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في طريق عودتي من بيت سعدون رأيت نخلة في حديقة أحد البيوت بدا واضحاً أن أصحابه قد أهملوها فلم يكرّبوها أو يشذبوا سعفها. تذكّرت بريسم، صاعود النخل الذي ظل يكرّب ويلقّح النخلتين في بيتي لأكثر من ثلاثين سنة. كان سيصرخ غاضباً لو رآها. بريسم كان يدور في الشوارع، وعندما يرى نخلة أهملها أصحابها كان يظل يرن الجرس حتى يخرج أحد من أهل البيت، ليوبّخهم على قسوتهم وغلاظة قلوبهم. أصبح بريسم شبه أصمّ في سنيّه الأخيرة. وكان يصرخ “ما عندي غير الله والنخل. . . ما عندي غير الله والنخل.” أو “هاي برحية هاي” ولعل الله كان يحبه حقاً لأنّه أخذه ذات ظهيرة وهو يعانق نخلة في بستان كان قد تسلّقها ليلقّحها، فسكت قلبه وهو في التبليّة. مات وهو يعتني بالنخلة التي كان يخاطبها وكأنها بشر. ...
Keep Reading »نهر البارد واللاجئون الفلسطينيون والسياسة اللبنانية: مقابلة مع غسان مكارم
![[مصدر الصور وكالة فلسطين برس للأنباء]](/content_images/3/sm_nahralbared.JPG "[مصدر الصور وكالة فلسطين برس للأنباء]")
أجريت هذه المقابلة مع الناشط اللبناني غسان مكارم على السكايب، يوم الجمعة، ٢٢ حزيران، ٢٠١٢. وتتناول الأحداث التي كانت قد وقعت في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين واضعة إياها في إطارها السياسي والتاريخي اللبناني الأوسع. يناقش مكارم الأحداث الحالية وأحداث ٢٠٠٧ مبيناً التشابهات والاختلافات. كما يتطرق مكارم أيضاً لوضع الفلسطينيين عموماً في لبنان وتقاطعاته مع الديناميات اللبنانية، بالإضافة إلى تورط كافة القوى اللبنانية (على اليمين واليسار) في العنصرية والتفرقة ضد الفلسطينيين في لبنان. يقيم مكارم في نهاية المقابلة أهم العوامل التي يجب الالتفات إذ بينما يتطور هذا الوضع والسياق الذي حدث فيه.
Keep Reading »Philo- and Anti-Semitism in Germany: Interview with Gilbert Achcar
This interview is part of a longer one conducted with Gilbert Achcar in Berlin on 18 and 20 May discussing his book, The Arabs and the Holocaust which was translated into German in May 2012. The interview explores intersecting paradigms and predicaments of racism and colonialism for a post-war German nation. Specifically, it touches upon some of the historical roots and contemporary debates in Germany, concerning anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism and the way both phenomena have played out in modern German politics until today. Anna Younes (AY): As someone who was socialized and grew up in Lebanon, it is not immediately ...
Keep Reading »One Year of Hope
![[A building in Qusair, Homs. Photographed by revolutionary artist and martyr, Ashraf Al-Ahmad. Image courtesy of SNN.]](/content_images/3/sm_HomsQusair.jpg "[A building in Qusair, Homs. Photographed by revolutionary artist and martyr, Ashraf Al-Ahmad. Image courtesy of SNN.]")
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. When I was in secondary school in Aleppo, one of the ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (June 28)
![[Mauritanian protestors demand government accountability and a solution to the drought. Photo from صرخات من الشمال]](/content_images/3/sm_Fullscreencapture628201221242PM.bmp.jpg "[Mauritanian protestors demand government accountability and a solution to the drought. Photo from صرخات من الشمال]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] Algeria "Notes on an ‘Introductory Algeria Foreign Policy Reading List (I)" - Guide and review of the theoretical and historical literature on Algeria. "نجاح المرأة في الانتخابات التشريعية يثير قلق بعض الجزائريين" - Analysis of the societal response to the "feminization" of Algeria's parliament. "Une ...
Keep Reading »Is Qatar's Foreign Policy Sustainable?
