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الأميرة النائمة: الوردة الكبيرة 1939-2012
![[وردة الجزائرية]](/content_images/3/sm_warda1976.jpg "[وردة الجزائرية]")
العناوين الكثيرة يمكن أن نضعها لآلاف من صفحات الكتابة، ورقية وضوئية، وتخطيطات كتاب وارد، عن الوردة "أميرة الغناء العربي" (1939-2012). لقب صنعته الصحافة بعد فيلمها الثاني"أميرة العرب"(1963). كأن نقول "الأميرة والمنفى"، "الأميرة والنضال"، "الأميرة والعسكر"، "الأميرة والحب"، "الأميرة والأيام"، "الأميرة والغربة"، الأميرة والوطن". إنها هي فصول سيرة الوردة الكبيرة. نامت الوردة النوم الطويل. تجمد الزمن غدت الذاكرة محملة بالعبير الفواح والربيع المنتظر. فصول الوردة لم تكن ربيعاً، فهي أكملت دورات فصول السنة جزءاً من قدرية السيرة وارتياد المستحيل. نازلت كل فصولها واضعة في كل منها بصمة الصوت ...
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 »The Arab World and the Media's Symbiotic Revolutions
![[The crowd captures images as the protestors and military clash at Abbasiya. Image from Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_7143419427_75bf1b60bb_b.jpg "[The crowd captures images as the protestors and military clash at Abbasiya. Image from Flickr.]")
The Arab world has forever changed, and so has the media. Some would argue governance, as we've known it, is also changing. Business is certainly changing; in fact, the whole world might just be changing too. The question is, is social media the catalyst? My simple answer is yes. For just over a year now, I've been fortunate enough to be immersed in a series of chaotic and fateful events that had deprived me of sleep, catapulted my career, but most importantly connected me through social media, at times intimately, to my shared generation of Arab brothers and sisters fighting for their right to self-determination. After decades of oppression and dictatorship, a ...
Keep Reading »The Exit from the Crisis is Left: Main Points of Greece's Syriza Leftist Coalition
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[The following is the platform put forth by the Greek political coalition Syriza (an abbreviation for Coalition of the Radical Left) on 9 May 2012. The leftist coalition is currently polling at approximately thirty percent and is expected by some analysts to win in the next elections in Greece.] The Exit from the Crisis is on the Left 1. Creation of a shield to protect society against the crisis Not a single citizen without a guaranteed minimum income or unemployment benefit, medical care, social protection, housing, and access to all services of public utilities. Protection of and relief measures for indebted households. Price controls and price ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam
Maaike Voorhoeve, editor, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What led you to edit this book? Maaike Voorhoeve (MV): When I started my PhD on the contemporary application of Tunisian family law by Tunisian judges, my idea was as follows: the Tunisian family code deviates significantly from Islamic law, and therefore it is interesting to examine if judges apply the code, or whether they apply Islamic law instead. This approach was informed by other studies on family law in the Muslim world that focus on the relationship between legislation and Islam. But during my fieldwork, I ...
Keep Reading »العبودية وجدل إحراق كتب الفقه المالكي في موريتانيا
لقد تابع الكثيرون باهتمام كبير إقدام السيد بيرام ولد اعبيدي— لاحظوا حتى الاسم يحمل رواسب زمن العبودية التي يناضل ضدها بيرام—على إحراق مختارات من كتب الفقه المالكي المسؤولة، حسب زعمه، عن استمرار الرق في بلده لما تمده به من غطاء شرعي. لقد نفذ رفقة كوكبة من أعضاء جمعية "مبادرة من أجل الانعتاق من العبودية" في الثامن والعشرين من شهر أبريل تهديده عقب صلاة الجمعة على مرأى ومسمع من الكل قصد إثارة الانتباه إلى استمرار العبودية التي مازالت تعاني منها فئة واسعة من الموريتانيين ذوي الأصول الافريقية. ويقدر عدد العبيد في ربوع البلاد بعشرات بل مئات الآلاف حسب المصادر المختلفة والتي يجب التعامل مع المعلومات الواردة فيها بحذر شديد. فالأرقام تختلف، انخفاضاً ...
