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Bashful "Indignados": Chronicle of a Portuguese Protest

1 Oct 23 2011 by Maria Joana Gomes

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 ...

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Turkish Translation of "After Oslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism"

0 Aug 16 2011 by Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour

[Screen shot of Sky News feature of daily headlines showing that of The Sun.]

[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 ...

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Na Oslo: Europa, de islam en de normalisering van het racisme

0 Aug 03 2011 by Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour

[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 ...

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After Oslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism

11 Jul 27 2011 by Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour

European media coverage of the Norwegian tragedy has led with dangerous and clichéd arguments about ‘Islamic extremism’ and multiculturalism, even after the identity of the killer was confirmed – thus contributing to the mainstreaming of racism that helped make Breivik what he is. An hour before Anders Breivik embarked on his massacre of the innocents, he distributed his manifesto online. In 1500 pages, this urgent message identified “cultural Marxists”, “multiculturalists”, anti-Zionists and leftists as “traitors” who are allowing Christian Europe to be overtaken by Muslims. He subsequently murdered dozens of these ‘traitors’, the majority of them children, at a ...

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Tragic Day for Norway; Shameful Day for Journalism

19 Jul 23 2011 by Shiva Balaghi

A friend’s status update on Facebook alerted me that something horrible had happened in Oslo. Horrible things tend not to happen in Oslo, so I immediately turned to the news to learn what was going on. I read a story in the New York Times that squarely pointed to jihadi groups angered at the war in Afghanistan. The expert the Times cited was Will McCants. I checked in on his twitter feed throughout the day, as he allegedly translated an alleged website by the alleged terrorists responsible for the attacks in Norway. Throughout the day, he translated Arabic phrases from a forum about the type of explosives used, car chases through Oslo and arrests, etc. Even as he pointed ...

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Report on Foreign Workers in One of Jordan's Export Production Factories

2 Jun 12 2011 by Jadaliyya Reports

[Classic Fashion PR. Image from IGLHR report on Jordan.]

[Below is the latest from the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights on Jordan.] Sexual Predators and Serial Rapists Run Wild at Wal-Mart Supplier in Jordan: Young women workers raped, tortured and beaten at the Classic Factory Executive Summary According to witnesses who work at Classic Fashion, scores of young Sri Lankan women sewing clothing for Wal-Mart and Hanes have suffered routine sexual abuse and repeated rapes, and in some cases even torture. One young rape victim at the Classic factory in Jordan told us her assailant, a manager, bit her, leaving scars all over her body. Women who become pregnant are forcibly deported and returned to Sri Lanka. ...

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New Hope on the Nile

3 May 11 2011 by Ramzi El Houry

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A new, post-Mubarak Egypt has given both Egyptians and other Arabs alike, hope that Egypt can once again reclaim its role as the focal point from which Arab culture and politics emanate. The opening up of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza and the active promotion of a unity government in the Palestinian Territories are both indications that this is slowly happening. However, Egypt’s regional affiliation is not only with the Middle East, but extends towards its riparian partners along the Nile as well. And on that front, events in the immediate months after the fall of Mubarak indicated that an Egypt in transition, unable to take firm political positions, could be taken ...

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New Texts Out Now: Amal Ghazal, "Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism"

0 Sep 07 2011 by Amal Ghazal

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 ...

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Collateral Damage: #Oslo Attacks and Proliferating Islamophobia

2 Aug 09 2011 by Miriyam Aouragh, Shahid Buttar, Elijah Meeks, Laila Shereen Sakr

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 ...

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On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufism: An Interview with Nile Green

3 Jul 29 2011 by Ziad Abu-Rish

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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Greek Translation of "Tragic Day for Norway; Shameful Day for Journalism"

0 Jul 23 2011 by Shiva Balaghi

[This article was written in English by Shiva Balaghi and translated/published in Greek by the popular blog Parapolitik.] Μέρα τραγωδίας για τη Νορβηγία, μέρα ντροπής για τη Δημοσιογραφία To στάτους ...

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Blind in Granada

3 Jul 11 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

I It was Mahmoud Darwish--by his own personal and poetic admission, a lover of Andalusia--who said about love that love is either the longing for its arrival or the mourning of its loss. In the poem ‘Intazirha (Wait for her), the poet advises—even commands–the waiting lover to be slow, patient, disciplined; the poem itself is a kind of ritual of waiting, whose edges are illuminated by the image of her arrival though we and the poet know that she may not come, she may not. As for the sorrow ...

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Following the Torture Trail through the Arab Spring: First Speculations

1 Jun 08 2011 by Lisa Hajjar

Torture and anti-torture are everywhere. Are the revolutions sweeping through the Arab world, and being confronted with violent counter-revolutions, in part a battle over the use of torture? It is, perhaps, too early to know how significant or central torture is to the protest movements that have disposed of the torture-prone regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ongoing battles against authoritarians in Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, not to mention the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Libya and beyond. ...

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