![[Doha, Qatar. Image from Creative Commons/Google Images]](/content_images/3/sm_flickr-3660950954-hd.jpg "[Doha, Qatar. Image from Creative Commons/Google Images]")
Qatar, home to only 225,000 natives and 1.7 million foreign workers, has emerged as an influential regional actor in recent years. Emir Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has ruled Qatar since 1995, when he replaced his father in a bloodless palace coup, and has pursued an ambitious foreign policy for his statelet. Natural resource wealth, ownership of Al Jazeera, and a carefully constructed web of foreign alliances have allowed Doha to project itself throughout the Middle East. The nature of Qatar’s foreign policy is the subject of some debate. Certain analysts contend that Qatar conducts a foreign policy uninfluenced by any ideology and that its only concerns ...
Keep Reading »Literature in the Oil Age: Goat Days
![[Tight lines at Dubai labor camp. Image by author]](/content_images/3/sm_TightLines_DubaiLaborCamp.jpg "[Tight lines at Dubai labor camp. Image by author]")
From that moment, like the maniyan fly, an unknown fear began to envelop my mind. An irrational doubt began to grip me, a feeling that this journey was not leading me to the Gulf life that I had been dreaming about and craving for. The Gulf I had learned about from so many people was not like this. A whiff of danger. Nothing clear. –Goat Days (Aadujeevitam) ...
Keep Reading »الالتفات للملف اليمني سيتأخر
![[Ali Abdullah Saleh and Sultan bin Abdulaziz. Image from www.menafn.com]](/content_images/3/sm_MenaFN-25022010-303281-20100224_SAU_sultanyeman.jpg "[Ali Abdullah Saleh and Sultan bin Abdulaziz. Image from www.menafn.com]")
لطالما أحيط الملف اليمني بأعلى درجات الاهتمام من قبل العائلة المالكة في السعودية، التي ترى ضرورة أن يبقى الوضع في اليمن تحت السيطرة الدائمة من قبلها، إضافةً إلى بقاء رجالها هناك متأهبين لمواجهة أي طارئ قد يعمل على خلط الأوراق السعودية في البلاد وعدم ابتعادها عن دائرة التحكم. ولا شك في أن تولي الأمير سلمان بن عبد العزيز لولاية العهد، مع استمرار امساكه بحقيبة وزارة الدفاع في الوقت ذاته، سينعكس بالضرورة على الوضع اليمني، من باب العناصر المحلية المستفيدة من المخصصات المالية التي تمنح لها من خزينة «اللجنة الخاصة». وتسود خشية لدى الذين يتسلمون رواتب شهرية من المملكة، من اتخاذ ولي العهد الجديد قرارات تعيد ترتيب أوراق تلك «اللجنة الخاصة». هذه المخاوف، دفعت رجال السعودية ...
Keep Reading »Understanding the Prospects and Challenges for Another Popular Intifada in Sudan
![[Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir at an African Union summit. Image by Jesse B. Awalt. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Omar_al-Bashir,_12th_AU_Summit,_090131-N-0506A-347.jpg "[Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir at an African Union summit. Image by Jesse B. Awalt. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
While the attention of the Western and Arab media has focused on the historic victory of the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate in Egypt, street protests of a scale not witnessed for two decades continued into their second week in Khartoum and other major Sudanese cities. Anti-government protests, initially led by students from the University of Khartoum, have inspired similar nation-wide demonstrations in al-Obeid, Kosti, al-Gadaref, Port Sudan, Wad Medani, and Atbara. They began on June 16th with courageous female students at the University of Khartoum’s downtown campus taking to the streets chanting “no, no to higher prices” and “freedom, freedom.” The ...
Keep Reading »Testimony of Bahrain Political Prisoner Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to Supreme Court of Appeals
[Below is the translated text of the statement given by Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja before the Bahrain Supreme Court of Appeals on 22 May 2012. This particular text was made available by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) on 26 June 2012, the International Day Against Torture. For more on Al-Khawaja's trial and the Bahrain uprising, see the links at the bottom of this post. For background on the trial of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, read Jadaliyya's "Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Bahrain's Political Prisoners." For a recent analysis of the Bahraini uprising and the regime's supression of it, read Jadaliyya's "Bahrain: The Dragonfly's ...
