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Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat on China Radio International's Big Debate
In the below interview that was conducted on 21 November 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat is part of a panel discussion on China Radio International's Big Debate to discuss recent developments regarding Israel's assault on Gaza. In addition to Noura Erakat, the panel features Daniel Levy (European Council on Foreign Relations) and Hua Liming (former Chinese ambassador to Iran).
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Raji Sourani and Richard Falk on Gaza Assault and International Humanitarian Law
![[Screenshot of Interview with Raji Sourani. Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-11-20at7.42.15AM.png "[Screenshot of Interview with Raji Sourani. Image from video below.]")
President Obama has announced his full support for Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip even as dozens of Palestinians, including many civilians, continue to be killed by U.S.-supplied weaponry. At least ninety-five Palestinians have been killed in air strikes by warplanes and drones. More than seven hundred have been wounded, including two hundred children. On Sunday, a massive air strike leveled a home in Gaza City killing twelve people, including ten members of the same family. Over the past week, rockets fired from Gaza have killed three Israelis. We go to Gaza to speak with Raji Sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer and director of the ...
Keep Reading »The One-State Solution and Rebuilding the Palestinian National Movement: An Interview with Awad Abdel Fattah (Part One)
![[NDA secretary general Awad Abdel Fattah pictured with Ronnie Kasrils during his visit to South Africa in 2008.]](/content_images/3/sm_kasrilsschmelz.jpg "[NDA secretary general Awad Abdel Fattah pictured with Ronnie Kasrils during his visit to South Africa in 2008.]")
[This is the first installment of a two-part interview. Part Two was also published on Jadaliyya on 16 November 2012.] The following interview was conducted in Nazareth with Awad Abdel Fattah, secretary general of the National Democratic Assembly party. The NDA (Al-Tajamoa in Arabic, and Balad in Hebrew) is one of three parties in the Israeli parliament representing Israel’s Palestinian minority, which numbers 1.4 million and comprises nearly a fifth of the country’s population. The NDA is best known for the activities of its former leader, Azmi Bishara, who was forced into exile in 2007 after Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, accused him of ...
Keep Reading »Exclusive: Shahin Najafi on the Perils of Being an Artist in Iran
![[cover of Shahin Najafi's album Hich Hich Hich. photo by Reza Ahmadi]](/content_images/3/sm_ShahinNajafi-HichHichHich.jpg_thumb.jpg "[cover of Shahin Najafi's album Hich Hich Hich. photo by Reza Ahmadi]")
Iranian musician and songwriter Shahin Najafi describes himself as an artist who shows no mercy to any group or any part of the political spectrum. In his work nothing appears to be sacred; his lyrics constantly question political authoritarianism, social injustice, ideological dogmas, and cultural taboos. Shahin Najafi’s defiant spirit put him at loggerheads with the authorities in Iran and compelled him to leave the country in 2004 in order to continue his work without fear of persecution. But even that did not end his troubles with Iranian authorities. Earlier this year, he had to take temporary refuge in a house near Cologne, Germany after a cleric in Iran ...
Keep Reading »(a(version)s) interviews: Mohamed Abdelkarim and Rough Americana
It was October of 2011: sixty-seven years after one of the first compositions involving sampled sound, a haunting mutation of Egyptian zaar music, was created in Cairo by Halim El Dabh.1 I was holed up in a soundproof studio in Ashkal Alwan, between the echoes of the sea bouncing off the mountains above Beirut, beyond the relentless cacophony of cars and construction. I was alone in the studio with a record player, piecing together a new beat, diving into a stack of newly acquired records, searching for a sample (a ritual excavation). As the record spun at its hypnotic 33rpm’s, I inadvertently started a conversation that would last ten months—a conversation ...
Keep Reading »Labor Strikes in Egypt; Iran Tribunal in London
![[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]](/content_images/3/sm_Khavaran-cemetery.jpg "[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]")
For the past week, the world's attention has been focused on the protests in front of US embassies in Muslim majority countries. There has been special attention devoted to the protests in front of the American embassy in Cairo. However, Egyptians were gearing up for a different kinds of protest! Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam El-Hamalawy speaks about the recent wave of labour strikes in Egypt. Nancy Hormeshea, a human rights lawyer, discusses the Iran Tribunal, a commission modeled after the Burton Russell peoples' court tribunal on Vietnam. In the summer of 1988, following a decree by Ayatollah Khomeni, over five thousand political prisoners were ...
Keep Reading »When the Lights Go Out: A Discussion with David Theo Goldberg
![[David Theo Goldberg. Image via the author.]](/content_images/3/sm_DTG.jpg "[David Theo Goldberg. Image via the author.]")
