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Highly Unorthodox: The Week Lebanon Went Secular (And Ended Up More Sectarian Than Ever…)
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When some future historian writes a chronicle of twenty-first-century Lebanon, she will likely devote a bemused footnote to the odd events of February 2013, when the country’s leaders saw fit to tear down a pillar of the confessional regime one week, only to erect another one a week later. On 11 February, the Justice Ministry ruled that the recent civil marriage of Khouloud Sukkarieh and Nidal Darwish was legal, thereby establishing a momentous precedent that will likely have serious repercussions on the hold of religious authorities over personal status issues in Lebanon. As I suggested in a piece for Jadaliyya last month: The ...
Keep Reading »The Onion to Sue Lebanon for Making Its Headlines Look Reasonable
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It emerged today that the American satirical magazine The Onion is to sue Lebanon for unfair competition practices and for making its headlines look totally reasonable. The Onion is demanding millions of dollars in compensation, claiming that the small Mediterranean country has "ruined the business of writing satirical headlines." The magazine’s claim refers to a "sustained campaign of nonsensical but nevertheless real headlines" over a number of years, during which Lebanon, "went out of its way to make The Onion’s headlines look ordinary by comparison." The straw that broke the camel’s back was Lebanon’s adoption of a new electoral law ...
Keep Reading »Misery Beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Populations in Lebanon
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[The following report was issued by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on 6 February 2013.] Misery Beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Populations in Lebanon Executive Summary The ongoing crisis in Syria is forcing ever more Syrians to flee their homeland in search of safety. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported in late January that more than 165,000 refugees had officially been registered in Lebanon alone, and that almost 77,000 more were in the process of being registered. An estimated 50,000 additional refugees are believed to be in the country but have not attempted to register formally as ...
Keep Reading »دعوة للمشاركة في البحث لمشروع جديد لمجموعة الدكتافون
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تخلق مجموعة الدكتافون عروضاً حيّة مبنية على أبحاث مدينية من شأنها أن تفتح نقاشاً عن مفهومنا للحيز العام في لبنان وعن إمكانية إعادة تصور المدينة. عبر الربط بين الفن الحيّ (تانيا الخوري) والبحث المديني (عبير سقسوق) أنتجنا – مع المسرحية بترا سرحال – عروضاً حية في مقطورة التلفريك، داخل باص نقل عام مهجور، وفي قارب صيد. الهدف من هذه المشاريع هو البحث عن علاقتنا بالمدينة، خاصة بالأماكن العامة وكيفية إعادة تعريفها. مشروعنا الجديد بعنوان "تصريح" وهو يتناول موضوع الحدود بين البلدان العربية ويتوقف عند أماكن معينة لدراستها، كحدود لبنان الجنوبية والشمالية، كما يتوقف عند سكة القطار الحديدية أو ما تبقى منها على خط الساحل اللبناني. في إطار البحث في مفهوم ...
Keep Reading »Call for Applicants: Director at Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut
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The American University of Beirut (AUB) invites applications and nominations for the position of founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship. The Asfari Institute will serve as a regional hub of academics, practitioners and policy makers who will explore associational life in the Arab world, and advance realistic solutions to obstacles to effective civil society and citizenship. Reporting to the provost, the director will develop and implement a strategy for the Institute, and lead its operations, including programs (research, education, outreach), partnerships, public relations, budgeting, fundraising, ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences' Inaugural Conference (19-20 March, Beirut)
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The Arab Council for the Social Sciences' Inaugural Conference 19-20 March 2013 Beirut, Lebanon The Arab Council for the Social Sciences is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, titled Arab Transformations: Interrogating the Social Sciences, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon on 19-20 March 2013. The conference will showcase papers and panels from on-going projects of the ACSS including “The New Paradigms Factory,” “Inequality, Mobility and Development” and “Producing the Public in the Arab Region.” In addition, a number of panels will feature papers selected through an open call addressing the two themes described below. The deadline for submission is 11 ...
Keep Reading »سادية جديدة باسم المصلحة العليا
سادية جديدة باسم المصلحة العليا: "الدولة الذكورية" تدفن حق المرأة بمنح جنسيتها لأولادها نهائياً "لا حق للمرأة اللبنانية بمنح جنسيتها لا لأولادها ولا لزوجها، فمن شأن ذلك الإضرار بالتوازن الطائفي الديموغرافي في البلاد، وبالمصلحة العليا للوطن".. هذا هو فحوى القرار والتوصية التي رفعتها اللجنة الوزارية التي كلفها مجلس الوزراء دراسة القضية إثر طرح مشروع مرسوم حق اللبنانية بمنح جنسيتها لأولادها في 21 اذار الماضي، في ما روج له يومها على أنه "عيدية" الحكومة للمرأة اللبنانية في عيد الأم. وجاءت "الهدية" المرّة والمحبطة للنساء في لبنان بعد طول انتظار عبر التوصية بالرفض التي رفعتها اللجنة الوزارية إلى رئيس الحكومة نجيب ميقاتي إثر إجتماعها ...
