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Dear friends, After working hard for four years on developing Egypt Independent as a leading local independent English-language publication, we were notified by Al-Masry Al-Youm's management last month that our newspaper, in both its online and print forms, can no longer continue to exist due to financial difficulties. This decision comes at a time when private media is suffering greatly from the current economic crisis in the country, but also, and more importantly, from political limitations manifested in rising restrictions on freedom of expression. Shutting down Egypt Independent would mean losing a credible and unique voice that conveys the ...
Keep Reading »Statement Supporting Topless Tunisian Feminist
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[The following statement was published by FEMEN on 22 March 2013.] 19 year old Tunisian Amina who posted a topless photo of herself bearing the slogan “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour” has been threatened with death. Islamist cleric Adel Almi, president of Al-Jamia Al-Li-Wassatia Tawia Wal-Islah, has called for Amina’s flogging and stoning to death saying Amina’s actions will bring misfortune by causing “epidemics and disasters” and “could be contagious and give ideas to other women…” We, the undersigned, unequivocally defend Amina, and demand that her life and liberty be protected and that those ...
Keep Reading »The Urban Subalterns and the Non-Movements of the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Asef Bayat
![[Asef Bayat. Image from opensocietyfoundations.org]](/content_images/3/sm_asefbayat4637.jpg "[Asef Bayat. Image from opensocietyfoundations.org]")
This interview was conducted with Asef Bayat via electronic correspondence. In it, Bayat discusses the inside-out character of neoliberal cities in the Arab world and its influence on the recent wave of protests known collectives as the Arab uprisings. In addition, Bayat elaborates on the notion of urban subalterns, and the existence of social "non-movements" of the poor and the youth. Nada Ghandour-Demiri (NGD): You recently published an article in City & Society entitled "Politics in the City-Inside-Out," where you discuss a number of themes related to the "neo-liberal city" and street politics in the Middle East. What are ...
Keep Reading »Al-Moqattam Clashes in Photos
![[Egyptian protesters gesture toward riot police during clashes outside the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. 22 March 2013 (Photo by Jonathan Rashad)]](/content_images/3/sm_Jonathan18.png "[Egyptian protesters gesture toward riot police during clashes outside the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. 22 March 2013 (Photo by Jonathan Rashad)]")
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gathered outside their headquarters on Friday March 22 2013 in the Cairo suburb of al-Moqattam in anticipation of opposition marches to the building. Clashes broke out that same day between opposition protesters and both security forces and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. [Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gather outside their headquarters in Cairo, Egypt as opposition protesters clash with Brotherhood members less than a mile away, near El-Hamd mosque. 22 March 2013 (Photo by Jonathan Rashad)] [Security forces guard the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo, ...
Keep Reading »Urgent Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja's Life at Imminent Risk
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[The following is an urgent appeal that the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Issued on 24 March 2013.] Both Abdulhadi and his daughter Zainab Al-Khawaja were denied family visits again this weekend, prompting them to start a dry hunger strike today. Zainab Al-Khawaja was told by doctors that she is at risk of organ failure, cardiac arrest, or coma at any time. Her blood sugar has dropped to two on several occasions in the last two days. According to Dr. Fatima Haji, Internal Medicine Specialist: Zainab Al-Khawaja is reportedly having severe hypoglycemia with HGT measurements reaching two. Her family reported that she sounded fatigued, and that she was suffering ...
Keep Reading »The Full Story: Silencing English-Language Media in Egypt
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“It is always the fixer who dies,” is the title of a seminal article by George Packer that appeared in The New Yorker in 2009 to mourn the death of Sultan Munadi, a local fixer who lost his life in a commando raid in Afghanistan. The raid that ended Munadi’s life took place in order to free foreign journalists who were captured by the Taliban. The foreign correspondent was freed, the fixer died, and the operation was deemed a success. This tragedy and Packer’s dramatic title are fitting curtain raisers to the struggle of local English-language media in Egypt. For decades, local journalists who had the necessary language skills helped foreign correspondents working for ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir and Beyond: Interviews with Journalist, Ahmad Shokr, and Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
![[Protestors in Tahrir Square. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy via flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_tahrir.jpg "[Protestors in Tahrir Square. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy via flickr]")
On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo-based journalist, Ahmad Shokr comments on the serious unrest in the major Egyptian harbor city of Port Said over the past two weeks. The root cause is said to be from the recent court verdict condemning 21 civilians to death and acquitting 7 police officers involved in a January 2012 soccer riot that killed 74 people last year. Egyptian filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer talk about their award winning documentary film “Al-Meydan,” or The Square in English. Through the lens of three activists, the film follows the ebbs and flows of the 2011 historic uprising, and captures the revolutionary ...