David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the world’s leading figures in Critical Race Theory. Ten years ago he started SECT (the summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory). From 29 July - 9 August, the eighth session of SECT was held in Beirut, Lebanon on the theme of “Spaces of Resistance.” What follows is a conversation I conducted with David Theo Goldberg during the Seminar, intercut with my reflections as a participant in SECT VIII. Ten days discussing critical theory were punctuated by a series of moments when the lights went out. Of ...
Keep Reading »The Future of Media in Egypt: An Interview with Hisham Kassem
![[Hisham Kassem. Image from below video.]](/content_images/3/sm_futureofthemediaegypt.jpg "[Hisham Kassem. Image from below video.]")
Hisham Kassem is one of the most respected publishers and democracy advocates in Egypt. He spoke with Linda Herrera (Co-Editor of Jadaliyya's On Media and Reporting page) and AbdelRahman Mansour (activist and new media journalist) about why he left his position as publisher at Al-Masry al-Youm, on media coverage of the revolution, on social media as a game changer, and his new media venture, Al Gomhouriya al-Gadida. The interview took place in Cairo at the future headquarters of Al-Gomhuriya al-Gadida on 27 June 2012.
Keep Reading »Jordan's Current Political Opposition Movements and the Need for Further Research: An Interview with Tariq Tell (Part 2)
![[King Abdullah II and Queen Rania wave from a motorcade during an official celebration of the 10th anniversary of the king's accession to the throne in Amman, 9 June 2009. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_AP090609015178.jpg "[King Abdullah II and Queen Rania wave from a motorcade during an official celebration of the 10th anniversary of the king's accession to the throne in Amman, 9 June 2009. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo]")
The following is the second and final installement in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq Tell, a Jordanian scholar and activist. In this second part, Tell discusses the positions of various contemporary socio-political forces towards the Hashemite regime and outlines important areas for much-needed further research on the history and politics of state building and regime-society dynamics in Jordan. Click here to read Part 1, where Tell discusses the history of the Hashemite regime and Jordanian state formation, as well as the broad ...
Keep Reading »In the Arab World, Social Media Has Fast Developed into a Medium for the Masses
![[Poster from 2011 Protests in Egypt. Image by Essam Sharaf via Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_facebookrev.jpg "[Poster from 2011 Protests in Egypt. Image by Essam Sharaf via Wikimedia Commons]")
[The following interview was issued by Arabic Knowledge @ Wharton on 12 June 2012.] During Tunisia's revolution, Asma Mansour's parents kept her locked at home for her own safety. But Mansour was continuously in touch with those on the street and from her computer, updated through Facebook and Skype on the latest. Being president of the Tunisian chapter of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) and an alumna of AIESEC, an international youth leadership development organization, she had a large network at home and abroad. She also sifted through reports of events to confirm their validity as she dispensed details from one area to another. When her father unplugged ...
Keep Reading »Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon’s magnum opus, was published in 1961, a few days after his death. The book was not only influential for several generations of grassroots movements and activists in Africa, the United States, and Latin America; it was also discussed and debated extensively in intellectual circles across the globe. The reception of the book was more mitigated in the Arab world. This might be due to Fanon’s sweeping criticism of national bourgeoisie, which seized power after decolonization and became an intermediary class between Western powers and local populations. The Martiniquan intellectual was skeptical of revolutions from above, as was the ...
Keep Reading »On Defections and Developments in Syria: PBS NewsHour Interview with Bassam Haddad and David Lesch
![[Bassam Haddad. Image from PBS NewsHour]](/content_images/3/sm_bassampbs.jpg "[Bassam Haddad. Image from PBS NewsHour]")
The following interview was conducted by Margert Warner on PBS's NewsHour. It aired live on Monday 6 August 2012, and featured Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad and Professor David Lesch. The interview primarily discussed the wave of recent defections and their significance (or lack thereof) in the ongoing struggle between the Syrian regime and various opposition forces. An interview transcript is available below the video.
Keep Reading »Russia Today Interview with Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Others on Gaza Assault
In the following joint appearance on Russia Today's Cross Talk, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses the Israeli assault on Gaza, highlighting the on-the-ground situation, the backdrop to this current attack, and the ways in which genuine resolution would need to be achived.
Keep Reading »The One-State Solution and Rebuilding the Palestinian National Movement: An Interview with Awad Abdel Fattah (Part Two)
[This is the second installment of a two-part interview. Part One was also published on Jadaliyya on 16 November 2012.] Jonathan Cook (JC): So what is the most effective role Palestinian citizens can play in Israeli politics, assuming that a Jewish state will always exclude them from the centers of power? Awad Abdel Fattah (AAF): Our traditional strength derived from the fact that we, as a community, survived the ethnic cleansing of 1948 [the nakba]. We remained in our homeland, even ...
Keep Reading »The Situation in Gaza: Ali Abunimah on Al-Jazeera
Co-Founder of Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, addresses the latest Israeli assault on Gaza. Abunimah's writings can be accessed here.
