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Syrian Refugee in Wadi Khaled (In both Arabic and English)
![[A masked Syrian refugee. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_syrianrefugeearabihor22222.jpg "[A masked Syrian refugee. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الشريط التالي تحت عنوان ”لاجئة سورية في وادي خالد“ اخراج اليان الراهب، لبنان. هربًا من القصف الّذي استهدف القرية السوريّة تل كلخ، لجأ عدد كبير من العائلات السورية إلى وادي خالد في لبنان. استقلّوا ...
Keep Reading »قضاة تونس: تعددية للهياكل ووحدة في البرامج
قضاة تونس تعددية للهياكل ووحدة في البرامج:المعايير الدولية لاستقلال القضاء كبوابة لبناء دولة القانون. قرر المجلس الوطني التأسيسي التونسي تخصيص لجنة تتكون من عدد من أعضائه تتكفل بإعداد مشروع الفصول الدستورية التي تتعلق بالقضاء، وتتولى بلورة تصورات لصيغ اصلاح القضاء من خلال آليات تشريعية. وقد انطلقت اللجنة التي سميت لجنة القضاء العدلي والإداري والمالي والدستوري في أعمالها بجلسات استماع شملت القضاة، علاوة على الشخصيات الوطنية التونسية التي عرفت بتخصصها في مجال القانون الدستوري، أو بنشاطها الحقوقي والسياسي ،أو تلك ذات الخبرة في مجال الفعل التأسيسي ممن ساهمت في صياغة الدستور الأول للجمهورية التونسية. وشكل استقبال القضاة بقصر المجلس التأسيسي ودعوتهم لابداء مقترحاتهم ...
Keep Reading »Settler Colonialism, Normalization, and Resistance at the Zionist Borders
![[Ben Gurion Airport. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Ben_Gurion_International_Airport-08-by-RaBoe-08.jpg "[Ben Gurion Airport. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]")
A visit to Palestine in April has led me to reflect on Israel’s border practices and how they relate to the performance of Israel as a settler colonial state. I have also considered whether by subjecting myself to these border practices I am contributing to the reproduction of Israel’s sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In other words, is travelling to Palestine an act of normalization of Israel’s occupation or of solidarity with Palestinians under occupation? This past April, other visitors to Palestine directly highlighted this question. Palestine solidarity activists from Europe attempted, for the second time, to explicitly visit the West Bank as ...
Keep Reading »The Awan Quartet: Forging New Ground in Palestine
![[The Awan Quartet. Image via Facebook.]](/content_images/3/sm_awan2.jpg "[The Awan Quartet. Image via Facebook.]")
Every two years, the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine organizes a nationwide music competition covering many musical categories and age groups. This is the only competition of its kind at the “national” level, and has been attracting new talent and motivating music students since 1999. This year’s competition was held in March 2012 at the conservatory’s campuses in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Gaza (linked via video conferencing). A recently formed ensemble called the “Awan Quartet” snatched the first prize of 2000 dollars in the Group Performance category with an original composition called “Nahawand.” Tareq Abboushi, a Palestinian musician, ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 12)
![[Vendors selling their colorful textiles in front of the Prophet's Mosque in Madina. Image by Rosie Bsheer]](/content_images/3/sm_IMG_4111.JPG "[Vendors selling their colorful textiles in front of the Prophet's Mosque in Madina. Image 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 Gulf States and Turkey Going All-Out Against Syria Ibrahim al-Amin analyzes the escalating tactics adopted by Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council towards Syria. Revealed: Saudi royals' secret $1bn US empire Stephen Foley writes on the public disclosure of Saudi royals' large ...
Keep Reading »Briefing Note: Adalah's Representation of Arab Knesset Members--Protecting the Right to Political Participation
![[MK Mohammed Barakeh at a demonstration against settlements in Hebron. Image from ActiveStills.]](/content_images/3/sm_BriefingNote_final_final_final.png "[MK Mohammed Barakeh at a demonstration against settlements in Hebron. Image from ActiveStills.]")
Adalah is currently representing four Arab members of the Knesset (MKs): Haneen Zoabi, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, SaNaffaa, and Mohammed Barakeh. The political leadership of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel faces sustained and severe attacks and harassment from Israeli government officials and incitement from extreme right-wing MKs. Arab elected representatives have been stripped of their parliamentary privileges, have had their immunity lifted, and now two members are facing criminal indictments for their legitimate and protected political activity. In another case, the Knesset refused to permit the introduction of legislation submitted by an Arab MK concerning the ...
Keep Reading »Hizballah, Development, and the Political Economy of Pain: For Syria, What is "Left" (Part 3-Final)
[This is a third part in a series under the title of "For Syria, What is Left?" The first two parts can be accessed (1) here and (2) here. Arabic Translations can be found (1) here and (2) here.] The enormity of the unfolding tragedy in Syria will dwarf the content of the analysis below. I have been waiting for the right time to complete this series, but matters kept getting worse, and we are now looking into the abyss. But this is not an article about what is happening in Syria today; rather, it is about some of the discursive battles among parts of the political "Left" on the question of the Syrian uprising and its ...
