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A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism
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[The following is the latest from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) on how the U.S. government’s (USG) counter-terrorism efforts profoundly implicate and impact women and sexual minorities.] A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism Executive Summary “President Obama and I believe that the subjugation of women is a threat to the national security of the United States.” - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, March 2010 “Those subject to gender-based abuses are often caught between targeting by terrorist groups and the State’s counter-terrorism measures that may fail to prevent, investigate, prosecute or punish these acts ...
Keep Reading »برهان غليون: الشعب السوري هو من يقرر مصير سوريا وليس القوى الاجنبية
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يرى المعارض السوري البارز برهان غليون، الذي يشغل منصب مدير مركز دراسات الشرق المعاصر وأستاذ علم الاجتماع السياسي في جامعة السوربون في باريس، في الحوار التالي مع ابتسام عازم أن الثورة السورية كسرت شوكة النظام الحاكم في سوريا وشدد على أن المعارضة السورية لن تشارك في حوار شكلي معه لا يؤدي إلى انتقال سلمي إلى ديمقراطية حقيقية، كما أنها ترفض التدخل العسكري والفتنة الطائفية وإستخدام السلاح بأي شكل كان. » كيف تقرؤون المرحلة التي تعيشها سوريا بعد مرور شهور على انطلاق أكبر حركة احتجاجية ضد النظام الحاكم؟ برهان غليون: لا يوجد شك أن سوريا تمر بمرحلة تغير. لقد وصلنا إلى وضع لا يمكن العودة فيه إلى الوراء وذلك بعد شهور من المظاهرات والمسيرات السلمية وعلينا التطلع إلى ...
Keep Reading »الثورات تُسقط أنظمة الأفكار أيضاً
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«هذا أوان الحرائق، لا ينبغي أن يُرى غير النُّور» (هوسي مارتي) وصف الفيلسوف الماركسي سلافوي جيجك الانتفاضات الشعبية التي تشهدها المنطقة العربية بالمعجزة. الوصف دقيق ما دامت الحالة التي يتحدّث عنها ينطبق عليها التعريف المألوف للمعجزة، بما هي حدث خارق لم يتنبّأ بحدوثه أحد. قد يقال ردّاً على هذه المفرقعة التي أطلقها جيجك، إنّ الثورات تأتي دوماً على غفلة. وهو بذلك أدرى. ومع أنّ هذه ليست بقاعدة عامّة، فإنّها لا تعفي من ضرورة التساؤل والتأمّل في المغافلات الكبرى التي نعيشها منذ أشهر. فليس غريباً مثلاً أن تعترف وكالات الاستخبارات الإسرائيلية والأميركية بأنّها تضرب أخماساً بأسداس، لتفسير عجزها عن توقّع الانفجارات التي زعزعت «الأمن والاستقرار» في المنطقة، وشبّهها رئيس الوزراء ...
Keep Reading »The Arab Uprisings and the Priorities of the Left
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For a number of leftist intellectuals, the 2011 Arab Spring belongs to a rare category of historical events: a series of political disturbances, each one igniting the other, across an entire region of the world. There have been only three comparable examples in history: the South American wars of liberation from Spanish colonialism between 1818 and 1825; the European revolutions in the period 1848-1849; and the fall of the regimes in the Soviet bloc in the period 1989-1991. For example, the British Pakistani intellectual Tariq Ali compares the current Arab uprisings to the European events of 1848, when the revolutionary upheavals covered all of Europe, with the ...
Keep Reading »Trafficking and Foreign Labor in the Gulf: An Interview with Pardis Mahdavi
Earlier this month, the US State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, an inventory of the world’s efforts at combating the global trade in people. The 2011 report marks a turning point of sorts for US foreign policy. For the first time ever, the new TIP includes an assessment—if predictably positive—of Washington’s own attempts at battling trafficking at home. More encouraging still, the report reflects the explicit recognition that trafficking is not only about the forced prostitution of women but represents the problem of coerced labor of both women and men around the world. Despite these progressive shifts, however, the new report ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya's iPhone/iPad/iPod/iNama Kuntum App is Now Available—We Tried to Resist . . .
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We tried to resist for a almost a year, but we were constantly asked "When will you have an app for Jadaliyya?" So we developed an App for the iPhone and iPad! شو بدنا نعمل؟ This would be the Beta version as we are trying to get your feedback as to what you'd like to see on there. You can download it here for free. At this point, we have the basics on the App. You will be able to surf our recent posts, watch our Vimeo and Youtube interviews and videos, and read our tweets. And if you'd like to go to the site itself, forward any of the items you read or watch, or tweet/fb a post\video, it's all one click away. Our intention is to make reading Jadaliyya ...
Keep Reading »Palestinians Discuss September Questions in Day-Long Symposium in Al-Bireh
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The Friends School for Boys in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, was abuzz this Saturday (June 16, 2011) with community organizers and young Palestinian activists, as well as a sprinkling of older residents, all of whom were attending a conference regarding the much talked about September bid for recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN. The idea of this daylong conference of panels was for it to be an opportunity to learn what it actually entails, procedurally, to go to the UN, what are the possible outcomes and effects, and ask questions to the panelists presenting. The conference was hosted by Muwatin, The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, at the ...