Keep Reading »"We Are the Eight Percent": Inside Egypt's Underground Shaabi Music Scene
In the heated den of the Greek Club on Emad el-Din Street in downtown Cairo, sweating bodies heave and move to the infectious reggaeton fused with a tabla beat, as Amr Haha, DJ Figo, and Sadat swing their mics back and forth, bantering, ad-libbing, and cheering. One takes a swig out of his Stella, another dips the mic into the sea of eager hands as the jolly crowd sings along to the simple, lewd lyrics of “Aha el shibshib daa’!” or “F***, I’ve lost my slippers!” Haha’s lyrics are profoundly profane; his specialty of Arabic electronic music is called “mahraganat,” which literally translates to “festival music.” The high-pitched, auto tuned vocals are as vulgar as ...
Keep Reading »Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 21-27)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. About Last Night Egyptian Elections: Preliminary Results [UPDATED] Egypt's Working Class and the Question of Organization "We Didn't Know It Was Impossible, So We Did It": The Quebec Student Strike Celebrates Its 100th Day War Against Activists: Turning Saudi Arabia Into A Big Prison Al-Jazeera's (R)Evolution? UN Committee 2012 Session Concludes Israeli System Tantamount to ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 28)
![[A woman checking her name in the elections list at a voting station in Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by UN Women Arab States.]](/content_images/3/sm_7262785218_afe77338ff.jpg "[A woman checking her name in the elections list at a voting station in Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by UN Women Arab States.]")
[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.] “Winners and losers of the presidential race” Moustafa Khalil says the biggest loser in the presidential elections is the Muslim Brotherhood; the biggest winner – Hamdeen Sabahy. “Elections commission sets Sunday as deadline for accepting appeals” The Supreme Electoral Commission receives appeals from four candidates, including Ahmed Shafiq, Hamdeen ...
Keep Reading »The Buraqs of "Tahrir"
![[Alaa Awad Buraq mural with focus on the chariot’s weel. Photo by Mona Abaza.]](/content_images/3/sm_charriotIMG_1725.JPG "[Alaa Awad Buraq mural with focus on the chariot’s weel. Photo by Mona Abaza.]")
The aesthetic and political significance of the murals and the graffiti of Mohammed Mahmud Street continue to draw much attention due to their mesmerizing beauty and their crucial significance for the visual and artistic narration of the revolution. It is not only the murals’ aesthetic appeal that has captured the imagination of many observers, but also how they exemplify a fascinating fusion between a variety of cultural artistic traditions that portray Egypt’s rich history, namely Pharaonic, popular Islamic, and contemporary traditions. They all reinvent, adapt to, and adopt universal schools of painting, adding a fascinating “Egyptian twist” to express—sometimes ...
Keep Reading »Poetry of the Taliban
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, editors. Foreword by Faisal Devji. Poetry of the Taliban. London: Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2012. Since there is already a substantial discussion surrounding this compilation of poetry "of" the Taliban, it seems important to review the work within a series of broader contexts. Writing on Afghanistan has recently enjoyed an upsurge, but this is not the first such spike of western interest in Afghanistan. Amid a major catalog that has emerged over the past decade, there is a slowly growing subset of work that examines representations of Afghanistan from colonial to contemporary times as part of its project. We might ...
Keep Reading »Analyzing Egyptian Presidential Election Vote
Ahram Online presents a detailed visual breakdown of the results from Egypt's first free presidential elections. [Developed in partnership with Ahram Online. Ahmed Feteha, Basse
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (May 31)
[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 "Cnisel : la fraude confirmée"-'Honest observers' contrast with otherwise fraudulent elections. “أعضاء البرلمان الجزائري الجديد يؤدون ...
Keep Reading »Syria Media Roundup (May 31)
[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 Editors 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] Regional and International perspectives Jeffrey Feltman Leaks Again Al-Akhbar publishes a partial transcript of the meeting minutes between Jeffrey Feltman and Lebanese ...
Keep Reading »في السعودية فقط.. نقابة صحافيين بلا نقباء
إنك لا تجني من الشوك العنب والدولة المستبدة لا تنجب الحرية، إنما الحرية تولد من رحم الأحرار. وهل يمكن لدولة تعتقل أكثر من ١٪ من مجمل مواطنيها وتغيبهم وراء ضوء الشمس في سجون الرأي ومصادرة الحرية وتنكل بهم لتجعلهم عبرة لمن يعشق الحرية ويسعى لها أن تتغنى بالحرية أو حتى ترسم رسماً كروكياً لها؟ هل يمكن لنظام كهذا أن يهب للناس حريتهم التي كفلها الله لهم؟ وهل يمكن لدولة كهذه أن تسير بشعبها على صراط العدالة والعيش المشترك؟ لا أظن ذلك. إن كنا نفهم ذلك بالسليقة، فعلينا أن نفهم أن كل قانون يستصدره ...
