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The Palestinian Museum: An Agent Of Empowerment And Integration For Palestinians
![[Palestine Museum Garden View, Projected.]](/content_images/3/sm_psmgarden1.jpg "[Palestine Museum Garden View, Projected.]")
On 11 April 2013, the Palestinian Museum celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony in Birzeit, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The museum, the largest in Palestine, will be dedicated to celebrating the history, culture and society of modern and contemporary Palestine. A flagship project of the Welfare Association, a leading not-for-profit that provides development and humanitarian assistance in Palestine since 1983, the Museum is set to open in 2014. In this interview, Omar Al-Qattan, the Chairman of the Museum Task Force, describes how the Palestinian Museum aims to be a place where anyone can take part in a shared conversation about the present, past, ...
Keep Reading »Le Sahara, l’identité et l’africanité dans la littérature francophone du Sud-est: Moha Souag s’exprime
![[Quelques œuvres par Moha Souag.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-04-30at11.13.15AM.png "[Quelques œuvres par Moha Souag.]")
Moha Souag est un écrivain francophone qui a gagné une place prestigieuse dans le paysage littéraire francophone au Maroc grâce à sa persévérance, à l’abondance des ses écrits et à son style d’écriture innovant ; « polygraphe confirmé, il a touché/visité (tâté de) tous les genres littéraires, la poésie, la nouvelle, le roman, le conte. Il a obtenu des prix littéraires tels que le grand prix Atlas, le prix de la nouvelle octroyé par RFI. » Moha n’est pas uniquement une figure de proue de la littérature francophone, mais il fait partie de ces écrivains engagés dans les débats socio-économiques et culturels qui touchent au quotidien de leurs concitoyens. ...
Keep Reading »A Non-Nuclear Conversation: An Interview with Iranian Human Rights Campaigner Dr Hadi Ghaemi
Iranian activists, journalists and human rights advocates have been coming under increasing pressure by the Iranian government; at a time when the international news media is fixated on Iran's nuclear program. This week, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, about Iran's political prisoners and the campaign to hold the Iranian government accountable for violations of human rights.
Keep Reading »Altérité, interculturalité et marginalité dans la littérature francophone marocaine : Entretien avec El Hassane Aït Moh
![[Quelques œuvres par El Hassan Aït Moh.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-04-16at10.30.36AM.png "[Quelques œuvres par El Hassan Aït Moh.]")
El Hassane Aït Moh est l’un des nombreux écrivains marocains, voire maghrébins, résidants à l’étranger et qui ont adopté la langue française comme langue de production littéraire. Après un long parcours dans l’enseignement public, El Hassane a rejoint la mission culturelle marocaine en France pour continuer son métier de toujours : l’enseignement et le dialogue interculturel. Il vient de publier son troisième roman, intitulé Les Jours de Cuivre, chez L’Harmattan. Dans ses ouvrages, Aït Moh, ce berbérophone natif de Ouarzazate, une ville moyenne incrustée au pied du Haut Atlas au sud-est du Maroc, qui maitrise aussi bien l’arabe que le français, ...
Keep Reading »The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Israeli Relations: An Interview with Professor Cihan Tugal
In his Nowruz message on 21 March, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, declared a ceasefire and called on armed militants to withdraw from Turkish territory. He said, “Today we are waking up to a new Middle East, a new Turkey, and a new future” and added, “The Middle East and Central Asia are looking for a new order. A new model is a necessity, like bread and water. It’s inevitable that Anatolia and Mesopotamia will be pioneers in building this model.” Öcalan’s message was warmly welcomed by the million-strong crowd gathered for Nowruz celebrations in the city of Diyarbakir. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Keep Reading »Media Mea Culpas and The Iraq War: Co-Editor Sinan Antoon and Others on AJE (Video)
![[Composite of mainstream US media coverage on tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq. Image from screenshot of below video]](/content_images/3/sm_iraqmediakhara.jpg "[Composite of mainstream US media coverage on tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq. Image from screenshot of below video]")
Looking back over the ten years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, what was the role of the US media in the war on Iraq and how has it portrayed that role since? The following segment from Al Jazeera's "Listening Post" features a number of commentators and analysts, including Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon. Central to the discussion therein is a questioning of how much of mainstream US media's conduct was a mistake, which of those mistakes has it owned up to, and how much of its conduct was in fact complicity in a war that destroyed the entirity of the Iraqi state and devastated the lives of its population.
Keep Reading »Sinan Antoon on Iraq Ten Years After US Invasion: Panel Interview on DW
![[Image from screenshot of below video.]](/content_images/3/sm_sinaninterview2013.jpg "[Image from screenshot of below video.]")
Ten Years ago, the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq while justifying such an act on shifting, conflicting, and false pretenses of combating terrorism, containing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and democracy promotion. Subsequent to that invasion, the United States proceeded to occupy Iraq and disastrously reconfigure its political structures, economic organization, and social fabric. Of note is that such a history of destruction did not begin in 2013, but was preceded by the 1991 Gulf War and the twelve years of brutal sanctions that followed that first war. While the US occupation has de jur ended, the Iraqi people are left to ...
