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New Texts Out Now: Adam Hanieh, "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States"
Adam Hanieh, Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Adam Hanieh: Although this book is very much focused on the political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman), it has its origins in the six years (1997-2003) that I lived in the West Bank, Palestine. During that time, I had the opportunity to travel throughout the Middle East, and was repeatedly struck by the centrality of the Gulf to the political economy of the region as a whole. This was true not just concerning migration and remittance flows between the Gulf ...
Keep Reading »Documentary Video Clip (DVC) Section: Clip from "Arabs and Terrorism"
We are hereby launching our DVC section, Documentary Video Clips, courtesy of Jadaliyya’s sister organization, Quilting Point (QP), which is also run by the Arab Studies Institute. Quilting Point is a Documentary/Film Production Collective that was established in 2003, and produced 4 research-based documentaries, About Baghdad (2004), What is said about . . . Arabs and Terrorism (2006), The Other Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe (2007), and Notes on the War (2007). The DVC series will involve posting weekly clips from our various documentary projects. Clips will be released in conjunction with particular events, or simply as a way of making them available to ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Statehood Blocked: Equality Struggle Ahead
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As the start of the UN General Assembly's 66th Session quickly approaches, it seems that "statehood" has sucked the air out of every room where Palestine is discussed. Worse, in Washington, where the Obama Administration has taken a firm stance against the UN approach, the statehood bid is seen as a radical move. President Obama's planned veto of Palestinian statehood in the UN Security Council will affirm what Palestinians and their Israeli counterparts already know: the de facto territorial singularity of one state comprised of Palestinians and Israelis between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Failure to support Palestinian statehood only ...
Keep Reading »Whitey on the Moon
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On numerous occasions this past month, I’ve been asked my opinion on the “social justice” protests in Israel. There is much bellowing beneath my short “shu bi‘a`rifni” (hell if I know). Some believe that literature and storytelling convey truth better than facts; accordingly, I will use the words of two late and missed writers Mahmoud Darwish and Gil Scott-Heron to express why many are uninspired by the 14 July movement. Gil Scott-Heron sang the poem Whitey on the Moon in 1970 responding to Neil Armstrong's trip to the moon. In the poem, Scott-Heron anchors the “advancements” of the space program in those populations at whose expense such feats were accomplished. ...
Keep Reading »Mahmoud Darwish: A Traveller
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A Traveler Mahmoud Darwish (March 13, 1941- August 9, 2008) This road takes me; a horse guiding a horseman A traveler like me cannot look back I have walked far enough to know where autumn begins There, behind the river, the last pomegranates ripen in an additional summer and a beauty mark grows in the seed of the apple The road and I will sleep like partners behind the river, beneath our shadows Then rise at dawn and carry each other I will ask it: Why so fast? Slow down, O horse saddled with seasons! No matter how few our dreams we will cross the desert and valleys to reach the end at the beginning The beginning is behind us Before ...
Keep Reading »Occupation Law and the One-State Reality
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For decades, the international law of occupation – a branch of the laws of war (or “international humanitarian law”) – has played a major role in structuring debates around Israel/Palestine. As applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the law of occupation has provided a useful and globally shared set of criteria for analyzing Israel’s discriminatory and repressive policies, as well as certain Palestinian actions. There is perhaps no legal document cited more frequently in debates on Israel/Palestine than the Fourth Geneva Convention, held up by many as a sacred pact of civilization enshrining basic standards of humanity in wartime. But as the impossibility of ...
Keep Reading »May Odeh's Diaries: Celebration, Beauty and Transcendence
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In the concluding voice over of Diaries, May Odeh declares, “It is difficult to allow occupation and political factions to steal away the last breath of the people who live tomorrow.” Her poignant film breathes more life into a Palestinians that will live tomorrow and will not only survive all the destructive forces on Gaza, but will inspire us on many levels. In fact, after finishing her film, my mood was celebratory in the same way I feel about the creative activism taking places all over the Arab world. There is irony in the word celebration as Gaza still lives under siege; however the characters we encounter in this film show that there is light at the end of ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Head of Research and Collections; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
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Head of Research and Collections Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Brief Job Description Reporting to the Director of Museum Operations, and working as a member of the Senior Leadership team of the Museum, and as the Senior Curator of the Museum, the Head of Research and Collections provides day-to-day leadership and direction to the curatorial team and staff within the Division. The Head contributes to the development of annual operating budgets and corporate plans ensuring that the Division’s programmes are sufficiently supported and recognized in these ...
Keep Reading »Can the Palestinian Leadership Pave the Way from Statehood to Independence?
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Middle Eastern analysts concerned with the Palestinian statehood bid have rightly highlighted the benefits conferred by such status. They assume, however, that the current Palestinian leadership is willing to take the necessary steps in order to lead Palestinians from statehood on paper to independence in practice. In the early 1990s, the Palestinian leadership supplanted its struggle for self-determination with a state-building project. In its narrow pursuit of a mandate to govern, it placed undue faith in the US’s willingness, and arguably its ability, to pressure Israel to end its prolonged occupation thus shunning a resistance platform. In its bid for statehood, the ...
