Follow Us
From the Editors
Jadaliyya Revamps Arabic Section . . . click here
Jadaliyya Launches Arabian Peninsula Page . . . Click here!
الآن . . . القسم العربي بحلة جديدة
The Culture Page Returns . . . . click here
Jadaliyya launches its new Syria page . . . Click here.
Want to find out about new books? Visit our expanding NEWTON page. Click here.
Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Internship Opportunities at ASI (Jadaliyya, Arab Studies Journal, FAMA). Click here!
The Jadaliyya Egypt Elections Watch page archives! Click here for comprehensive coverage.
Interested in writing a Review for Jadaliyya? Visit our Call for Reviews here.
Protests-Revolts
"We Didn't Know It Was Impossible, So We Did It": The Quebec Student Strike Celebrates Its 100th Day
![[Student strikers in Quebec. Image via Occupy Theory.]](/content_images/3/sm_quebec.jpg "[Student strikers in Quebec. Image via Occupy Theory.]")
Origins of an unlimited general strike (“grève générale illimitée”) Students in Quebec are marking their hundredth day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, 22 May, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movement of recent months and North America’s largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec might just be Canada's Arab Spring. Students have been organizing against tuition hikes for nearly one and a half years, when the Quebec government first proposed to raise tuition fees by seventy-five percent over five years (amended to eighty-two percent over seven years by the government at the end of April). Before the general ...
Keep Reading »Ali from Bahrain: How I Became a Refugee (In both Arabic and English)
![[Ali. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_alifrombahrain.jpg "[Ali. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الشريط التالي يحمل عنوان ”علي من البحرين: كيف أصبحت لاجئاً" من إخراج نرمين حداد. جاء علي إلى لبنان لتكملة دراسته، وعندما إندلعت الثورة البحرينية دعم علي المظاهرات بصورة علنية. فقامت السلطات البحرينية بمنعه ...
Keep Reading »Al-Jazeera's (R)Evolution?
![[Screenshot of Al-Jazeera host Faisal Al-Kassem reporting on Syria.]](/content_images/3/sm_Aljazeera.jpg "[Screenshot of Al-Jazeera host Faisal Al-Kassem reporting on Syria.]")
In March of 2011, an unusually forthright editorial by an anonymous writer made its way into The Peninsula Qatar, an English language daily bankrolled by a member of the emirate’s ruling family. At the time of publication, protesters had already toppled the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, uprisings were in full swing in Libya and Yemen, and in the Persian Gulf, Bahrainis were gearing up for what would prove to be a bloody battle, only days after the op-ed ran. “Businesses and institutions are treated as ‘holy cows,’” the author wrote in the editorial, entitled “Why are we so timid?” “What essentially ails the Qatari media (English and Arabic-language newspapers) is ...
Keep Reading »الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيالين اللبنانيّ والسوريّ
![[مظاهرة مؤيدة للفلسطنيين في لبنان .تصوير شريف كريم. المصدر رويترز]](/content_images/3/sm_lebanon-3.jpg "[مظاهرة مؤيدة للفلسطنيين في لبنان .تصوير شريف كريم. المصدر رويترز]")
تنقسم مداخلتي إلى قسمين، يتناول الأوّلُ "الانتفاضاتِ العربيّةَ وفلسطين في المخيال اللبنانيّ"، ويتناول القسمُ الثاني "الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيال السوريّ". ولا حاجة إلى القول إنّ المخيال هنا (أو الوعي) ليس واحدًا في الحالين، على ما ستُظهر هذه المداخلة، بل مخيالاتٌ متعدّدةٌ في كلّ بلد، وقد تتقاطع أيضًا بين البلدين المجاورين. وفي الخاتمة أسعى إلى تقديم رؤيةٍ عامّةٍ، قد تكون متشائمةً، إلى مآل فلسطين في المخيال العربيّ بعد هذه الانتفاضات. 1 ـ القسم الأول: لبنان ـ الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين. 1 ـ أـ الانتفاضات العربيّة في المخيال اللبنانيّ. حين اندلعت انتفاضتا تونس ومصر، هلّل لهما معظمُ اليساريين والقوميّين العرب والسوريين الاجتماعيين في ...
Keep Reading »Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Fictional Television and Socio-Political Critique
As antigovernment protests gripped Syria in 2011 and 2012, observers celebrate a new generation of activist artists and their innovative forms of creative dissent. The wall of fear that had long curtailed artistic expression has collapsed, they argue, with youthful satirists moving beyond the despair and complaisance of older cultural producers to flood the internet with caustic caricatures and enliven demonstrations with imaginative tactics. Articulated in the international media and echoed in scholarly discussions, this notion of rupture attributes no role to Syria’s artistic establishment. The “traditional opposition,” including many media makers, is assumed marginal ...