Keep Reading »Iraqi Tragedy; More than 10 Years in the Making: An Interview with Jadaliyya's Editor Sinan Antoon
19 March marked the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. Ten years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what has changed for the country and its people? To understand the legacy of the war and occupation of Iraq, Vomena's Shahram Aghamir spoke Iraqi poet, novelist and scholar, Professor Sinan Antoon.
Keep Reading »Almost Two Years of Bloodshed in Syria: What End is There in Sight?
![[Anti-Syrian Regime Protestor. Image by Freedom House via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_syria1.jpg "[Anti-Syrian Regime Protestor. Image by Freedom House via Flickr]")
With the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising fast approaching, there seems to be no end in the near future to the nightmare the country is currently going through. What are the myths and realities of the Syrian uprising, as well as the roots and the trajectories? Professor Beshara Doumani of Brown University spoke about these issues with Syrian-born activist and sociologist Yasser Munif. VOMENA also received an update on the current Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) efforts at Stanford University from Omar Shakir; a member of Students for Palestinian Equal rights.
Keep Reading »Exposing Sexual Violence in Morocco: An Interview with Nadir Bouhmouch
![[Image from 475: www.facebook.com/475lefilm]](/content_images/3/sm_filali.png "[Image from 475: www.facebook.com/475lefilm]")
[This article features an interview with Moroccan filmmaker and activist Nadir Bouhmouch. See Bouhmouch’s first film My Makzhen and Me here: My Makhzen and Me and a clip for his upcoming film, 475, here: www.475lefilm.com.] “The state-backed raping of poor women undermined the class solidarity that had been achieved in the anti-feudal struggle. Not surprisingly, the authorities viewed the disturbances caused by such policy…as a small price to pay in the lessening of social tensions, obsessed as they were with the fear of urban insurrections…the legalization of rape created a climate of intense misogyny that degraded all women regardless of class.” - ...
Keep Reading »First Jordanian Elections post Arab Uprisings; Challenges of Reporting from Syria
![[Ink stained fingers after voting. Image by james_gordon_losangeles via. flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_jordanelections2.jpg "[Ink stained fingers after voting. Image by james_gordon_losangeles via. flickr]")
This week, Amman-based activist and writer Hisham Bustani updates VOMENA on the first Jordanian parliamentary elections since the Arab uprisings, and what they mean for the country. More than thirty journalists were killed in Syria in 2012 alone. Istanbul-based freelance journalist Justin Vela talks about the challenges and pitfalls of reporting from a Syrian warzone. [Correction from Hisham Bustani: To correct a mistake I made in the interview regarding the number of the Jordanian Parliament's seats. The correct total number of seats is 150 seats: 123 seats of which are dedicated to the single vote/local district individual candidates; and ...
Keep Reading »The Human Rights Situation in Egypt: An Interview with Aida Seif El-Dawla
![[Protest at the Presidential Palace in 2012 December. Image by Gigi Ibrahim.]](/content_images/3/sm_8244233851_5dd982f3b7_c.jpg "[Protest at the Presidential Palace in 2012 December. Image by Gigi Ibrahim.]")
Aida Seif El-Dawla is a psychiatrist, long time Egyptian human rights activist, and Executive Director of the al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Since 1993, the Nadeem Center has worked both to rehabilitate victims of state torture while also helping to mobilize different societal sectors in Egypt against the state practice. This interview was conducted with El-Dawla by email and in person at the Nadeem Center office in Cairo in November and December 2011. The interview discusses the current human rights situation in Egypt as well as some of the structural issues that Egyptian human rights advocates continue to confront as they attempt ...
Keep Reading »Cyprus, Divided and Financially Broke: An Interview with Rebecca Bryant
The economic crisis in Cyprus has put the eastern Mediterranean island nation in the lime light. Cyprus has been divided for more than four decades between the Turkish north and majority Greek south. While for Greek Cypriots, the history of Cyprus starts with ancient Greece and Hellenistic culture, the Turkish Cypriot community tend to find the Ottoman invasion of 1571 as the defining moment in the history of the island. What is the history of Cyprus and what led to it's recent ecnomic crisis? VOMENA's ...
Keep Reading »The Arab Studies Journal Celebrates Twenty Years: An Interview with Bassam Haddad, Sherene Seikaly, and Nadya Sbaiti
On 19 April 2013, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University hosted a reception celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Arab Studies Journal (ASJ). As the journal’s managing editor since September 2011, I used this milestone as an occasion to interview the founding editor Bassam Haddad and co-editors Sherene Seikaly and Nadya Sbaiti about the history of the journal, how it has developed, and where the editors see it going. Lizette Baghdadi (LB): How did the Arab ...
