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The Body Cannot Live Without the Mind: Egyptian Cultural Discourse in the Wake of the Revolution
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Once again I am perusing the cultural press and once again I am distressed. It is partly the same old disappointment in frivolous topics being overblown and muthaqqaf (or intellectual) responses to ideas and events being, as if by definition, politicized. It is partly the persistent perception of "the intellectuals" -- for which read, very simply, agents of cultural activity of any kind -- as something over and above what they do or more often fail to do adequately: the madness of presupposing that, irrespective of the nature or extent of their work, intellectuals are not only producers of discourse but also, and perpetually, agents of transformation, ...
Keep Reading »صبحي حديدي: حلقة الأسد الأمنية، حتمية التفكك… بعد اختبار النار
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يواصل أناس من أمثال العميد ماهر الأسد (شقيق بشار الأسد، والقائد الفعلي للحرس الجمهوري)، والعميد ذي الهمة شاليش (ابن عمّة الأسد، ورئيس حرسه الشخصي، والمشرف الفعلي على جهاز أمن الرئاسة)، والعميد حافظ مخلوف (ابن خالة الأسد، والضابط الأبرز في الفرع 251 والأقوى نفوذاً في جهاز المخابرات العامة بأسره)، واللواء علي مملوك (المدير الرسمي للجهاز ذاته)، إدارة الحلّ الأمني في شتى أساليبه وتنويعاته وأسلحته. ومنذ أواسط آذار (مارس) الماضي وحتى الساعة، أنجزت قراراتهم الميدانية الحصيلة التالية، إذا اكتفى المرء بالأرقام وحدها: 1.647 من الشهداء، بينهم أطفال ونساء وشيوخ؛ 2.918 من المفقودين، الذين لا يُعرف لهم مكان اعتقال، أو مصير؛ 26.000 من الذين اعتُقلوا، مرّة أو أكثر، وتعرّضوا لصنوف وحشية ...
Keep Reading »IGLYO General Assembly Withdrawn from Israel
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[The following joint statement was released on Thursday July 28, 2011, by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO and Israel Gay Youth (IGY) announcing the withdrawal of the upcoming 2011 IGLYO General Assembly from Israel.] Joint Statement from IGLYO and IGY on the 2011 General Assembly IGLYO and Israel Gay Youth (IGY) would like to announce the withdrawal of the General Assembly (GA) from Israel. Over the past months IGLYO and IGY have worked closely to plan and shape the 2011 GA. As you are aware, there has been much debate on the proposed location of the GA by IGLYO Member Organisations and also ...
Keep Reading »The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
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What was originally announced as a “Friday of Unity” was anything but that. You can call it, the Friday of Disunity, The Friday of Bigotry and Reaction, the Friday of Religious Fanaticism. For weeks, the Islamist forces, without exception, have been denouncing the Tahrir sit-in, spreading all sorts of cheap, filthy, sensationalist lies against the largely secular protesters, amid agitation by SCAF also, that already incited Abbassiya residents against marchers on 23 July. The Islamist forces, whose leaders, also without any exceptions, are in one way or another allied to the SCAF awaiting their shares of the booties in the coming parliamentary elections and ...
Keep Reading »Sowing the Arab Spring
Rami Zurayk, Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2011. Is there a link between the decline in the availability of hearty village bread in Lebanon and the Arab revolutions of the past several months? In Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring, Rami Zurayk, Professor of Agronomy at the American University of Beirut, answers in the affirmative and goes on to show why. Food could be fairly described as the book version of Zurayk's essential blog "Land and People." Like the blog, the book covers a wide range of topics, from Israel-Palestine to international trade to food production, small-scale ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Mentor - Museum Operations; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
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Mentor – Museum Operations Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Visit http://welsfareassociation.org for more information. Reports to Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce Brief Job Description The Mentor of Museum Operations is a consultant Advisor hired by the Palestinian Museum Task Force of the Welfare Association. This position will act as a Senior Advisor to the Director of Museum Operations, providing general counsel and guidance on all aspects of operations while the Museum is in its developmental phase. The Mentor of Museum Operations will work ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Director of Museum Operations; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
Director of Museum Operations Job Overview Job Title Director, Museum Operations Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Visit http://welsfareassociation.org for more information. Brief Job Description The Director is the chief operating officer of the Palestinian Museum accountable to the Palestinian Museum Taskforce for the realization of the approved vision, mission and values, and the implementation of Taskforce approved business and corporate plans. Reporting to the Taskforce, the Director is responsible for conducting the affairs of the Museum, ...
