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Is It Time to Intervene in Syria? NPR Discussion with Bassam Haddad and Others
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[Discussion on "military intervention" starts at 24:40] Syria's civilian death toll is now estimated at over 6000 people, as tanks and machine guns continue to bombard residential neighborhoods. Some 25,000 civilians have managed to flee to destinations including Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Meanwhile, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has announced a referendum in ten days to amend the constitution, limit his term in office, and set up elections. As France calls on the UN to set up humanitarian corridors and Russia responds by claim that such actions might "legitimize regime change," NPR's To the Point hosted Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad in ...
Keep Reading »On Vetoes, Negotiations, and Syria: RT Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani
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In the below interview with Russia Today (RT), Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses developments in Syria with a particular eye to the maneuvering of key international players. He highlights the fact that much of the violence in Syria stems from the fact that the Assad regime has refused to negotiate on any substantive issues while at the same time possess enough "support" and military capabilities to brutally suppress the mass protets movement. Rabbani goes on to discuss the significance of the Russian and Chinese veto in the United Nation Security Council, as well as the prospects of current negotiations leading to any meaningful end to the regime's ...
Keep Reading »Knowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview with Daho Djerbal on the Twentieth Anniversary of NAQD
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It is still very possible to work on Algeria without ever passing through the Contrôle Passeport in Algiers. For a host of reasons—archival, bureaucratic, historical and, perhaps, psychological—Algeria remains on the margins of its own historiography. Arriving in September, I expected to get many questions from scholars who have worked here in the past, pertaining to the current conditions of research, the upcoming legislative elections, and the finally-completed metro (thirty years in the making). Instead, the one question I was most consistently asked by friends and colleagues was: Do you know Daho Djerbal? Unlike the scholars who are hesitant to come (some of them ...
Keep Reading »The Current Political Situation in Libya: An Interview with Ali Ahmida
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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 bringing an end to Qaddafi's autocracy. Khalil Bendib spoke with University of New England political science professor Ali Ahmida, who just returned from Libya.
Keep Reading »A Syrian Activist and Filmmaker in Hiding: Interview with Democracy Now!
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Syrian troops continue to fire on protesters despite a visit by Arab League monitors to assess the Assad regime’s compliance with a plan to resolve the country’s political crisis. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the nine-month-long uprising. We’re joined from Damascus by Bassel, a Syrian activist and filmmaker just back from the city of Homs, where three dozen people were reportedly killed the day before monitors arrived. Speaking from hiding, Bassel says the violence in Homs is threatening a civil war pitting local civilians and army deserters against the security forces. We’re also joined by Karam Nachar, a U.S.-based Syrian cyber-activist who details how he ...
Keep Reading »"No Room for Palestinian Artist": An Interview with Larissa Sansour
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The following three photos are part of The Nation Estate project by Larissa Sansour. The Project "is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011" (Sansour). Her instalation, proposed to the Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland was censored by Lacoste, the funder of the exhibit for being "too pro Palestinian." "Set within a grim piece of hi-tech architecture, this narrative photo series envisions 'la joie de vivre' of a Palestinian state rising from the ashes of the peace process. In this dystopic ...
Keep Reading »An Interview With Paul Sedra: Another Victim of the Egyptian Junta - I'Institut d'Egypte
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One Egyptian news paper wrote “Many Egyptians pass this building every day on their way to work and they take great pride in it. And on Saturday, December 17th that very special building, The Institut d'Égypte became the latest causality of the ongoing military attack on the revolutionary protesters. Malihe Razazan spoke with professor Paul Sedra about the significance The Institut d'Égypte, one of the finest cultural hertiage buildings in the world On Saturday, It was burned to the ground destroying 200,000 rare and irreplacalbe historical books and manuscripts. [Arash Ehya, an intern with Voices of the Middle East and North Afirca, ...
Keep Reading »The Iraq We are Leaving Behind: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon
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This is an interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC). “Closure” is a very productive trope in political and other narratives. It drowns out all other voices (preferably with applause), produces silence and draws a fictitious end. The curtain is drawn and the crowd’s already brief attention is refocused on another spectacle on another screen. “The End” The war in Iraq is over. The flag is down and the boys are back home. “We” tried to help those wretched Iraqis, but it was all just too messy (Sunnis, Shi`ites, Iran. . .etc). Mistakes were made along the way. Now, Iraqis will have to fend for themselves. This narrative, with a ...
