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فحوص العار: عندما "يُغتصب" موقوف للتثبت من مثليته
بدأت القصة عندما ساق القدر ثلاثة شبان للعب "ورق الشدة" بالقرب من منزل النائب وليد جنبلاط في كليمنصو. أثار مشهد الشبان القوى الأمنية، فساقوهم للتحقيق معهم في أحد المخافر. لم يمض وقت طويل عندما تبين أن لا خلفيات سياسية، أو نوايا أمنية للموقوفين. انتفاء التهمة لم يكن كافياً للإفراج عن الشباب. لاحظ أحد الرتباء الأمنيين أن شكل أحدهم "ناعم"، فتم نقلهم إلى مخفر حبيش للتدقيق في احتمال تورطهم بمخالفات أخرى، ومنها المخدرات، أو المثلية الجنسية. لم يجد مكتب مكافحة المخدرات أي شبهة حول اقتناء أو تعاطي الموقوفين لمخدر، فأحيلوا إلى مكتب الآداب في المخفر نفسه للتدقيق في "نعومة" الشاب. إثر مخابرة عناصر المكتب للنيابة العامة، ومن دون وجود أي ...
Keep Reading »Haera Unveiled (In both Arabic and English)
![[Haera Sleem. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_haeraslemunveiled.jpg "[Haera Sleem. 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. ”حائرة والحجاب“ هو عنوان الشريط التالي الذي تدور أحداثه حول الفتاة اللبنانية حائرة سليم، 21 سنة. قرّرت حائرة عندما كانت في التاسعة من عمرها ارتداء الحجاب ولكنها سرعان ما تراجعت عن هذا القرار وأرادت خلع ...
Keep Reading »About Last Night
![[Students at Beirut Arab University Participate in International Day of Climate Action; Image From 350.org]](/content_images/3/sm_students.png "[Students at Beirut Arab University Participate in International Day of Climate Action; Image From 350.org]")
Last night the sound of gunfire punctuated the Beirut soundscape. Supporters of the anti-Syrian and majority Sunni Future Movement clashed with members of the pro-Assad and Sunni Majority Arab Movement. The fighting, which was most intense around the Beirut Arab University, continued until the early hours of the morning. The area around the Beirut Arab University is mixed. For the last several decades, “mixed” used to refer to Christian and Muslim co-habitation in this city, but today it is increasingly used to describe areas where Sunni and Shiite Muslims live side by side. This shift, or more accurately this proliferation in categorizing self and other encompassed in ...
Keep Reading »عين على المخيم
![[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]](/content_images/3/sm_MawassiChildren.jpg "[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]")
بلغ عدد اللاجئين المسجلين لدى الانوروا (وكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين) نهاية عام 2011، حوالي 5.1 مليون لاجئ فلسطيني، يشكلون ما نسبته 45.6% من مجمل السكان الفلسطينيين في العالم، يتوزعون بواقع 59.1% في كل من الأردن وسوريا ولبنان، و17.1% في الضفة الغربية، و23.8% في قطاع غزة. يعيش حوالي 29.0% من اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في 58 مخيماً. وتمثل هذه التقديرات الحد الأدنى لعدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين باعتبار وجود لاجئين غير مسجلين. هذه الصور التقطتها عدسة محمد مواسي في اذار/مارس من العام الجاري في مخيم برج البراجنة. تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها للفت الإنتباه والتذكير بمحنة اللاجئين في الذكرى الرابعة والستين للنكبة. أُنشئ مخيم برج البراجنة ...
Keep Reading »As Though She Were Sleeping
![[The cover of the Arabic original of As Though She were Sleeping. Image from Elias Khoury]](/content_images/3/sm_kaannaha.jpg "[The cover of the Arabic original of As Though She were Sleeping. Image from Elias Khoury]")
[This excerpt is from Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping (Ka’annaha Na’ima) which was translated by Marilyn Booth and published by Archipelago Books this month. Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces and May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. She has translated over a dozen works of Arabic fiction.] Milia’s eyelashes drew apart over eyes still curtained in drowsiness. She would just close them again, she decided; she ...
Keep Reading »Hizbollah's Position on the Syrian Uprising: Julian Assange Interview with Hasan Nasrallah (Video)
![[Hasan Nasrallah. Image from screenshot of below video]](/content_images/3/sm_nasrallahonrt.png "[Hasan Nasrallah. Image from screenshot of below video]")
In this interview, Julian Assange asks Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hizbollah, about the organization's goals and strategies vis-a-vis Lebanon, Palestine, and the Israeli government, as well as the current uprising, regime response, and international mobilization in Syria. The interview is the first installament in a ten-episode series entitled The World Tomorrow, broadcast on Russia Today, hosted by Julian Assange, and featuring interviews with "iconoclasts, visionaries, and power insiders."
