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Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
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A year has passed since Arab youth took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity, unleashing a long-awaited revolution. As authoritarian regimes fell in Tunisia and Libya, were shaken in Egypt, and are struggling fiercely in Yemen and Syria, I went searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah, looking for the reverberations of the Arab uprisings on Palestine. Euphoria as much as apprehension accompanied me as I looked for the promise of a revolution devoid of any grand ideology, a revolution about freedom and rights, inclusive of everybody—Christians and Muslims, Islamists and liberals, young and old—if only for a short while. On 15 March 2011, just over a month after ...
Keep Reading »Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisings: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Discusses the Role of the Human Rights Community
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On 14 February 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat participated in an American University Law School's 2012 Founders' Celebration entitled "The Impact of the Arab Spring Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa: Building the Rule of Law and the Role of the International Community in Domestic Conflicts." Noura was invited to speak on immunity in international law as it relates to the already deposed and prospectively deposed heads of state of several Arab countries. Her panel, "Protection in Practice: Intervention, Accountability, and the Role of the International Community in Domestic Conflicts," also addressed questions of the ...
Keep Reading »الأبعاد المسكوت عنها في الأزمة بين القضاة والمحامين في مصر
![[صورة أثناء إحتجاجات القضاه في مصر 2007]](/content_images/3/sm_qudahmisr.jpg "[صورة أثناء إحتجاجات القضاه في مصر 2007]")
كانت مناقشة مشروع تعديل قانون السلطة القضائية مناسبة لحلقة جديدة من مسلسل الصراع القديم المتجدد بين جناحي العدالة. البداية جاءت تزامنا مع اجواء ثورة 25 يناير 2011 والرغبة في تدعيم دولة القانون حيث شكل رئيس مجلس القضاء الأعلى لجنة لإعداد مشروع قانون السلطة القضائية. وبعدما انتهت اللجنة من أعمالها عرض المشروع على كل المعنيين والمهتمين بالشان القضائي. وقد قوبل هذا المشروع بترحيب على المستوى الشعبي إلا انه قوبل باعتراض شديد من جانب المحامين بدأ بتصريحات غاضبة وانتهى بغلق للمحاكم. من النقاط التي أثارت الأزمة النص في المشروع المقترح على أن المحامين من أعوان القضاء شأنهم شأن الكتبة والمحضرين والخبراء. بينما ينص قانون المحاماة في مادته الأولى على أن المحامين شركاء القضاء ...
Keep Reading »Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for Leadership with a Strategy
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In Search of a Collapsed Palestinian Leadership Palestinian leadership briefly returned to the weathered tables of diplomatic niceties to negotiate a path to negotiations. The return signaled an alarming regression from the confrontational stance the leadership made in September 2011, when it took its case to the United Nations (UN). Then, notably buoyed by President Mahmoud Abbas’s liberation message to the global community, Palestinians thought it possible that the leadership would remove its self-determination struggle from the sterile confines of bilateral negotiations and place it on an international stage. In the event, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ...
Keep Reading »Adalah on Jadaliyya!
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Adalah has been at the forefront of promoting and defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) for over fifteen years. Its work includes challenging discriminatory and racist laws against Palestinian citizens of Israel, advocating for basic services and against home demolitions and evictions in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev), and pursuing accountability for victims of Israeli military operations in the OPT. Adalah’s lawyers submit cases before Israeli courts, and its international advocacy team files reports to international bodies such as the United Nations and the European Union on issues ...
Keep Reading »Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen
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On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusalem, from entering into Israel for the purpose of family unification. This law was amended in 2007, further prohibiting the entry of spouses who are citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. To explain the concrete consequences of this law, take the following example: A Palestinian woman, a citizen of Israel, lives in Nazareth, has chosen to marry a person from the West Bank, say from ...
Keep Reading »Uproar at PENN over a BDS Conference
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A Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) conference is set to take place next week at the University of Pennsylvania (PENN). As one would expect, the fact that the conference is taking place has created a furor. The President of the University, Amy Gutmann, released an anodyne statement disavowing any connection with the conference. She released no such statement, however, last year when the faculty and students were incensed about a talk to be delivered on campus by Eric Cantor on the theme of income inequality (Congressman Cantor eventually cancelled his appearance). The goose and gander do not get the same treatment from President Gutmann. People on campus and in the ...
Keep Reading »مقابلة: تحديات العمل من أجل حقوق العمال الاجانب في الاردن
![[ليندا الكلش: المصدر صورة من فيديو، تصوير وسام الصليبي]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-01-22at8.23.08PM.png "[ليندا الكلش: المصدر صورة من فيديو، تصوير وسام الصليبي]")
تعرض السيدة ليندا الكلش في الفيديو التالي، والذي قام بتصويره وسام الصليبي، الإنتهاكات التي يتعرض لها العمال الأجانب في الأردن والدور الذي يلعبه مركز „ تمكين“ لمساعدتهم . تدير السيدة ليندا الكلش مركز „تمكين“ للمساعدة القانونية وحقوق الإنسان في الأردن وقد حصلت على جائزة „الجمهورية الفرنسية لحقوق الإنسان“ والتي منحها إياها عام 2011 الآن جوبيه، وزيرالخارجية الفرنسي بمناسبة اليوم العالمي لحقوق الإنسان والذي يصادف في 10 يناير/ كانون الثاني. وقُدمت الجائزة للمركز تقديراً وتشجيعاً وإشادة بمجهوداته في الدفاع عن حقوق العاملات الأجنبيات في المنازل في الأردن. وشهد الأردن تغيراً وتحديثاً في قوانينه المتعلقة بالحفاظ على حقوق العمال. إلا أن غياب الكفاءات ...