Keep Reading »Culture XIV
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Although counterrevolutions are in full swing, our weekly section brings some hope, nominally and otherwise. Amal Hanano continues her meditations about Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates Amal Dunqul's powerful poem, "A Special Interview with Noah's Son." Suneela Mubayi translates Sargon Boulus's poem about Imru' al-Qays. To Die For by Amal Hanano Amal Dunqul "A Special Interview with Noah's Son" translated by Gaelle Raphael Sargon Boulus "To Imru' al-Qays on His Way to the Inferno" translated by Suneela Mubayi All previous culture posts can be found here. Tell us whhat you think! We would love to hear from you. Please ...
Keep Reading »Amal Dunqul "A Special Interview with Noah's Son"
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Noah’s flood is coming nearer! The city is sinking little…by little Birds flee And water rises On the steps of houses Shops The post office Banks Statues (of our immortal ancestors) Temples Wheat sacks Maternity hospitals The prison gate The State House The corridors of fortified barracks. Birds are leaving Slowly… Slowly… Geese on the water float Furniture floats… And a child’s toy… And a gasp of a sad mother Young women on the roofs waver! Noah’s flood is coming nearer Here are “the wise men” fleeing to the ship The singers, the prince’s horseman, the usurers, the judge of judges (And his ...
Keep Reading »Senior Attache at Syrian Embassy in Washington D.C. Clarifies Reasons for Resignation
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[Below is an email sent and circulated by Ahmed Salkini, former Senior Attache at the Syrian Embassy in Washington D.C., explaining the reasons for his resignation. The email was reproduced on several websites, including all4syria.info] Dear All: The time has come for me to step down from my current position and move on. I have recently accepted an exciting job offer in the private sector and will be moving to Maryland. I will leave you all in the capable hands of my colleague, Ms. Roua Sharbaji, the Embassy’s Press Attaché. You can reach her at rs1@syrembassy.net or at her office, 202-232-6313 ext 129. As many of you have pointed out, I have been conspicuously silent ...
Keep Reading »Greece and the Gods of Neoliberalism
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Just as Zeus put Hercules through a series of humbling labors not so long ago, so too do the Gods of neo-liberalism and colonialism today put Greece’s current fearless leader through many an unsavory janitor’s task. A dirty job, but someone has to do it...
Keep Reading »التحرير- سول- سينتاغما، أو كيف يصبح المتوسّط بركةً
خلال سنوات تألقه السياسي، وقبل أن تسحبه أزمة اﻻقتصاد اﻻسباني إلى قعر شعبيّته وآماله، راهن ثاباتيرو، رئيس الوزراء اﻻسباني، على إنشاء ودعم ثبات ونمو "اﻻتحاد من أجل المتوسّط"، فاستضاف في برشلونة اجتماعات اﻻتحاد التأسيسيّة وعمل جاهداً على اتخاذ ذات المدينة مقراً للمنظمة الوليدة. كانت السياسة الخارجيّة اﻻسبانيّة بحاجة للانعطاف نحو إطارٍ مغاير لذلك الذي اختاره أثنار، رئيس الوزراء السابق، بعلاقته الذيليّة بإدارة بوش ودعمه لغزو العراق عام 2003، ووجد الحزب اﻻشتراكي الحاكم في مشروع إقامة منظمة تجمع الدول الأوروبيّة والدول العربيّة المطلّة على البحر المتوسط فكرةً مقبولة لدى القاعدة الشعبية لليسار الاسباني، لكن الأزمة اﻻقتصادية الخانقة التي ظهرت لتجثم على صدر أغلب ...
Keep Reading »New Arab Studies Journal Issue . . . Around the Corner!
We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the latest issue of Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya's sister organization under the umbrella of the Arab Studies Institute, and its peer-reviewed research publication arm. For more information about the Arab Studies Journal, please visit our About page here. Revolutions, uprisings, demonstrations and protests have unfolded in ways both exultant and heartbreaking across North Africa and the Middle East in the last several months. As ...
Keep Reading »الإنقضاض على العمال المصريين
[ ترجمة يوسف حداد. نشرت هذه المقالة في مجلة "الميدل ايست ريبورت" الصادرة باللغة الانكليزية عدد رقم 239] تتمحور الطروحات السائدة المتعلقة بالثورة المصرية عام 2011، والتي ما زالت قائمة، حول "أزمة الدولة". من بين ركائز هذه الأزمة الفشل الكلي في تحقيق الإصلاح السياسي من رأس الهرم إلى أسفله، كما أظهرته بجلاء الانتخابات التشريعية عام 2010 والتي تم التلاعب بنتائجها بشكل فاضح، وتنامي الفساد والقمع، وبروز فرص للعمل الجماعي التي وفرتها مواقع الانترنت كفايسبوك وتويتر، وتبني ...
