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Has Citizenship Got a Future in Egypt?
![[Demonstration in Cairo near the Maspero denouncing religious sectarianism. 8 May 2011. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy]](/content_images/3/sm_sedra_cath.jpg "[Demonstration in Cairo near the Maspero denouncing religious sectarianism. 8 May 2011. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy]")
The sectarian spectacle that dominated so much Egyptian television coverage – at least that of the private networks – on Sunday, was unprecedented in modern Egyptian history. Even at the lowest points of modern Coptic-Muslim relations, the Coptic Cathedral and Patriarchal headquarters have not experienced the sort of siege that was violently imposed by plainclothes assailants and their abettors in the police, as mourners commemorated the lives of four Christians lost to sectarian violence in the Qalyubiya village of Khusus a day prior. I say “spectacle” not to minimize the human cost of the siege – at the time of writing, two individuals were said to have lost their ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (March 2013)
![[Wired Freedom. 25 November 2005. Image from flickr/cofano]](/content_images/3/sm_WiredFreedom.jpg "[Wired Freedom. 25 November 2005. Image from flickr/cofano]")
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Arabian Peninsula. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Arabian Peninsula-related topics. These pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely those of the authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a release form to post@jadaliyya.com. Click "Submissions" on the main page for more information.] Trial Observation Report: The United Arab Emirates 94 A report ...
Keep Reading »قراءة في كتاب: هوامش على دفتر الثورة
“هوامش على دفتر الثورة” للكاتب أحمد بلال، الصادر عن وزارة الثقافة -الهيئة العامة لقصور الثقافة/ القاهرة- مصر، 2012. أحمد بلال من مؤسسي اتحاد الشباب الاشتراكي المصري وعضو حزب التجمع وانتخب في شهر آذار الماضي، كعضو مكتب سياسي في التجمع، كما أنه يعمل كصحفي متخصص في الشأن الاسرائيلي في صحيفة المصري اليوم. يقوم أحمد بتصوير واقع الثورة المصرية وتبلورها من خلال تفاصيلها الدقيقة التراكمية على مدى سنوات، وينبه القارىء لعدة نقاط وأمور علينا أن ندركها لنفهم كيف تبلورت الثورة وكيف انطلقت وأين. يُهدي بلال كتابه إلى "كل الذين ناضلوا من أجل هذه الثورة، ولم يدركوها.. إلى كل من دفع ثمن هذه الثورة وفضل أن يكون جندياً مجهولاً في الميدان". ويحتل الشهداء في ...
Keep Reading »البناء المعرفي للسياسات الإعلامية في البلدان العربية أثناء المرحلة الانتقالية
تقوم برامج تدريب القيادات العليا بكلية الشؤون الدولية والسياسات العامة بالجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة، بتنظيم برامج تدريبية وندوات لنقاش الاحتياجات الراهنة في مصر والمنطقة. وقد قدمت عدة برامج عن الإصلاح الإعلامي، بما في ذلك، دور وسائل الإعلام في تغطية العملية الانتخابية؛ الإعلام والانتخابات؛ برنامج BRIDGE للإعلام والانتخابات؛ وتغطية الأخبار المالية والاقتصادية. برنامج "البناء المعرفي للسياسات الإعلامية في البلدان العربية أثناء المرحلة الانتقالية" تنظمه برامج تدريب القيادات العليا على مدار عامين 2012-2013 من خلال أربع جولات منفصلة. هذا البرنامج، الذي تم تقديم ثلاثة جولات منه، يهدف إلى المساهمة في اكتساب المعرفة وبناء القدرات في مجال إصلاح السياسات الإعلامية في ...
Keep Reading »Mahienour al-Masry and Twelve Other Activists Detained in Alexandria
![[Mahienour al-Masry. Photo from almasryalyoum.com]](/content_images/3/sm_mhynwr_lmsry.jpg "[Mahienour al-Masry. Photo from almasryalyoum.com]")
The Free Egyptians Party and the Socialist Popular Alliance Party called Saturday for a demonstration in front of the High Court at 5:00 pm to protest the detention of Mahienour al-Masry and twelve other activists in Alexandria. In a Facebook post, the two parties said that the protest will be in solidarity with the activists. Former MP Bassem Kamel said in a statement, "For whoever doesn't know Mahienour al-Masry, she is one of Alexandria's bravest revolutionaries. She played roles that men didn't do. She used to travel and collect money to pay for detainees' bails. She preferred to sacrifice for getting detainees released. We should stand by her and [the likes ...
Keep Reading »Spring of Fury in Egypt
![[Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (left) and late President Anwar al-Sadat (right). Photo from masrawy.com]](/content_images/3/sm_Sadat_Morsi.jpg "[Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (left) and late President Anwar al-Sadat (right). Photo from masrawy.com]")
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 (1976-1981). Of course, Morsi came to office through an election. Beyond that, however, the parallels between him and Sadat mount quickly. Moreover, the parallels may soon ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 27)
![[Youth activists now 'sidelined' in a post-Saleh Yemen. Image from Sallam/flickr. 7 March 2011]](/content_images/3/sm_YemenYouth.jpg "[Youth activists now 'sidelined' in a post-Saleh Yemen. Image from Sallam/flickr. 7 March 2011]")
[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 spying for foreign countries, on Al Jazeera English. Saudi Arabia Shia leaders criticise arrests A news report on a statement issued by Shi`a community leaders ...
