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Bassem Youssef's The Show: Mohamed Mahmoud Street (Video with English Subtitles)
This week, Egyptians marked one year since the loss, community, and resilience of the “Battle of Mohamed Mahmoud Street.” In doing so, they faced fresh rounds of US-made tear gas from Egyptian security forces. At times, this tear gas was used against protestors calling for justice and accountability for those that were gassed, beaten, and murdered on the same street. At other times, quite literally as these words are being written, tear gas is being used against mobilizations in opposition to what many are calling President Morsi’s “dictatorial decrees.” To provide accessible coverage of the events that took place exactly one year ago, War Resisters League has ...
Keep Reading »On Gaza: Interviews with Sherine Tadros and Mouin Rabbani, and A Reading by Sinan Antoon
![[Joint Hamas and Islamic Jihad press conference after announcement of cease-fire. Seated left to right: Ramadan Shallah of Islamic Jihad and Khalid Mish'al of Hamas. Image by lodgaard via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_8207769783_67c64cb489.jpg "[Joint Hamas and Islamic Jihad press conference after announcement of cease-fire. Seated left to right: Ramadan Shallah of Islamic Jihad and Khalid Mish'al of Hamas. Image by lodgaard via Flickr]")
The latest Israeli assault on Gaza has received ample coverage during the past week in the international media. In a special edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, three guests deepen our understanding of the recent onslaught beyond the reality of Israel's brutal aggression. First, whose narrative does this media convey and why? Malihe Razazan poses this question to Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros, who was one of a handful of journalists covering the attack from Gaza in the winter of 2008/2009. The other question is: Why did Israel really attack Gaza? Khalil Bendib speaks with long-time analyst and Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani about the new ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Raji Sourani and Richard Falk on Gaza Assault and International Humanitarian Law
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President Obama has announced his full support for Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip even as dozens of Palestinians, including many civilians, continue to be killed by U.S.-supplied weaponry. At least ninety-five Palestinians have been killed in air strikes by warplanes and drones. More than seven hundred have been wounded, including two hundred children. On Sunday, a massive air strike leveled a home in Gaza City killing twelve people, including ten members of the same family. Over the past week, rockets fired from Gaza have killed three Israelis. We go to Gaza to speak with Raji Sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer and director of the ...
Keep Reading »Noura Erakat and Yousef Munayyer on Gaza Assault: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
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In a repetition of its aerial and ground offensive in Winter 2008/09, Israel has once again embarked on a military campaign against the Palestinian population in Gaza. This assault comes just after US Presidential elections and just before Israel's Parliamentary elections. Israel claims that its objective is to diminish Hamas's military capacity, yet most analysts attribute the war to PM Netanyahu's domestic electoral considerations. The latest round of armed force began on November 8, when an Israeli bullet killed a 13-year old boy playing soccer. Palestinian fighters responded with force by blowing up a tunnel on the Gaza-Israeli border, injuring ...
Keep Reading »Israeli Aggression in the Gaza Strip: In Pictures
[If the pictures of the slide show are not visible, please click here.] On 14 November Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Ahmad al-Ja'bari, simultaneously blowing up a truce mediated by Egyptian intelligence officials and accepted by Ja'bari, other Palestinian parties and - according to the Egyptians - Israel as well. In this and a further series of air raids eight more were killed, at least two of them children. Claiming these initial attacks had destroyed the long-range missile capability in the Gaza Strip, Israel's strategy of a short, sharp assault that would remind the Palestinians who makes the rules proved illusory. As Israeli planes pounded the ...
Keep Reading »DAM: Crime, Honor, and Hip-Hop
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Palestinian rap trio DAM dropped their latest video “If I Could Go Back in Time” a week ago at a press conference in Ramallah. Working in cooperation with UN Women, the subject of the song is domestic violence and crimes against women. With this release, DAM members Mahmoud Jreri, Suhell Nafar, and Tamer Nafar affirm their reputation as audacious socially-conscious rappers by continuing to take on taboo issues in Palestinian society. They do so through hip-hop, whose mainstream stars are all too often themselves guilty of propagating intensely sexist and homophobic content. In so doing, DAM are contributing to transforming hip-hop into a safe space for women and women’s ...