Keep Reading »The Syrian Uprising: Two Years On
![[Protesters dance and chant slogans in Aleppo, Syria, against Bashar Assad and the Syrian regime, Friday, 21 December 2012. Image by Virginie Nguyen Hoang via Associated Press]](/content_images/3/sm_AP348437519399-1a.jpg "[Protesters dance and chant slogans in Aleppo, Syria, against Bashar Assad and the Syrian regime, Friday, 21 December 2012. Image by Virginie Nguyen Hoang via Associated Press]")
With no end in sight, the Syrian uprising drags on, pulling Syria into a path of seemingly endemic violence, death, and destruction. Figures of the dead are controversial, but the number 70,000 gains the most circulation. Refugees now number close to a million, and the internally displaced nearly two million. No one really knows the count for the injured and dispossessed. Yet all indicators point to a longer term conflict, even if many analysts exaggerate such a projection. The brutal violence of the Syrian regime, both before and after March 2011, continues to be the most determinant factor behind the escalation. But it is breeding junior competitors by the week within ...
Keep Reading »Whither the Peaceful Movement in Syria?
Whatever happened to peaceful activism in Syria? Lately, it seems that the non-violent movement has completely disappeared from the headlines. Long gone are the days when Ghiyath Mattar, a Daraya-based activist, would organize marches where protesters distributed water bottles and roses to the army. Long gone are the days when demonstrators in Deraa would rally around the chant “silmiyeh silmiyeh,” facing the bullets of the government forces with their bare chests. Peaceful activism was eclipsed by the repression of the regime initially and, subsequently, by both the regime and the rise of a multitude of anti-Assad militarized factions. When some insurgents ...
Keep Reading »Self-Immolations Continue in Tunisia
![[An ambulance takes Adel Khadri to the hospital following his self-immolation. Image taken from screenshot of video uploaded by Al Qarra TV on YouTube.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-03-13at2.49.02PM.png "[An ambulance takes Adel Khadri to the hospital following his self-immolation. Image taken from screenshot of video uploaded by Al Qarra TV on YouTube.]")
On 12 March, Adel Khadri, a twenty-seven year old cigarette street vendor, set himself on fire on Tunis’ main street, Habib Bourguiba Avenue. According to eyewitnesses, Khadri shouted: “This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment,” before setting himself on fire. Khadri passed away early this morning at Ben Arous’ Burns Hospital. Collective blog Nawaat reports [fr]: Le jeune vendeur à la sauvette qui, désespéré par ses conditions de vie, s’était immolé, est décédé mercredi à l’aube, dernière illustration en date des tensions sociales en Tunisie auxquelles le nouveau gouvernement devra faire face une fois investi. “Il est mort ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 12)
![[Emirati-Qatari competition intensifies over Suez Canal's privatized assets and development projects. 28 December 2007. Image from ruifipieggio/flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_SuezCanal.jpg "[Emirati-Qatari competition intensifies over Suez Canal's privatized assets and development projects. 28 December 2007. Image from ruifipieggio/flickr]")
[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 Relations It’s shameful the way Britain kowtows to the super-rich Ian Jack analyzes the significance of Prince Alwaleed’s outrage at his ranking in Forbes and its statement on the behavior of the super-wealthy, in The Guardian. How can the royals champion women and endorse Saudi? Catherine ...
Keep Reading »Targeting Women Activists in Bahrain
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[The following report was originally published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 7 March 2013.] International Women's Day: Bahraini Women Imprisoned, Tortured, Killed, Stripped from Nationality...and Impunity for Abusers On International Women's Day, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its grave concern and condemnation over the continued violations of women's rights in Bahrain. Due to Bahraini women's important role in the Bahraini uprising, calling for democracy and political reform, they have been violently targeted by the authorities. At least thirteen women were victims of extra-juridical killing. Many were detained, tortured, and sentenced to ...
Keep Reading »Spring of Fury in Egypt
In recent days President Mohamed Morsi and his government have drastically eroded what little hope observers had for Egypt's troubled political transition. The president's aggressive tone in public speeches has coincided with the escalation of violent "thuggery" under the aegis of an unreformed Ministry of Interior. Whereas analysts have rightly noted similarities between Morsi and the fallen regime of Hosni Mubarak, his style also recalls the turbulent second term of Anwar al-Sadat ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 27)
[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.] Reports and Opinions Saudi Arabia arrests 18 suspected spies A news report on the arrest of a Lebanese, an Iranian, and sixteen Saudis on allegations of ...