Keep Reading »Critical Perspectives on EBRD "Transition" Investment Priorities in Egypt (Video)
![[Image from ebrd.com]](/content_images/3/sm_ebrdebrs87.jpg "[Image from ebrd.com]")
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was created twenty-one years ago with the purpose of supporting the transition to democracy and market economies in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Following the Arab uprisings of 2011, it was tasked by its shareholders, including the United States and the European Union, to assist the "democratic" transitions in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco are the EBRD's primary targets in the immediate future. One of the main criticisms of current EBRD operations in central and eastern Europe is that the bank focuses too much on ...
Keep Reading »Conference: The Egyptian Revolution One Year On (Oxford, 18-19 May 2012)
![[Image from below conference announcement]](/content_images/3/sm_Logo-Oxford.jpg "[Image from below conference announcement]"){kind=logo}
Conference: The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2012 You are warmly invited to register for the forthcoming international conference on The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes. The conference will be held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May 2012 at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. It is co-sponsored by the DPIR and John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford, with the generous support of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College. It is convened by Reem Abou-El-Fadl of the DPIR and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Amidst the wave of scholarly interest this year ...
Keep Reading »عن الوضع الحالي في سوريا: مقابلة مع هيثم مناع الجزء الرابع
![[هيثم مناع. تصوير بسام حداد]](/content_images/3/sm_HMpart4.jpg "[هيثم مناع. تصوير بسام حداد]")
(الجزء الرابع) في السابع والعشرين من نيسان وضمن أعمال المؤتمر الذي نظمته جدلية بالتعاون مع جامعة لوند، أجرى محرر جدلية بسام حداد مقابلة مطولة مع هيثم منّاع، أحد أبرز رموز المعارضة السورية المستقلة ومؤسس الهيئة التنسيقية للتغيير الديمقراطي. كانت المقابلة طويلة وصريحة وتطرقت إلى موضوعات عدة من ضمنها المأزق الحالي في سوريا، ومراحل وتحولات الثورة، وموضوع التدخل الخارجي والمقاومة، والمجلس الوطني السوري وعلاقاته مع مجموعات المعارضة الأخرى والدول الخليجية وغيرها، وعلاقة سوريا بحزب الله. أدناه الجزء الرابع. لمشاهدة الأجزاء الأول و الثاني والثالث الرجاء الضغط على الروابط.
Keep Reading »Palestinian Hunger Strikers: Fighting Ingrained Duplicity
![[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_LadiesStriking.jpg "[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]")
On his seventy-third day of hunger strike, Thaer Halahleh was vomiting blood and bleeding from his lips and gums, while his body weighs in at 121 pounds—a fraction of its pre-hunger strike size. The thirty-three-year-old Palestinian follows the still-palpable footsteps of Adnan Khader and Hana Shalabi, whose hunger strikes resulted in release. He also stands alongside Bilal Diab, who is also entering his seventy-third day of visceral protest. Together, they inspired nearly 2,500 Palestinian political prisoners to go on hunger strike in protest of Israel's policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial. Administrative detention has constituted a core of Israel's ...
Keep Reading »Algerian Elections - 10 May
![[Graphic of the #10MaiToz hashtag used by Algerians on Twitter. Image from Twitter]](/content_images/3/sm_10MaiToz.jpg "[Graphic of the #10MaiToz hashtag used by Algerians on Twitter. Image from Twitter]")
While Algeria may not have seen protests on the scale of its regional neighbors, many Algerians are expressing their political dissent through abstention. On Twitter, the hashtag #10MaiToz was used to post various updates pertaining to police crackdowns on minor protests and voter fraud, with reports of registration under the names of dead people used to vote. Jadaliyya Maghreb Page co-editor, Robert Parks, in his piece "Arab Uprisings and the Algerian Elections: Ghosts from the Past?" analyzed the possibilities of the Algerian elections by examining recent history and the ongoing events in the Maghreb. The following are selected tweets and images ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 22)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Perspectives Saudi Arabia and Iran: Is trouble brewing? Inside Story on Al-Jazeera English examines the implications of a union ...
Keep Reading »"We are All Palestinian Prisoners": Exclusive Interview with Artist Hafez Omar (VIDEO)
Hafez Omar, the young Tulkarm-based artist and activist, is the man behind many of the images we have come to associate with online Palestinian and Arab revolutionary campaigns--from the hunger striker Khader Adnan's stencil with a lock for a mouth to the late Egyptian Azharite Sheikh Emad Effat killed by the military police in Cairo in December. His most recent design, that of a faceless, blindfolded Palestinian prisoner became a Facebook sensation as thousands adopted it and other variations of the ...
Keep Reading »Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players (Beirut, 31 May - 1 June 2012)
Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players 31 May - 1 June 2012 Auditorium A, West Hall American University of Beirut (AUB) Beirut, Lebanon This Symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which has been launched and supported by the AUB Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. It aims to harness the university’s faculty and resources to engage ...