Keep Reading »Razan Ghazzawi: Imprisoned Syrian Blogger and Recipient of Human Rights Defender at Risk Award (Video)
![[Razan Ghazzawi. Image from screen short of below video]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-06-11at12.29.08PM.png "[Razan Ghazzawi. Image from screen short of below video]")
[The following video and statement were produced by Front Line Defenders as part of their Human Right Defender at Risk Award.] Razan Ghazzawi is a Syrian human rights activist and blogger who has been arrested and released on two occasions in the last few months. Following several threats she was arrested for the first time on 4 December 2012 at the Syrian-Jordanian border as she was on her way to attend a workshop on media and freedom of expression in the Arab world. She was released after two weeks. She was rearrested again on 16 February together with a number of her colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM). Human rights ...
Keep Reading »Last Week on Jadaliyya (June 4-10)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles and most recent videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Saeeds of Revolution: De-Mythologizing Khaled Saeed New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism Syria's Creative Resistance Blaming Others: A History of Violence in Lebanon Handala Will Age Again Soon Bahrain: The Dragonfly's Eye The Missing Ikhwan and An Electorate Split in Three Houla: Not a Game Changer<
Keep Reading »Words Are Not Enough
![[Boys play on a makeshift bridge over a sewage-filled stream in the Bedouin village of Umm Batin. Image from Adalah.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-06-09at10.32.02AM.png "[Boys play on a makeshift bridge over a sewage-filled stream in the Bedouin village of Umm Batin. Image from Adalah.]")
During the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union released their annual human rights and progress reports, respectively, on Israel. Each one substantially criticized the state of minority rights in the country. The US State Department called the "institutional and societal discrimination" against Arab citizens of Israel one of the country's top three most significant human rights issues of 2011, and the EU stressed that "progress on the situation of the Arab minority was limited." While the acknowledgment of discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel is welcome, these words alone are not an adequate response to the ...
Keep Reading »برلمان بأياد خارجية في السعودية
![[.غرافيتي على جدار في العوامية، السعودية. تصوير روزي بشير]](/content_images/3/sm_IMG_4684.JPG "[.غرافيتي على جدار في العوامية، السعودية. تصوير روزي بشير]")
لا تريد السلطة في السعودية لشعبها أن يتطلع إلى الأفق ولا أن ينظر إلى الشعوب المتحررة من حوله، وهي تصادر الحريات في الداخل وفي الخارج وتغيب الكلمة وتغتال الأحلام بالسجن والرصاص. وتلفق التهم ضد كل من يرفع صوته عالياً مطالباً بالحرية والكرامة. تمكنت وزارة الداخلية في السعودية من أن تخفي قضية المطالبين بالإصلاح والتغيير بإشغال شعبها بشخوص القضية ومذاهبهم، بدلاً من أن تسعى لتلبية تلك المطالب أو أن تطرحها على طاولة النقاش،وكانت تهمة الخيانة والعمالة حاضرة وسهلة يسيرة وخصوصاً ضد طائفة الشيعة في المنطقة الشرقية والمعزولين قهراً ثقافياً واجتماعياً عن بقية أبناء وطنهم ومجتمعهم.وصدّق أغلب أطياف المجتمع تلك التهم والتلفيقات دونما أدنى تحقق،ذلك لأن بعض فئات الشعب السعودي ...
Keep Reading »Syria's Creative Resistance
![[Large demonstration in Homs, Syria against the Syrian regime. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_1024px-Huge_demonstration_in_Homs_against_Al_Assad_regime.jpg "[Large demonstration in Homs, Syria against the Syrian regime. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]")
Bashar al-Assad snores, his head twitching on a large white pillow. Suddenly, he wakes up. “The people want to overthrow me!” he screams, the pompom on his nightcap bouncing. A military officer approaches, pats him on the head and whispers gently, as if comforting a toddler: “Don’t worry, my dear Mr. President, nobody wants to bring you down. Go back to sleep.” “But I dreamed that the people don’t love me anymore!” “We all love you, Mr. President”, says the officer, “but you have to rest. Tomorrow is Friday and we have a lot of work to do!” Bashar lies back on his pillow and dozes off. “Sleep…sleep…let nothing disturb your dreams”, the ...
Keep Reading »Majidi Business : Cas d'école
C’est le quotidien L’Economiste qui le dit : « la période comprise entre 2009 et 2011 a été la plus difficile de toute l’histoire de la Royal Air Maroc » (1). Fin 2010, la RAM a en effet enregistré un déficit abyssal de… 930 millions de dirhams ! Pour sauver la compagnie publique de la faillite, l’Etat décidera en septembre 2011 d’y injecter 1,6 milliards de dirhams en augmentation de capital. Dans un effort de pénitence publique, le PDG Driss Benhima s’engagera à réaliser ...
Keep Reading »Salafi Trouble in Tunisia's Transition
One of the prominent developments in the aftermath of the fallen dictatorship in Tunisia was the resurgence in the public sphere of groups with Salafi backgrounds. Their sudden incursion into the political arena and the polemics that they generated in different political matters resulted in their increased use of violence against other political and social actors. These actions have left large segments of Tunisian society skeptical about the outcome of the country’s political transition. Nothing in ...