Keep Reading »The Day Hafez al-Assad Died
![[Father and Sons. Image by amerune/Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_assads.jpg "[Father and Sons. Image by amerune/Flickr]")
The day Hazfez al Assad died, I was having lunch with a friend. We were eating pasta at a family owned Italian restaurant in Ras Beirut when the news was announced. With everyone else, we stared at the small television. The owner kept changing the channel, and each time the news was confirmed. I don't remember if we finished lunch. But I do remember that when we went outside the streets seemed deserted. Beirut is not a quiet city, but that day it seemed as if sound had retreated from picture. My father called and demanded that I come home. Less than five minutes later my friend received the same call from her mother. No one knew what would happen next. The questions, I ...
Keep Reading »"Beirut: Ornament of Our World" Faiz's 1982 Poem on Beirut
[For my comrades and poetry aficionados: Fawwaz Trabulsi and Mayssun Sukarieh, and for Raza Mir.] Reading Faiz in Beirut. Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) is one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, Faiz came of age under colonial rule and in the throes of nationalist anti-colonialism. He joined the British Indian Army; he was an integral part of the Progressive Writers Association. He wrote searing poetry about life, and revolution, taking older poetic forms and forging new idioms that chartered the emotions of socialism. When Pakistan was formed in 1947, Faiz went in two directions: as editor of Pakistan Times he was central to the ...
Keep Reading »What Is Cultural Terrorism?
![[Stop Cultural Terrorism in Lebanon. Image from the group's Facebook page.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-02-11at5.26.57PM.png "[Stop Cultural Terrorism in Lebanon. Image from the group's Facebook page.]")
As a well disciplined anthropologist I have learned to be weary of the word “culture.” In fact, it is difficult for me to write the word without using scare quotes. But after Lebanese boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists scored an important victory last month, the word has been everywhere in my online universe. Following BDS actions that highlighted Lara Fabian's recent Israeli Independence Day (which marks the Palestinian naqba) performance, Fabian cancelled her planned concert at the Casino du Liban. In response to her cancellation, an online group called Stop Cultural Terrorism in Lebanon (SCTL) went into overdrive. Members of the group were convinced ...
Keep Reading »Suzanne Alaywan's The Gazelle's Throw
![[Suzanne Alaywan. Image from al-akhbar.com]](/content_images/3/sm_Alaywan.jpg "[Suzanne Alaywan. Image from al-akhbar.com]")
[Suzanne Alaywan was born in 1974 to a Lebanese father and an Iraqi mother in Beirut. Because of the war, she spent her childhood years and adolescence between Andalusia, Paris, and Cairo. She graduated in 1997 from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University of Cairo. She has written thirteen poetry collections. The selection of poems below comes from her latest collection The Gazelle's Throw (2011). Her poetry and paintings are available on her website: www.suzanne-alaywan.com] (Am) waiting for you With the utmost despair can afford with the least measure of my shadow I trust the rain like a gardenia flower a ...
Keep Reading »Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon a Quest for Justice or a Political Intervention?
![[Karim Makdisi, Omar Nashabe, and Nidal Jurdi. Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-01-24at11.26.29PM.png "[Karim Makdisi, Omar Nashabe, and Nidal Jurdi. Image from video below.]")
In 2007, in response to a request by the 2005 Lebanese government, the United Nations (UN) Security Council established the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Based in the Netherlands, the STL seeks to prosecute those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and twenty-two others on 14 February 2005, as well as for a select number of other attempted assassinations in Lebanon between 2004 and 2006. Though Lebanon and the UN established the STL by treaty, the Lebanese parliament never ratified it due to political divisions. This prompted then Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to send a letter to then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that ...
Keep Reading »Sexual Violence Is A Crime, Sometimes
![[Protest Against Rape Posters; Images by nasawiya.org]](/content_images/3/sm_articlerape.jpg "[Protest Against Rape Posters; Images by nasawiya.org]")
I am against rape. I don't think this is a very controversial position to take. People should not be forced physically or coerced emotionally into having sex. I don't care what the gender makeup of the people in question are, and I don't care what their relationship is. Not everyone agrees with this position. In many countries, sexual consent is an implied provision of a marriage contract. The idea is that when two people get married, they are granted rights to each other's bodies and their resources (and yes, the fact that these two come together is interesting to say the least). In France, marital rape was criminalized (ie: rape within a marriage became a punishable ...
Keep Reading »Blaming Others: A History of Violence in Lebanon
Violence has defined the seven years since the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But there are ruptures in the now familiar landscape of burning tires; Israel’s abduction of Lebanese citizens, its invasion of the country’s airspace, mounting casualties from Israeli land mine and cluster bombs; the abuse and killing of migrant workers, and the sound of lonely machine gun fire somewhere in the night. This is a list of the most discernible violence in Lebanon this past decade: In ...
Keep Reading »Ali from Bahrain: How I Became a Refugee (In both Arabic and English)
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 يحمل عنوان ”علي من ...
