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From Greece: Declaration for the Defense of Society and Democracy
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[The following statement was issued by a group of Greek academics regarding the ongoing crises in Greece.] Greek society is suffering both from the crisis and the responses to it, which have reached a dead-end. Major social and political institutions that were created with enormous struggles and sacrifices in post-War Greece—social security, the public health care system, public education, public transport, the natural and urban environment, the right to live a safe existence, and various elemental goods and services that underwrite the very existence of an already curtailed and devalued Greek state—are all being utterly dismantled so that Greek society is now ...
Keep Reading »Imagine Africa
Imagine Africa. Published by the Pirogue Collective. Brooklyn, NY and Dakar, Senegal: Island Position, 2011. If you do a Google search for the phrase “Imagine Africa,” the results are not encouraging. Among the most popular results, you will find a company operating under that name offering “luxury safaris and beach holidays” in Africa. You will also encounter a project originating out of the University of Michigan under the name “IMAGINE Africa,” which in this case stands for “IMplementing A Global Internet Network in Africa,” a project intended “to bring Internet access to the rural population of Africa.” Another popular result is for an exhibition called “Imagine ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [Co-winner of the 2011 Albert Hourani Book Award] Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Nile Green: It took me some time to realize the importance of Bombay to Muslims from all around the Indian Ocean, but after so many textual trails led me there, I realized I had to write a book about Bombay and its steam-spun web of connections. The documentation was abundant—in Muslim travelogues, vernacular poetry, printed hagiographies—though ironically I found as much of Bombay’s legacy in such cities as Tehran and Hyderabad as in ...
Keep Reading »Bombing the Neighborhood: Daniel Ellsberg and the Radical Critique of American Empire
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. United States, 2010. “It wasn’t that we were on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.” – Daniel Ellsberg Two of the most chilling scenes in Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith’s extraordinary 2010 film, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, involve Richard Nixon. Nixon had just won the 1968 presidential election, a victory that he owed in part to his promise to end the war in Vietnam and deliver to the United States an honorable exit from Indochina. Unbeknownst to anyone outside his inner circle, however, ...
Keep Reading »Statement by SASI on People to People Solidarity with Palestine and Duplicity of South Asian States
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[The following statement was issued by the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) on 6 November, 2011.] SASI Calls for People-to-People Solidarity with Palestine and Condemns Duplicity of South Asian States in Palestine Bid for UN Recognition The South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) recognizes the importance and urgency of the Palestinian bid for recognition by the United Nations this September. Despite the threatened U.S. veto in the Security Council, all member nations have an opportunity to weigh in on the outcome through the General Assembly. We welcome the overwhelming support shown for Palestinian membership in the UNESCO. While noting the support for ...
Keep Reading »Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad
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[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on the impact of Qaddafi's death on neighboring countries.] Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad Executive Summary The end of the long reign of Muammar Qaddafi, killed on 20 October in his hometown of Syrte, opens the way to democracy in Libya. His fall has also left the country and its neighbors facing a multitude of potential new problems that could threaten stability in the region. Chad is a case in point. Qaddafi made his presence felt in all the country’s conflicts, for good and ill, and he maintained a close relationship with President Déby. Because the latter supported his doomed ...
Keep Reading »The Spectre of South Africa
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Next week, the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in Cape Town’s famous District Six. In the 1970s, 60,000 residents of District Six were forcibly removed following its designation as a White Area by the apartheid regime. Based on testimony from international legal experts and witnesses from the ground in Israel/Palestine, this “International People’s Tribunal” will examine whether Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people violates the prohibition of apartheid under international law. The Apartheid Narrative While the divergence of views presented on the Palestine statehood bid in recent months spans as vast a spectrum as is perhaps ...
Keep Reading »Bashful "Indignados": Chronicle of a Portuguese Protest
Under the heat of the warm sun on a late summer Saturday, I left my house in Vila Real and travelled the one hundred kilometers that separate it from Porto, Portugal’s second biggest city, where a demonstration of the Fifteenth of October Movement was supposed to take place. Here in my hometown, where pro-government parties have ruled since the Carnation Revolution, a coup led by leftist mid-rank army officers which ended forty-eight years of dictatorship on 25 April 1974, no demonstrations were scheduled and the few “indignados” had to go on their own to Porto, where a major demonstration and a popular assembly were to take place later on that same day. The ...
Keep Reading »Turkish Translation of "After Oslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism"
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[This article was written in English by Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour, and translated/published in Turkish by www.birikimdergisi.com] Avrupa medyası, Norveç trajedisini, failin kimliği doğrulandıktan sonra bile, “aşırı İslamcılık” ve çokkültürlülük üzerine tehlikeli ve klişeleşmiş savlarla ele aldı. Basın böylece, Breivik’i olduğu insan haline getiren ırkçılığın yaygınlaşmasına katkıda bulundu. Anders Breivik, masumların katliamını gerçekleştirmeden bir saat önce, internet üzerinden manifestosunu yayınladı. 1500 sayfalık metindeki uyarıcı mesaj; “kültürel Marksistleri”, “çokkültürcüleri”, anti-Siyonist ve solcuları, Hıristiyan Avrupa’nın Müslümanlarca ele ...