Keep Reading »خلّصونا من المخلّصين
["خلّصونا من المخلّصين: عن أوربا واليونانيين" لسلاڤو جيجاك نشرت في “لندن ريڤيو أوف بوكس” في ٢٥ آيار، ٢٠١٢. ترجمة سنان أنطون] تخيل مشهداً من فلم سوداوي يصور مجتمعنا في المستقبل القريب. دوريات حرّاس بزي موحد في شوارع شبه مقفرة تبحث في الليل عن المهاجرين والمجرمين والمشردين. يهجمون بوحشية ضد من يعثرون عليه. ما قد يبدو صورة خيالية من هوليوود هو حقيقة في اليونان اليوم. ففي الليل يدور أعضاء حزب الفجر الذهبي الفاشي- الذي فاز بسبعة بالمئة من الأصوات في الدورة الأخيرة من الانتخابات والذي ...
Keep Reading »The Revolution's Barometer
The Mohammed Mahmud wall remains alive and kicking through its graffiti, which is getting altered by the hour. The walls continue to be whitened thanks to the efforts of Egyptian authorities. Yet drawings keep on appearing layers after layers to cover the older ones and the white paint. Not only have the walls of Mohammed Mahmud Street become “a memorial space,” as I have noted in a previous contribution, but also a barometer of the Egyptian revolution. The murals seem to be vividly narrating the most ...
Keep Reading »واحد مننا.. واحد يشبه برنامجه
لو تأخرت الجولة الأولى من الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة أسبوعًا واحدًا عن الموعد الذي جرت فيه، لكانَ المرشح حمدين صبّاحي أحد المتنافسين على الرئاسة في الجولة الثانية، وربما فاز في الجولة الأولى. هذا التقدير يردده كثيرٌ من المراقبين للانتخابات المصريّة، ولا يقتصر الاقتناع به على أنصار صبّاحي فقط، لا سيما إذا عرفنا أنّ حزب الكرامة الذي أسسه صبّاحي لم يحصل منذ أشهر قليلة في الانتخابات البرلمانيّة سوى على 6 مقاعد من أصل 498 مقعدًا من المقاعد المنتخبة لمجلس الشعب المصري. وبعد معرفة أنّ الاستطلاعات لم ...
Keep Reading »Israel and Palestine: International Law Updates
This brief report provides information related to three recent developments in international law related to Israel and Palestine: The International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s decision as to whether Palestine qualifies as a state for purposes of accepting the court’s jurisdiction; UNESCO’s granting of membership to Palestine; and Ongoing investigations concerning Operation Cast Lead. Israel, Palestine and the International Criminal Court (ICC) On 20 ...
Keep Reading »On Legal Advocacy and Legitimation of Control
When he was imprisoned, Nelson Mandela utilized his background as a lawyer to begin filing suits on behalf of other prisoners to improve their situation. Some prisoners objected: they viewed Mandela’s action as cooperating with the regime and legitimizing its control over the prisoners. Mandela rejected these claims, contending that his suits were an integral part of the prisoners’ political struggle. The question of whether legal advocacy during the era of apartheid granted legitimacy to the regime was ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (June 11)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] “Abouel Fotouh: Boycotting elections could facilitate fraud” Former presidential candidate Abd El-Moneim Abou al-Fotouh says his campaign will decide between backing Mohamed ...
Keep Reading »When Protector Turned Killer
Back in January, Faiz Fathi Jfara of Bani Walid asked a simple question, “I just need an answer from NATO: why did you destroy my home and kill my family?” NATO refuses to answer him. NATO went to war in Libya to protect civilians through a UN mandate (Resolution 1973). The UN Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court gave legitimacy to NATO's operations, and it began its ten thousand sorties in March 2011. The war quickly exceeded the UN mandate, moving for regime change using immense ...
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Crowds cheer as a blow-up doll of Iranian President Ahmadinejad gets raped/sodomized with a nuke by a dungeon master Gay Pride San Francisco 2011
Keep Reading »"Up Front" Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Current Developments in Syria
This interview was conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad by Brian Edwards-Tiekert of KPFA's "Up Front." The interview discusses the staying power of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, and why the regime's days may be numbered; the ineffective cease-fire plan of Kofi Annan; what a post-regime Syria might look like; and the increase in violence between uprising forces and the regime. Click below to listen. The interview runs from 9:00 to 18:00 minutes mark.
Keep Reading »Roundtable: The Presidential Poll, Unpacked
On 29 May, Jadaliyya, in collaboration with Egypt Independent, hosted a roundtable discussion on the Egyptian presidential election. The discussion featured a group of our columnists and commentators. Moderated by Ahmad Shokr, the discussion featured American University in Cairo political science lecturers Ashraf El Sherif and Mohamed Menza; columnist Akram Ismail; human rights activist Heba Morayef; independent analysts Mohamed Naiem and Mohamed Said Ezzeldin, in addition to historian Zeinab ...
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