Keep Reading »Resistance within Resistance
In October 2012, Haytham Manna of the Syrian National Coordination Body for Democratic Change gave a talk at the London School of Economics. Therein, he argued for the importance of continuing nonviolent resistance in Syria, warning against the dangerous logic of both armed resistance and foreign intervention. For this, many in the audience roundly and vocally attacked him, accusing him of being irrelevant to the Syrian struggle, of being a capitulationist, or even a collaborator. The vehemence of some ...
Keep Reading »Zainab Al-Khawaja: Letter From A Bahraini Prison
Great leaders are immortal, their words and deeds echo through the years, decades, and centuries. They echo across oceans and borders and become an inspiration that touches the lives of many who are willing to learn. One such leader is the remarkable Martin Luther King Jr. As I read his words, I imagine him reading out to us from another land, another time, to teach us some very important lessons. Above all, he tells us, we should never become bitter or sink to the level of our oppressors; that we should ...
Keep Reading »Street Wars on a Hill: An Eyewitness Testimony
[The following is an eyewitness testimony covering some of the events that happened on 22 March 2013 near the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in al-Moqattam area.] Having missed the march to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)’s headquarters in al-Moqattam, I arrived late to the site of the protests. There had been reports of clashes at al-Nafoora (Fountain) square, one of the most used entrances to the area of al-Moqattam located at the west end of the district and closest to downtown. Reaching the protest ...
Keep Reading »Rise Up: Iraq
The street that your question describes as “quiet” is actually silent only as a result of repression, especially after the protests of February 2011 when the authorities revealed their violence openly—using the army to clamp down on nonviolent protests and firing live ammunition at peaceful protestors. — Falah Alwan, 22 January 2013, The Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq. As the world marks ten years since the US invasion of Iraq, many will be thinking of that place again, ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 19)
[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 Relations As the smoke clears after Saudi Arabia’s latest mass execution by firing squad… Charles and Camilla fly ...
Keep Reading »Perpetual Recalculation: Getting Syria Wrong Two Years On
If I had a dollar for every time someone wrote about the “End Game” in Syria during the past eighteen months . . . . Nearly two years into the Syrian uprising, analysts find themselves scrambling for potential scenarios. On the ground, most Syrians are more concerned about their personal safety at this point than they are about much else. The metrics seem to change constantly, causing political actors, constituencies, and observers alike to recalculate. Is it that the Syrian case is incomprehensible? Or ...
Keep Reading »Torture Accusations Hidden Behind Closed Doors in 'UAE 94' Trial
[This report was originally published by Alkarama on 13 March 2013.] UAE: Concerns for Safety of 'UAE 94' Confirmed as International Observers Prevented from Attending Second Hearing The first and second hearings in the trial of the UAE 94 were held on 4 and 11 March, respectively, with international observers prevented access. Reports from the trial have raised alarm bells that the UAE has still not respected the norms of a fair trial. The UAE should allow international legal experts to ...
Keep Reading »UK Spyware Targets Bahraini Business
[This report was originally published by Bahrain Watch on 13 March 2013.] TOP BAHRAINI COMPANY INFECTED WITH GOVERNMENT SPYWARE SOLD BY UK FIRM IN APPARENT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED TARGETING Company Declines to be Identified, Citing Potential Reprisals [Manama] During the course of recent investigations, Bahrain Watch determined that a computer inside a top Bahraini company was infected with spyware operated by Bahrain’s government. The spyware, known as FinSpy, is sold exclusively to government law ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Arabia Imprisons Activists and Dissolves Prominent Rights Organization
[This report was originally published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 11 March 2013.] Saudi Arabia - The authorities imprison prominent human rights defenders Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani and dissolve the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA) On 9 March 2013, the eleventh hearing of the trial of Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr Mohammed Al Qahtani, the co-founders of the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), was held at the Criminal Court in Riyadh, ...
Keep Reading »Brooklyn College, BDS, and Palestinian Rights
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 2 March 2013.] Earlier in February, a panel held at Brooklyn College on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel was subjected to relentless vilification, bullying, and unfounded allegations. The campaign against Brooklyn College was so intense that even the New York Times and the mayor of New York intervened to express their support for academic freedom ...
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