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On Cartoon Journalism: An Interview with Joe Sacco
![[Crop of image of cartoonist Joe Sacco. Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-10-10at2.58.48PM.png "[Crop of image of cartoonist Joe Sacco. Image from video below.]")
Joe Sacco, a comic artist, journalist, author, and illustrator, who has published works focusing on the Middle East is in conversation with historian Zachary Lockman, a professor in NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. The interview is available at NYU Primary Sources, along with other interviews with Sacco and Lockman on the following topics: "On Documents and Footnotes," "On Historical Memory," "On Objectivity and Truth," and "Why Palestine?"
Keep Reading »الخيال/الثورة و الرواية/التاريخ
![[تصوير حسام الحملاوي]](/content_images/3/sm_kun.jpg "[تصوير حسام الحملاوي]")
"كان ديمقريطس وهرقليطس فيلسوفين. اعتبر أولهما الحالة البشرية مضحكة باطلة، فما ظهر بين الناس إلا والضحك والسخرية ملء وجهه. أما هرقليطس فقد شفق على الحالة البشرية وعطف عليها، فما انقشع الأسى عن وجهه يوماً، وماخلت عيناه من الدموع.." مونتين الخيال / الثورة: الثورة "فعل رفضوي حاسم" ، فهي تقوم على رفض الحاضر كاملاً وكلية، والجنوح بشتى الوسائل التعبيرية –بداية من اللغة- إلى نقضه وإزالته ، و إستبداله -وليس إصلاحه- ، وهو فعل لا يصدر بمنأى عن التخيل الحر إذ أنه قمة الحرية في التخيل ،ماكانت لتكون ثورة مالم تكن فكرة رحيل إبن علي ومبارك حتى اللحظة الأخيرة الماقبل ثورية بل وفي اثناء الثورة إلا محض خيال فاضح وجامح. فمن منا تخيل يوماً أن طغاة العرب ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (8 October)
![[Supreme Court Building of the United States, where arguments for Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell took place last week. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Supreme_Court_06.jpg "[Supreme Court Building of the United States, where arguments for Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell took place last week. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[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 "White House Widening Covert War in North Africa", Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press reports on small teams of American special operations forces that have arrived at US embassies in North Africa in the months prior to the months before the attacks at Benghazi. Dozier reports on ...
Keep Reading »Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi on Social Media, Arab Monarchies, and Muhammad Morsi
![[Image of Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. Image by Jonathan Rashad]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-10-05at6.37.01PM.png.jpg "[Image of Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. Image by Jonathan Rashad]")
[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 and North Africa.] Jadaliyya: What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting, and Twitter? Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi: Twitter has become an invaluable resource for gathering information and following topics of interest. It has also become a method of directly communicating with individuals such as journalists, writers, activists, and artists whereas it was once difficult to get hold of them. On a personal level, I have been invited to speak and moderate at conferences and ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (October 4)
![[Imprisonment of Moroccan rapper El Haqed garnered renewed outcry this week as his co-producer and activist, Maria Karim, now faces similar defamation charges. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_elhaqed.jpg "[Imprisonment of Moroccan rapper El Haqed garnered renewed outcry this week as his co-producer and activist, Maria Karim, now faces similar defamation charges. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[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 Wednesday night of every week.] Algeria Human Rights Activist, IUF Representative in Algeria Beaten and Jailed IUF Statement on the abduction of IUF representative Yacine Zaïd. Yacine Zaïd a été tabassé par des policiers et embarqué dans une voiture sans plaque d’immatriculation Hadjer Guenanfa covers human rights groups' responses to Yacine ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (October 1)
![[Flags and banners from the protest in Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_7852663262_ceff2743e8.jpg "[Flags and banners from the protest in 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.] “Mursi: Egypt will remain secular” President Mohamed Morsi reassures the American public that Egypt will remain a secular democratic state. “Al-Adl and Al-Dostor announce merger” Mohamed ElBaradei’s Dostour Party and Al-Adl Party, led by Mostafa Al-Naggar, will merge to form a stronger base to contest upcoming parliamentary ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (24 September)
![[President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 12, 2012, regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Photo by Lawrence Jackson. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Barack_Obama_delivers_statement_on_US_Consulate_attack_in_Benghazi_Sep12,_2012.jpg "[President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 12, 2012, regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Photo by Lawrence Jackson. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[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 "Soldier Who Taught 'Total War' Against Islam Threatens to Sue Top Military Officer," Spencer Ackerman Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, a US Army Officer who once taught an elective course at the Joint Forces Staff College advocating "total war" against Islam, has issued a press release through ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Celebrates Its Two-Year Anniversary
Jadaliyya completes its second year today. In trying to keep up with events and expectations, we slept even fewer hours during this year. We are happy to do it all over again, at least for a few decades. There is so much to keep up with, so we will not write much here. Suffice it to say that we really (really) appreciate the support of our readers who made Jadaliyya what it is. With nearly zero advertising, our content travelled the globe on a daily basis. It was emailed, tweeted, facebooked, tumblred, and assigned in many a classroom, in both Arabic and English. In the past year, we expanded our Arabic section, created country/regional/topical pages that covered ...