Keep Reading »Legal Brief: Flotillas and the Gaza Blockade
[This legal brief is the latest from Diakonia on the Gaza blockade and the use of flotillas.] Legal Brief: Flotillas and the Gaza Blockade (July 2011) The Gaza Strip is currently under a continued naval and land blockade.[1] New flotillas are trying to reach Gaza to provide assistance to the people of the Strip. In light of the deadly outcome of the previous flotilla of 31 May 2010, Diakonia IHL Programme would like to reiterate the relevance and importance of international humanitarian law ...
Keep Reading »Statement of Syrian Christians in Support of the Revolution
[The following statement was issued in English, French, and Arabic by a group of Syrian Christians on July 10, 2011.] Statement of Syrian Christians in Support of the Revolution I. Christianity being a religion of truth, justice, equality and love, Syrian Christians can not but be with their fellow citizens in their peaceful movement toward freedom, justice, and equality. II. We, as Syrian nationals and an active part of Syrian society, declare our early participation in this blessed revolution which ...
Keep Reading »Promises and Challenges: The Tunisian Revolution of 2010-2011
[Below is the latest from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Tunisia.] Promises and Challenges: The Tunisian Revolution of 2010-2011 The Report of the March 2011 Delegation of Attorneys to Tunisia from National Lawyers Guild (US), Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers (UK), and Mazlumder (Turkey). PART I: Preface A. Introduction Had you stood on any street corner in the U.S. before December 2010 and asked passersby what they knew about Tunisia, you'd likely have been met with blank stares. In Europe ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: BDS as a Means of Enforcing International Law in Palestine
Call for Papers: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a Means of Enforcing International Law in Palestine Institute of Law – Birzeit University The Theme of Volume XVII of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law is “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a Means of Enforcing International Law in Palestine”. One of the principle criticisms of public international law remains the relatively impoverished mechanisms available for its effective enforcement, particularly when ...
Keep Reading »To Die For
[This is the seventh part of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the previous parts here] Like most acquaintances in our wired world, a certain “friend of a friend” had become a “friend.” I had admired her for months from afar, inspired by her bold status updates which openly criticized the regime. She was everything I wanted to be: defiant, outspoken, fearless. I had never met her, but after the Nadi Halab dinner, I felt tainted by association and needed redemption. So ...
Keep Reading »Sargon Boulus "To Imru' al-Qays on his Way to the Inferno"
The Iraqi-Assyrian Sargon Boulos (1944-2007) was born in Habbaniya, Iraq, into an Assyrian Christian family. He moved to Kirkuk with his family in the 1950s and began writing poetry from an early age. He learnt English at a young age due to his father’s association with the British and read English and American poetry avidly as a youth, especially the American Beat poets. After moving to Baghdad in 1964, he befriended Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, who sent his poetry to the avant-garde Shʿir magazine published in ...
Keep Reading »The Case Against the Grand Egyptian Museum
A Modern Museum for an Ancient Nation? With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre, which opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible to the middle and upper classes in major European cities roughly since the eighteenth century. Access to such collections by a greater public was seen as one of the engines of European enlightenment. With the emergence of public museums came a new approach to art history that ...
Keep Reading »Urgent: Pair of Sandals for Gilboa Prison!
[Translated from the Arabic by Sherene Seikaly. The original text can be found here.] — Did they give you a copy of the photo I faxed? — No! — What about the photo I attached to the letter? Didn’t it arrive? — No, I haven’t received a thing. We continue talking. Question marks wander through our minds, as we look to the hands of the clock. They fall upon us and steal our time. Without any warning they announce the end of our forty-five minutes. We say goodbye to one another. Then the telephone ...
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يبدو أن المستشارة الألماينة أنجيلا ميركل تبحث عن أسواق جديدة وإضافية للأسلحة بعدما خفضت ألمانيا عديد جيشها فلم يعد يحتاج إلى الكثير من الأسلحة كما كان الوضع عليه حتى الآن. فقد طلت علينا صفحات الجرائد الألمانية بأخبار عن صفقات أسلحة سرية مع السعودية. وطلت علينا المستشارة الألمانية من شاشات التلفزة لتعلن، بعدما وطأت قدمها الناعمة أرض إفريقيا وتحديداً بعد لقائها مع الرئيس الأنغولي دوس سانتوس، أن بلادها ترغب بمساعدة أنغولا على التسلح وستبيع ما بين ست إلى ثمان سفن دورية عسكرية إلى أنغولا لحماية ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers - From Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy, and Citizenship (April 27-28, 2012)
Call for Papers Deadline: November 1, 2011 From Meydan Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy and Citizenship An interdisciplinary graduate student conference, hosted by the political theory graduate students in the Department of Government at Cornell University From revolutionary awakenings in the Arab world to protests against austerity measures in Europe and assaults on labor rights in Wisconsin, a “specter is haunting the world” – the specter of democracy and ...
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