Keep Reading »Questioning Sectarianism in Bahrain and Beyond: An Interview with Justin Gengler
In popular accounts of politics in the Arabian Peninsula in this post-Arab uprisings era, "sectarianism" has been an omnipresent signifier for conflict and unrest. The term commonly acts – implicitly, because it is never qualified or defined – as both a description of political contestation and, simultaneously, an explanation for it. The history of "sectarianism" in academia, as an object of study and as an analytic with explanatory power, is a contentious one, used at times ...
Keep Reading »Salafism in Tunisia: An Interview with a Member of Ansar al-Sharia
The emergence of Salafi movements in post-Ben Ali Tunisia surprised both the international community and many in Tunisia itself. The astonishment was such that when the first Salafi demonstrations took place in downtown Tunis, journalists and observers were talking quite confusingly about the phenomenon. Some accused men of the former regime of having organized the demonstrations by these bearded men, others claimed they were members of the Tahrir Party (a pan-Islamist movement), and others still labeled ...
Keep Reading »'What Good Are Free Elections When A Country Is Destroyed?'
[More than two years into the uprising in Syria, important questions remain about a number of a dynamics concerning the present situation and future prospects in Syria. Below, Muhammad Dibu interviews Baderkhan Ali on the trajectory of the Syrian uprising, the aspirations of Syria's Kurdish community, and the prospects for the post-uprising period in Syria. The interview was first published on correspondents.org on 27 March 2013.] Muhammad Dibu (MD): There is a lot of talk about demands ...
Keep Reading »Samera Esmeir in Coversation with Adalah's Suhad Bishara, Marking Land Day in Palestine; and Lina Attalah on the Future of Egypt Independent Newspaper
30 March marks Land Day in Palestine. On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Professor Samera Esmeir speaks with Suhad Bishara, Director of the Land and Planning Rights Unit of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, about Israel's contemporary land policies. Egypt Independent, a weekly English language newspaper and its website have become one of the premier sources of news, information and analysis on Egyptian politics, arts and culture. Yet, ...
Keep Reading »Noura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
This week US President Barack Obama made his first Middle East visit of his second term in office. It was also his first trip to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since coming into office in 2008. The purpose of the trip was to warm chilled relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as well as to reiterate the US position towards Iran's nuclear power ambitions. In many ways, the trip signaled Obama's retreat from the region rather than the first step in an intensified ...
Keep Reading »أسامة سعيد: بيان العنف
[ بمناسبة مرور عامين على اندلاع الثورة السورية، توجّهت "جدلية" إلى عدد من الكتاب السوريّين بحزمة أسئلة تنطلق من مقولة فانون حول العنف ودوره في التغيير الثوري. تقارب الأسئلة جدلية العنف والسلم في التغيير السياسي. فتقف عند مفهوم الثورة السلمية وإمكانية تحقيقها على أرض الواقع. كما تتعرض إلى العنف كوسيلة للتحرّر، خصوصاً من نظام حكم استبدادي. والمدى الذي تفرض فيه طبيعة الحكم وسائل مقارعتها ومقاومتها. والسؤال المحوري: ما العمل؟] نصبَ النظامُ خشبة المسرح التراجيدي، فاتحاً الأبواب كلّها لقتل ...
Keep Reading »She Who Tells a Story: Interview with the Photography Collective Rawiya
[Rawiya is a collective of photographers from the Middle East, which is garnering accolades and attention internationally. The members are Myriam Abdelaziz (Egypt/France, based in NY/Cairo), Tamara Abdul Hadi (Iraq/Canada, based in Beirut), Laura Boushnak (Palestine, based in Sarajevo), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan/US, based in East Jerusalem), Dalia Khamissy (Lebanon, based in Beirut) and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran, based in Tehran). They concentrate on in-depth projects that explore a wide range of important ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Refugees in Jordan and the Revocation of Citizenship: An Interview with Anis F. Kassim
[Anis F. Kassim is an international law expert and practicing lawyer in Jordan. He was a member of the Palestinian legal defense team before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the 2004 landmark case on Israel’s separation wall, and that led to the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The following interview was originally published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee ...
Keep Reading »Meet AbdelRahman Mansour Who Made 25 January A Date to Remember
AbdelRahman Mansour is the cyberactivist who set the date of 25 January for the Egyptian revolution. It is time for you to meet him. In June 2010, at twenty-three years old, AbdelRahman approached Wael Ghonim to set up a Facebook page and anti-torture campaign in honor of Khaled Said, the Alexandrian killed at the hands of police. The two had been working together as administrators (or admins) on Mohamed ElBaradei’s Facebook page and were ready to take their cyber-campaigning to the next level. The ...
Keep Reading »Advocacy, Uprising, and Authoritarianism in Bahrain: An Interview With Ahmed Al-Haddad
Almost two years after the beginning of the February 14 uprising, the Bahraini regime is still struggling to crush the ongoing political and civil rights movement, all the while working to rehabilitate Bahrain’s “tainted” image. Media blackouts, relentless surveillance and scare tactics, arbitrary detentions, anti-protester violence, and expensive Public Relations campaigns have become daily occurrences. Yet on 20 January 2013, Bahraini authorities met with Amnesty International in order to showcase ...
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