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From Yarmouk to Sabra-Shatila: The Guardian's Martin Chulov on Palestinian Refugees Fleeing Syria
![[Children enter Lebanon with their families at the Masnaa border crossing. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP]](/content_images/3/sm_Children-cross-into-Leban-008.jpg "[Children enter Lebanon with their families at the Masnaa border crossing. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP]")
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 »Lebanese Security Agency's Request Threatens Citizens' Right to Privacy
![[International Freedom of Expression Exchange logo. Image from ifex.org]](/content_images/3/sm_IFEXlogoweb.jpg "[International Freedom of Expression Exchange logo. Image from ifex.org]")
[The following statement was issued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an interim member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, on 7 December 2012.] A controversy arose in Lebanon this past week over revelations that the country's Internal Security Forces (ISF) demanded the content of all SMS text messages sent between 13 September and 10 November of this year, as well as usernames and passwords for services like Blackberry Messenger and Facebook. The requests were submitted to the Ministry of Telecommunciations. Lebanon's Telecommunications Minister, Nicola Sehnaoui, took to Twitter on 3 December to rally his followers ...
Keep Reading »Working with Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (1980 - 2012): A Mapping of NGO Services
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[The following report was issued by the International Labour Organization on 27 November 2012.] Working with Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (1980 - 2012): A Mapping of NGO Services Introduction Various institutional sources estimate that the number of women migrant domestic workers (WMDWs) in Lebanon is between150,000 and 220,000 in an overall workforce of 1.45 million. In addition to cooking and cleaning, these women perform a variety of care-related functions; WMDWs look after the children and nurse the elderly and the disabled. Given their exclusion from labour protections and their willingness to work longer hours in return for ...
Keep Reading »Batal: Fighting for Truth, Justice and the Armenian Way
![[Annual Armenian Genocide March in Achrafiyya, Beirut, 24 April 2007. Photo by author.]](/content_images/3/sm_P4230057TN.jpg "[Annual Armenian Genocide March in Achrafiyya, Beirut, 24 April 2007. Photo by author.]")
When I first moved to Beirut to start my doctoral research, I would spend hours at the apartment of my mother’s family in the neighborhood of Zarif. Sometimes I would bring work with me and sit on the chair reading as clouds of smoke from my aunts’ cigarettes and nargila varied in intensity around me. My attention would drift between conversing with my cousins and their mothers, and the reading at hand. I visited them almost daily. I did this, even though I had not grown up with them. I was not one of those Lebanese returnees - I mean I was, but not in what might be termed the traditional sense. I returned, but I was older than most people are when they make that ...
Keep Reading »November Culture
![[Art by Saddam Aljumaily (Iraq)]](/content_images/3/sm_jumaily.jpg "[Art by Saddam Aljumaily (Iraq)]")
Jadaliyya's November culture bouquet arrived on the last day of November. Culture Page co-editor Maymanah Farhat reviews a recent exhibit by the Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. Mai Serhan reviews Tahani Rached's latest documentary. Ghad Mourad translates poems by the Lebanese poet Wadih Saadeh. Sinan Antoon and Peter Money translate three poems by the Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef: * Maymanah Farhat, "Etel Adnan at the Base of the Mountain." * Ghada Mourad, "Wadih Saadeh: Because of a Cloud, Most Likely." * Sinan Antoon and Peter Money, "Three Poems by Saadi Youssef." * Mai Serhan, "Rules of Engagement: Documentary Filmmaking ...
Keep Reading »Hurricane Sandy Hits Little Syria: Worrying about Buildings and Brothers
![[An image of Little Syria post-Sandy. Image taken by Todd Fine.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-11-30at1.19.34PM.png "[An image of Little Syria post-Sandy. Image taken by Todd Fine.]")
The cliché always reasserts itself as a truth: “as long as you are safe, that is all that matters.” In the wake of a disaster, material things – buildings, possessions, money – fade away in importance, and we first worry about the safety of our friends and loved ones. Yet, as Hurricane Sandy approached New York City, my initial, frenzied concern was for things material, yet valued in symbolic abstraction: the last historic structures of Washington Street in Lower Manhattan, chiefly St. George’s Melkite Catholic Church (operating as an Irish pub for the last 30 years), a 1926 settlement house for immigrants, and an old 1885 tenement with still-occupied apartments. For ...
Keep Reading »Beirut Photographer: Interview with George Azar
![[West Beirut, on the Green Line, in the Chiyah neighborhood, 1984. Photo by George Azar.]](/content_images/3/sm_Azar_ChiyahKids_small.jpg "[West Beirut, on the Green Line, in the Chiyah neighborhood, 1984. Photo by George Azar.]")
