Follow Us
From the Editors
Jadaliyya Launches DARS Page: Daily Acts of Resistance and Subversion
Tadween Publishing Blog is here! Check it out
Jadaliyya's first book is now available! Click here.
Want to find out about new books? Visit our expanding NEWTON page. Click here.
Interested in writing a Review for Jadaliyya? Visit our Call for Reviews here.
الآن . . . القسم العربي بحلة جديدة
Jadaliyya Launches Photography Page (click here!)
Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Protests-Revolts
Clashing with the Ultras: A Firsthand Account
![[Ultras flags appearing at the site of clashes between protesters and security forces near the Ministry of Interior. Photo by Mostafa Sheshtawy]](/content_images/3/sm_ultras_wael.jpg "[Ultras flags appearing at the site of clashes between protesters and security forces near the Ministry of Interior. Photo by Mostafa Sheshtawy]")
A march, scheduled earlier today, demanded that members of the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) be brought to justice for past crimes and abuse against revolutionary activists and Ultras protesters. The march started at El Fath mosque and was supposed to reach the area surrounding the Ministry of Defense. The call for the march, which was endorsed by prominent activists, was initiated by an Ultras Ahlawy member and activist in an attempt to unify the efforts of revolutionary activists and Ultras. The march featured a few thousand people, including diehard football fans and a cross section of society, along with the usual faces who turn out at such protests. ...
Keep Reading »Film-Portrait of Dr Mohamed Al-Roken, Human Rights Defender, UAE
![[Alkarama Foundation logo. Image from alkarama.org]](/content_images/3/sm_AlkaramalogoTRUEweb.jpg "[Alkarama Foundation logo. Image from alkarama.org]")
The following video was produced by the Alkarama Foundation to highlight the work of Mohamed al-Roken, co-laureate of 2012 Alkarama Award for human rights defenders. Al-Roken has defended many political activists and fellow human rights defenders who were stripped of their citizenship, detained arbitrarily, subjected to travel bans, or tortured solely for having expressed their opinions. On 17 July 2012, the Emirati security services arrested Dr. al-Roken in Dubai during the largest crackdown against human rights activists and political dissent in the country’s history. Since then, he has been detained in solitary confinement in an unknown location along with sixty-five ...
Keep Reading »Two Years and Counting: The Bahrain Uprising, in Pictures
Over the last two years, the fickle eye of the international media has strayed from the ongoing demonstrations in Bahrain. In February 2011, with the advent of the Arab uprisings, Bahrainis took to the streets to demand constitutional reform, equal rights, and, eventually, the overthrow of the ruling Bahraini monarchy. These protests were not new: Bahrain has a long history of organized activism, and Bahrainis have protested for political reform and more labor rights since the 1930s. While the demonstrators—both Sunni and Shi’a—are advocating for a more equitable and democratic political system, the ruling monarchy has painted the conflict in sectarian terms, blaming ...
Keep Reading »Two Years of Deaths and Detentions
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights publishes a second anniversary report: "Two Years of Deaths and Detentions: Documenting Human Rights Abuses During the Pro-Democracy Movement in Bahrain (February 2013)" An Opening Letter From Maryam Al-Khawaja: In the two years that the pro-democracy movement has been ongoing, eighty-seven people have died as a direct result of the excessive use of force applied by the King’s brutal security forces, including thirteen children under the age of eighteen. As this report details the deaths and detentions that dominate the government’s appalling repression of democracy, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights asks how long ...
Keep Reading »تكنولوجيا الاتصالات والتنظيم الثوري في القرن الحادي والعشرين
![[مصدر الصورة موقع الاشتراكيون الثوريون]](/content_images/3/sm_hossaminternet.jpg "[مصدر الصورة موقع الاشتراكيون الثوريون]")
لا يعني إيمان أفراد بنفس الهدف أو الفكرة السياسية أنهم يشكلون كيانا. ما يقيم الكيان أو يدمره هو مدى تناغم حركة أولئك الأفراد، مدى قدرتهم على تنسيق المواقف، مدى سرعتهم على الحشد والتعبئة، أي قدرتهم على الاتصال السريع بينهم لوحدة الفعل. عندما يتناول تراثنا الماركسي عملية بناء الحزب السياسي نجد الإستعارات والتشبيهات من قاموس العسكرية لا تنتهي وهذا ليس مستغربا. الحزب الثوري كالجيش. الفارق الوحيد هو أن قيادات الحزب وغالبية "ضباطه" ينتخبون من "الجنود" ويحاسبون دوريا من القواعد. عدا ذلك، فهو جيش، من ناحية الهيكل والإستراتيجيات والتكتيكات. وليس غريبا أن يكون أكثر من أثر في فكر لينين عن التنظيم هو فيلسوف الحرب الألماني "كارل فون ...
