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Muzaffar al-Nawwab: Disavowal
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[Today marks the 78th anniversary of the founding of The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP). Its recent history, especially after the 2003 invasion and occupation, notwithstanding, the ICP has a remarkable history of struggling for justice and freedom beginning in the early decades of the 20th century. It was one of the most powerful and popular communist parties in the region. Thousands of its members gave their lives fighting against tyranny, especially under the first and second Ba`th regimes. Muzaffar al-Nawwab (1934-), one of Iraq’s greatest poets, was a member of the ICP and was imprisoned, like many others, following the 1963 Ba`th coup. One of the methods used by the ...
Keep Reading »How the PA Enriched an Elite and Normalized Occupation
Khalil Nakhleh, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland. Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2011. Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland explores the rise of a new Palestinian elite that works together with international organizations against the will of the majority of its compatriots. The book’s author, Khalil Nakhleh, worked in the development sector as director of the Welfare Association (a Palestinian organization) for more than a decade, as well as a consultant on the expenditure of European Union aid. He witnessed first-hand the marriage of the business class and the international aid organizations in Palestine. Thus, the ...
Keep Reading »شظايا ذاكرة: عن المكان في يوم الأرض
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نعود إلى الأرض مرة كل عام في يومها. منذ عام 76 نعود وكأننا نواسي أنفسنا في هذا اليوم (1) بمظاهرات كي نتذكر أننا ما زلنا على هذه الأرض، التي يسحقنا العيش فيها رغم جمالها. تضيق بي فلسطين وتتسع في ذات الآن. تضيق عندما أرى عيشنا فيها، وتتسع عندما أرى كم هي غنية وجميلة، هذه البقعة الصغيرة. وهي ليست أجمل بقاع الأرض، ولا أغناها، لكنها البقعة الأجمل في عينيّ لأنني أحبها بكل قباحتها التي أراها كلما عصرني شعور بالذل، وكلما شعرت بالغربة داخل بلادنا التي تمكنت من البقاء فيها، ليس لشيء ولكن لأن الصدف شاءت أن لا يكون أجدادي من الذين هُجروا عام 48. ضربة حظ لا أقل ولا أكثر! أو لعله سوء حظ، أن تولد في مكان لا تتركك ذاكرته بل تقبض على خناقك. ”وأنتِ ماذا تفعلين كي لا تكرهي هذا ...
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Amina Filali was a young Moroccan girl who was raped at the age of 15 then forced to marry her rapist. She was battered, bruised, and starved until she committed suicide in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Contributing to Amina’s suicide are her rapist turned husband, article 475 of the Moroccan penal code that absolves an aggressor of his crime once he consents to marrying his rape victim, the judge who called for a mediation instead of a prosecution against the offender, the police, and the religious clerics who have given their blessings to the rapist. Amina’s suicide exposes, once again, an entirely flawed legal system and deeply distorted patriarchal honor code ...
Keep Reading »On Kony2012: In Defense of the Armchair
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It is quite possible that there remains nothing new to say about Kony2012. This thirty-minute video, narrated by Jason Russell, co-founder of the non-profit organization Invisible Children, aims to rally mass awareness and support for the campaign to capture Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). But Kony2012 is, after all, the gift that keeps on giving. Its tally includes an unprecedented humanitarian social media coup with close to ninety million YouTube views, a mind-boggling number of (re)tweets, and various Facebook-related milestones. It has generated comparable measures of support for and backlash against it, copious analyses of both, and even ...
Keep Reading »الحقيقة ... أكرم خلق ثوري
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منذ أسابيع توقفت عن الكتابة. لم يكن السبب مقاطعة وسائل الإعلام المكتوبة أو السمعية البصرية وهي كثيرة (الجزيرة، العربية... وحتى روسيا اليوم التي يقول السيد فيصل القاسم انني أتحدّث عليها سبعين مرة في اليوم وأنا لم أتحدث مرة واحدة عليها في 2012). لم تكن المشكلة أبداً تغييباً إعلامياً.. فليس بالإمكان محاصرتي مهما دفع من مال أو مورس من ضغوط. لكن المشكلة تكمن في حالة الوجع، حتى لا أقول أكثر من ذلك، من الوضع الذي آلت إليه الأمور فيما أعطى الثورة المضادة مواقع متقدمة في محافل ومجالات كثيرة، باسم الثورة، وعلى حساب قيمها ومبادئها. كمفكر ناقد ومناضل حقوقي لا يمكن للسياسة أن تقتل عندي الفكر النقدي (من الانتقاد) في عصر راج فيه الخطاب النقدي (من يتقرش المال أي يجمعه حسب تعبير ...