Keep Reading »“I Have the Picture!” Egypt’s Photographic Heritage between Digital Reproduction and Neoliberalism (Part I)
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Egypt has no sole institution devoted to the preservation and study of its one hundred fifty-year-old photographic history. Instead, photographs lurk in multiple private and institutional collections across the country. Plagued by decades of decreasing budgets, institutional neglect, and excessive gate-keeping, photographic collections share the fate of the archival collections of which they are part: uncatalogued and uncared for, often unknown even to their custodians, they become easy victims of loss, destruction, and theft. The state, academic community, and general public in Egypt mostly understand photographs to be “images of something,” valued for their visual ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (November 12)
![[Protests in downtown Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_8141504084_4cfb02d747.jpg "[Protests in downtown Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]")
[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.] “Who calls shots at Egypt's presidential palace, analysts ask” Recent cancellation of plans to close businesses at 10pm shows that presidency faces challenges implementing its decisions. “Egypt's prosecutor General not under investigation” Prosecutor General denies allegations posted on the Muslim Brotherhood’s website that he ...
Keep Reading »Butheina H. Kazim on BDS and Defining "Powerful Arab Women"
![[Butheina Hamed Kazim. Image by Walter Pinkney.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-11-08at12.41.46PM.png "[Butheina Hamed Kazim. Image by Walter Pinkney.]")
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting, and Twitter? Butheina Hamed Kazim (BHK): Immediacy of news distribution, whether you're on the receiving or dispatching end. The timeliness, variety, and volume of information on Twitter is unmatched by any other platform in my opinion, for better or for worse. The ease of use is another perk that comes with the platform, along with Facebook and Instagram in the social media ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (November 5)
[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.] “Alexandria Salafists open fire on liberals, striking workers in Eid sermons” Salafist preachers take the chance to attack politically opponents during prayers for Eid El-Adha. “New Salafi Party Signals Leftist Trend in Islamist Economics” Mara Revkin writes about the political divisions between Islamist parties along the ...
Keep Reading »Du « péril noir » au Maroc
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La récente publication du numéro 998 de Maroc Hebdo, dont la première page titre « Le péril noir », a déclenché une vive polémique au Maroc et sur la toile. Si elle met à jour une réalité bien souvent tue, elle surprend aussi un pays qui a récemment affirmé son « unité forgée par la convergence de ses composantes arabo-islamique, amazighe et saharo-hassanie (…) nourrie et enrichie de ses affluents africain, andalou, hébraïque et méditerranéen. »[1] Une publication à resituer dans son contexte Tout évènement de ce genre est d’abord à resituer dans un contexte. Ces derniers jours, plusieurs arrestations de migrants subsahariens et de militants ...
Keep Reading »Remi Kanazi: Normalize This!
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Bringing together a great crew of creative minds and shot throughout Brooklyn, Normalize This! tackles the multitude of ways Israel attempts to normalize its policies and whitewash its crimes against Palestinians. As an avid proponent of the fast growing, rights-based Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, and as an artist who refuses to sign onto projects that promote a false symmetry between occupier and occupied, Remi Kanazi felt this was an essential topic to tackle. Remi Kanazi is a poet, writer, and activist based in New York City. He is the author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine, the editor of Poets For ...
Keep Reading »Infographic: Palestinian & Israeli Deaths
This infographic reflects the death toll and peaks of armed force in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It draws on detailed data gathered by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem since the outbreak of the Second Intifada in September 2000. The chart also includes figures from a previous study on the peaks of armed force and ensuing death tolls. The chart is particularly pertinent as a new and tenuous ceasefire has halted Israel's most recent military campaign, Operation ...
Keep Reading »Russia Today Interview with Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Others on Gaza Assault
In the following joint appearance on Russia Today's Cross Talk, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses the Israeli assault on Gaza, highlighting the on-the-ground situation, the backdrop to this current attack, and the ways in which genuine resolution would need to be achived.
