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بيان الحملة الشعبية لاسقاط ديون مصر عن قرض الصندوق
ستعقد الحملة مؤتمرا صحفيا يوم السبت 21 يناير عن الموضوع في مركز البدائل العربي شقة 4 ـ الطابق الرابع ـ 5 شارع المساحة ـ الدقي ـ القاهرة ـ جمهورية مصر العربية. الحكومة المؤقتة تقترض أربعة أضعاف متوسط الاقتراض الخارجي أيام مبارك. عاد قرض صندوق النقد الدولي ليتصدر المشهد من جديد بعد رفضه منذ شهور قليلة بحجة احتوائه على مشروطية لم يتم الكشف عنها أبدا. وعادت نفس الوزيرة-السيدة/ فايزة أبو النجا وزيرة التعاون الدولي والتخطيط-التي سبق لها الرفض تتحدث عن "مشاورات إيجابية" مع الصندوق مؤكدة عدم وجود أية مشروطية، وعادت تقول إن المفاوضات ضرورية لاقتراض نحو ثلاثة مليارات دولار لدعم الموازنة بعد شهور قليلة من قولها إن مصر ليست بحاجة لقروض تدعم الموازنة بقدر حاجة ...
Keep Reading »استعد.. استرح
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في مدرسة "دار السلام" وسط ساحة النجمة، قلب العاصمة دمشق، أمضيت كل فترة دراستي. من عمر الرابعة وحتى الثامنة عشر. كانت واحدة من أفضل المدارس الخاصة. طلابها ينتمون إلى عائلات ميسورة. تجار، مسؤولون، وما كان يسمى آنذاك بـ "الطبقة الوسطى". في المدرسة ذاتها، درست إبنة خالتي التي تكبرني عشرين عاماً. الكثير من أساتذتها في المرحلتين الإعدادية والثانوية، كان لايزال يمارس مهنته. معظم معلماتها اللواتي كن يأتين إلى المدرسة بالتنانير القصيرة، صرن محجبات لاحقاً. نصل إلى المدرسة عند الثامنة إلا ربع. معلّمة "الفتوة" أو مادة "التربية العسكرية"، تقف أمام الباب الخارجي. تراقب البنات وهنّ ينزلن من الباصات الملونة. قصيرة القامة. ممتلئة. ...
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بعد مرور شهرين على فضيحة خلية النازيين الجدد في المانيا والتي عرفت بإسم خلية ”تسفيكاو“ وتزايد الشكوك حول تعاون عاملين في جهاز المخابرات مع أعضاء الخلية وغض النظر عن مرتكبي الجرائم، تطفو على السطح الكثير من الأسئلة حول مدى ”يمينية“ مجتمع الغالبية الألماني وعلاقته ”بالآخرالأجنبي،“ العربي أو المسلم. وهل يعني نبذ غالبية الألمان للتطرف اليميني في بلادهم، أن النزعات اليمينية والفكر الإقصائي هما الإستثناء أم أن هذه أعراض لمشكلة أعمق وأكثر تجذراً؟ وهل يقتصر تأثير اليمين المتطرف على شباب عاطلين عن العمل في مناطق المانيا الشرقية سابقاً، كما يرى البعض؟ وهل يعني تعامل الكثير من وسائل الإعلام الألمانية مع الموضوع بتفصيل وكشفها وتوجيهها الإنتقاد لمسؤولين بالأجهزة الألمانية، أن الإعلام ...
Keep Reading »Red Lines and Human Rights: An Evaluation of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry Report
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On 23 November 2011, in one of the royal palaces in Bahrain, a lavish ceremony commenced with all the pomp of a great occasion. In the era of the so-called Arab Spring, this should have been an occasion to announce the handover of power to the people, akin to the Hong Kong handover ceremony in 1997. This, however, was a ceremony for the handover of a human rights report written by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), a government-appointed commission with the nominal mandate of investigating the government's crimes—hardly a thing to celebrate. It must have been awkward because most of the perpetrators accussed of carrying out these crimes were sitting ...
Keep Reading »The New Kurdish Movie
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Turkey’s decades-old “Kurdish Question” has recently changed its trajectory. There is a new movie playing in town. The Turkish state is determined to follow a new kind of politics in order to resolve the issues that have been haunting Turkish-Kurdish relations for almost a century. In this commentary, I would like to describe what this new politics looks like. Let us begin with the question, Why did Prime Minister Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) choose a new and contentious political path? Behind the rationale for this choice lies the collapse of the negotiations initiated by the AKP government with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) – the militant ...
