutor's Office Refutes SCAF Position on Clashes
![[Adel Emara, deputy defence minister and member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Image from screen short of Egyptian state television broadcast.]](/content_images/3/sm_2011-634600863664102809-410.jpg "[Adel Emara, deputy defence minister and member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Image from screen short of Egyptian state television broadcast.]")
Public prosecutors challenge SCAF's assertions that security forces were simply "defending themselves" during Maspero, Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes. The public prosecutor’s office has challenged statements made earlier this week by Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in which the council claimed that military personnel were simply “defending themselves” during violent clashes that took place in October in Cairo’s Maspero district and those late last month on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. At a press conference earlier this week, SCAF member Major-General Adel Amara stated that both incidents were currently being investigated by public ...
Keep Reading »Walls Go Up
![[Image by Heba Afifi.]](/content_images/3/sm_wallsgoup.jpg "[Image by Heba Afifi.]")
There are now not one, but four walls in downtown Cairo. Huge cubes of round-edged cement are clumsily stacked on top of each other, as if by a child. Hours after its construction, the Qasr al-Aini wall was almost completely covered in graffiti on the protesters’ side. Tens of silhouetted army soldiers stood sentry behind the cubes, visible through the gaps between them. Two young boys stood next to the wall and made obscene gestures at soldiers on the building behind the wall. Above them a young man clambered on top of the cubes and stretched out his arms to the side, fingers in a victory sign. Around the corner the battle raged, with perhaps ten meters separating the ...
Keep Reading »Freedom and Justice Party Slams Early Presidential Elections as "Not the Solution"
![[Far right: Mohamed Mursi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). Image from Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_fjpslamspresidentialele.jpg "[Far right: Mohamed Mursi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). Image from Reuters]")
Responding to proposal aired Tuesday by revolutionary youth groups for January presidential elections, Brotherhood's party warns against foreign "stakeholders." The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has rejected a proposal by revolutionary groups that presidential elections be held ahead of schedule in January 2012. In a press release issued on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English website, the party explained that the proposal “fails to appreciate the requirements approved by all parties in the Constitutional Declaration – which provides for elections of the People's Assembly, then the Shura Council [upper parliamentary house], drafting the new ...
Keep Reading »Second Round Run-Offs Begin in Egypt Elections
![[Man casts his vote in elections second round 14 December 2011. Image by Mai Shaheen]](/content_images/3/sm_secondroundrunoffbegintoday.jpg "[Man casts his vote in elections second round 14 December 2011. Image by Mai Shaheen]")
As well as individual candidacy run-offs, three constituencies will vote for electoral lists after irregularities forced a postponement last week. The run-off stage in the second round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections opened early Wednesday morning. Constituencies in which the first stage of voting did not return a majority for one of the candidates will pit the leading two against each other for a seat in parliament. The run-off stage sees 118 candidates contesting fifty-eight seats. Voting for electoral party lists is also taking place in three constituencies across Menoufiya, Sohag and Beheira. A court ruling last week ruled that elections be ...
Keep Reading »Global Dimensions of the Arab Spring and the Potential for Anti-Hegemonic Politics
![[Image from OWS action in New York. Photo by Koenraad Bogaert.]](/content_images/3/sm_DSC06744.jpg "[Image from OWS action in New York. Photo by Koenraad Bogaert.]")
I remember a journalist asking a few weeks ago: has the world become a better place because of the Arab spring? I think what he meant was: are we living today in a better world because the Arab peoples have gotten rid of, or are getting rid of, some of the worst authoritarian leaders in the world? The question implicitly referred to the matter of democratization. Of course, the issue of democratization has dominated the study of political change in the Arab world over the last twenty years. However, a better question to ask would be: can the world become a better place because of the Arab uprisings? There is a slight nuance between these questions. The first question ...
Keep Reading »Prophecy and Deliverance: Reading al-'Azm in An Age of Revolution
![[Sadik Jalal al-'Azm.]](/content_images/3/sm_sadkjalazamadam.jpg "[Sadik Jalal al-'Azm.]")
Sadik J. al-`Azm. Self-Criticism After the Defeat. Translated by George Stergios. London: Saqi Books, 2011. On 5 June 1967, the Syrian philosopher Sadik al-`Azm received a call from his friend the poet Adonis. The war had begun, Adonis informed him, and the Arabs appeared to be on their way to victory. The two men “spoke about the war with confidence and without anxiety,” al-`Azm recalled some years later. “The thought of defeat did not cross the mind of anyone.” But defeat it was, and on a staggering scale. Within hours of Israel's surprise attack on the morning of 5 June, more than three quarters of Egypt's planes had been destroyed; by evening, Israeli forces were ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Army Issues Apology After Woman Stripped
![[Egyptian army soldiers arrest a female protester during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Photo credit: Reuters.]](/content_images/3/sm_protest15.jpg "[Egyptian army soldiers arrest a female protester during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Photo credit: Reuters.]")
