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From Gebran Bassil To Con Edison: Ten Lessons New Yorkers Can Learn From Beirutis About The Dark
![[Beirut Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Illustir. NY Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Reeve Jolliffe]](/content_images/3/sm_BeirutNY.png "[Beirut Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Illustir. NY Skyline Without Electricity, Image by Reeve Jolliffe]")
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 building staircases, and to maneuver their way around city streets and their own apartments. Batteries and candles became hot commodities. Many panicked, and ...
Keep Reading »هذا البحر لي: فيديو وكتيب البحث
"هذا البحر لي" هو عرض حيّ جرى في بيروت من 28 آب حتى 8 أيلول 2012 تضمن رحلة في قارب صيد من ميناء عين المريسة حتى ميناء الدالية. اعتمد هذا "العرض الإعتراضي" في مضمونه على بحث مديني عن شاطىء بيروت مستكشفاً مع الجمهور ملكية هذه الأماكن وممارسات مستخدميها والقوانين التي تحكمها. يشكل هذا الكتيب بحث في ملكية الأراضي على شاطىء بيروت وعلاقتها بالأنظمة التي تحكمها، كسبيل لفهم الوضع الاجتماعي والقانوني وحيثيات التشريعات التي ساهمت في إحالة وصولنا الى الشاطئ في بيروت اليوم. "هذا البحر لي" هو جزء من جهد مستمر تقوم به "مجموعة الدكتافون" للربط بين البحث المديني والفن الحيّ من أجل فتح نقاش عن علاقة الناس ...
Keep Reading »Human Rights Organizations Call for Investigation of Migrant Worker Abuse in Lebanon
![[Alkarama Foundation logo. Image from alkarama.org]](/content_images/3/sm_alkaramalogoweb.jpg "[Alkarama Foundation logo. Image from alkarama.org]")
[The following statement was issued by a group of human rights organizations, including Alkarama Foundation, on 18 October 2012.] Illegal and racist practices against foreign workers or refugees in Lebanon are on the rise. The latest example in this regard took place on the evening of 7 October as members of the Lebanese Army raided the homes of seventy Syrian, Egyptian, and Sudanese workers in Beirut in response to a complaint by some residents against these workers of "harassing the girls and disturbing the residents." The workers were beaten during the raid. Assaulting individuals and their privacy is totally unacceptable regardless of whether it was ...
Keep Reading »The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies Announces New Website
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[The following press release was issued by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies on 23 October 2012.] The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) has launched its new website: www.lcps-lebanon.org. The new site revisits LCPS’ twenty-three years of endeavors in a new and dynamic format in alignment with the center’s original mission: to disseminate innovative research work and information on public policy issues in Lebanon and the region. LCPS is the oldest, independent, non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Lebanon. The Global Think Tank Survey has consistently ranked it the number one Lebanese think tank. Since 1989, it has demonstrated ...
Keep Reading »An Introduction to Helen Zughaib's "Stories My Father Told Me"
“Stories My Father Told Me” is a series of twenty-three gouache paintings by Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib. Based on the memories of her father, Elia, who was born in Damascus in 1927 under the French Mandate, this large body of work is filled with the recollections of his early childhood in the Old City of the Syrian capital and the subsequent years of his youth that were spent in the Lebanese towns of Zahle and Marjayoun. Beginning in 2003, Helen and her father collaborated on the series through sporadic exchanges that took place over the course of several years. After recording a specific memory or fable that would come to mind, Elia would give his written ...
Keep Reading »Unionizing in Lebanon: The Struggle is Elsewhere
![[Workers, activists, and reporters at the 30 JUly 2012 press conference wherein Spinneys' workers announced the formation of their independent union. Image by Farfahhine via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_7683455134_b507f2ab6e.jpg "[Workers, activists, and reporters at the 30 JUly 2012 press conference wherein Spinneys' workers announced the formation of their independent union. Image by Farfahhine via Flickr]")
Last month saw the successful founding of an independent workers’ union emerge out of the Lebanese private sector. Yet there has been little social media fanfare outside Lebanon over this success … perhaps not surprisingly. Class struggle in contemporary Lebanon has rarely captured the imagination of either scholars or social activists. Long described as a bastion of laissez-faire politics, a site of never-ending civil strife, and a platform for settling regional scores, Lebanon is hardly seen as a crucible for subversive class activity in the Arab world. More recent history has served to reinforce this conception of a complacent – or complicit – middle and ...
Keep Reading »On Music, Politics, and Ethical Responsibility
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 3 October 2012.] Earlier in September, in the lead up to a performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in apartheid Israel, a worldwide campaign calling on them to cancel their show gathered steam. Over the last several months, our South African, Lebanese, Indian, American, Israeli, and Italian partners, among others, had all written letters to RHCP, and a petition was set up that garnered over 7500 signatures, a first of its kind. In Lebanon, days before their show, the famous band, Mashrou3 Leila, announced that it would be ...