Keep Reading »Resistance within Resistance
![[Anti-regime protest in Aleppo marking the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising on 15 March 2013. Image by Aleppo Media Center via Associated Press]](/content_images/3/sm_AAP474826223782-1.jpg "[Anti-regime protest in Aleppo marking the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising on 15 March 2013. Image by Aleppo Media Center via Associated Press]")
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 of the reactions echoed those that had greeted the advocate of nonviolence and negotiation, Louay Hussein of the movement Building the Syrian State, earlier in the year., ...
Keep Reading »Zainab Al-Khawaja: Letter From A Bahraini Prison
![[Zainab Al-Khawaja. Image from author's family archive]](/content_images/3/sm_z2.jpg "[Zainab Al-Khawaja. Image from author's family archive]")
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 be willing to make great sacrifices for freedom. As seeds of hope and resistance to oppression started flowering across the Arab world, the people of Bahrain saw the ...
Keep Reading »Street Wars on a Hill: An Eyewitness Testimony
![[Clashes near Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Moqattam on 22 March 2012. Photo by Mostafa Sheshtawy]](/content_images/3/sm_lkjhdsa.jpg "[Clashes near Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Moqattam on 22 March 2012. Photo by Mostafa Sheshtawy]")
[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 area was difficult, because pro-Muslim Brotherhood supporters controlled the main entry point or at least rendered it inaccessible for some time. I arrived a little after ...
Keep Reading »Rise Up: Iraq
![[Baghdad's Tahrir Square, June 2011. From the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.]](/content_images/3/sm_OWFI-June-2011.jpg "[Baghdad's Tahrir Square, June 2011. From the Organization of Women's Freedom in 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, perhaps for the first time in years. Discussions will be dominated by the use of the buzzword sectarianism to refer to and analyze any conflict and dynamic ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 19)
![[Creative commons, Flickr/Khalid Albaih.]](/content_images/3/sm_CreativeCommonsFlickrKhalidAlbaihsocialmvmtcourse.jpg "[Creative commons, Flickr/Khalid Albaih.]")
[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 in Jerome Taylor argues that the royal couple, who expressed sympathy during a visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, will not mention the victims of Saudi Arabia’s ...
Keep Reading »The Necessity of Revolutionary Violence in Egypt
“All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.” - C. Wright Mills Violence is related to notions of justice. In Egypt there are two forms of justice that we have been fighting for since 25 January 2011: social and retributive. Their absence has been compounded by the ongoing application of structural forms of violence against us: primarily economic and judicial. As a result, Egyptians increasingly see the state as having lost its monopoly over what Weber calls the ...
Keep Reading »'What Good Are Free Elections When A Country Is Destroyed?'
[More than two years into the uprising in Syria, important questions remain about a number of a dynamics concerning the present situation and future prospects in Syria. Below, Muhammad Dibu interviews Baderkhan Ali on the trajectory of the Syrian uprising, the aspirations of Syria's Kurdish community, and the prospects for the post-uprising period in Syria. The interview was first published on correspondents.org on 27 March 2013.] Muhammad Dibu (MD): There is a lot of talk about demands ...
Keep Reading »!موريتانيا :الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام
كان لإحراق المواطن التونسي محمد البوعزيزي نفسه يوم 17 ديسمبر/كانون الأول عام 2010 ، وما أعقبه من انتفاضة شعبية في وطنه تأثير كبير على نقاشات الموريتانيين. ولم يمض إلا شهر واحد حتى تحول النقاش من فعل البوعزيزي وثورة التونسيين إلى قيام المواطن الموريتاني يعقوب ولد دحود في يوم17 يناير 2011 بإضرام النار في نفسه أمام مجلس الشيوخ الموريتاني وتركه وصية على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوك، دعـى فيها الشباب الموريتاني إلى ”الخروج والصمود في وجه النظام حتى تتحقق طموحاتهم، وطالب فيها بإلغاء جميع الرسوم والضرائب ...
Keep Reading »معنى الأرض: ملف خاص
أرض الملّ الجليليّة كانت المنطقة التي أعلنتها إسرائيل منطقة عسكريّة مغلقة مصادرةً أكثر من 20 ألف دونم منها، في مخططٍ استيطانيّ لتهويد الجليل. كان هذا الإعلان شرارةً أطلقت يوم الأرض: اجتمعت القوى والهيئات السياسية والشعبية معلنة الإضراب العام في الثلاثين من آذارعام 1976، ما استنفر الجيش الإسرائيلي للتصدي للمظاهرات واقتحام القرى والمدن الفلسطينيّة، خاصةً مثلث يوم الأرض- عرّابة، دير حنّا وسخنين- لتنفيذ حملات اعتقال واسعة. رجال ونساء من مختلف الأعمار شاركوا في يوم الأرض بعنفوان وجرأة، مقدّمين منهم ...
Keep Reading »Please Help Keep Egypt Independent
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 ...
Keep Reading »Statement Supporting Topless Tunisian Feminist
[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 ...
Keep Reading »The Urban Subalterns and the Non-Movements of the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Asef Bayat
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 ...
Keep Reading »Al-Moqattam Clashes in Photos
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 ...
Keep Reading »Urgent Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja's Life at Imminent Risk
[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 ...
Keep Reading »The Full Story: Silencing English-Language Media in Egypt
“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 ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir and Beyond: Interviews with Journalist, Ahmad Shokr, and Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
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 ...
Keep Reading »The Syrian Uprising: Two Years On
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 ...
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