Keep Reading »المـوجات الثـلاث للثـورة المصرية
ليست المرة الأولى التي تُلقي إحدى موجات الثورة زجاجات المولوتوف الحارقة في مواجهاتها مع السلطة، ويبدو أنها لن تكون الأخيرة. فهناك دم سال على خطوط المواجهات وفي أقبية السلطة، وهناك ثورة لم تخمد لأنها عصية على القمع، وتمرد لا يهدأ لأن السلطة لم تتغير. تدعي السلطة الحاكمة وجهاز الدولة (ويجادل بعض المثقفين) أن هذه الموجة الأخيرة من الثورة هي أكثرها لاعقلانية وعنفاً، ولا تعرف ماذا تريد. ويرون أنها تحيد عن مسار الثورة السلمي والراقي. وبالطبع تُتهم بالعمالة والتمويل الخارجي أو الداخلي من بقايا فلول النظام السابق. هذه الادعاءات ليست جديدة في شيء. فلقد كانت هي الأخرى حاضرة منذ اليوم الأول، تماماً مثلما كان المولوتوف حاضراً. خطاب الثورة المضادة كيف يمكن فهم الموجة الثالثة من ...
Keep Reading »Mohamed Morsi Mubarak: The Myth of Egypt's Democratic Transition
Two years ago today, Egyptians celebrated their toppling of President Hosni Mubarak and looked ahead to a future of change. Yet the second anniversary of Mubarak’s departure has been marked by further demonstrations, bloodshed, and new scenes of extreme state violence. Amid the now-routine use of tear gas and live fire on protests nationwide, there was the incredible footage of the repeated beating and violation of a citizen stripped naked by a gang of policemen in riot gear, and the death by brutal police torture of Popular Current activist Mohamed El-Gendy. In this latest wave of national mobilization, Egyptians have been challenging a new president, whom they have ...
Keep Reading »Email Exchange between Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz
[The following is an email exchange between writer Glenn Greenwald and Professor Alan Dershowitz. The context for the exchange was a public campaign by certain politicians to pressure the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College to rescind its sponsorship of an event discussing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The email exchange was originally posted here. For more information on the attempt to suppress the BDS event at Brooklyn College, click here and here.] GG to AD Professor Dershowitz - I'm writing a piece on the controversy over the BDS event at Brooklyn College. I have a few of questions: You yourself have ...
Keep Reading »الشرطة تكافح الشعب
![[مصدر الصورة موقع مصريون]](/content_images/3/sm_alshorta.jpg "[مصدر الصورة موقع مصريون]")
(1) نشر في 26 يناير2013 على حساب "صفحة الشرطة المصرية" على تويتر -وهي صفحة يديرها مجموعة من ضباط الشرطة بعيداً عن الصفحة الرسمية لوزارة الداخلية- رسالة موجّهة لكل من رئيس الجمهورية ورئيس الوزراء تشير إلى أنّهما وضعا الشرطة المصرية أمام المدفع مع اختبائهما "كالعادة" على حد وصف الرسالة، ورسالة أخرى موجهة لوزير الداخلية تتهمه بأنه فدى كرسيه بأرواح أفراد الشرطة. والرسالة الأخيرة موجهة لـ "للمجندين والضباط والأفراد الذين يقدمون حياتهم فداء لشعبٍ لا ينبغي أن تراق له نقطة ماء لا نقطة دماء" وذلك أيضاً على حد تعبير الرسالة التي شملتها تغريدة على حساب صفحة Keep Reading »
The Dignity of Hamada Saber
![[Hamada Saber beaten up by police forces on 1 February 2013. Photo from ElFagr.org]](/content_images/3/sm_hamadasaber.jpg "[Hamada Saber beaten up by police forces on 1 February 2013. Photo from ElFagr.org]")
Depictions of bruised and battered bodies have had an enormous influence upon the waves of protest Egypt has witnessed since the initial stirrings of the January 25 Revolution – from the graphic post-mortem photograph of Khaled Said to images of what is widely known as the “blue bra incident.” However, I suspect few Egyptians would question the particular force of the brutality depicted in a video shot in front of the Ittihadiyya Palace on the evening of 1 February, even as compared to the infamous scenes just mentioned. In an incident that was broadcast live to Egyptians on Al-Hayat television, and then rebroadcast to an international audience on CNN, a man is beaten, ...