Keep Reading »جامعة فلسطينية تفضّل الجهل على المعرفة
منذ شهر أو أكثر يتعالى الجدل في الساحات الافتراضية الفلسطينية، وخلف الستار، حول قضيّة الأستاذ موسى البديري وجامعة بير زيت الفلسطينية. على ما يبدو هنالك من يخشى في وسائل الإعلام الفلسطينية، رسمية وغير رسمية، من الولوج في صلب هذه القضايا. وكأنّ لسان حالهم يقول: لأيش وجع الرأس؟ غير أنّ وجع الرأس هذا هو بالذّات ما يُفتَرض من الصحافة المسؤولة أن تتعامل معه، وأن تضعه على طاولة الحوار الشعبي. كما إنّ وجع الرأس هذا، أي إثارة حبّ الاستطلاع، والشكّ في كلّ المسلّمات، والتساؤل حول كلّ شيء هو ما يٌفترض أن تقوم به الجامعات التي تطمح إلى المعرفة، وإلى البحث والتقصّي في كافة المجالات. إنّ وجع الرأس هذا هو ما يُفترض أن يشيعه الكتّاب والمثقّفون وأن لا يركنوا إلى راحة الانضمام إلى ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 26)
![[Saudi Air Force Exhibition at Janadriya, Riyadh, March 2011. Photo by Rosie Bsheer]](/content_images/3/sm_SaudiAirforceMuseum.jpg "[Saudi Air Force Exhibition at Janadriya, Riyadh, March 2011. Photo by Rosie Bsheer]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Perspectives Saudi Arabia plans to fund Syria rebel army An exclusive report written by Martin Chulov and Ewen MacAskill on Saudi Arabia's role in providing weapons and financial support to the Free Syria Army, in The Guardian. The Gulf Union: Building Castles Out of Fear Yazan al-Saadi on the mixed ...
Keep Reading »The Current Impasse in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna' [Now with full English transcripts + all videos]
On 27 April 2012, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of ...
Keep Reading »خطايا إمبرياليّة
عمدت الأنظمة العربية في مراحل ما بعد الاستقلال إلى ابتذال مفهوم الإمبريالية إلى أقصى الحدود. فكونها جاءت إلى السلطة بعد معارك ضد الاستعمار، تمسّكت بمفهوم العداء للإمبريالية لتبرّر بقاءها في الحكم، وإلغاءها آليات العمل الديموقراطي، وصولاً إلى ممارسة أبشع أساليب القمع. كان على المرء انتظار الهيمنة النيوليبرالية شبه التامّة على العالم، وحروب ما بعد ١١ أيلول، حتى يعود مصطلح الإمبريالية إلى الواجهة، سواء في التظاهرات التي جابت عواصم العالم، أو في الدوائر الأكاديمية التي راحت تبحث عن صياغة متجدّدة لذاك ...
Keep Reading »Israeli Arms Sales to Rwandan Genocidaires Should Not Be Surprising
A 24 June 2012 article in Maariv brought to light some new information about arms shipments from Israel to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Most of the basics about these transactions have been publicly available since 1999 when Brian Wood and Johan Peleman published The Arms Fixers. They reported, “Seven large cargoes of small arms worth $6.5 million were flown from Tirana [Albania] and Tel Aviv between mid-April and mid-July 1994 to the [Interahamwe] forces as they carried out the genocide, even during ...
Keep Reading »Libya, Impunity, and the International Criminal Court
Last week, four staffers of the International Criminal Court (the ICC) who were part of Seif Gaddafi’s legal defense team were taken into custody in Libya on allegations that they were functioning as a conduit for conspiracy between Gaddafi and his political allies. The ICC is now plunged into a messy battle seeking release of its staff while moving forward with the Seif case in ways that strain for legitimacy within Libya. The local Zintan council leadership responsible for the detention of the legal ...
