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O.I.L. Media Roundup (17 June)
![[Village of Battir. Image by Idobi. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Batir-1.JPG "[Village of Battir. Image by Idobi. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week.] News "NSA Collecting Phone Record of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily," Glenn Greenwald Greenwald details a secret court order wherein the NSA obtained the communications records of all domestic call data. "Palestine Drops Bid to Register New UNESCO Heritage Site," Ammar Owaineh, ...
Keep Reading »Iran’s Presidential Elections: The Live Embers of a Democratic Opposition Glow
![[Demonstration in support of Rouhani on the eve of the election.]](/content_images/3/sm_leili_newtopimage.jpg "[Demonstration in support of Rouhani on the eve of the election.]")
Something significant and electric is taking place in Iran, and consuming many Iranians around the world in advance of the presidential elections that are set to take place on Friday, 14 June 2013. Over the last few days, segments of a broad Iranian democratic opposition have increasingly taken to the streets in multiple cities across the country. They have claimed public space in a way that has been inconceivable since the brutal repression of the large and broad-based popular civil rights movement that followed the last (2009) presidential election. The Green Movement of 2009 demanded free and fair elections, accountability for government repression (including ...
Keep Reading »The Complicated Legacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
![[Mahmour Ahmadinejad greeting supporters in Azadi Square, Qazvin, Iran on 6 May 2009. Photo by kamshots via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_Ahmadinejadelectionsindependent.jpg "[Mahmour Ahmadinejad greeting supporters in Azadi Square, Qazvin, Iran on 6 May 2009. Photo by kamshots via Flickr]")
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office, after finishing his second four-year term as Iran’s president, his tenure as the firebrand public face of a country, almost exclusively seen in Western media as a pariah and a threat to world security, will have left a lasting impact on the international stage. Mainly on account of a series of politically distasteful opinions, from his denial of the Holocaust and calls for the destruction of Israel to the claim that no gays exist in Iran, his international legacy will not soon be forgotten. He is sure to be the safest object of reference and scorn for years to come for those seeking an example of a defiant ruler professing his own ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (24 May)
![[Close Guantanamo Protest in San Francisco, California, May 3 2013. Image by Debra Sweet/World Can't Wait.]](/content_images/3/sm_8740641588_826ebe0f10_z.jpg "[Close Guantanamo Protest in San Francisco, California, May 3 2013. Image by Debra Sweet/World Can't Wait.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week.] News "US Admits Drones Killed Four Americans," Al Jazeera English Video report and text from Al Jazeera detailing a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder confirming the deaths of four American civilians at the hands of drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. "David Cameron to Chair Cobra ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition (April 2013)
![[Qalandiya checkpoint graffiti. Image by Anna Lund Bjørnsen.]](/content_images/3/sm_6240341182_bb007c1fbd_z.jpg "[Qalandiya checkpoint graffiti. Image by Anna Lund Bjørnsen.]")
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a release form to post@jadaliyya.com [click "Submissions" on the main page for more information] Sara Roy on Dispossessing Palestine ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 24)
![[The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Photo by Kathleen T. Rhem.]](/content_images/3/sm_big_Camp_Delta,_Guantanamo_Bay,_Cuba.jpg "[The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Photo by Kathleen T. Rhem.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Hebron Clashes Follow Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh Funeral," BBC News Following the funeral of a Palestinian detainee who died in Israeli custody, Hebron has witnessed violence between Palestinians protestors and Israeli troops. "Guantanamo Hunger Strike Holds, Half Of Detainees Involved: ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition (March 2013)
![[Feb. 4, 2012: International Day of Action: NO U.S. War on Iran. Activists rally in Times Square, NYC and march to UN and Israeli Embassy to protest war mongering against Iran, sanctions and drone strikes. Photo by David M. Grossman.]](/content_images/3/sm_6844732543_c2a117a692_b.jpg "[Feb. 4, 2012: International Day of Action: NO U.S. War on Iran. Activists rally in Times Square, NYC and march to UN and Israeli Embassy to protest war mongering against Iran, sanctions and drone strikes. Photo by David M. Grossman.]")