Keep Reading »Lebanon’s Leaders Build an Ark
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A fierce storm has been lashing Lebanon since Saturday. The storm has led to severe flooding and near-paralysis of the entire country. The country has not seen a storm like this for decades, some say millennia. Someone remembered a storm like this from a long, long time ago. A man from across the southern border had bought Lebanon’s entire store of cedar trees and used it to build a big boat. There were conspiracy theories, and some muttered that somehow the Jews seem to know about disasters before they happen. According to reports in al-Nahar newspaper, it seems that God warned Lebanese leaders about this storm, because “he loves Lebanon and its people.” Al-Safir ...
Keep Reading »الهراء اللبناني مجدّداً
كتابات نايلة تويني لا تمت للسياسة بصلة. هي أشبه بالهراء والأكاذيب التخويفية التي سمعناها منذ صغرنا، لاسيما في المجتمعات المسيحية المغلقة عن الفلسطينيين. مثل، اًن تقول إحدى الأساطير اللبنانية إن الفلسطينيين يريدون احتلال لبنان لتحويله إلى وطن بديل لهم، غير مدركين غباء هذه الكذبة التي تتناقض مع تمسك اللاجئين بحق العودة وتمسكهم بلهجتهم وخصوصيتهم في بلد لم يمنحهم أدنى حقوق المواطنة. تقول أسطورة أخرى إن لبنان الجميل الأخضر الصغير "المعتّر" قد ذهب ضحية موقعه الجغرافي الذي حوله إلى ساحة حرب للآخرين. وإن كنا كلبنانيين قد انشغلنا في السنين الماضية بخلافاتنا وتسليحنا وتخوين بعضنا البعض وشن حروب شوارع بين الحين والآخر أنستنا بأننا الضحايا الجميلين ...
Keep Reading »ملف من الأرشيف: مي زيادة
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[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.] الإسم: مي الشهرة: زيادة إسم الأب: الياس إسم الأم: نزهه معمر مكان الولادة: الناصرة (فلسطين). تاريخ الولادة: 1886 تاريخ الوفاة: 1941 الجنسية: لبنانية الفئة: مؤلفة المهنة: كاتبة مي زيادة لبنانية. إسمها
Keep Reading »My Father is Still a Communist
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My Father is Still a Communist. Dir. Ahmad Ghossein, (Lebanon, 2011, 32’) The transient circulations of bodies for labor constitutes a hidden history of the late-20th century world, with an accumulation of yet unspoken stories of abuse and struggle, exploitation and protest, inscribed in the letters that cross continents to speak of home. In March 2012 in Bkfaya Lebanon, at a cardboard factory in a rough-scrub industrial area, 50 Nepalese and Indian workers engage in a strike over wages. Three men, identified as the leaders of the action, are arrested and deported by authorities upon the request of the factory owners. The remaining workers return to their jobs, ...
Keep Reading »From Yarmouk to Sabra-Shatila: The Guardian's Martin Chulov on Palestinian Refugees Fleeing Syria
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Following the recent bombing of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, over 2000 Palestinian residents of the camp have arrived in Lebanon, and the figures are expected to grow in the coming days. The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent, Martin Chulov, spoke with Malihe Razazan about the plight of the Palestinian refugees who have made it to Lebanon. Chulov talked to many of the Palestinas who fled Syria and are now taking refuge in the Sabra-Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.
Keep Reading »Civil Marriage Fatwas, the Lebanese State, and Renegade Bacteria
For some philosophers, the condition of being contemporary is to actually be anachronistic to and critical of the present, to see its darkness, and to avoid being absorbed by the vortex of neo-liberal capitalism, not to mention by the devastating logics of Lebanese political discourse. When the Sunni Mufti of Lebanon, Mohammad Rashid Qabbani–not a philosopher except in the colloquial sense–declared a fatwa on 28 January 2013 against those who support or endorse civil marriage in Lebanon, stating in clear ...