Keep Reading »Syria Media Roundup (June 28)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week] Regional and International perspectives Hafez al-Assad in 1976 As’ad AbuKhalil remembers when Syria intervened in Lebanon on the side of Israel, hoping it will “ Keep Reading »
لماذا تعثرت الثورة المصرية؟
يقسم بعض علماء الاجتماع والسياسة الثورات إلى ثلاثة أصناف نمطية. الصنف الأول هو الثورات التلقائية (spontaneous revolutions)، وهي ثورات تشتعل غالباً بعد حدث يستنفر عموم الشعب على النظام الحاكم، ثم تتداعى الأحداث بين فعل ورد فعل حتى تنجح الثورة في هدفها (الأول أو الأخير حسب كل حالة) وهو إسقاط الحاكم أو النظام. الصنف الثاني هو الثورات المخطط لها (planned revolutions)، أي الثورات التي يسبقها قدر من التنظيم والتخطيط، ولا يشترط في هذا التنظيم أن يكون على قدر عال من التعقيد والسرية، بل ربما تكون الدعوات ...
Keep Reading »In Search of a New Political Language
In the first round of the 2012 presidential election, more than thirty-nine percent of Egyptians voted for candidates representing neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor former President Hosni Mubarak's regime. The combined vote of Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, the biggest winners in this category, together with those of leftist candidates Khaled Ali and Abul Ezz al-Hariry, is substantially more than those who voted for Mohamed Morsy or for both Ahmed Shafiq and Amr Moussa combined. Some ...
Keep Reading »Nahr al-Bared, Palestinian Refugees, and Lebanese Politics: An Interview with Ghassan Makarem
The following is the translated transcription of a Skype interview that was conducted on Friday 22 June 2012. It features Lebanese activist Ghassan Makarem. The interview explores the particular events that transpired last week in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, locating them within the broader political and historical context of Lebanon. Makarem discusses both the current and 2007 events of Nahr al-Bared, highlighting similiarities and differences. Most importantly, Makarem addresses the ...
Keep Reading »بيان من اللاجئين السودانيين المضربين عن الطعام في بيروت
نحن اللاجئون السودانيون المضربون عن الطعام لليوم الثاني عشر على التوالي أمام مقر المفوضية العليا للاجئين في بيروت، كنا قد نفّذنا بالسابق عدداً من المظاهرات السلمية، آخرها في شهر أبريل\نيسان 2012 أمام مكتب المفوضية للمطالبة: 1- بإعادة التوطين وتحديد صفة اللجوء 2- تحويل شهادات التسجيل إلى شهادات لجوء 3- النظر في إمكانيّة إعادة فتح الملفات المغلقة وعلى الرغم من كل تحرّكاتنا السلميّة لم نلق من المفوضية سوى المراوغة والكذب. حيث أنه في اعتصام أبريل/نيسان الأخير اعتصم قرابة ٥٠ ...
Keep Reading »The Politics of Image: The Bedouins of South Sinai
They live within Egyptian borders, they carry Egyptian identification cards, some of them even serve in the Egyptian army, but to the majority of Egyptians, the Bedouins of the Sinai Peninsula remain the widely enigmatic “others,” if not exotic creatures of the desert then villainous outlaws of the steppes. To the tourist, the Bedouin conjures up a tent that flutters in the wind, huts lining up the coastline, sage tea by the fireplace, and a huge tray of mensif, their trademark rice and goat dish; to the ...
Keep Reading »Ajamindustry
It is problematic enough that Fouad Ajami repeats much of the reductionist arguments about all things Arab in his new book on Syria's rebellion, but then the New York Times must stumble upon this book, and review it. I will not attempt to review the book itself, for critiquing Mr. Ajami has become like critiquing Fox News: there is no gain. Instead, I will seize the opportunity and examine the review in the Times, as it reproduces not only Ajami's faulty—though always well-written—analysis, but it also ...
Keep Reading »Announcement of New Publication: "On Torture"
[The following excerpt is the introductory section to a newly published edited volume entitled "On Torture." The volume is co-published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. Chapters are based on presentations from an April 2011 workshop entitled "Securing Accountability for Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment (CIDT) in Israel: New Trends and Comparative Lessons." Contributors include Attorney Lea ...
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