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (November 19)
[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.] “Viewpoint: Egypt's emerging revolution of the mind” BBC Radio 4 explores the growing culture of open dissent in post-revolution Egypt. “Govt negotiates corruption ...
Keep Reading »Mowing the Lawn in Gaza
The mainstream media’s coverage of all things Middle Eastern is almost always toxic. In times of war, this toxicity exceeds tolerable levels. I’m not referring to the war in Afghanistan, recently brought under greater attention courtesy of General Petraeus’s body and those with access to it, and not the piling corpses of civilians being slaughtered there. No. I meant Gaza, where Israeli bombs continue to rain death and destruction from air and sea killing scores of civilians. There are fears of an ...
Keep Reading »Exclusive: Shahin Najafi on the Perils of Being an Artist in Iran
Iranian musician and songwriter Shahin Najafi describes himself as an artist who shows no mercy to any group or any part of the political spectrum. In his work nothing appears to be sacred; his lyrics constantly question political authoritarianism, social injustice, ideological dogmas, and cultural taboos. Shahin Najafi’s defiant spirit put him at loggerheads with the authorities in Iran and compelled him to leave the country in 2004 in order to continue his work without fear of persecution. But ...
Keep Reading »Imagining Tahrir
I. Egyptians saw themselves for the first time through their own eyes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January and February 2011, and reveled in that encounter. Participating in and recording that experience was to become part of the consciousness of a community that was ready to move heaven and earth to restructure Egyptian society for the better. The consciousness was individual in that it established one person’s experience among the crowd, it was moral because recording everything became imperative for ...
Keep Reading »Living Under Threat of Expulsion: Palestinian Women Photograph Life in Susiya Village
These photographs were taken by women residents of Susiya village from the Nawaja family, ranging from teenagers to the elderly. Here are their names: Wadcha, Basma, Iman, Iam, Hitam, Ula, Rabicha, Samicha, Sane, Samma, Hadija, Sanaa, and Khitam. In 2011, the women of Susiya documented their lives as a part of a participatory photography project conducted by Activestills photographer Keren Manor and guest photographer Mareike Lauken. This project was one of many activities of the village’s Creative ...
Keep Reading »Facebook Attempts to Shut Down the Voice of “The Uprising of Women in the Arab World”
[The following statement was issued by activists involved in The Uprising of Women in the Arab World on 7 November 2012 in response to attempts by Facebook to suppress their online activities. It was originally issued in Arabic, English, and French. This English version has been slightly edited for style. The Arabic version, along with an introduction and background to the issue, can be found on Beirut Walls.] On the morning of 7 November 2012, the five admins of The Uprising of Women in the Arab World ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (5 November)
[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] News "Palestinian Cars Vandalized in Apparent Hate Attack", Agence France-Presse Six Palestinian vehicles in an East ...
Keep Reading »Libya's First Video Art Exhibit (Tripoli, 6-7 November 2012)
First Glance: Video Art Exhibit 6 & 7 November 2012 Tripoli, Libya The Arete Foundation for Arts and Culture is to hold an exhibition of video art in Tripoli’s Old City on 6-7 November. First Glance is the first exhibition of video art in the country. Nine screens in the Old City Works will show works by international artists from Argentina, Australia, Egypt, France, India, Japan, Lebanon, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Syria, the UK, the US, and ...
Keep Reading »Mehreen Kasana on South Asian Issues and Social Media
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting and Twitter? Mehreen Kasana (MK): I think the idea of sharing opinions and interaction (with the sane lot) is always productive and achievable on Twitter. That and the constant influx of information, ideas, and ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Media Page!
Jadaliyya is hereby launching its new Media page! This page provides a critical lens from which to explore and analyze the media landscape in and about the Middle East and North Africa. It spotlights new and traditional media players, platforms, and reporting at the local, regional, and global levels. Original articles featured in this page expand the disciplinary boundaries of media studies and communication to look at the intersections of the arts and all forms of representation. The page also ...
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