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A Changing American Context? Reflections on Two Books on Egyptian History from Cairo
Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Raouf `Abbas Hamid and `Asim el-Dessouky, The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952. Translated from the Arabic by Amer Mohsen with Mona Zikri. Edited by Peter Gran. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. The publication of Nelly Hanna’s Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) and Raouf `Abbas Hamid’s and `Asim el-Dessouky’s The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 marks something of a departure from the norm for the field of modern Egypt in the United States, ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Bisan Center for Research and Development Issues the Study "Foreign Aid and the Molding of the Palestinian Space"
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[The following press release was issued by the Bisan Center for Research and Development. It was recently published on en.bisan.org] Issued by Bisan Center for Research and Development: The study "Foreign Aid and the Molding of the Palestinian Space" Bisan Center for Research and Development releases it’s new study "Foreign Aid and the Molding of the Palestinian Space” as part of a series on development in the occupied Palestinian territories. The studies included in this series aim at deconstructing the dominant development discourse and the programs resulting from it through analyzing the development discourses of Palestine’s main actors in the public ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Gulf Charities in the ‘Age of Terror’ and the ‘Arab Awakening’ Workshop (University of Cambridge, 11-14 July, 2012])
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3rd Gulf Research Meeting Workshop: 'Gulf charities in the "Age of Terror" and the "Arab Awakening" University of Cambridge, 11-14 July 2012 Workshop Directors: Robert Lacey 115a Ebury Street London SW1W 9QU United Kingdom Email: robert@robertlacey.com www.insidethekingdom.net Jonathan Benthall Honorary Research Fellow Department of Anthropology University College London United Kingdom Email: jonathanbenthall@hotmail.com Abstract Motivated by the Islamic traditions of generosity and almsgiving, the charities of the Gulf States enjoy great potential to expand their activities inside the GCC and beyond. But two 21st ...
Keep Reading »Unfulfilled Promises and Demands in Post-Revolution Egypt: Interview with Wael Gamal
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In this short interview, Wael Gamal discusses the unfulfilled promises and demands in post-revolution Egypt. Since February, the powers that be in Egypt, symbolized and represented by the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces, had promised or agreed to implement a number of policies and decisions that comport with the spirit and demands of the protesters. These demands centered primarily on a a range of issues from salaries to food prices and housing. Wael discusses succinctly what the expectations were and how, at best, very little has been delivered, even when it came to issues that require a simple decision or decree. He ends by pointing out the social forces that, ...
Keep Reading »Press Release from the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt
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Press Release Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt Four Events Worldwide Mark the Global Day for the Cancellation of Egypt's Debt October 31st marks the global day for the cancellation of Egypt's debt in Cairo and a number of other cities around the world. Independent activists and a number of civil society organizations will be organizing various actions in London, Berlin, Paris and Cairo in parallel, calling on their respective governments to drop the debts accumulated by Mubarak’s regime. The dictator’s regime resorted to external borrowing to finance its budget deficits and political projects. But the Egyptian people never had a ...
Keep Reading »Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
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[The following statement was issued on 29 September 2011 by the NYC General Assembly.] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government ...
Keep Reading »Chart: Who Funds the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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This chart helps represent one of the ways the United States government is able to shape the policies of international institutions that impact the daily lives of people living outside of the United States. Voting power in the IMF Board of Governors is proportional to the financial contribution of each state represented on the Board. The United States holds 16.7 percent of the votes, followed by Japan (6.24%), Germany (5.81%), France (4.29%), and the United Kingdom (4.29%). Click here for the complete list of members, their contribution, and their voting power.
Keep Reading »Trafficking and Foreign Labor in the Gulf: An Interview with Pardis Mahdavi
Earlier this month, the US State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, an inventory of the world’s efforts at combating the global trade in people. The 2011 report marks a turning point of sorts for US foreign policy. For the first time ever, the new TIP includes an assessment—if predictably positive—of Washington’s own attempts at battling trafficking at home. More encouraging still, the report reflects the explicit recognition that trafficking is not only about the forced prostitution of women but represents the problem of coerced labor of both women and men around the world. Despite these progressive shifts, however, the new report ...
Keep Reading »The Anguish in the American Dream
As we cope with downturns in American power in the world and the American economy at home, there is much talk about reviving, renewing, rescuing, or redefining the American Dream. We would be better off facing the anguish inherent in the American Dream. Once we recognize that the dream has always been dependent on domination, we can see more clearly our options for a just and sustainable future. Whether celebrated or condemned, the American Dream endures, though always ambiguously. We are forever describing and defining, analyzing and assessing the concept, and with each attempt to clarify, the idea of an American Dream grows more incoherent yet more ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Rami Makhlouf in the New York Times
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[From the New York Times. Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad was interviewed by the New York Times for their first story on the move to charity work by the Syrian Tycoon, Rami Makhlouf] Reviled Tycoon, Assad’s Cousin, Resigns in Syria By ANTHONY SHADID BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s most powerful businessman, a confidant and cousin of President Bashar al-Assad, announced on Thursday that he was quitting business and moving to charity work, Syrian television said. The move, if true, would suggest that Mr. Assad was so concerned about the continuing protests that he would sacrifice a relative to public anger. The businessman, Rami Makhlouf, a 41-year-old tycoon who ...