Egypt’s ruling military, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), apologises to “great Egyptian women” . SCAF has issued an apology on Wednesday after a woman was stripped and brutally beaten when the army tried to disperse a sit-in in Tahrir on Saturday. “The army council deeply apologises to the great Egyptian women following what happened during the latest demonstrations in front of the cabinet and the People's Assembly,” SCAF, which came in for fierce criticism lately, said in its 91st communiqué. “We would like to stress on our full respect for Egyptian women and their rights to demonstrate and participate in the political life. “All measures have been taken ...
Keep Reading »10,000 Egyptian Women March Against Military Violence and Rule
![[Egyptian women marching against military violence and rule. Image by Mai Shaheen.]](/content_images/3/sm_womenmarchagainstarmy.jpg "[Egyptian women marching against military violence and rule. Image by Mai Shaheen.]")
Women organize massive rally against military brutality following spate of violent acts against female protesters that have shocked millions; demonstrators call for an end to army rule. Prompted by the image of three soldiers stripping a female protester naked and violently assaulting her, thousands of women marched on Tuesday from Cairo’s Tahrir Square to the nearby Press Syndicate chanting, “Egyptian women are a red line” and “Down with military rule.” [Picture of the assault on a femaile protester which was part of what triggered the women's protest. Image by Reuters.] Women of all ages and backgrounds converged on the Mogamma administrative complex in ...
Keep Reading »رسالة إلى المجتمعين في القاهرة: الوقت من دم والتاريخ لا يرحم
أبلغ رسالة يمكن إيصالها إلى المجتمعين اليوم في القاهرة أن الوقت من دم وحقوق وتقطيع أوصال واعتقال وإهانة وتعذيب وحرق الأشجار والمساجد وحصار وعدوان، خصوصًا على غزة، وتهويد للقدس وعزلها وإبعاد سكانها عنها وتوسيع جنوني للاستيطان، بحيث لن يقبل الشعب الفلسطيني من المجتمعين إضاعة المزيد من الوقت وتأجيل إنهاء الانقسام واستعادة الوحدة الوطنية لأي سبب، بما في ذلك انتظار مصير مبادرة اللجنة الرباعية الدولية، واللهث وراء سراب استئناف المفاوضات وإمكانية توصلها إلى حل متوازن أو انتظار مصير الربيع العربي، خصوصًا استكمال نجاح الإسلام السياسي في الانتخابات، وهذا وذاك على أمل مساعدة طرف على حساب الطرف الآخر لكي يحقق مصالحة وفقًا لشروطه وأهدافه. لا مستقبل لفلسطين ولا لأي فصيل من فصائل ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Publisher Says Government Ordered His Arrest Over SCAF Accusations
![[Publisher Mohamed Hashem. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_mohhashem.jpg "[Publisher Mohamed Hashem. Image from unknown archive.]")
Mohamed Hashem of Merit Publishing says government wants to prosecute him based on SCAF allegations he incited violence in Tahrir and plans, in turn, to sue the ruling military council for slander. Mohamed Hashem, owner of the Dar Merit publishing house, told Ahram Online that his lawyers informed him that the prosecution has issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged involvement in the recent Tahrir violence. “Anyone who wants to arrest me can go ahead and do it,” he told Ahram Online. “I believe there is a revolution and I am one of the people who started it – and [the revolution] won’t abandon me.” He said he had asked Ahmed Seif, the renowned ...
Keep Reading »Security Forces Kill Four in Morning Attack on Tahrir, Says Doctor
![[A street vendor sells safety helmets in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Image from Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_securityforceskill4.jpg "[A street vendor sells safety helmets in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Image from Reuters]")
Doctors at only remaining field hospital in Tahrir Square report seeing protesters shot and killed by gunshot wounds. Violent clashes between protesters and joint forces from the Egyptian Army and police re-erupted in Tahrir Square at the crack of dawn Tuesday, with four deaths reported. Yamen El Genedy, a doctor at the Omar Makram Mosque field hospital, told Ahram Online that he saw four people admitted at eight this morning. All of them had been shot dead. "The bullets had entered and exited their bodies, making it seem like the result of snipers. The force of the gunshots was very strong," said El Genedy. One of the deaths, he added, was a ...
Keep Reading »Photos of Women's March Against Military Rule
[A day after soldiers brutally attacked and stripped a woman protestor in Tahrir Square in Cairo, thousands of women and men marched on 20 December from Tahrir Square to the Journalists' Syndicate and back to condemn the violence. Sarah Carr reports in Al Masry Al Youm that, "There was pervasive anger against the army, with frequent chants for the SCAF to leave power... 'Tantawi is the supreme commander of harassment and violation of honor,' one placard read. ... 'They know that ...