Keep Reading »Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice
![[Image by Eusebius@Commons via Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_lebanonflagweb.jpg "[Image by Eusebius@Commons via Wikimedia Commons]")
[The following report was issued by Marsad Al-Raqba (The Censorship Observatory) in January 2012.] Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice Executive Summary This study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of censorship in Lebanon, which will hopefully allow the many local artistic and cultural actors the opportunity to lobby for the most appropriate legislative amendments to the current censorship regulations which are currently not conducive to their work. Thus accordingly, the study provides an extended definition of censorship covering both prior censorship (i.e. that which occurs prior to screening or production as is the ...
Keep Reading »ملف من الأرشيف: حسن حمدان "مهدي عامل"
[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة جديدة 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: حسن الشهرة: حمدان إسم الأب: عبد الله تاريخ الولادة: 1936 تاريخ الوفاة: 1987 اسم الزوجة: إڤلين بران الأولاد: كريم، ياسمين، رضا الجنسية: لبناني الإختصاص: دكتوراه فلسفة الفئة: ناشط سياسي اللقب: مهدي عامل
Keep Reading »Call for Participants -- Mideast Wire's The Exchange: City-Focused Conferences in Beirut, Tunis, & Turkey
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The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote understanding and academic enrichment through a variety of city-focused conferences in and around the Middle East. During their stay, typically lasting from one to two weeks, students and professionals from around the world engage directly with some of the leading intellectuals, academics and political leaders in the country - representing all sides. The First Exchange was launched in June 2008 in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, several years on, over 270 students from forty-four different countries have participated, with many going on to work as diplomats in their home countries, for NGOs serving the ...
Keep Reading »George Habash: A Profile From the Archives
![[George Habash. Image from the archives of Assafir Newspaper.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-09-26at8.24.13PM.png "[George Habash. Image from the archives of Assafir Newspaper.]")
[”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: George Known as: Habash Date of birth: 1926 Date of death: 2008 Name of wife: Hilda Habash Date of marriage: 1961 Children: Maysa/Luma Nationality: Palestine Academic degree: PhD in medicine Category: Politician Profession: Doctor- Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Nickname: ...
Keep Reading »Sabra and Shatila . . . Thirty Years Later
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" لا يتبخر الدم بل يغوص في الأرض" "Blood does not evaporate. It sinks into the earth." --Talal Salman
Keep Reading »إنفجار غزة و حصار بيروت معاً
حدثان هامان شهدهما عالمنا العربي – من ضمن الكثير والمتتابع مما يشهده وأسرع من إدراكنا– امتد تأثيرهما أفقياً لما يفوق حدودهما الجغرافية –كالعادة- ، كان الأول تفجير الأشرفية في بيروت، والذي راح "ضمن" ضحاياه اللواء وسام الحسن رئيس مركز المعلومات في الأمن الداخلي اللبناني، و الحدث الثاني هو زيارة أمير قطر وحرمه ووفدهما المرافق إلى قطاع غزة المحتل/المحاصر. لايمكن تجاهل أهمية الحدثين، وإن كانت بيروت قد شهدت إنفجارات وإغتيالات سابقة، وكذا القطاع الغزي الذي كُسر حصاره سابقاً، ولكن... غزة : لزيارة ...
Keep Reading »Dia al-Azzawi's "Sabra and Shatila Massacre"
Earlier this year, London’s Tate Modern acquired “Sabra and Shatila Massacre” (1982-83), an epic mural-sized drawing by pioneering Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi. Sprawling as it is towering and engulfing, the artist began the massive work after news surfaced that between two and three thousand Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were strategically murdered in and around the refugee camps of southern Beirut in 1982. While creating “Sabra and Shatila Massacre,” al-Azzawi was also moved by Jean Genet’s “Four ...
Keep Reading »Call for Women's Right to Abortion in Lebanon
[The following position paper was issued by Nasawiya on 28 September 2012.] Women's Right to Abortion in Lebanon Abortion laws have become an international political issue, resulting in continuing debates leading to social change and policy reforms throughout the years. Visible efforts to address abortion started in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that was held in Cairo, in which the international community agreed on a common ...
Keep Reading »What is a Car Bomb?
It is surreal to wake up to news of a car bomb back home, now thousands of miles away. Immediately, the war-shaped body is both numb and preoccupied with images of death and destruction. The mind wanders and sutures the past, present, and future seamlessly. Phone calls, emails, and texts begin. The space between a call and its response seems immense, and the time it takes to hear from blood and choice family--particularly when they live or work or frequent the targeted neighborhood--is bloated with the ...