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a release form to post@jadaliyya.com [click "Submissions" on the main page for more information] Caught Shopping While Iranian: ...
Keep Reading »Noura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
![[Left to right: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami on Up With Chris Hayes. Image from screen shot if below video]](/content_images/3/sm_rash.png "[Left to right: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami on Up With Chris Hayes. Image from screen shot if below video]")
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 approach to it. Obama's "Listening Tour" sought to strengthen his political leverage in the United States by appeasing a domestic constituency, and especially an ...
Keep Reading »Reporters Without Borders Enemies of Internet Report Features Iran, Bahrain, and Syria
![[Image from surveillance.rsf.org]](/content_images/3/sm_rwpenemyweb.jpg "[Image from surveillance.rsf.org]")
[The following report was issued by Reporters Without Borders on 11 March 2013.] The Enemies of Internet -- Special Edition: Surveillance Introduction: Era of the Digital Mercenaries “My computer was arrested before I was.” This perceptive comment was made by a Syrian activist who had been arrested and tortured by the Assad regime. Caught by means of online surveillance, Karim Taymour told a Bloomberg journalist that, during interrogation, he was shown a stack of hundreds of pages of printouts of his Skype chats and files downloaded remotely from his computer hard drive. His torturers clearly knew as much as if they had been with him in his room, ...
Keep Reading »Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
![[ICG logo. Image from crisisgroup.org]](/content_images/3/sm_ICGlogoweb.jpg "[ICG logo. Image from crisisgroup.org]")
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 25 February 2013.] Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions Executive Summary With war a frightening prospect and fruitful negotiations a still-distant dream, sanctions have become the West’s instrument of choice vis-à-vis Iran. They are everywhere: in the financial arena, barring habitual commercial relations; in the oil sector, choking off Tehran’s principal source of currency; in the insurance sector, thwarting its ability to transport goods. Without doubt, they are crippling Iran’s economy. But are they succeeding? By at least one important criterion (the intensity of Western ...
Keep Reading »Joint Statement on Iranian Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest
![[Human Rights Watch logo. Image from hrw.org]](/content_images/3/sm_HRWlogoTRUEweb.jpg "[Human Rights Watch logo. Image from hrw.org]")
[The following statement was issued by a group of human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, on 14 February 2013.] The Iranian authorities should immediately release from arbitrary house arrest two former presidential candidates, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mir Hossein Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, an author and political activist, the Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, and six leading human rights groups said today. The authorities should also stop harassing or detaining without cause the couple’s two daughters and Karroubi’s son. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance
Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Dina Rizk Khoury (DRK): The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was the chief impetus for writing this book. I had been about halfway through writing a book on the politics of reform and rebellion in Ottoman Baghdad when the build-up for the 2003 invasion began. Ottoman Baghdad receded very quickly from my focus. I was frustrated as a historian and as an opponent of the war with the way that Iraq was reduced to a set of symbols and catch phrases—Saddam Hussain, the sanctions, WMD, Ba’th oppression, ...
Keep Reading »Will the Presidential Elections “Cure the Pain” of the Iranian People?
Do not just look at the pictures of Iranians celebrating late into the night in Tehran’s streets. Listen, they are singing Yar-e Dabestani-ye Man [My Grade School Friend]. This old Iranian protest song has become the unofficial anthem of the student movement. Tyranny’s welt on our flesh Has not faded with time The fields of our culture Have grown wild with neglect... Who but you and I Has power to cure our pain? Unlike the highly contentious presidential elections in 2009, the morning after ...
Keep Reading »A Crucial Election for Iran's Reform Movement
Today, Iranians cast their vote for the country’s eleventh presidential election. It certainly will not be an easy decision, with a field of candidates that lack any sense of major diversity in their policies and ideologies. With one glaring exception, the deck is stacked in favor of the conservative elites. As any astute student of Iran knows, predicting the outcome of the election is virtually impossible. The only conclusion thus far is that the road has not been kind to the reformists this election ...
