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Syria Media Roundup (April 11th)
[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.comby Monday night of every week] On Foreign Intervention “Putting Syria into Some Perspective” William Blum’s insightful comments on the power of “The Holy Triumvirate: The United States, NATO, and the European Union.” “This week at war:Syria as Prologue” Robert Haddick discusses US and other “friends of Syria” “non-lethal” means of helping the opposition. “Deadlock ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Arab (Tikram) Yoga Page, Courtesy of Qatar, Iran, and US Intelligence Services: The End of Angry Arabs
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Jadaliyya delivers yet another promise to its faithful readers. Soon, Jadaliyya is scheduled to finally launch the much-needed A(T)YP (Arab (Tikram) Yoga Page) page, designed to promote greater relaxation within high-threat communities in the Arab World. For decades, some say centuries, Arabs have been angry, and have not been able to deal with the vagaries of modernity. A quick glance at twitter and the most popular Arab facebook pages proves that even the cool and thoroughly westernized Arabs get angry sometimes. Theories abound regarding the root causes of their rage, but only Hollywood was able to capture the eternal monolithic essence that drives Arabs, with ...
Keep Reading »American Elections Watch 1: Rick Santorum and The Dangers of Theocracy
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One day after returning to the United States after a trip to Lebanon, I watched the latest Republican Presidential Primary Debate. Unsurprisingly, Iran loomed large in questions related to foreign policy. One by one (with the exception of Ron Paul) the candidates repeated President Obama's demand that Iran not block access to the Strait of Hormuz and allow the shipping of oil across this strategic waterway. Watching them, I was reminded of Israel's demand that Lebanon not exploit its own water resources in 2001-2002. Israel's position was basically that Lebanon's sovereign decisions over the management of Lebanese water resources was a cause for war. In an area where ...
Keep Reading »On Racial Literacy: "A White Side of Black Britain"
France Winddance Twine, A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Despite the central role they play in our lives, the intimate spaces of family life have unfortunately remained beyond the reach of most sociological research. This empirical blind spot has led to a surprising lack of knowledge around how people, in their private spaces shared with loved ones, think and act about social issues. There are some perfectly understandable reasons why this enormous gap in sociological knowledge exists, even given the unquestionable importance and value of research into how people really manage issues like race, ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya's iPhone/iPad/iPod/iNama Kuntum App is Now Available—We Tried to Resist . . .
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We tried to resist for a almost a year, but we were constantly asked "When will you have an app for Jadaliyya?" So we developed an App for the iPhone and iPad! شو بدنا نعمل؟ This would be the Beta version as we are trying to get your feedback as to what you'd like to see on there. You can download it here for free. At this point, we have the basics on the App. You will be able to surf our recent posts, watch our Vimeo and Youtube interviews and videos, and read our tweets. And if you'd like to go to the site itself, forward any of the items you read or watch, or tweet/fb a post\video, it's all one click away. Our intention is to make reading Jadaliyya ...
Keep Reading »First Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference on "Teaching the Middle East After the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions"
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As part of the Arab Studies Institute, Jadaliyya is fortunate to be co-sponsoring this 40-participant (closed) conference on "Teaching the Middle East After the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Neoliberalism" (see list of co-sponsors and participants/presentations below). In due time, the conference proceedings will be made public, including a video, potentially. The material will be part of Jadaliyya's new Pedagogy Section which will be announced shortly (sneak peak here). The conference, co-sponsored by George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program and Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, is ...
Keep Reading »Football and Violence in Jordan
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On Friday December 10, 2010, Jordanian and international media reported on “clashes” after a football match between two teams that make up the biggest rivalry in the Jordanian Football Association (JFA): al-Faysali and al-Wihdat, both of which serve as the main recruiting pools for Jordan’s national team. Popular support for each of the teams is at least as indicative of political allegiances as it is of football appreciation. The al-Faysali team has popularly come to represent Jordanians of East Bank origin while the al-Wihdat team has similarly come to represent Jordanians of Palestinian origin (also known as Jordanians of West Bank). While the incident itself speaks ...
Keep Reading »Thank You! ًشكرا . . . and, pass Jadaliyya around!
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Dear Readers, This weekend we will be celebrating 60 days since Jadaliyya's "soft" launch. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers who made this independent effort successfull. We hope you will come back for more and that you will invite others to take a look. Because of our independent status, we are so far unable to finance/launch a broad campaign to alert all potential readership to this endeavor. Your support in spreading the word about Jadaliyya would be much appreciated. You can find us at www.jadaliyya.com or on Facebook here. If you like a post, clicking "like" will make a big difference in ...