Keep Reading »De Blogueros a Redactores de la Constitucion
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[This article was written in English by Mischa Benoit-Lavelle and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] De Blogueros a Redactores de la Constitución [Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván] En Túnez, el único país de las revoluciones de la primavera árabe con fecha fijada definitivamente para [celebrar] elecciones libres —el 23 de octubre de 2011— el consenso entre muchos activistas es que la revolución se ha estancado. El Ministerio de Interior, donde los manifestantes exigieron drásticamente la salida de Ben Ali, está rodeado en la actualidad de alambre de espino y vigilado por una fuerza policial a la que la prensa local ...
Keep Reading »The Irvine 11, the Police, and the Autonomy of the University
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The recent conviction of ten University of California students of two misdemeanor counts of disrupting and conspiring to disrupt a speech given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on 8 February 2010, points to the stifling of free speech and academic work and inquiry in the university. Three of the Irvine 11 are students at the University of California, Riverside, and two of these UCR students have been my own: Taher Herzallah and Shaheen Nassar. Both were studious, inquisitive, and engaged, modeling for others, in their behavior, what being a university student ought to be about. I will even say, if memory serves, that I may in fact have been interrupted by them, and by ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Anjali Kamat on Militarization and Reconciliation in Libya
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This is an interview conducted with Anjali Kamat on Wednesday, 14 September, in regards to the post-Qaddaif situation in Libya. The interview addresses the legacies of both Qaddafi's rule and the armed rebellion to overthrow him, highlighting questions of militarization, reconciliation, and the future role of NATO. As Libya’s former rebels begin to govern the country after the ouster of longtime leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi, we look at those who remain. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat has just spent 10 days crossing Libya, speaking with fighters, former political prisoners, journalists, and advisers to the new government. "Even though Gaddafi’s whereabouts ...
Keep Reading »An Interview with Ramy Esam
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[This is the second installment in a series on artists of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Click here for the first interview.] Of all the artists who rose to fame during the demonstrations leading to the fall of deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, Ramy Essam was the most renowned. A twenty-three year old singer-songwriter from the Nile delta province of Mansoura, two hours away from Cairo, Essam’s perseverance, talent and enthusiasm quickly made him a staple of Tahrir Square’s daily life. Many demonstrators described him simply as the singer of the revolution. But it was not only his political songs in the square that made him ...
Keep Reading »The Politics of Royal Pluralism in Jordan
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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 defenseless,” et cetera. In every case, the people are portrayed as inept and a threat to themselves. Meanwhile, regimes clinging to power in the face of mass protests ...
Keep Reading »General Suleiman, Reggae & Defamation: Interview with Zeid Hamdan
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On the old white door to his apartment, there’s a note from the neighbors saying “Welcome home”. But friends and family are not the only ones relieved to see Zeid Hamdan out of jail. Only a few hours after the Lebanese musician was detained on Wednesday for “defaming the president” in his 2010 song General Suleiman, word had spread across Lebanon and beyond. Out of jail since three days, Zeid met with Mashallah News to talk about the detention, censorship, and his message of love. Jenny Gustafsson (JG): What happened on Wednesday? Zeid Hamdan (ZH):I was asked already the week before to come to the General Security office to explain things about my song General ...
Keep Reading »"Defaming the President" in Lebanon
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Earlier today, Zeid Hamdan was arrested in Beirut, Lebanon, on the charge of "defaming the president" for a song and video he wrote and produced about "General Suleiman," the current president of Lebanon. The arrest came after three weeks of investigation by General Security and approximately two years after the song had first been released. A protest was planned tomorrow at 1pm in Beirut outside the Palace of Justice, where Zeid was being detained. However, confirmed reports indicate that Zeid was recently released. There is yet no indication of whether the charges have been dropped or not. As Kinda Hassan, one of the people mobilizing against ...
Keep Reading »The Current Political Situation in Libya: An Interview with Ali Ahmida
Libya is back in the news with increasing tensions among various militia groups and political factions struggling for power, sometimes through street battles. Three months have passed since the regime of Muammar Qaddafi was dislodged in Libya. So what is happening in Libya today? What forces are in play, wand hat has become of the revolutionary militias? And what about the issue of outside influence in today's Libya, given the crucial role played by NATO forces as well as governments such as Qatar in ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Hakan Ozoglu, From Caliphate to Secular State
Hakan Özoğlu, From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Hakan Özoğlu: Critical works on the early years of the Turkish Republic are quite rare, especially in Western scholarship. In the field of history, scholarly works on the Ottoman Empire overshadow the republican period. In Turkey, the transition period from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey has long been considered “sacred” for ...