Keep Reading »الدين/الأخلاق، سوريا/المقاومة : أين ”اليسار“ من سوريا؟
محادثة بين اصدقاء. . . وليست بالضرورة للجميع. في مقال كتبته قبل ثلاثة أشهر، انتقدت قسماً من اليسار الذى واصل دعمه للنظام السوري وقمعه الوحشي للمتظاهرين على أساس سجل النظام في المقاومة ومعاداة الامبريالية، سواءً كان هذا السجل مبالغاً فيه أم لا. منذ ذلك الحين، إتسّعت الانتفاضة في سوريا (وازدادت أعداد القتلى وأغلبيتهم من المدنيين) وتكاثرت الانشقاقات في صفوف الجيش وتصاعدت الضغوط الإقليمية و الدولية بشكل كبير. قرأ البعض هذه التطورات ، ولا سيما زيادة التدخل الإقليمي والدولي، ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's NAC Calls For "Friday of Regaining Honor"
The National Association for Change (NAC) has called on all Egyptians to demonstrate in Tahrir Square and in different parts of the country protesting the “crime committed near the Cabinet by the military”, referring to violence against women specifically in the recent attack on Tahrir Square. The NAC’s statement called on all Egyptians to march peacefully to “regain Egypt’s honour”. The statement emphasised the important role women played in the January 25 Revolution, adding that in return women’s ...
Keep Reading »Islamist Parties Braced to Pick Up More Seats in Egypt's 2nd-Round Runoffs
Runoff elections for the second round of Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls kicked off on Wednesday and will wrap up on Thursday. Initial voter turnout rates in the early hours of Wednesday’s polling appeared modest, but are expected to rise in the afternoon. Overall, 118 independent candidates – competing for fifty-nine individual seats – qualified to compete in the runoffs. Voters on Wednesday will also cast ballots for party lists in three constituencies in the governorates of ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans
Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman: The book started off as something quite different than what I intended. I began my research in the summer of 2005 with the intention of examining how Palestinian and Israeli youth produce cultural and political change together as "equal" partners for "peace." Obviously, at ...
Keep Reading »Eyewitnesses Recount Horror Stories to Refute SCAF Version of Clampdown
Political movements, rights watchdogs hold press conference Tuesday to challenge ruling military council's version of bloody events of past 5 days; witnesses tell dark stories of beatings, shootings, and torture by Egyptian army Political groups held a press conference on Tuesday to allow eyewitnesses and rights lawyers to give testimony on the military’s recent crackdown on a sit-in staged in front of the Cabinet building in downtown Cairo since 25 November to demand an end to military rule in Egypt. ...
Keep Reading »Coalition of Political Figures Stage 'Parliamentarian' Sit-in
Hundreds of protesters backed by 40 politicians demonstrate in front of the Journalists' Syndicate against the escalating violence by the military regime. Over 200 protesters continue to chant against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the steps of the Journalists’ Syndicate in downtown Cairo. The protest is a continuation of a sit-in that was instigated on Monday night by 40 well-known political figures who were demonstrating against state repression and the continued clashes between ...
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 »سؤال الساعة: هى العيال دى عايزة إيه؟
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 ...
Keep Reading »SCAF "Restraint" Proves Hollow as More Protesters Killed
Another dawn raid by armed security forces on Tahrir Square leaves more dead protesters as Egyptian army faces more local and international criticism for violent crackdown on dissent. A fifteen-year-old boy is in critical condition and there are unconfirmed reports of another four casualties after Egyptian Central Security Forces (CSF) and army personnel stormed Tahrir Square in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as clashes raged on into their fifth consecutive day. The latest attacks follow a ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Groups Plan Presidential Election on 25 January
Revolution Youth Coalition and the We Are All Khaled Said Facebook group plan presidential election on anniversary of revolution, reject SCAF's 'lies' about Tahrir violence. The Revolution Youth Coalition and the 'We Are All Khaled Said' Facebook group held a press conference on Tuesday to dispute the ruling military council’s (SCAF) "lies" about the recent violence in Tahrir Square, and declare they had adopted a widely circulated initiative to elect a new president on 25 January – ...
Keep Reading »Q&A with Khaled El-Sayyed: Youth in Parliament
Revolution Continues parliamentary candidate Khaled El-Sayyed reflects on his experience of running in the elections and why parliament should reflect the soul of the revolution. With young activists and protesters at the forefront of the Egyptian revolution, the upcoming parliament was expected to feature a significant number of youth members. With the second stage entering run-offs this week, it has become apparent that for the many young candidates contesting seats in parliament, their chances of ...
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