Keep Reading »Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players (Beirut, 31 May - 1 June 2012)
Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players 31 May - 1 June 2012 Auditorium A, West Hall American University of Beirut (AUB) Beirut, Lebanon This Symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which was launched and is supported by the Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. AUB has invited over twenty scholars from the Arab world and abroad to this ...
Keep Reading »الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة والمصالحة الفلسطينيّة
إن نتائج الجولة الأولى من الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة كانت مفاجئة في عدة مسائل، أبرزها تأهل أحمد شفيق لانتخابات الرئاسة وليس عمرو موسى، وتأهل محمد مرسي وليس عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح، وصعود نجم حمدين صباحي؛ وهذا يعني أن حدة المنافسة والاستقطاب ستبلغ الذروة في يومي 16 و17 حزيران لاختيار رئيس مصر. هل سيكون الرئيس القادم مرشح النظام القديم، أم مرشح الإخوان المسلمين، وإذا كان الأخير هو الفائز، فهل سيحصل على الرئاسة بعد ائتلاف مع قوى الثورة أو معظمها أم دون ائتلافها معها، أم سيعقد صفقة مع المجلس ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 29)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Repression in Bahrain Bahrain bails human rights activist Nabeel Raja A news report on the release of Nabeel Rajab in BBC News. Bahraini opposition ...
Keep Reading »حوار شامل مع المفكر المغربي عبد الله العروي
في هذا الحوار الذي أجراه الأساتذة مصطفى بوعزيز، المعطي منجب، وسليمان بنشيخ، لمجلة «زمان»، يتحدث المفكر والمؤرخ عبد الله العروي عن قضايا راهنةٍ: عن الملكية والإسلام السياسي وحركة 20 فبراير والمغرب الكبير. كتابك «L’Histoire du Maghreb»، هل كان رد فعلٍ على تسمية شمال إفريقيا، التي أطلقها المؤرخ الفرنسي شارل أندري جوليان؟ من ناحية أخرى هل كانت رؤيتك للمغرب هي تلك الرؤية الفدرالية التي كان يحملها الطلبة المغاربيون في فرنسا، أم كانت رؤيةً اندماجيةً من قبيل تلك التي كانت سائدةً في القاهرة؟ لإزالة كل ...
Keep Reading »The Kurdish Question in Syria: A General Approach
[The following article was translated into English by Christine Cuk.] The Kurdish issue in Syria has a history and trajectory that are different from sectarian problems in the region. It is not a sectarian problem, as the Kurds are not a sect of Arabs or a special Islamic group. They belong to a people that are forty million strong and are distributed over a number of countries, and they are the largest national group in both the region and the world that is deprived of a political counterpart to its ...
Keep Reading »عشق السيدة
يا فاتناً لولاهُ ما هزّني وجدٌ ولا طعمُ الهوى طابَ لي هذا فؤادي فامتلك أمره واظلمه إن أحببتَ أو فاعــــدل ماذا يعني أن تعشق السيدة، أم كلثوم، بعد الأربعين من عمرك، تنصت من كلِّ قلبك، تهيم بآهاتها، وتلينُ أحجارُ روحك في البحّة الفادحة؟ الترنيمة، وحدها، تلمسُ شيئاً في قاع نفسك هوى واستقر، ونبرة الألم، تقدح حزناً لم تكن قد تصورته ممكناً ذات يوم. ها أنت ذا مأخوذ بها، وَلِهٌ، وحزين، تشفّ، مع الأربعين، وتعرف ...
Keep Reading »Missing in Bahrain: On Ali Abdulemam (Video)
Ali Abdulemam, founder and creator of BahrainOnline.org and a leading social media activist in the Gulf region, has been missing in Bahrain since March 2011. Just a few weeks before Ali went missing, he was released from prison as a result of the widespread protests at Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain. Ali had been sentenced the previous summer, having been hounded by Bahraini authorities seeking to limit free speech and internet freedom in the country. In prison, he suffered severe torture, ...
Keep Reading »Sabbahi To Seek Election Suspension, Cites Voting Irregularities
Hamdeen Sabbahi will file a lawsuit calling for the suspension of Egypt's presidential election because of alleged voting irregularities and a pending case over the right of former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq to stand, Sabbahi's lawyer said Saturday. Sabbahi is a leftist presidential candidate who did not make it into the run-offs by a very small margin. "We will present an appeal on behalf of candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi ... to the Presidential Elections Commission, citing a series of irregularities ...
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