Keep Reading »The Tunisian Revolution Continues: An Interview with Lina Ben Mhenni
[On Tuesday, 9 October, Tunisian blogger and activist, Lina Ben Mhenni, was awarded the "Prix alsacien de l'engagement démocratique" for her activities and involvement during the Tunisian Revolution. She blogs at A Tunisian Girl and also contributes to Global Voices.] Samia Errazzouki (SE): Regarding the drafting of the new constitution, as a Tunisian woman, how do you respond to the proposed article 28 that defines women as complements of men? Lina Ben Mhenni (LBM): The attacks against ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Workers and the Revolution: An Interview with Kamal Abu-Eita
The following interview was conducted on 14 September 2012 with Kamal Abu-Eita, General Secretary of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU) and the head of the Real Estate Tax Authority Union, which was founded in 2008 as Egypt’s first independent union. In the first part of the interview, Abu-Eita recounts the lead-up to the January 25 Revolution and how workers’ long-standing struggle for social justice has provided the momentum that paved the way for the eighteen-day uprising. He ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam & the Arab Awakening"
As anti-U.S. protests spread across the Middle East, we’re joined by Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Qatar. Ramadan is considered one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals in Europe and was named by Time magazine as one of the most important innovators of the 21st century. He was barred from entering the United States for many years by former President George W. Bush. In 2004, Ramadan had ...
Keep Reading »About the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran: An Interview with Mansour Farhang
Iran was host to the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on 26-31 August 2012. In order to hold this gathering, the Iranian government spent a reported sum of six hundred million dollars. Tehran, a mega city of twelve million, was practically shut down for five days; a massive force of 110,000 people took over the security of the conference; 360 checkpoints were established in the city; and residents were encouraged to leave the city. The state propaganda machine went into full swing ...
Keep Reading »The Economic and Human Toll of Syria's Worsening Refugee Crisis: Democracy Now! Interview with Omar Dahi
The following interview was conducted with Omar Dahi, a Syrian professor of economics at Hampshire College on August 14th, 2012 regarding the economic consequences of the uprising in Syria, especially in terms of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The escalating conflict in Syria has magnified the refugee crisis, both internally and in neighboring countries. More than 4,000 people entered Turkey in recent days, bringing the total number of Syrian refugees there close to 60,000. There are tens of ...
Keep Reading »Interview With Kuwaiti Filmmakers
[With a desert to one side and an ocean to another, living in Kuwait can offer very strange experiences. The skies are never blue, approaching a disconcerting beige, and the night bathes in the surrealistic orange glow of street lamps. The ministries and government buildings have the facades of Soviet prisons, and remind one of a Kafka novel when entered. There is that Lynchian feeling of madness hiding behind the wholesome exterior that many wear, and the social customs, especially of the confused ...
Keep Reading »On the Nature of the Hashemite Regime and Jordanian Politics: An Interview with Tariq Tell (Part 1)
The following is the first installment in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq Tell, a Jordanian scholar and activist. In this first part, Tell discusses the history of the Hashemite regime and Jordanian state formation as well as the broad outlines of the political field that such a history has engendered. In the second part (click here to access) Tell discusses the positions of various ...
Keep Reading »Interview with Representative of Sudan Change Now
[Over the last month, a protest movement has gripped Sudan. The movement pronounced Friday 13 July "Kadanka Friday" in order to highlight the role of women in the opposition movement. Below, Heather McRobie interviews Rawa Gafar Bakhit, a representative of Sudan Change Now, about the overall course of the movement and women's role in #SudanRevolts. The interview was published by OpenDemocracy on 19 July 2012. ] Heather McRobie (HM): What are the goals of #SudanRevolts? ...
Keep Reading »Reflections on a Lifetime of Engagement with Zionism, the Palestine Question, and American Empire: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
In the following interview conducted for the Journal of Palestine Studies by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Noam Chomsky reflects on a lifetime of engagement with the Palestine Question. He reflects on his early engagement, and how it developed over the course of his lifetime. He also considers how things have –and have not—changed, and where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could and should be heading. The interview was conducted in Lexington, MA in 2009 and 2010, and the full text is available ...
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Jadaliyya’s Interview Page is a hub for all interviews published on Jadaliyya, including those in print, audio, and video formats. It features three categories of interviews: interviews conducted for Jadaliyya publication; interviews featuring Jadaliyya Co-Editors; interviews published elsewhere but considered important enough to be republished on Jadaliyya.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
- Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 2)
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- The Syrian People Will Determine the Fate of Syria: An Interview with Burhan Ghalyoun
- Interview with Hossam El-Hamalawy on Counter-Revolution in Egypt
- How Do You Finance Social Justice in Egypt? Jadaliyya Interview With Journalist Wael Gamal
- The Stunting Role of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces After the Revolution: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mohamed Waked
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