Keep Reading »On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufism: An Interview with Nile Green
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In the following conversation with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Professor of History Nile Green discusses some of the issues arising from the study of “Muslims of South Asia and the wider Persianate world.” The bulk of the interview addresses issues related to the study of the history of South Asia, Sufism, and Islam. It concludes with some advice for graduate students struggling to define their research agendas. The interview was originally conducted in the spring of 2009. Ziad Abu-Rish (ZA): Your bio on the UCLA Department of History website lists your field as South Asia. How would you describe your academic ...
Keep Reading »Can the Palestinian Leadership Pave the Way from Statehood to Independence?
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Middle Eastern analysts concerned with the Palestinian statehood bid have rightly highlighted the benefits conferred by such status. They assume, however, that the current Palestinian leadership is willing to take the necessary steps in order to lead Palestinians from statehood on paper to independence in practice. In the early 1990s, the Palestinian leadership supplanted its struggle for self-determination with a state-building project. In its narrow pursuit of a mandate to govern, it placed undue faith in the US’s willingness, and arguably its ability, to pressure Israel to end its prolonged occupation thus shunning a resistance platform. In its bid for statehood, the ...
Keep Reading »The Reemergence of the Jihadist Salafis in Jordan
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Observers of Islamist politics during the Arab uprisings noticed that the Muslim Brotherhood has been late to the game but few have taken notice of a group of Jordanian Islamists who have taken to streets with knives, clubs, and a very provocative message. The Jihadist Salafi Movement in Jordan capitalized on the growing tensions throughout the region by engaging in open protest. One of their largest demonstrations on April 15th resulted in a major clash with police forces, leaving eighty-three policemen wounded, with four in critical condition, and numerous civilian causalities. This protest was the sixth public appearance of the banned Jihadist Salafis since their ...
Keep Reading »After Oslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism
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European media coverage of the Norwegian tragedy has led with dangerous and clichéd arguments about ‘Islamic extremism’ and multiculturalism, even after the identity of the killer was confirmed – thus contributing to the mainstreaming of racism that helped make Breivik what he is. An hour before Anders Breivik embarked on his massacre of the innocents, he distributed his manifesto online. In 1500 pages, this urgent message identified “cultural Marxists”, “multiculturalists”, anti-Zionists and leftists as “traitors” who are allowing Christian Europe to be overtaken by Muslims. He subsequently murdered dozens of these ‘traitors’, the majority of them children, at a ...
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 »Salafis in Tahrir
A few notes on yesterday's demonstration in Tahrir, generally viewed as an Islamist show of force. First, the numbers. Based on visual cues (beards, galabiyas), signs and slogans I'm guessing at least ninety percent of those in Tahrir were affiliated with the Islamists, and at least half of those were Salafi. I am guessing also that this was one of the half dozen largest Tahrir "million" rallies since January. The square wasn't elbow-to-elbow all the way through, but it was elbow-to-elbow in ...
Keep Reading »The Syrian Regime's Escalation of Violence: Links to Media Reports
According to Syrian protesters and activists, as well as regional and international media, today--Sunday July 31, 2011--is thus far the bloodiest and deadliest day of the more than four-month-old Syrian uprising. Numerous accounts and reports have described what can only be considered a dramatic escalation in the Syrian regime's brutal campaign of repression, including mass arrests, the use of live ammunition, and the shelling of entire neighborhoods. Estimates of today's death-toll range between 95 and ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World, 1450-Present; Assistant or Associate Professor of History; UCSC
Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World, 1450-present Assistant or Associate Professor; University of California, Santa Cruz The History Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a position at the Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate (tenured) Professor level in the history of the early modern or modern Muslim Mediterranean/Middle East, with a chronological focus in the period between 1450 and the present and a geographical focus centering on all or part of the ...