In 1981, George Azar traveled from UC Berkeley to Beirut, Lebanon to see the Arab-Israeli conflict first hand. He got a job as a stringer, photographing the Lebanese civil war for the Associated Press and United Press International. He was captured by the Israelis during the 1982 invasion and taken to Israel, where he was released in Jerusalem. He returned to Lebanon and continued photographing the war until 1984. As the thirtieth anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre approached this year, Azar returned to Beirut to search for the people in some of his most memorable photographs. His story, and the story of his subjects, is explored in the film, “Beirut ...
Keep Reading »بيروت… غزة
بعد اسابيع من القصف، كان أبي مقيماً في المستشفى، وبقينا نحن، أمي وأخي وأنا في قبو أحد الفنادق البيروتية القديمة، نعد الساعات ونأكل خبزاً جافاً وأرزاً وبطاطا، بعد أسابيع من القصف والعزلة، كنت أنا بنتاً مهذبة، لا أسبب لوالدتي قلقاً في أي مسألة. آكل ما هو موجود، لا أتسبب في فوضى أو ضجة غير لازمة ولا أسأل أسئلة مزعجة، باستثناء السؤال عن أبي من حين لآخر، علماً بأنه كان من عادته الغياب بقصف أو بدون قصف… بعد أسابيع من القصف خرجنا إلى الخارج. لا أذكر لماذا، كان الجو خريفياً لطيفاً، والهواء جافاً مغبراً، كأن شخصاً مر بمكنسة آلية قديمة، نظف بها الشوارع من البشر ومن ضجيج السيارات، وترك بعده هذا الهواء الدافئ الغابر. وفجأة أخذت أوراق صفراء وزهرية تتساقط علينا من السماء. ...
Keep Reading »Political Instability Costs Lebanon 5 Percent of Its GDP
![[Image of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination initiated the instability, displayed in Martyrs' Square in Beirut. Image by Evan Bench via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_hariridisplayweb.jpg "[Image of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination initiated the instability, displayed in Martyrs' Square in Beirut. Image by Evan Bench via Flickr]")
[The following policy brief was issued by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies on 1 November 2012.] Political Instability Costs Lebanon 5% of Its GDP Executive Summary In the last six years, Lebanon has experienced both war and political instability, including assassinations, bombings, sit-ins, demonstrations, government resignation, and armed clashes. This paper examines the impact of political instability on the economy between 2005 and 2010. The research reveals that the assassination of Hariri in 2005 and the July 2006 war both had a negative impact on most economic sectors. However, during other periods of instability, there is no evidence to suggest ...
Keep Reading »The Struggle of Twice-Displaced Refugees: Palestinians Fleeing Syria to Lebanon
![[Entrance to Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Image by l'Ifpo via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_4054435677_cda517a69c.jpg "[Entrance to Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Image by l'Ifpo via Flickr]")
Meesar Lahan’s personal story represents thousands of Palestinian refugees filtering into the Shatila refugee camp of Lebanon from war-stricken Syria. Their move to Lebanon represents a second displacement (the first being from Palestine), and many of these refugees are giving up hope, some even considering a return with their families back to Syria. The labyrinth of discrimination and segregation specific to the already existing Palestinian refugee population of Lebanon has made many of the new arrivals feel that Syria, despite the violence, offers more dignity and a greater ability to live within their economic means. Between Violence and Discrimination In the narrow ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Youth Statement from Lebanon
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[The following statement was issued by supporters of a Palestinian youth group, from a rally in Beirut on 9 November 2012.] In his latest statement, Mahmoud Abbas, the term-expired president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), reiterated the PA’s commitment to the futile negotiations process and compromised Palestinian historical rights, foremost among them the Right of Return (RoR). Abbas’ recognition of the Zionist entity is a blatant violation of our right to Palestine, undivided, and our right to return to it. Such statements are an insult to the sacrifices of our martyrs and the struggle of our people. Furthermore, his ...
Keep Reading »Beirut Event: The Silver Factory featuring Andy Warhol's 1967 Marilyn Monroe Series (13-17 November)
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Q Contemporary's The Silver Factory 13 - 17 November 2012 Beirut, Lebanon To celebrate its 3rd anniversary, Q will revive the American swinging sixties by re-creating Andy Warhol’s New York studio The Factory in Beirut, featuring one of Warhol’s most iconic works of art: the original Marilyn Monroe series from 1967. Andy Warhol (1928 -1987) was a leading artist in the visual art movement known as Pop Art, a genre that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades. His work explored the relationship between the artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the ...
Keep Reading »The Interactive Lebanese Flag
The interactive Lebanese flag, it keeps everyone happy and works for special occasions:
Keep Reading »A Nation of Pain and Suffering: Syria (Part 2)
Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weakness like ants. -- Nizar Qabbani, “Footnotes to the Book of Setback” (Hawamesh ‘ala Daftar al-Naksah), 1967. II. Neighbors. As the refugees pour into Syria’s neighbors, tensions come with them. The most thorough report on these tensions was ...