Keep Reading »This is Not 1954
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Over the past few days, the demons of history have weighed down on public discussions about the country’s state of affairs and the looming conflicts over the constitution and the presidential elections. The recent quarrel between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood, triggered by their disagreement over the future of the cabinet and possibly even the presidential race, has elicited fears of a showdown between the army and Egypt’s oldest Islamist organization. The confrontation has caused many to draw parallels with an ostensibly similar moment in Egyptian history in 1954, when the Free Officers led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Change and Continuity in the Middle East - Rethinking West Asia, North Africa, and the Gulf after 2011 (London, 11 June 2012)
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Change and Continuity in the Middle East: Rethinking West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf after 2011 London, 11 June 2012 Submission Deadline: 13 April 2012 The fact that 2011 has been a year of momentous importance for West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf can hardly be disputed. For this reason, the Graduate Section of BRISMES hereby extends an invitation to all young researchers and PhD candidates to present research that addresses the political, economic, social and cultural transitions taking place across the region. We welcome submissions of papers and panel proposals from any disciplinary field which reflects on these events and the resilience displayed ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (March 27)
This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week. Algeria "Algerian officials favour unity with Morocco" Greater unity of the Maghreb region could provide added value of up to 10 billion dollars. "News reports: At least 19 killed when Algerian bus crashes into ravine" A tragic accident leaves 19 dead and 30 injured outside the town of Tiaret. “Faut-il participer aux ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (March 26)
![[Egyptian military police in Alexandria. Image by Gigi Ibrahim. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Egyptian_Military_Police_in_Alexandria.jpg "[Egyptian military police in Alexandria. Image by Gigi Ibrahim. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
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. “Update: Military council publicly attacks Muslim Brotherhood for first time” SCAF responds to Brotherhood’s criticism over the transfer of power and the performance of the military-backed provisional government. “Brotherhood issues vehement criticism of cabinet, SCAF” The Brotherhood calls on Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzoury to step down, ...
Keep Reading »الأزمة السورية والطريق المسدود
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1- تتفاقم الأزمة الوطنية في سورية منذ حوالي السنة، ولا تلوح، في المدى المنظور، بارقة أمل في الوصول الى حلّ لها. البلاد تعيش حالة أقرب ما تكون لحالة الحرب، بل أصعب مما كانت عليه أيام الحروب التي عرفتها في الماضي. فالجيش ينتشر على مساحة الوطن وفي المدن ويقيم الحواجز على الطرقات العامة بين المدن والبلدات والقرى، والعنف المضاد لعنف السلطة آخذ في الاتساع. يرتبط التفاقم بجملة شروط وظروف، في مقدمتها إصرار النظام منذ البداية، وحتى الآن، على رفض الاعتراف بوجود أزمة وطنية، ليس الاحتجاج الشعبي سوى التعبير عنها. فإذا كان منشأ الأزمة بنية النظام، فإن نموها مرتبط بالسياسات القائمة على إلغاء الحريات والنفي الواقعي لمبدأ المواطنة وتغييب سيادة القانون، وبالسياسات الاجتماعية ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (March 25)
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[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] Reports "Israel has 101 different types of permits governing Palestinian movement", Chaim Levinson Haaretz reports on the vast amount and variety of permits governing the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank and the wasted time and energy resulting from this ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Reports You Might Have Missed
Jadaliyya Reports is Jadaliyya's hub for disseminating statements, images, and videos produced by people on the ground in the region, as well as conferences, publications, adn reports from/about the region. Below is a list of some of the on-the-ground-produced statements and videos that readers might have missed over the past several months. Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR): Report on Human Rights Violations Since the BICI (Bassiouni) Report Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt: We Reject the ...
Keep Reading »Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine (New Issue of Settler Colonial Studies)
[The following is the table of contents of the most recent issue of Settler Colonial Studies] Settler Colonial Studies Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine Table of Contents Articles Editors' Introduction Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, Sobhi Samour Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagements with Gershon Shafir Zachary Lockman Shtelt Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisiers Ilan ...