Keep Reading »Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring
The Arab spring, as far as we can see, appears to require no guardian intellectual authority, no political leadership, no organized parties. In fact even after revolutionary success, those elements still fail to materialize: there is no party of the revolution anywhere, no leader emerges to embody its historical spirit, and intellectuals still ponder the meaning of revolutions that most of them endorsed but none expected. Furthermore, these apparent absences—political, organizational, intellectual--were ...
Keep Reading »Report on Exiles from Libya Fleeing to Egypt
[The following is the latest from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on the situation facing migrant workers and Libyan nationals fleeing Libya as refugees.] Exiles from Libya Flee to Egypt: Double Tragedy for Sub-Saharan Africans INTRODUCTION 1. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and refugees flee Libya The conflict that began in Libya on 17 February 2011 with a popular revolt against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi, following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Head of Research and Collections; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
Head of Research and Collections Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Brief Job Description Reporting to the Director of Museum Operations, and working as a member of the Senior Leadership team of the Museum, and as the Senior Curator of the Museum, the Head of Research and Collections provides day-to-day leadership and direction to the curatorial team and staff within the Division. The Head contributes ...
Keep Reading »Call for Abstracts: Health of Palestinians Inside and Outside the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Beirut, 5-6 March, 2012)
Health of Palestinians inside and outside the Occupied Palestinian Territory Beirut, 5-6 March 2011 The Center for Research on Population and Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, in collaboration with the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University, is pleased to invite submission of abstracts for presentation at its upcoming LPHA Second Conference “Health of Palestinians inside and outside the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, which ...
Keep Reading »The Syrian Regime's Slow-motion Suicide
[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on Syrian popular protest and the direction of the Syrian regime.] The Syrian Regime’s Slow-motion Suicide Executive Summary Desperate to survive at all costs, Syria’s regime appears to be digging its grave. It did not have to be so. The protest movement is strong and getting stronger but yet to reach critical mass. Unlike toppled Arab leaders, President Bashar Assad enjoyed some genuine popularity. Many Syrians dread chaos and their ...
Keep Reading »What is a Citizen? (Or, What if Layla Were Prime Minister?)
On the surface, the question “What is a Citizen?” seems easy to answer. A citizen is a person who is endowed with legal rights by, and duties to, the country of which one is a citizen. Thus, a U.S. citizen is someone who is allowed to vote in U.S. state and federal elections, to serve in the U.S. armed forces, to pass that citizenship on to their spouse and/or children, is entitled to state and federal social services, and who must file state and federal taxes. Similarly, in Lebanon, a citizen must also ...
Keep Reading »Breaking the Siege and the Diplomatic Impasse: An Interview with Huwaida Arraf
[This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat. Huwaida Arraf is Chairperson of the Gaza Freedom Movement Coalition and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.] NE: Let's get some of the basics first—how many passengers were a part of the Freedom Flotilla II? How many ships and how many nations did they represent? HA: Twenty-two initiatives or national campaigns participated in organizing Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human. Each of these had hundreds, if not ...
Keep Reading »The Arab Spring: Common Roots, Common Challenges
Ongoing revolutions in the Arab world signify another iteration of a process the world has witnessed before in various regions, including Southern and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Observers were wondering why the cloud of democracy passed over the Arab World without raining. This question led analysts to believe in what was called “Arab exceptionalism,” or the alleged incompatibility of the societies of the region with democratic development. This claim resonated with the ...
Keep Reading »عضوية فلسطين بالأمم المتحدة والقانون الدولي
"العضوية بالأمم المتحدة مفتوحة أمام جميع الدول المحبة للسلام"، وردت هذه العبارة في ميثاق الأمم المتحدة الذي يتابع بأن قبول دولة ما كعضو بالأمم المتحدة يعتمد على "قرار تتخذه الجمعية العامة بالاعتماد على توصية من مجلس الأمن". تبدو الشروط قابلة للتنفيذ، ولكن الواقع القائم للسياسة الدولية لا ينفك منذ عقود يسدّ الطريق أمام فلسطين لحصولها على عضوية في هذه المنظمة الدولية. وقد أشارت إدارة أوباما بأنها تنوي إستخدام حق النقض،الفيتو، ضد قرار مجلس الأمن، وذلك خوفاً من أن يؤدي هذا القرار إلى نزع ...
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