Keep Reading »Morbid Symptoms: The Omar Yussef Mystery Series
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees Atlantic Books, 264 pp, 2006, ISBN 978 1 84354 603 0 The Saladin Murders by Matt Rees Atlantic Books, 340 pp, 2008, ISBN 978 1 84354 648 1 The Samaritan’s Secret by Matt Rees Atlantic Books, 324 pp, 2009, ISBN 978 1 84354 650 4 The Fourth Assassin by Matt Rees Atlantic Books, 264 pp, 2010, ISBN 978 1 84887 203 5 Frequently written off as an inferior literary form by traditional academic literary critics, for whom it is often seen as no more than popular “entertainment,” to use Graham Greene’s haughty self-putdown, detective fiction is often dismissed as a depthless and fleeting tale of imaginary adventure. ...
Keep Reading »17 January 2009 - The Al Ashqar Family
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[The following is narrative twenty-one, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Madleen refuses to sleep by herself; she will only sleep in her parent’s room” says Nujoud, “she’s afraid to be by herself at all. The other day we were in the garden and I asked her to go to the bedroom to bring something. She refused to go without me.” On 17 January 2009, at approximately 05:30, the area surrounding the UNRWA ...
Keep Reading »Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his sixty-third day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without trial, without charges, and without any indication of the evidence against him. From the outset of his brutal arrest by scores of soldiers, featuring blindfolding, cuffing, and physical roughness in the middle of the night, a gratuitous ritual enacted in the presence of his wife and young daughters, Khader ...
Keep Reading »The Libyan Model?
In the halls of the United Nations (UN) in New York, “Libya” hangs like an ellipse. For some, the word connotes a successful agenda for humanitarian intervention. For others, it suggests a disaster. Impending wars in West Asia remain spurred on, or haunted, by “Libya.” Oil traders downplay the dangers of a strike on Iran. They point out that any shortfall in oil markets will be covered by “friendly” oilfields in Iraq and Libya, as well as by the Saudi regime’s eagerness to pump more oil to maintain ...
Keep Reading »Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
Till Roeskens, Videomappings: Aida, Palestine. Palestine/France, 2009.
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Legal Agenda on Jadaliyya!
The Legal Agenda is a critical and multidisciplinary non-governmental organization, based in Lebanon, that monitors and analyzes law and public policy in Lebanon, specifically, and the Arab region, generally. The Legal Agenda publishes a quarterly magazine, organizes regional conferences, commissions studies, and hosts panel and open discussions. In doing so, the organization provides a forum for citizens, experts, and researchers to analyze, critique, and debate local and regional legal ...
Keep Reading »The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case HCJ 466/07, MK Zahava Galon v. The Attorney General, et al.
Raneen, a thirty-six-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to thirty-nine-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one glaring exception: Hatem has only a temporary residency permit that allows him to stay in Israel for one year. The Interior Ministry has total discretion over whether or not to issue and renew his permit. When Hatem’s ...
Keep Reading »In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are interested in trash? You’ll love this place, it is full of it!” And we were off. What struck me most when we finally made our way through an orgy of fresh fruits and vegetables, sold-off stands and carts in Jenin’s hisba ...
Keep Reading »Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon a Quest for Justice or a Political Intervention?
In 2007, in response to a request by the 2005 Lebanese government, the United Nations (UN) Security Council established the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Based in the Netherlands, the STL seeks to prosecute those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and twenty-two others on 14 February 2005, as well as for a select number of other attempted assassinations in Lebanon between 2004 and 2006. Though Lebanon and the UN established the STL by treaty, the ...
Keep Reading »18 January 2009: The Abu Rujailah family
[The following is narrative twenty-two, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “As I arrived there I found many people in the area, working on their lands. It was calm so I felt comfortable and stayed there. Suddenly one of the jeeps on the border ...
Keep Reading »Jerusalem Quarterly Featured on Jadaliyya
Detective Stories from the Holy City? This is one of many themes addressed by the muckraking journal, The Jerusalem Quarterly. Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of essays from the Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) on its page. For the last fifteen years JQ has been publishing critical works on the history and future of Jerusalem, as well as investigative reporting on the current status of the city. JQ combines some of the best approaches of social science research and investigative ...
Keep Reading »16 January 2009 - The Shurrab Family
[The following is narrative twenty, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Can I go to a court to restore my sons? No” says Mohammed. “What is the point in bringing the soldiers who killed my sons to justice when there will simply be more and more ...
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