Keep Reading »The Thin Line between Revolution And Sedition
![[Mohamed Morsi at a press conference on 18 June 2012. Photo by Jonathan Rashad (from Wikimedia Commons)]](/content_images/3/sm_Mohamed_Morsi.jpg "[Mohamed Morsi at a press conference on 18 June 2012. Photo by Jonathan Rashad (from Wikimedia Commons)]")
I read with great sadness – but unfortunately not much surprise – Professor Adel Iskander’s deeply misguided article, “A Nation Derailed,” published on 28 January 2013 on Jadaliyya. Iskander’s attempt to play politics with the tragic deaths of nineteen deceased train accident victims is, well, not the classiest of moves. In the article, Iskander makes a very simplistic, and all too played out three-pronged argument: First, the Mohamed Morsi administration is failing miserably; second, the Egyptian government’s failure is a fundamental cause of the train accident, other accidents occurring recently in Egypt, and the horrendous conditions that characterize the country’s ...
Keep Reading »Statement on 43 Bahraini Protesters Arrested Days After Calls for Dialogue
![[Streets of Manama, Bahrain, on 25 January 2013. Image from bahrainrights.org]](/content_images/3/sm_ManamathumbWEB.jpg "[Streets of Manama, Bahrain, on 25 January 2013. Image from bahrainrights.org]")
[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 27 January 2013.] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern over the continued use of excessive force to restrict and attack freedom of expression and assembly in Bahrain despite announced plans for political dialogue by the regime. On 25 Jan 2012 hundreds of Bahrainis took the streets in the capital Manama and peacefully protested to demand rights, including the right to self-determination, despite restrictions. The Ministry of Interior set up security checkpoints and road blocks on streets leading to the capital to restrict access.
Keep Reading »Bahrain As I Remember It
On that day, 14 February 2011, there was a sense that things would change. The energy of the crowd was electric and contagious. The frustration that had built up for years unfolded in the form of peaceful protests in Pearl Square—the revolutionary space that had housed hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis for months, and had been subsequently destroyed by authorities. On that day, 14 February 2011, history repeated itself in Bahrain, as the sources of power repressed the majority through the forceful ...
Keep Reading »Two Years and Counting: The Bahrain Uprising, in Pictures
Over the last two years, the fickle eye of the international media has strayed from the ongoing demonstrations in Bahrain. In February 2011, with the advent of the Arab uprisings, Bahrainis took to the streets to demand constitutional reform, equal rights, and, eventually, the overthrow of the ruling Bahraini monarchy. These protests were not new: Bahrain has a long history of organized activism, and Bahrainis have protested for political reform and more labor rights since the 1930s. While the ...
Keep Reading »Dear Bahrain... With Love
Valentine’s Day and the color red symbolize love. The world over, shops and streets are decked out with red decorations, red boxes, red wrapping paper, red cards, and red roses. In Bahrain, the color red also symbolizes love, just a different kind of love. Streets there are covered in red too, the red of the blood that has been shed over the past two years. The lost lives in the fight for freedom, justice, and democracy. Red roses on the graves of loved ones who were killed by regime forces. Valentine’s ...
Keep Reading »The Maspero Massacre: Adding Injustice to Insult and Injury
Amidst the marches, street battles, and political deadlock covered night after night by the Egyptian media, one recent story almost escaped notice. On 4 February Michael Farag and Michael Shaker were each sentenced to three years in prison for having stolen weapons from the armed forces. With noteworthy decisions handed down by Egyptian judges on an almost daily basis, these sentences might seem, at first glance, rather mundane. What makes the media inattention harder to comprehend, however, is the ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (February 12)
[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.] CIA’s Saudi Airbase Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans Michael Isikoff elaborates on the Justice Department’s “white ...
Keep Reading »Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS
[The following remarks were given by Judith Butler at a recent boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) event held at Brooklyn College. The event was the subject of a major public campaign (via false accusations and threats to withdraw funding) to pressure the Department of Political Science at the college to withdraw their co-sponoshorship of the event. The remarks were first published on The Nation.] Usually one starts by saying that one is glad to be here, but I cannot say that it has been a pleasure ...
Keep Reading »دروس في تحرير الخيال وتعبئة الحشود الزئبقية
"كانت بالنسبة لي الدنيا متكونة من سلطة ومال يا أدهس خلق الله برجلي .. يا أسرق وأبقى رجل أعمال جه الأولتراس نور طريقي ووصلني لعالم الخيال فكرة تمحي هموم الدنيا وتخرج مني الضلال بعد العتمة وبعد الشدة كان لا بد من طريق ياخد بإيدي وبإرادتي وأعرف فيه معنى الصديق .. حاولتوا كتير تكتموا صوتنا بس ده كان مستحيل عندي قضية أهم مني والموت أهون لي كتير إعلام وشرطة وصحافة ومسؤولين كورة فاسدين حرب عليكم هتفضل قايمة لحد ما يتم التطهير" من أغنية "أسلوب حياة" لمجموعة أولتراس "وايت ...