Keep Reading »الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيالين اللبنانيّ والسوريّ
تنقسم مداخلتي إلى قسمين، يتناول الأوّلُ "الانتفاضاتِ العربيّةَ وفلسطين في المخيال اللبنانيّ"، ويتناول القسمُ الثاني "الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيال السوريّ". ولا حاجة إلى القول إنّ المخيال هنا (أو الوعي) ليس واحدًا في الحالين، على ما ستُظهر هذه المداخلة، بل مخيالاتٌ متعدّدةٌ في كلّ بلد، وقد تتقاطع أيضًا بين البلدين المجاورين. وفي الخاتمة أسعى إلى تقديم رؤيةٍ عامّةٍ، قد تكون متشائمةً، إلى مآل فلسطين في المخيال العربيّ بعد هذه الانتفاضات. 1 ـ القسم الأول: لبنان ـ الانتفاضات ...
Keep Reading »Haera: Right of Return March (In both Arabic and English)
هذا هو الشريط الثالث في 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. الفيلم الثالث بعنوان ...
Keep Reading »Vénus Khoury-Ghata: The House of Nettles
Tireless mother, worthy descendant of a line of peasant women working as long as daylight lasted, as long as night permitted them to tell a lentil from a pebble. Only sleep could still the hands that washed, sewed, cut, peeled, kneaded, cradled. Sleep vertiginous as a stone hurled into a well. Hands that resisted winter, pain, even snakebites from the serpents they trod upon barefoot. Peasant women and ladies at once, taking control of everything, except their fear of the bus, a devilish ...
Keep Reading »هدى بركات: عن مكان بقي موطناً ولم يتحول وطناً
- سأبدأ بعنوان الرواية ”ملكوت هذه الأرض“ المستوحى من تعبير "إنجيلي"، ما الذي يعنيه لك أنت، ولماذا هذا الخيار؟ هدى بركات: العنوان هو، كما يبدو واضحاً، تحوير لـ"ملكوت السماوات". وفي متن الرواية عناصر عديدة تجتمع لإعطاء العنوان جملة من الإيحاءات. بداية من موقع الأحداث في جبال ومرتفعات عالية يفخر أهلها بـ"قربها من السماء"، وهي منطقة يكثر فيها القديسون بشكل استثنائي، مع ما يستتبع ذلك من سحرية ذات مرتكز ديني تتحول خرافة وعزلة، غالباً ما تلتصق بمشاعر الأقليات - أو من يشعرون أنهم ...
Keep Reading »Essential Readings: Reading Lebanon
My dissertation studies intersections and impasses between law and citizenship in Lebanon. I do so through examining two phenomena, activism for a secular personal status and/or civil marriage law, and conversion between sects and/or religions in order to make use of different personal status laws—a practice I call “strategic conversion.” Because of this emphasis on law and citizenship, my project is in conversation with literature on secularism and religion, the relationship between law, the state, and ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Betty S. Anderson (BSA): I always joke that I conceived the project in the pool of the Carlton Hotel in Beirut. In June 2000, I visited Beirut for the first time so I could attend an Arab American University Graduate (AAUG) conference. One day, I walked with some friends all along the Corniche and up through the ...
Keep Reading »Watching Cairo from Beirut
I was in Lebanon, about six months into my dissertation fieldwork. As the crowds in Tahrir grew day by day, and all the world watched, I felt at first that I was watching an important symbolic act that would surely fail. Who could imagine that Mubarak, who had the support and blessing of the United States, would be ousted from his forty-year rule? When protests continued despite the violent tactics of the regime, my amazement grew. Due to the Internet and cellular phone blackouts, I was ...
Keep Reading »Legal Agenda on Jadaliyya!
The Legal Agenda is a critical and multidisciplinary non-governmental organization, based in Lebanon, that monitors and analyzes law and public policy in Lebanon, specifically, and the Arab region, generally. The Legal Agenda publishes a quarterly magazine, organizes regional conferences, commissions studies, and hosts panel and open discussions. In doing so, the organization provides a forum for citizens, experts, and researchers to analyze, critique, and debate local and regional legal ...
Keep Reading »Letter to Lara Fabian
[The following letter was sent to the artist Lara Fabian on 15 January 2012 by the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of "Israel" in Lebanon.] Beirut, 15 January 2012 Dear Ms. Lara Fabian, Greetings from Beirut. You have declared your full support for Israel. You have sung on its sixtieth "anniversary," which means sixty (by now sixty four) years of ethnic cleansing, house demolitions, apartheid, colonial settlements, and denial of the rights of millions of Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »Psychedelic Soup for the Sectarian Soul
Where Do We Go Now? Directed by Nadine Labaki. Lebanon/France, 2011. There is a heartbreaking scene towards the end of Wa-hala’ li-wayn (Et maintenant on va où? Where do we go now?), the second feature film from Lebanese writer, producer and director Nadine Labaki. A teenaged Muslim boy named Hammoudi (Mostafa Al Sakka) who has playfully stolen a cap from his Christian neighbor, Nassim (Kevin Abboud), gets marched over by his mother Afaf (Layla Hakim) to Nassim’s house in order to return it. ...
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