Keep Reading »Sectarianism, Opposition Parties, and Online Activism in Bahrain: An Interview with Blogger Chan'ad Bahraini
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For the blogosphere in the Gulf region, the name Chan'ad became a reference to all of those who were seeking accurate, well written, and up-to-date inside information from Bahrain in English. Chan'ad, author of the blog Chan'ad Bahraini 2.0, has been a prominent figure of digital activism in Bahrain and the region since 2004 as he works on unveiling regime tactics to fuel sectarian fear, suppress facts, and keep up state repression. After the 14 February uprising, Chan'ad, whose real name is Fahad Desmukh, played an important role in exposing the lies of state-controlled media in Bahrain and the Bahraini regime’s hiring of foreign journalists and firms to whitewash its ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali (Part 1)
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This is Part 1 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and obejectives with regards to the Middle East. In Part 1, Asli tackels the question of whether Turkey's foreign policy positions vis-a-vis the Middle East have changed with respect to what is otherwise described as a "western orientation." She also explores whether whatever changes have occured can be traced directly to the AKP's rise to power within Turkish domestic policy, or rather form part of a larger strategic calculation on the part of Turkey's political elites. The interview was conducted on 30 November 2011 by phone. It was transcribed by Ziad ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and objectives with regards to the Middle East. In this second part of the interview, Asli discusses Turkey’s foreign policy in the face of the Arab uprisings, with particular reference to Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The interview was conducted on 11 February 2012. It was transcribed by Ziad Abu-Rish and Kristina Benson. Edited Transcript (Complete audio file below) Ziad Abu-Rish (ZA): Last time ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya: A New Form of Producing and Presenting Knowledge in/of the Middle East (Interview with Bassam Haddad by Julia Elyachar)
[This interview appeared in a series of articles in the journal Cultural Anthropology.] Julia Elyachar (JE): Jadaliyya has quickly become the go-to place for information and analysis of what is going on in Egypt and the region. Moreover, Jadaliyya is the place where writing of a kind that we associate with the best of anthropology--in the moment, grounded in theory, capturing historical transformation through engagement in events as they unfold--has been published. It seems to provide ...
Keep Reading »Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen
On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusalem, from entering into Israel for the purpose of family unification. This law was amended in 2007, further prohibiting the entry of spouses who are citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. To explain the concrete ...
Keep Reading »Sanctioning Iran: An Interview on Iran's Ruling Bloc, Internal Strife, and International Pressure
On the last day of 2011, US President Obama signed into law a military authorization bill containing a provision that imposes new sanctions presumably in order to punish Iran for its nuclear program. The sanctions force foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank to choose to either end that business or be blocked from the US economy. In a parallel development. On 3 January, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said he had no doubt that Iran was developing nuclear weapons and ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah on His Detention and Egypt: Democracy Now! Interview
Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent Egyptian revolutionary activist and blogger, has been released from prison after nearly two months behind bars. Fattah was ordered jailed by a military court on October 30 and summoned to face charges that included inciting violence—a charge he firmly denies. He refused to cooperate, rejecting the legitimacy of the military court who wanted to try him as a civilian. We speak to Fattah about the Egyptian revolution’s ongoing struggle against the military regime and his ...
Keep Reading »Patriotism, Democracy, and Revolution in Syria and Beyond: An Interview with Tha'ir Deeb
Congratulations to the Syrian writer and translator Tha’ir Deeb. What is currently happening in Syria right now was a dream of his that landed him in jail back in 1987, which led to his being tortured and having his toes hacked off. The following is how he described the change for which he has “dedicated his life and work” in an online interview: “I recognized that the need had become pressing to change the horrible existing reality. I used to wonder where this change was going to come from, always ...
Keep Reading »Stark Challenges for Iraq as US Exits: Interview with The Guardian's Martin Chulov
Martin Chulov has been the Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian of London. He has been covering the Middle East since 2005. In this interview, Chulov discusses the situation on the ground in Iraq as the last of the American soldiers complete their withdrawal. The end of the war leaves a country with a tense atmosphere, a fearful populace, and barely-functioning state institutions. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's agenda is uncertain, and his recent issuance of an arrest warrant ...
Keep Reading »Bahrain's Past and Present: An Interview with Nabeel Rajab
During the period of the 1940s through the 1960s, regime forces and oil company private security contractors violently crushed anti-colonial and anti-imperialist protest movements in places like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain (among many others), with the explicit approval of and material support from London and Washington D.C. In Saudi Arabia, counter-revolutionary forces decimated these twentieth-century popular leftist and nationalist movements. They also thwarted several attempts at orchestrating ...
Keep Reading »BBC Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Asad's ABC Interview
Too much was made of today's ABC Interview with the Syrian President Bashar Asad today, at least in the so-called "West," as compared with the Middle East. Notably, this was the first time in a long while that Bashar spoke publicly, and certainly the first time he appeared on an American network. In this BBC interview, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad states that "the more you know about Syria, the less effective the interview is, and the less you know about Syria, the more effective it ...
Keep Reading »Internal April 6 Dynamics, Egyptian Politics, and Outlooks for the Future: An Interview with Ahmed Maher
[The following is an interview that Nancy Elshami conducted with Ahmed Maher on 16 November 2011 in New York, NY. The interview was conducted in English.] Nancy Elshami (NE): The April 6 Youth Movement has played a crucial role in Egypt since 2008 in setting up opposition movements and organizing youth in non-violent protests. It was one of the major protagonists in the Egyptian revolution and has continued to play an important role as a social force since 25 January 2011. What I want to gain from ...
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