Keep Reading »لقاء مع عبد الرحمن منصور الذي جعل من 25 يناير تاريخاً نتذكره
عبد الرحمن منصور هو الناشط في الفضاء الألكتروني الذي حدد تاريخ 25 يناير موعداً للثورة المصرية. وقد جاء وقت الحديث معه. في يونيو 2010، اقترح عبد الرحمن منصور، البالغ من العمر حينئذ 23 عاماً، على وائل غنيم إنشاء صفحة على الفيسبوك وحملة لمناهضة التعذيب تكريماً لخالد سعيد، ذلك الشاب السكندري الذي قتله الشرطة. وكان الاثنان قد عملا معاً كمديرين (أدمنز) لصفحة محمد البرادعي على الفيس بوك، وكانا على استعداد لتصعيد حملتهما الألكترونية لمستويات أعلى. وشكل المزيج المتمثل في قدرة منصور على التواصل مع الشباب العرب ...
Keep Reading »UK Spyware in Bahrain: Company's Denials Called Into Question
[The following press release was issued by Bahrain Watch on 6 February 2013.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: bill@bahrainwatch.org Twitter: @bhwatch February 6, 2013 UK SPYWARE IN BAHRAIN: COMPANY’S DENIALS CALLED INTO QUESTION : New Evidence Suggests Gamma Sold FinSpy to Bahrain [Manama] In July 2012, Bahrain Watch reported that the Government of Bahrain was targeting activists with the FinSpy/FinFisher “lawful interception” computer spyware, programmed by UK company Gamma ...
Keep Reading »Police Brutality Persists Two Years after Egypt Revolution: Rights Activists
Following the recent death of activist Mohamed El-Gendy, who allegedly died after being subject to torture by police, several Egyptian rights activists issued a report on Sunday detailing what they see as the persistence of oppressive police tactics employed by the state. According to the report, 225 people have been detained from the vicinity of Cairo's Tahrir Square since the second anniversary of Egypt's January 25 Revolution, which coincided with mass rallies against the government and President ...
Keep Reading »Two Years of Meta-Narratives: How Not to Cover Syria
Bassam Haddad mentioned in his article entitled “The Triumph and Irrelevance of Meta-Narratives Over Syria: “Rohna Dahiyyah” that people writing about Syria are often detached from the pain and realities of the people on the ground. We believe this argument is rather fallacious and unfair. Some of those producing media on Syria have gone the extra mile to get as close to the heart of the issue as they could, encapsulating the complexity of the struggle and giving a voice to the Syrian people who live in ...
Keep Reading »شاهد عيان
فيما يلي شهادتي باعتباري شاهد عيان لاعتداء ضباط قوات الأمن على متظاهر تم تجريده من ملابسه بالكامل مساء الجمعة، بالقرب من القصر الجمهوري. وأعلم أن الكثيرين منكم قد شاهدوا الشريط المصور، الذي التقط خفية، وعلى الرغم من ذلك أرجو قراءة شهادتي: كنت في ذلك المساء أقف في شرفة البيت، التي تطل على شارع الميرغني بالقرب من مقهى كوستا، وأراقب هجوم قوات الأمن المركزي على المتظاهرين وهم يحاولون الفرار إلى الشوارع الجانبية في ضاحية مصر الجديدة (هليوبوليس). كانت الجموع تحاول الهرب من قوات الأمن المركزي، ...
Keep Reading »Hot on Facebook
The upshot of all this is to say, alongside a veritable chorus of academics, activists, policymakers, and citizens in Lebanon and beyond, that sectarianism has been forged over time through specific institutional and discursive practices and, therefore, could be modified or undone.click | email | tweet
.jpg){kind=small}
From Jadaliyya Reports
Top Jadaliyya Tags
Jadalicious / جدلشس
Noteworthy
Twitter Updates
Jadaliyya Features
.jpg)
Latest Entries
View All Entries »- Reports Roundup (May 25)
- يافا والموسيقى و"فوائد" النكبة
- O.I.L. Media Roundup (24 May)
- Islamists and Transitional Justice
- Maghreb Media Roundup (May 24)
- أوهام ليبرالية
- Tadween Roundup: News and Analysis from the Publishing/Academic World
- Syria Media Roundup (May 23)
- Asfari Institute Inaugural Conference: New Spaces of Civil Society Activism in the Arab World (Beirut, 23-24 May)
- Women's Rights in the Egyptian Constitution: (Neo)Liberalism's Family Values
- مسخ الذاكرة
- New Texts Out Now: Louise Cainkar, Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas
- Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 21)
- إعادة الحساب الدائمة: إساءة فهم سوريا بعد سنتين
- From al-Araqib to Susiya: Forced Displacement of Palestinians on Both Sides of the Green Line
- إعجام
- كارل ماركس واليسار في لبنان
- Picturing Algeria
- Egypt Media Roundup (May 20)
- Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 13-19)
Pages/Sections
Archive
©2010-2013 by the Arab Studies Institute. All Rights Reserved. info@jadaliyya.com
site by concepcion design