Keep Reading »The Islamophobia Industry and Iran's First Virtual Presidential Candidate
The director of United for Iran, a human rights organization, and co-author of the best-selling graphic novel, Zahra’s Paradise, have launched a virtual presidential campaign to draw attention to the lack of democratic processes and viable candidates in this year’s carefully engineered elections in Iran. The presidential nominee, Zahra is the heroine of the graphic novel, Zahra’s Paradise. Her nineteen-year-old son, Mehdi, disappeared after participating in demonstrations against ...
Keep Reading »Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Today, as violence intensifies in Syria, external powers, including the United States, are openly debating direct intervention. Such intervention is justified as serving multiple goals at once: it is a means of securing chemical weapons caches; a mechanism to protect the civilian population; and a necessary measure to ensure that the successors to the Asad regime are adequately beholden to the United States and its regional allies. However, whether the intentions are humanitarian or strategic, policies ...
Keep Reading »Why Domestic Politics Still Matter in Iran’s Nuclear Policymaking
The first round of nuclear talks in Kazakhstan raised optimism on the prospect of reaching a diplomatic solution for Iran’s nuclear crisis. Sanctions are crushing Iran’s economy. Meanwhile, the turmoil in its ally Syria and the rise of Sunni Islamism in the Middle East is undermining Iran’s strategic position. The overall regional and domestic situation appears to have forced Iran to revise its nuclear approach. Therefore, not surprisingly, Iran started the first round of recent nuclear talks with a ...
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 »Caught Shopping While Iranian: Diasporic Solidarity and the Globalization of Collective Punishment
In recent years, the Iranian New Year, Norooz, has become a fairly predictable time for US presidents to gesture towards “dialogue” and mutual respect between the United States and the Iranian people, while criticizing the repressive policies and nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). George W. Bush spoke often of the Iranian people’s right to live in a “free society,” and ended his presidency with an opulent haft sin display in the dining room of the White House. More recently, ...
Keep Reading »Reading Poetry in Tehran: The Case of the Forbidden
Sholeh Wolpé, The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exiles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. La redonda, suprema y celestial sandía Es la fruta del árbol de la sed Es la ballena verde del verano At a Chilean food market in Santiago, a young fruit vendor hums verses in praise of watermelons: “Watermelon: round, supreme and celestial / it’s the fruit of the tree of thirst / it’s the green whale of summer.” The poem’s eloquent simplicity and creative metaphors pique ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta, Civil Society in Syria and Iran
Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta, editors, Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this book? Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta (PA & FC): We started collaborating in early 2009 on a project looking at civil society dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa. We were not entirely satisfied with the mainstream understanding of civil society activism and its natural or inevitable link to ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 26)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "In Syria, New Influx of Weapons to Rebels Tilts the Battle Against Assad", Liz Sly, Karen DeYoung Sly and DeYoung of The ...
Keep Reading »عقوبات الغرب على إيران
منذ عقود يُبرِّر الغرب عقوباته المفروضة على إيران بفكرة سردية تفترض أن العقوبات ستجبر الحُكام المتسلطين في إيران على العودة إلى رشدهم وستضع حداً لانتهاكاتهم، سواء خارج البلاد أو داخلها. ويرى الغرب أن تلك العقوبات "الجراحية" تضيّق حبل المشنقة حول عنق الطغاة بدقة متناهية، بشكل سيجعلهم يراجعون بتعقل سياستهم الخارجية ويرفعون أيديهم الملطخة بالدماء عن عنق شعبهم المغلوب على أمره. ويبدو للغرب جمال هذه الفكرة من حيث أنها قد تضرب عصفورين بحجر: فالعقوبات تضيّق، من جهة، الخناق على مرتكبي الانتهاكات ...
Keep Reading »Ben Affleck's "Argo": A Movie about a Movie
Argo. Directed by Ben Affleck. USA, 2012. 1. Suspense and Espionage for a New Era As the awarding of the Oscars draws near, one is reminded of what is not being said. The kerfuffle around Zero Dark Thirty's representations of torture has been interesting, but no less than the docile reception among reviewers and awards voters regarding the far more competitive of the film's set in West Asia, Ben Affleck's Argo. At one level, Affleck has created a rousing espionage entertainment for our times. The ...
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