Keep Reading »أزمة معرض الكتاب العربي، بيروت، عابرة أم مؤشر انهيار؟
الأزمة التي رافقت معرض بيروت للكتاب العربي (ديسمبر 2012) والتي ضج بها الإعلام وفند أسبابها ومظاهرها وضاقت بها دور النشر- كما الكتّاب. هذه الأزمة لم تأتِ دفعة واحدة. فالمعرض، الذي أرسى، خلال عقود طويلة، مساحة صلبة من التبادل الثقافي في الداخل ومع الخارج، أخذ منذ سنوات في التراجع. ضعف إقبال الجمهور عليه كما على الأنشطة الثقافية التي تقام بمناسبته. ولولا "الصفة الاجتماعية" لهذا الإقبال لغدا المعرض شديد الوهن. أقصد بالصفة الاجتماعية، حفلات توقيع الكتب التي إلى جانب القراء العاديين يقبل عليها أصدقاء ...
Keep Reading »Los Angeles Event: Sex and Sectarianism in Lebanon (20 February 2013)
Sex and Sectarianism: Recognition and the Disarticulation of Madhhab/Sect and Sex/Gender in Lebanon A lecture by Maya Mikdashi Co-Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA Islamic Studies Program, and UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall University of California Los Angeles This talk examines the legal practice of strategic conversion, by which is meant ...
Keep Reading »Beirut Event -- Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies (5 February)
Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies and Challenges against Them 5 February 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 PM AUB Building 37 - CASAR (behind Lee Observatory) American University of Beirut Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research cordially invite you to the lecture "Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US ...
Keep Reading »Will Civil Marriage End Lebanon’s Confessional System?
In tying the matrimonial knot last week, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish sliced through a cultural, legal, sectarian knot of Gordian proportions. The pair became the first couple in history to be wed in a civil marriage on Lebanese soil. Until last week, Lebanese citizens (or, only those who can afford it) have generally traveled to Cyprus to get hitched. The only way to do the deed inside Lebanon requires a contract issued by religious personal status authorities, with all the legal implications ...
Keep Reading »“I Have The Picture!” Egypt’s Photographic Heritage between Neoliberalism and Digital Reproduction (Part II)
The Arab Image Foundation (AIF)—a private archiving initiative founded by a group of artists and collectors in 1997, and run through foreign and local grants—appears on the surface like the very antithesis of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt (discussed in Part I of this article). While based in Beirut, the AIF holds a substantial collection of photographs from Egypt and represents an important model of archive and heritage-making in the region. The AIF’s approach to preserving and curating its ...
Keep Reading »Visualizing Human Rights for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
[Text by Jeremy Menchik. Workshop organized by Joumana Ibrahim and Dima Saber. Graphics by designers listed below each graphic.] Five decades after the development of the kefala [sponsorship] system, Lebanon’s 200,000 migrant domestic workers continue to be denied their inalienable rights, including freedom of movement, just conditions of work, the right to marry and to found a family, the right to legal recognition, and freedom from inhuman or degrading treatment. In recognition of International ...
Keep Reading »An Open Letter to Lebanese MP Nayla Tueni
Dear MP Nayla Tueni: In your article, العبء الفلسطيني مجدداَ (al-Nahar, 31 December 2012), you put aside all journalistic integrity and regurgitated a xenophobic Lebanese discourse that tirelessly uses Palestinians to cover up the failings of a sectarian political system in Lebanon. Had your article been written by an American or French journalist about Lebanese immigrants abroad, she would have surely been asked to resign in order to save the newspaper from accusations of racism and even lawsuits. ...
Keep Reading »Translation of Statements Made by Minister of Electricity Gebran Bassile and MP Nayla Tueni
There are over 170,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon. These men, women, and children have come to Lebanon fleeing the ongoing and deteriorating violence in Syria. In addition, thousands of Palestinians have fled their refugee camps in Syria to brother camps in Lebanon. These people have no other place to go. Since arriving in Lebanon, Syrian and Palestinian refugees (it is worth noting that Palestinian refugees in Syria and in Lebanon have suffered multiple removals and forced relocations) have been ...
Keep Reading »December Culture
Our last culture bouquet this year features poetry from Syria and Palestine, fiction from Algeria/France, and two reviews. Marilyn Hacker translates two chapters from Leila Sebbar's I Don't Speak My Father's Language. Kamran Rastegar reviews Ahmad Ghossein's My Father is Still a Communist. Syrian poet Golan Haji co-translates four of his poems. Fady Joudah translates poems by Ghassan Zaqtan. Amin Alsaden reviews a current exhibit about Baghdadi architecture: * "Leila Sebbar's I ...
Keep Reading »Exile, Part One
My mother's mother tongue is not Arabic. This singular fact shaped much of my life and my education in Lebanon. When she moved to Beirut, she had two children, and then me in her belly. She met a student named Maya and thought the name sounded beautiful and strange. She has not lived in the country in which she was born - the country in which her family lives, celebrates holidays, and has grown older - for over three decades now. This fact terrifies me. Prior to her moving to Lebanon, my father had ...
Keep Reading »The Interactive Lebanese Flag
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