Keep Reading »Na Oslo: Europa, de islam en de normalisering van het racisme
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[This article was written in English by Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour, and subsequently translated/published in Dutch by www.eutopiainstitute.org] De verslaggeving over de Noorse tragedie in de Europese media werd aanvankelijk gedomineerd door clichématige argumenten over “moslimextremisme” en “multiculturalisme”. Dit ging zelfs door nadat de identiteit van de moordenaar bekend was geworden, waarmee zij bijdroegen aan en uiting gaven van de normalisering van het hetzelfde verwerpelijke racisme dat Breivik heeft gevormd en dat het bloedbad mede heeft geinspireerd. Een uur voordat Anders Breivik tientallen onschuldige mensen afslachtte, zette hij een lang ...
Keep Reading »The Academic Boycott on Campus: Breaking New Ground, Gaining Momentum
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 3 February 2012.] In an open letter dated 21 October 2011, Palestinian students wrote to their counterparts across the world, “We hope you put Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the forefront of your campaigns and join together for Israeli Apartheid Week: the pinnacle of action across universities worldwide.” [1] The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) ...
Keep Reading »Turkey and Syria: A Breakup Bound to Happen
While Syria and Turkey have called it quits for now, a possible regime change in Syria could bring them even closer together. The sultans must be green with envy. At no time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire have Turks held such sway over the Middle East. In the context of Arab uprisings, Turkey has been able to solidify a position it has been carefully trying to establish for the past decade. So far, Turkey appears to have made all the right choices. Now, it is navigating everyday turns in the Arab ...
Keep Reading »هل تخبرنا التجربة الرومانية بما سيحدث في مصر؟
1-في البدء كانت ثورة خرجت الجماهير الرومانية في ديسمبر من سنة 1989 في كبريات المدن هاتفة ضد الديكتاتور المتداعي نيقولاي تشاوتشيسكو الذي كان قابضا على زمام الحكم منذ 1964. وبعد حوالي أسبوع من المواجهات في المدن بين قوات الأمن وعشرات الآلاف من المتظاهرين أضطر تشاوتشيسكو وزوجته إلينا للهرب حيث تم إلقاء القبض عليهما ومحاكمتهما بشكل صوري ثم ما لبثا أن تم إعدامهما ضربا بالرصاص. وتلى ذلك القبض على رؤوس الحزب الشيوعي الحاكم المقربين للديكتاتور المعدوم وتقديمهم للمحاكمة وسجنهم. بيد أن القضاء على تشاوتشيسكو ...
Keep Reading »The New Kurdish Movie
Turkey’s decades-old “Kurdish Question” has recently changed its trajectory. There is a new movie playing in town. The Turkish state is determined to follow a new kind of politics in order to resolve the issues that have been haunting Turkish-Kurdish relations for almost a century. In this commentary, I would like to describe what this new politics looks like. Let us begin with the question, Why did Prime Minister Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) choose a new and contentious political path? ...
Keep Reading »Press Release by South African Union on Russell Tribunal on Palestine
[The following press release was issued by the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) on 7 November, 2011. It was recently published on samwu.org.za] Jacob Zuma and Government must implement recommendations made by Russell Tribunal SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT 07 November 2011 The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) welcomes the findings of the international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience, The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP). This important Tribunal will form a ...
Keep Reading »Bertrand Russell's Legacy
Making my way back to Ireland from the Third World Approaches to International Law conference at the University of Oregon last week, I found myself with a few hours to kill between flights in New York. In the basement of a second-hand bookshop, I picked up a dusty old copy of the Selected Writings of Bertrand Russell. After paying a visit to Occupy Wall Street, I caught a bus back to the airport, where the words of Russell’s introduction, written on the cusp of the great depression in the late 1920s, ...
Keep Reading »Amnesty International Memorandum on Investigating Former US President George W. Bush for Crimes Under International Law
[The following is the latest from Amnesty International on the criminality of George W. Bush's use of torture.] VISIT TO CANADA OF FORMER US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND CANADIAN OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEMORANDUM TO THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Summary: Amnesty International considers that there is enough material in the public domain – even if one were to rely only upon information released by United States authorities, and by former US ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Amal Ghazal, "Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism"
Amal N. Ghazal, Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s). New York: Routledge, 2010. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Amal Ghazal: I wanted to find a topic that bridged my two fields of study, Middle East Studies and African Studies. I thought Omani rule in East Africa would be interesting, especially in that I was initially able to trace correspondence between Arabs in East Africa and newspapers in the Middle East. A ...
Keep Reading »Collateral Damage: #Oslo Attacks and Proliferating Islamophobia
As the world continues to reel from the shockwaves sent by the recent violence in Norway, we need also to grapple with the reactions that immediately followed and what they mean. An online analysis of Twitter posts carried out by R-Shief, a lab that provides real-time analysis of opinion about late-breaking issues, gives credence to what observers have been condemning as an appalling day for Western media—and which laid bare a proliferating Islamophobia. Just as real events on the ground last week in ...
Keep Reading »On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufism: An Interview with Nile Green
In the following conversation with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Professor of History Nile Green discusses some of the issues arising from the study of “Muslims of South Asia and the wider Persianate world.” The bulk of the interview addresses issues related to the study of the history of South Asia, Sufism, and Islam. It concludes with some advice for graduate students struggling to define their research agendas. The interview was originally conducted in ...
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