Keep Reading »Spanish Translation of "Egypt's 'Orderly Transition'? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment"
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[This article was written in English by Adam Hanieh and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván Aunque la cobertura en los medios sobre los acontecimientos de Egipto pueda haber dejado de aparecer en las primeras páginas, el debate en torno al período post-Mubarak sigue dominando las noticias financieras. Durante las últimas semanas, la dirección económica del gobierno egipcio provisional ha sido objeto de intenso debate en el Banco Mundial, en el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y en el Banco Europeo de Reconstrucción y Desarrollo (BERD). El discurso del presidente Obama del 19 de ...
Keep Reading »New Hope on the Nile
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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 ...
Keep Reading »Interim Government Obtains Four Times the Loans Obtained during Mubarak's Time
[The following press release was released by The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt. It was translated into English by Khaled Nagy.] Press Release by The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt Interim Government Obtains Loans Four Times as Much as Those during Mubarak's Time The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan issue is looming again in the Egyptian horizon, a few months after the rejection of a similar loan. It was claimed that the first loan was rejected because its conditions were ...
Keep Reading »Hundreds of Thousands of Consumers, Billions of $$ Move to Credit Unions
[The following press release was issued by the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) on 3 November, 2011.] Rising fees at banks spark consumer action during October in run-up to ‘Bank Transfer Day’ WASHINGTON --- Reacting to rising fees at banks, hundreds of thousands of consumers have rushed to credit unions over the past four weeks, and have joined existing credit union members in depositing or shifting billions of savings to credit unions, according to estimates released today by the Credit ...
Keep Reading »What Happens in Yemen: The "End" of Citizenship and How We Got Here
When Troy Davis was executed in Georgia, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses who had testified against him and despite the lack of other material evidence implicating him in the murder for which he was convicted, it seemed like things could not get much worse for due process. Two weeks later, the US skipped the messiness of court hearings altogether and executed its own citizen, Anwar Al-Awlaki, with a unpiloted drone. The government and the mainstream media tried to rationalize what ...
Keep Reading »A Message from Anonymous to Wall Street, New York, and the Protesters
[The following text is from the video message below.] This is a message from anonymous to the people of New York City, Wall Street and members of the protest. We are crowding your streets, we are filling its veins. This might be painful, but you will not open your eyes so we have been forced to dilate them. This is your protest. Welcome your new neighbors, for they choose to sleep on the streets for you. They choose to open their mouths when you are too exhausted. They are your brothers. They are here ...
Keep Reading »Sovereign Wealth and Ruler Loot
The mobility of capital, depending on one’s position, is a virtue or a vice. Since the onset of the Arab Spring, a lot of money has been moving in, out, and around the Middle East. In the classic liberal world, the mobility of money is governed by the market. In the real world however, politics has a say. Some of these politics have been about fear as Saudi and Emirati rulers have reportedly opened their checkbooks to assuage pressures on favored rulers and foment trouble for others. These moves did not ...
Keep Reading »Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VIII): Bahrain's Rocky Road to Reform
[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Bahrain.] Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VIII): Bahrain’s Rocky Road to Reform Executive Summary and Recommendations Following a spasm of violence, Bahrain faces a critical choice between endemic instability and slow but steady progress toward political reform. The most sensible way forward is to launch a new, genuine dialogue in which the political opposition is fairly represented and to move toward ...
Keep Reading »Sudan: Slippery Slope
After three months of conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, the Sudanese authorities on 23 August declared a temporary ceasefire. This was despite the failure two days earlier of another round of peace talks between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army – North (SPLM/A-N)1 and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Given the deep mistrust between the parties and the rampant militarization of the area, the fighting could well resume over the coming weeks. The initial phase of ...
Keep Reading »Revolution and Repression on the Banks of the Suez Canal
Many people in Suez proudly claim that they initiated Egypt’s “January 25 Revolution.” There were several demonstrations in opposition to Gamal Mubarak inheriting the presidency from his father as early as July 2010. Relations between the police and the people were tense after a police general was assassinated on November 29, 2010. On January 25, when protests in Cairo and Alexandria were relatively peaceful, the demonstration in Suez was particularly violent. Police shot dead three ...
Keep Reading »Effects of Neoliberal Policies on Farmers and the Food Price Crisis in Egypt (Video)
“Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press” - Khalil Gibran Since the late 1970s the Egyptian government has steered the country toward economic liberalization. This entails the rolling back of the government's role across all public sectors, the lowering of import tariffs and an increased drive for exports. One of the sectors that were hit hardest by these policies is Egyptian ...
Keep Reading »Report on Foreign Workers in One of Jordan's Export Production Factories
[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 ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's ‘Orderly Transition’? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment
Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of the interim Egyptian government has been the object of intense debate in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). US President Obama’s 19 May speech on the Middle East and North Africa devoted much space to the question of ...
Keep Reading »Revolt in Egypt: An Interview
[The below excerpt is from a New Left Review interview with Hazim Kandil on the origins, course, and future trajectory of the Egyptian Revolution. For the full interview, click here] Mubarak has gone, but the apparatuses on which his dictatorship rested have not vanished. The armed forces currently hold ultimate power, in the shape of the Supreme Military Council. How should the Egyptian military be characterized, and what role is it now likely to play? When a regime has come to power through military ...
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