Keep Reading »Time for a 'Bourguibist' Comeback? Essebsi Butters up Tunisians in Monastir
The dome shaped room was a sea of red and white. It smelled of amber musk and sea. The attendees were mostly well over the age of forty, and the buzz of excitement was impossible to miss. You would think you were attending a Michael Jackson concert. What’s the occasion, you ask? Well, to celebrate and adulate the ultimate star of the show, Beji Caid Essebsi – or, as the attendees would proudly tell you, to “unite all political forces as Tunisian above all else,” and to “start a new era in Tunisia’s ...
Keep Reading »Beautiful Water Day
Nearly 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel live in thirty-six unrecognized villages in the Naqab. The State of Israel deliberately limits access to water in these villages, as well as all other basic services, as a means of forcing the Bedouin to give up their just land claims and move to government-planned townships, the poorest in Israel. As the Bedouin community struggles to remain on their ancestral land, most villagers obtain water via improvised, plastic hose hook-ups or unhygienic metal ...
Keep Reading »Syria Media Roundup (March 29)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editor or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] “Not supporting the opposition “within Syria” is supporting Assad,” WINEP now supports democracy in Syria! “Syria supporting PKK says intelligence report Keep Reading »
Journal of Palestine Studies Responds to CAMERA: David Ben-Gurion and the Transfer of Arabs
[The following response was issued by the Journal of Palestine Studies on 27 March 2012.] On 3 November 2011, the self-appointed media watchdog CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) informed the Journal of Palestine Studies of an incorrect citation in an article by Ilan Pappé (“The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”) published in its autumn 2006 issue. The incorrect citation referred to a quotation by Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion supporting the expulsion ...
Keep Reading »NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
Since we have featured so much remarkable work in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON), we wanted to pause for a second to let you catch up. Here are a few great posts that you might have missed from the past several months: Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, "Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq" Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ‘Men in Crisis,’ Industries of Gender in Revolution” James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third ...
Keep Reading »هوامش سياسية على دفتر أزمة البنزين والسولار
هامش أول ــ مصر ــ مارس ٢٠١٢: أزمة وقود لا يصاحبها مخطط إسقاط مصر. عادت أزمة النقص الحاد فى البنزين والسولار. وكانت مصر قد شهدت أزمة مماثلة قبل شهرين وتحديداً قبيل مظاهرات الاحتفال بالذكرى السنوية الأولى لثورة يناير، والتى تزامنت وقتها مع إعلان عسكري عن مخطط دولي "لإسقاط مصر ومؤسسات الدولة خلال المظاهرات“. الأزمة تعكس نفسها فى طوابير بالمحطات تمتد ٤ كيلومترات وتخنق المرور بالقاهرة، وتطيح بالمخابز البلدية بعد توقف عدد منها عن إنتاج الخبز البلدي المدعوم. الأزمة تضرب فى المحافظات، وتتسبب فى موجة من ...
Keep Reading »Bahrain Center for Human Rights Report on Human Rights Violations Since the BICI Report
[The following press release was issued by Bahrain Centre for Human Rights on 26 March 2012.] BCHR publishes today its new report, Post BICI Report, presenting the key findings from the ongoing effort to document human rights violations occurring in the state of Bahrain since the publication of the Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) in November 2012. Our investigative report supports the rights of victims, no matter their political or religious background. It ...
Keep Reading »Threads of Narrating the Arab Spring
“Narrating the Arab Spring,” Cairo University, 18-20 February 2012 Many of us have spoken and thought about those who we wished would have been present to witness—and perhaps participate in—the revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woman stands up in a plenary at the “Narrating the Arab Spring” conference simply to say she would have loved it if Edward Said were here; she would have loved to hear and read what he had to say “about what is his revolution ...
Keep Reading »The Real Me and The Hypothetical Syrian Revolution (Part 2)
Nine months ago my daughter, Tal Malouhi, a student in high school, was arrested by one of the branches of the security for reasons we do not know until this moment and I do not know anything about her fate. Sir, I knocked on the doors of all the security agencies and the presidential palace and all the official channels possible in order to be assured about my daughter or know anything about her fate or the cause of her arrest, but to no avail. Finally, I received a promise from one of the security ...
Keep Reading »Amman Critical Language Scholarship: Integrating Language and Culture
Following the September 11 attacks, the US government designated a number of languages as “critical need languages”; Arabic was and still is, of course, on top of the list. In order to ensure enough Americans are learning these “critical need languages” and to ensure higher proficiency levels and deeper understandings of target cultures, the US government established the Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) program. Administered by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with ...
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