Keep Reading »HRW Call for Investigation and Punishment of Lebanese Army Attackers on Migrant Laborers
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 10 October 2012.] Lebanon’s judiciary should investigate and prosecute any army and intelligence officials responsible for the beating and serious abuse of at least seventy-two male migrant workers on the evening of 7 October in the Beirut neighborhood of Geitawi, Human Rights Watch said today. According to victims and other witnesses, those beaten include at least forty-five Syrian, twenty Egyptians, and seven Sudanese migrant ...
Keep Reading »The Cult of Ziad Rahbani
For people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, Ziad Rahbani is the biggest celebrity there is. Some non-Lebanese may not be aware of the extent and reach of the Ziad Rahbani cult. You will find young people in Lebanon who can recite entire dialogues and songs by him. These are people who for every occasion and every episode in life can invoke an aphorism by Ziad. To be sure, Ziad was also (and remains) big for people of my generation. After all, he introduced a genre of satirical comedy that ...
Keep Reading »Hassan Hamdan 'Mahdi `Amel': 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: Hassan Known as: Hamdan Father's name: Abdullah Date of birth: 1936 Date of death: 1987 Name of wife: Avlin Braun Children: Kareem/Yasmin/Rida Nationality: Lebanese Academic degree: PhD in ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinians in Lebanon: Remembering the Sabra-Shatila Massacre
What can we say to their families who left with Arafat, trusting in the promises of Reagan, Mitterrand, and Perini, who had assured them that the civilian population of the camps would be safe? How can we explain that we allowed children, old people and women to be massacred, and that we are abandoning their bodies without prayers? How can we tell them that we don't know where they are buried? —Jean Genet, “Four Hours in Chatila.”[1] Fawziyyeh[2] clutched an unframed, black-and-white photograph of her ...
Keep Reading »Beirut Event -- Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region (4-8 October 2012)
Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region Beirut, Lebanon 4 - 8 October 2012 The Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) is pleased to announce Inverted Worlds – Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region, to take place in Beirut from 4 to 8 October 2012. Artists, activists and academics engage in debate and exchange in this five-day international conference highlighting the creative side of recent change in the region. Inverted Worlds also celebrates the free spirit ...
Keep Reading »(a(version)s) interviews: Mohamed Abdelkarim and Rough Americana
It was October of 2011: sixty-seven years after one of the first compositions involving sampled sound, a haunting mutation of Egyptian zaar music, was created in Cairo by Halim El Dabh.1 I was holed up in a soundproof studio in Ashkal Alwan, between the echoes of the sea bouncing off the mountains above Beirut, beyond the relentless cacophony of cars and construction. I was alone in the studio with a record player, piecing together a new beat, diving into a stack of newly acquired records, searching ...
Keep Reading »في الذكرى الثلاثين لمجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا: السينما الوثائقية والمجزرة
بمناسبة الذكرى الثلاثون لمجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا، سأستعرض في هذا المقال فيلمين وثائقيين غير اعتياديين حول هذه المجزرة البشعة، والتي نُفذت على مدى ثلاثة أيام ( من الخميس 16 أيلول1982 وحتى السبت 18 ايلول). الفيلم الأول بعنوان "مجزرة" إخراج الألمانية مونيكا بورغمان ولقمان سليم وهيرمان ثايسن ( 99 دقيقة.إنتاج ألماني/ لبناني . 2005) وهو فيلم لم يحظ بالاهتمام الذي يستحقه، أما الفيلم الثاني فهو "رقصة فالس مع بشير" للإسرائيلي آري فولمان ( 90 دقيقة. إنتاج إسرائيلي/غربي .2008 ) وهو ...
Keep Reading »السينما ومجازر المخيمات
ليس فيلماً عادياً. إنه صادم وقاتل وراعب وخرافي، وأكثر من ذلك يمكن وصف فيلم «مجزرة» لمونيكا بورغمان ولقمان سليم وهيرمان ثييسن. يتحدث الفيلم عن مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا من زاوية أخرى وهي رواية مرتكبي المجزرة الذين اشترطوا ألا تظهر ملامحهم، والذين اختلطت مشاعرهم وطرائق تعبيرهم وهم يتحدثون عن تفصيلات ما حدث، حتى أن أحدهم قال: «إن الحديث عما حصل قد يكون أصعب من القتل، فالمعركة العسكرية انتهت، لكن معركتي مع نفسي لم تنته.. لم يحاكمني أحد على ما فعلت، واليوم، وأنا أتحدث في هذا الفيلم أشعر أن الحكم يصدر ...
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