Keep Reading »Labor Strikes in Egypt; Iran Tribunal in London
![[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]](/content_images/3/sm_Khavaran-cemetery.jpg "[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]")
For the past week, the world's attention has been focused on the protests in front of US embassies in Muslim majority countries. There has been special attention devoted to the protests in front of the American embassy in Cairo. However, Egyptians were gearing up for a different kinds of protest! Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam El-Hamalawy speaks about the recent wave of labour strikes in Egypt. Nancy Hormeshea, a human rights lawyer, discusses the Iran Tribunal, a commission modeled after the Burton Russell peoples' court tribunal on Vietnam. In the summer of 1988, following a decree by Ayatollah Khomeni, over five thousand political prisoners were ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (September 20)
![[Varied Moroccan movements and groups meet with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez. Image from Aljamaa]](/content_images/3/sm_Sep19.jpg "[Varied Moroccan movements and groups meet with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez. Image from Aljamaa]")
[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 Wednesday night of every week.] Algeria L’Algérie épargnée par les violences et mobilisations contre le film dit « anti-Islam »? Melissa Rahmouni discusses attempted demonstrations in the capitol, peaceful demonstrations in more rural areas, and the effect of the "black decade" on perceptions of mobilization against the film. (A unique response from ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (September 17)
![[Anti Morsi protest in down town Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by Gigi Ibrahim.]](/content_images/3/sm_7947100586_4cfdd9b1e2.jpg "[Anti Morsi protest in down town Cairo. Image originally posted to Flickr by Gigi Ibrahim.]")
[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.] “Seven police personnel injured in US Consulate clashes in Alexandria” Anti-US protests spread to Alexandria as protesters try to storm the US Consulate. “Egypt PM says 'number' of US embassy rioters were paid” Prime Minister Hisham Qandil says some of the protesters in front of the US embassy were paid to wreak havoc. “Nader Bakkar ...
Keep Reading »Of Stupid Men and Smart Machines
![[Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 11, 2012. Image by Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_AP412499290645.jpg "[Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 11, 2012. Image by Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP Photo]")
It is too early to know the definitive story of what led to Tuesday’s protests at the US embassy in Cairo and the brazen attack on the US consulate in Benghazi later that night that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. As protests threaten to spread, what emerges through the dense speculative fog of the aftermath of Tuesday’s attacks is that the violence cannot be ascribed to any single cause. It was the result of a deadly confluence of factors: fanaticism from Islamophobes and fringe Islamists, sectarian and political tensions in Egypt, a heavily militarized post-revolution society in Libya, and, potentially, the grave consequences of the ...
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 »Egypt Media Roundup (October 8)
[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.] “Morsy revels in reflected glory” President Morsi outlines achievements of the first hundred days of his administration in a speech during the ceremony commemorating ...
Keep Reading »#MuslimRage, #Propaganda, #Empire
I would like to address the ways in which paid advertisements recently mounted on the New York City public transportation system are connected to the release and circulation of the “Innocence of Muslims” video. Both are made legible through the now-hegemonic grammar of the War on Terror and an archive of Orientalist tropes and themes. It is that same grammar that scripts the protests and violence that erupted across Muslim majority states in reaction to the video (a reaction which was clearly hoped for ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (September 2012)
This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Maghreb. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Maghreb-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a release form to ...
Keep Reading »Jon Stewart's Theater of the Absurd
Soon after King Abdullah II ascended the throne of Jordan in 1999, he began using media and advertising campaigns to distinguish himself from his father King Husayn and to present his policies to his subjects. While for decades King Husayn’s picture appeared all over the country – garbed in bedouin, military, and Western costume – almost immediately, Abdullah trumped his father in sheer size of display by propping up an enormous poster of himself along University Road in Amman. He followed that act ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (September 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 Wednesday night of every week.] Algeria Répression du 17 octobre 1961 : « un crime contre l’humanité » selon Jean-Luc Einaudi New web documentary "A Night Forgotten" examines the repressed ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (September 24)
[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.] “PM: Tahrir graffiti removal against Cabinet's will to commemorate revolution” After sharp criticism, the prime minister denies that the cabinet ordered the whitewashing of ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Workers and the Revolution: An Interview with Kamal Abu-Eita
The following interview was conducted on 14 September 2012 with Kamal Abu-Eita, General Secretary of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU) and the head of the Real Estate Tax Authority Union, which was founded in 2008 as Egypt’s first independent union. In the first part of the interview, Abu-Eita recounts the lead-up to the January 25 Revolution and how workers’ long-standing struggle for social justice has provided the momentum that paved the way for the eighteen-day uprising. He ...
Keep Reading »Ghazi Gheblawi on Social Media and the Libyan Uprising
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight prominent voices in and from the Middle East and North Africa.] Jadaliyya: What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting and Twitter? Ghazi Gheblawi: The freedom to write your thoughts without many restrictions, whether they are grammatical or linguistic, and the concise nature of Twitter, make it important to form ideas and thoughts in a very brief, focused and ...
Keep Reading »Sabra and Shatila . . . Thirty Years Later
" لا يتبخر الدم بل يغوص في الأرض" "Blood does not evaporate. It sinks into the earth." --Talal Salman
Keep Reading »"Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?": The Fascinating Arrogance of Power
[Here is the original story from CNN. It was brought to our attention that there was an online version. Also, the article below was translated into Arabic here.] This is just the beginning. As we were boarding a flight from Washington to Istanbul, this image appeared on the screen at the gate, with the CNN headline, “Was The Arab Spring Worth It?” Generally, one is used to seeing and hearing very “special” commentary about the region from the mainstream media. But every once in a while, ...
Keep Reading »Libya Recap: Snapshots from Social Media
The 11 September attack on Benghazi's consulate resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, three other US officials, and ten Libyan security officials. Initial accounts suggested that spontaneous protests against Terry Jones' "anti-Islam" video initiated the violence, but succeeding reports indicate the demonstration was used as a front for a premeditated, professional assault. Several scenarios, ranging from disgruntled extremist Salafists to fifth column elements remain plausible. One ...
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