Keep Reading »Good Morning Palestine
For four days last week, I drank my morning coffee while gazing at Palestine. I was spending the weekend with friends at a house in a border village between Lebanon and what is now the State of Israel. Every morning, I walked from the bed I was sleeping in, to the kitchen to make a cup a coffee, then out onto the balcony where there was a cool breeze. The village is old, its remaining permanent inhabitants are mostly old, but its roads are new. The asphalt is still black in its newness, and its geometric shapes are drawn map like. It snakes through the landscape, cutting a path through the stone houses, the hills they border, the village square, until finally, the ...
Keep Reading »My Great and Terrible Obsession: Torture
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Every single day I think about torture. Some days I write about it, or teach about it. Every day I read about it. I can turn any social conversation with any friend or relative to the topic. (Keep that in mind if we meet for coffee.) Torture is my obsession. I can trace my obsession back at least to college; I wrote my senior thesis (at Tufts circa 1983) on human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza, among which torture featured prominently. When it was time to select a subject for my doctoral dissertation (at The American University circa late 1980s), I was guided by a wise adviser (Talal Asad) NOT to pursue my original idea--a study of the Unified ...
Keep Reading »Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to retain white friends, you must adhere to a number of sacred rules: the stuff white people like. For those who are not familiar with it, there is a helpful website aptly titled by the same name. Although they‘ve managed to exhaust the concept with their 134 entries spanning issues as diverse as TED talks, ...
Keep Reading »The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts Both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
Israeli democracy, through its promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in Tel Aviv at the Women’s Peace Coalition, I heard the strain in the voices of queer Israeli activists who are chafing under Israel’s progressive gay rights record. One activist stated, “Apparently, we have won all our rights. It is as if we should be grateful and keep silent about the injustices of the ...
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Keep Reading »Oppression 2.0: Iranian Discontent in Cyberspace
The state of Iranian cyberspace is yet another example of the repressive relationship between the Islamic Republic's government and the people of Iran. A report by Freedom House this April ranked Iran last in regards to Internet freedom. This dismal ranking is based on Iran's "extensive and sophisticated methods of control," which include "tampering with Internet access, mobile-telephone service, and satellite broadcasting; hacking opposition and other critical websites; monitoring ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Developments
On behalf of Jadaliyya’s team, I'd like to share some of what we have been doing in recent weeks. The last time we communicated such developments to our readers was a couple of months into launching the site last fall. In the mean time, Jadaliyya grew beyond our best expectations and slowly colonized our (Jadaliyya Editors) lives as uprisings and revolts swept the Arab World and dominated our thoughts and keyboards. First, we would like to thank our readers for making Jadaliyya a staple of sorts ...
Keep Reading »Update from Islamophoberia
Islamophoberia, a place millions of Americans call home, will get a lot colder come 2012 because the main gasbag is being shut down in December. The decision of Fox News to cancel The Glenn Beck Show will leave the idiosphere scrambling for a new source of fuel to motor anti-Muslim ranting. Sure, there are alternative sources, like bacon-bookmarked Qur’an burning proponent Ann Barnhardt, who admonished her blog readers: “Go out, buy a Koran, video yourself burning it and post that on YouTube. Do it NOW. ...
Keep Reading »A Legal Guide to Being a Lebanese Woman, Part 2
In Part 1 of A Legal Guide to Being a Lebanese Woman, I represented graphically a number of the laws that constitute Lebanese male and female citizens differently. I meant to show how the Lebanese legal system as a whole is built to produce categories of citizenship that are differentiated according to sex. In this post I build on this argument and question why religious personal status is often posited as the “problem” for women in countries where the secular state is just as, if not more, ...
Keep Reading »Thanksgiving In Beirut
On November 24, people from across the United States will gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. They will travel (on the busiest travel day of the year), they will eat turkey and pumpkin pie, and they will shop at the orgiastic sales that are a fixture of what is perhaps the most widely celebrated holiday in the USA. Like all ideologically inflected nationalist myths, holidays such as Thanksgiving or Columbus Day both commemorate and mask the histories of violence that build and ...
Keep Reading »Make www.Jadaliyya.com your facebook profile/status for one day: Today, Wednesday
Dear Friends, As most of you know, we launched this Ezine last week and we have had a super warm welcome from all of you and from our increasing readership. But we are privately funded and need your help in spreading the word, provided you like what you see here by way of an alternative source of commentary on the region--and beyond. We are asking all our facebook friends to support us TODAY only (Wednesday, September 29) by using the Jadaliyya icon as their facebook profile and by ...
Keep Reading »Arabic Comes to Jadaliyya
!جدليّة . . . الآن بالعربيّة We are now able to post in Arabic and host guest postings in Arabic. If you are interested in sending us material or useful posts in Arabic (or in English for that matter), please so so here. Here's a sample (and, by the way, regarding the text below from a translation of Financial Times, way to go Obama, that's the way to do it . . . شاطر) كشفت صحيفة «فايننشل تايمز»، اليوم، أن الرئيس الأميركي باراك أوباما «حذّر شخصياً رئيس الوزارء التركي، رجب طيب أردوغان، من أن فرص ...
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