Keep Reading »Beejo and His Daughter Loubna: About the Egyptian President (In both Arabic and English)
هذا هو الشريط الرابع في سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ” العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الفلم الرابع بعنوان ...
Keep Reading »On Syria and Its Neighbors: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad Featured in CNN Panel Column
[The below panel column by Nicole Dow was published on CNN.com on Wednesday 16 May 2012 under the title "Syrian outcome could alter its neighbors' futures." It features four perspectives on the uprising in Syria and its regional implication, one of which is provided by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad.] Syrian outcome could alter its neighbors's futures As events continue to unfold in Syria, the future of this Arab nation remains unknown. There are many questions. Will the regime of ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 15)
Saudi-Bahrain Proposed Unity "Gulf states 'need time to study' union plan," an article on the vague proposal of a union among the Gulf states to replace the Gulf Cooperation Council, by Elizabeth Dickinson in The National. "Gulf unity plan on hold amid Iranian warning," a news report on the proposal of unity among the Gulf states, by Ian Black in The Guardian. "Saudi-Bahrain unity deal draws fierce criticism," an article on the protests against the proposed unity ...
Keep Reading »Penetrated Opposition and Failure of Consensus in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna`(Part 4 of 4)
On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of ...
Keep Reading »المسألة الكردية في سورية: مقاربة عامة
للقضية الكردية في سورية تاريخ ومسار مختلفان عن المشكلات الطائفية في المنطقة. فهي ليست قضية طائفية، والكرد ليسوا طائفة من العرب أو فرقة إسلامية خاصة. فهم ينتمون لشعب يبلغ قوامه الـ 40 مليون نسمة يتوزعون في بلدان عديدة، وهم يشكّلون أكبر قوميّة في المنطقة، والعالم، محرومة من معادل سياسي لوجودها، أي دولة مستقلّة. وحيثيات تشكّل المسألة الكردية في المنطقة مختلفة عن انبعاث المشكلات الطائفية في المجتمع العربي-الإسلامي. ثمة إشكالية تثار في كثير من الأحيان تقول إنه من غير الممكن وغير الجائز الحديث عن شعب كردي ...
Keep Reading »The MOD Sit-in: Sometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State...
During the Monday march in solidarity with the Abbassiya detainees, a young comrade I know from Cairo University, a medical student who was among the field hospital doctors during the MOD sit-in, approached me, and told me the story of a Salafi woman in niqab, who kept on kissing the Revolutionary Socialists red flag during the sit-in, while shouting: “Forgive me I didn’t know about you before!” I replied back with the story of another comrade, who was entering the MOD sit-in and was being searched by a ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Refugee - Wounded (In both Arabic and English)
هذا هو الشريط الثاني في سلسلة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن إنتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. عنوان الفيلم الثاني هو ...
Keep Reading »Infomous
.jpg){kind=small}
Hot on Facebook
تاريخ الحرية والحالة هذه هو تاريخ نضال شاق، شاركت فيه ثقافات شتى ومفكرون كثرclick me | أنقرني email quote to a friend
.jpg){kind=small}
From Jadaliyya Reports
Top Jadaliyya Tags
Jadalicious / جدلشس
- هشام صفي الدين: الإستبداد والثورة عودة الكواكبي
- The Idiot's Guide to Fighting Dictatorship in Syria While Opposing Military Intervention
- "We Will Not Recognize Criminal Israel," Says Brotherhood Leader
- الأزمة المعيشية الفلسطينية بين الإستهلاك والمديونية الأسرية والأمولة
- Revolutionary Contagion: Morocco and a Plea for Specificity
Noteworthy
Twitter Updates
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
Latest Entries
View All Entries »- "We Didn't Know It Was Impossible, So We Did It": The Quebec Student Strike Celebrates Its 100th Day
- Post-January 25 Iranian-Egyptian Relations: A New Dawn?
- Egypt's Working Class and the Question of Organization
- لماذا سأقاطع الانتخابات الرئاسية؟
- Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 22)
- سنان أنطون: العراق تعمق فيه تشويه التاريخ
- Ali from Bahrain: How I Became a Refugee (In both Arabic and English)
- Interview with Egyptian Presidential Candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fettouh
- About Last Night
- Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 14-20)
- O.I.L. Media Roundup (21 May)
- Egypt Media Roundup (May 21)
- "We are All Palestinian Prisoners": Exclusive Interview with Artist Hafez Omar (VIDEO)
- Al-Jazeera's (R)Evolution?
- Without Principle, There is Nothing: On the Undignified Politics of the American Task Force on Palestine
- The Melancholia of a Generation
- Egypt's Presidential Election: Meet the Contenders
- . . . مرايا تبحث عن محررين
- Iran Will Require Assurances: An Interview with Hossein Mousavian
- Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players (Beirut, 31 May - 1 June 2012)
Archive
©2010-2012 by the Arab Studies Institute. All Rights Reserved. info@jadaliyya.com
site by concepcion design