Keep Reading »Yaffa is not an Orange: The Limits of Archetypes
Salt of this Sea [Milh Hadha al-Bahr]. Written and directed by Annemarie Jacir. Palestine/Belgium/France/Spain/Switzerland, 2008. Salt of this Sea (Milh Hadha al-Bahr), released in 2008, is Annemarie Jacir’s first feature film, and her second work to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. An epic work, the concerns of Salt of this Sea are also the concerns of Palestinians across the globe; the film constitutes a sustained cinematic critique of Oslo and the Palestinian Authority, and places the Right of Return center stage. Reading – or watching – Salt of this Sea against its explicit messaging, however, the Right of Return that emerges in the film is not without its ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Steven Salaita, "Israel's Dead Soul"
Steven Salaita, Israel’s Dead Soul. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Steven Salaita: I'd been wanting for a long time to systematically explore the idea of Israel's soul being in some sort of crisis. The decline of Israel's soul is a notion much ridiculed by those opposed to Zionism, and I thought it would be fun and illuminating to articulate why such ridicule exists—and why it is completely justified. J: What particular topics, issues, and ...
Keep Reading »The UN Palmer Inquiry and Israel's Attack on the Mavi Marmara
The UN released its report, "Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident" on Friday, 2 September 2011. The report addressed issues relating to Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara – which left 9 Turkish civilians dead, and some 55 others wounded – and concluded, amongst other things, that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is lawful and that Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara was justified, but involved excessive force. The panel then recommended that Israel issue ...
Keep Reading »J14: The Exclusive Revolution
The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as “part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” “All the means we need, we ourselves must create them, like Robinson Crusoe on his island,” Herzl told an interviewer in 1898. The Labor Zionist movement’s chief ideologue, Berl Katznelson, was more ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Statehood at the United Nations: An Information Resource
[The following is the latest from Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) on Palestinian Statehood at the UN.] Palestinian Statehood at the United Nations: An Information Resource Introduction These pages aim to serve as an informal information resource for issues relating to the current discussions around the question of Palestinian Statehood at the United Nations. The resources contained here are not intended to be exhaustive or definitive; rather they are intended to serve as a bibliographic record ...
Keep Reading »Statement by African Heritage Delegation to Palestine/Israel
[The following statement was issued by the Interfaith Peace Builders’ (IFPB) first African Heritage Delegation after their recent study tour of Palestine/Israel.] STATEMENT OF THE AFRICAN HERITAGE DELEGATION AUGUST 2, 2011 We, the members of the Interfaith Peace Builders’ first African Heritage Delegation, participated in a study tour to Palestine/Israel, July 16-29, 2011. The delegation consisted of seven men and seven women from 25 to 73 years of age who came from different parts of the ...
Keep Reading »Culture XVI
This is our sixteenth weekly section. We have five posts; Amal Hanano continues her diary from Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates a poem by the great Syrian poet Saniyya Salih. Youssef Rakha examines the cultural discourse in Egypt. Nezar Andary reviews May Odeh's Diaries. Sinan Antoon translates a text by Ahmad Saadawi about Iraqi dogs. We will be taking a summer break and will return in the fall with more energy and lots of culture. Enjoy! It's Not Him, It's Them by Amal Hanano The ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Mentor - Museum Operations; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
Mentor – Museum Operations Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Visit http://welsfareassociation.org for more information. Reports to Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce Brief Job Description The Mentor of Museum Operations is a consultant Advisor hired by the Palestinian Museum Task Force of the Welfare Association. This position will act as a Senior Advisor to the Director of Museum ...
Keep Reading »Job Announcement: Director of Museum Operations; Welfare Association Palestinian Museum Taskforce
Director of Museum Operations Job Overview Job Title Director, Museum Operations Deadline for receiving applications is Sunday August 7, 2011. Send all application materials to palestinianmuseum@gmail.com Visit http://welsfareassociation.org for more information. Brief Job Description The Director is the chief operating officer of the Palestinian Museum accountable to the Palestinian Museum Taskforce for the realization of the approved vision, mission and values, and the ...
Keep Reading »Breaking the Siege and the Diplomatic Impasse: An Interview with Huwaida Arraf
[This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat. Huwaida Arraf is Chairperson of the Gaza Freedom Movement Coalition and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.] NE: Let's get some of the basics first—how many passengers were a part of the Freedom Flotilla II? How many ships and how many nations did they represent? HA: Twenty-two initiatives or national campaigns participated in organizing Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human. Each of these had hundreds, if not ...
Keep Reading »Palestinians Discuss September Questions in Day-Long Symposium in Al-Bireh
The Friends School for Boys in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, was abuzz this Saturday (June 16, 2011) with community organizers and young Palestinian activists, as well as a sprinkling of older residents, all of whom were attending a conference regarding the much talked about September bid for recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN. The idea of this daylong conference of panels was for it to be an opportunity to learn what it actually entails, procedurally, to go to the UN, what are the possible ...
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