Keep Reading »إغلاق منظمات حقوق الإنسان: محاولة يائسة لإسكات صوت المقموعين
بيان مركز النديم لحقوق الإنسان في مصر استمرارا لمسلسل القمع الذي انتهجه المجلس العسكري الحاكم منذ تولى زمام أمور البلاد في فبراير من هذا العام قامت قوات من الصاعقة والشرطة ومعهم بعض أفراد من القضاء باقتحام عدد من المنظمات غير الحكومية الحقوقية اليوم.. فحاصرت مكاتبها واحتجزت العاملين بها واستولت على ملفاتها وأجهزتها وأوراقها فيما اعتبرته استمرارا للتحقيقات التي أعلن عنها من فترة ونقل عن وزير العدل أخيرا أنها لازالت مستمرة مكذبا كل من نشر عنها في وسائل الإعلام. جدير بالذكر أن من بين المراكز التي تم ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter to National Press Club and Their Subsequent Decision to Rescind Suspension of Sam Husseini
The Ethics Committee of the National Press Club has asked me to present my journalistic credentials following the controversy of my suspension from the Club because of my questioning of the former head of Saudi intelligence Amb. Turki bin Faisal al-Saud. (Click here for video of the questioning). The proof that I am a journalist is the very fact that I asked the question that I did: There's been a lot of talk about the legitimacy of the Syrian regime, I want to know what legitimacy ...
Keep Reading »Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street from the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your news and hoping that – rather than just vent your anger and frustration - you achieve all of your dreams. While democracy should guarantee all people an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives, you find yourselves forced to take to the streets, as politicians and bankers make decisions behind closed doors and hire an army of police to send you back home with nothing. While a wealthy 1% ravages your jobs, ...
Keep Reading »From Blogging to Writing the Constitution
In Tunisia, the only country of the Arab Spring revolutions with a definite date set for free elections—October 23, 2011—the consensus among many activists is that the revolution has stalled. The interior ministry, where protestors dramatically demanded the exit of Ben Ali, is now surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by a police force that the local press has accused of returning to its old ways of torture and intimidation. And recently, concern has been growing that popular sentiment has been taking ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Statehood Strategy in the United Nations: Lessons from Namibia
Palestine’s pending request for recognition in the United Nations (“UN”) has generated great international interest, both in what recognition will mean for Palestine and the Palestinians, and in whether anything will really change in the absence of territorial independence. I will address this question by way of a comparison between Palestine and South West Africa (Namibia), and what legal strategies were followed in both cases at the UN. I would like to particularly recognize the work done ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Mahmood Mamdani on Regional Implications of NATO Intervention
This is an interview conducted with Mahmood Mamdani on Wednesday, 14 September, in regards to recent developments in Libya and Sudan. The interview addresses the implications of NATO's intervention in Libya and the independence of South Sudan, highlighting the regional implications for the African continent. As the African Union meets today, Columbia University professor and Africa scholar Mahmood Mamdani joins us to give his take on the regional and global implications of NATO’s intervention in Libya, ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Khalid Medani, "Strife and Secession in Sudan"
Khalid Medani, “Strife and Secession in Sudan,” Journal of Democracy 22.3 (July 2011): 135-149. Jadaliyya: What made you write this article? Khalid Medani: I wrote the article “Strife and Secession in Sudan” because I felt very strongly that the analysis of the politics in Sudan has long been characterized by misrepresentations and simply a lack of understanding of the roots of the conflicts in the country and the problems having to do with the secession of South Sudan in the longer term. On the one ...
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 »South Sudan: Post-Independence Opportunities and Challenges
The independence of South Sudan, and the birth of the fifty-fourth state on the African continent, is a pivotal and historic event for the state of Sudan, and for the continent as a whole. The significance of the event goes beyond a mere change in the geographical boundaries of the divided country and the end of an era in its political history; its consequences will necessarily result in long-term change in the geopolitical realities of the region, and will lead to the emergence of new strategic ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers - From Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy, and Citizenship (April 27-28, 2012)
Call for Papers Deadline: November 1, 2011 From Meydan Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy and Citizenship An interdisciplinary graduate student conference, hosted by the political theory graduate students in the Department of Government at Cornell University From revolutionary awakenings in the Arab world to protests against austerity measures in Europe and assaults on labor rights in Wisconsin, a “specter is haunting the world” – the specter of democracy and ...
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