Keep Reading »“Beirut Photographer”: An Ode to Memory
What does it mean to bear witness to events? What responsibility does the act of witnessing carry? These are the central questions evoked by George Azar and Mariam Shahin’s documentary film “Beirut Photographer.” Released on Al Jazeera English in part to remember the thirtieth anniversary of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon–and more particularly of Beirut–the film is a multi-layered and fascinating portrayal of the often contradictory aspects of battles that would become subsumed under the label of ...
Keep Reading »Dalal Al-Maghribi: A Profile from the Archives
[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.] Name: Dalal Al-Maghribi Known as: Al-Maghribi Father: Saed Mother: Amnah Date of Birth: 1958 Date of Death: 1978 Nationality: Palestinian Place of Birth: Beirut Category: Political activist Profession: Political ...
Keep Reading »Wadih Saadeh: Because of a Cloud, Most Likely
Because of a Cloud, Most likely Wadih Saadeh Translated by Ghada Mourad Shadows They moved toward the water descending from their mountains like soft shadows so that as not to awaken the grass. When their shadows passed the fields some parted company and slept there Others clung to rocks, stretched out and returned them to the rocks. They moved until they reached the water exhausted Above them the sun was looking for a needle to reconnect them with the shadows. A Gaze They ...
Keep Reading »Etel Adnan at the Base of the Mountain
Etel Adnan 12 September – 28 October 2012 Callicoon Fine Arts, Manhattan Roughly fifteen miles north of San Francisco, across the city’s iconic burnt-orange Art Deco masterpiece, is Mount Tamalpais, another Bay Area icon. In the surrounding areas of this unassuming mountain lived the Coastal Miwok Indians—a now landless people—who (as popular legend would have it) once claimed that an evil witch lived atop its peak in order to deter early European settlers from scaling its heights. It is also ...
Keep Reading »فواز طرابلسي: حرير وحديد
[“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.] فواز طرابلسي، “حرير وحديد: من جبل لبنان الى قناة السويس”، رياض الريس للكتب والنشر، بيروت، كانون الثاني ٢٠١٣. جدليّة: كيف تبلورتْ فكرة الكتاب وما الذي قادك نحو الموضوع؟ فواز طرابلسي: الكتاب الحالي نتاج الفائض من الشغل على كتابة ”تاريخ لبنان الحديث“. قادتني ابحاثي الى اكتشاف ثلاثة امور: الاول، تميّز القرن التاسع عشر بحركة إنتقال واتصال وتبادل واسعة النطاق ومدهشة الابعاد بين بلدان حوض ...
Keep Reading »A Precarious Balancing Act: Lebanon and the Syrian Conflict
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 22 November 2012.] A Precarious Balancing Act: Lebanon and the Syrian Conflict Executive Summary Syria’s conflict is leaking out of its borders, but in few places are risks higher than in Lebanon. This is not just a matter of history, although history bodes ill: the country seldom has been immune to the travails of its neighbour. It also is a function of recent events, the most dramatic of which was the 19 October assassination ...
Keep Reading »The Swallows of Syria
[Note: The views and testimonies herein are the refugees’ own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the author or of Jadaliyya.] Somaya left Homs, Syria after finding the corpse of her tortured son in a sewage ditch. Zaynab escaped with her family when she discovered that Syrian soldiers kidnapped, raped, and killed three of her schoolmates. Aziza fled after snipers killed both her husband and sister-in-law. Reports indicate that refugees and residents have also been subjected to abuse and ...
Keep Reading »International Call Out: British CEO’s Actions Threaten Union Rights in Lebanon
[The following call out was issued by Friends of Spinneys Workers on 9 November 2012 in reaction to attempts by Spinneys’ CEO and others to undermine recent successes by Spinneys workers in operating their recently-recognized independent union. For background on the struggle to form the independent union of Spinneys workers, read "Unionizing in Lebanon."] Employees at the Lebanese branches of the supermarket chain Spinneys are being fired from work, physically assaulted, and psychologically ...
Keep Reading »ملف من الأرشيف: دلال المغربي
[”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: دلال الشهرة: المغربي إسم الأب: سعيد إسم الأم: أمنة إسماعيل تاريخ الولادة: 1958 تاريخ الوفاة: 1978 الجنسية: فلسطين مكان الولادة: بيروت الفئة: ناشطة سياسية المهنة: ناشطة سياسية دلال المغربي
From Gebran Bassil To Con Edison: Ten Lessons New Yorkers Can Learn From Beirutis About The Dark
This week, Hurricane Sandy devastated large swaths of New York City's electrical grid, and almost a million city dwellers were left without power and/or water. With electricity gone and much of the city's infrastructure damaged, no internet or phone service was available. South of Thirty-fourth Street on the East and West sides, most stores were closed, and those that were open quickly ran out of supplies. People used their flashlights to scan the shelves of these stores, to walk up and down pitch black ...
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