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"انتصارالـ "ميتا – خطاب" على سوريا وعدم ارتباطه بها: "رحنا ضحيّة
![[إشارة تحمل صوة لبشار الأسد على الطريق السريع بين حلب ودمشق. المصدر ويكيميديا]](/content_images/3/sm_bassamsyriammita.jpg "[إشارة تحمل صوة لبشار الأسد على الطريق السريع بين حلب ودمشق. المصدر ويكيميديا]")
لا تحاول تبسيط ما يجري في سوريا لأنك ستفشل. ولكننا لا نستطيع أن نذعن للتعقيد كذلك. إن العديد من النقاشات حول سوريا – وخصوصاً تلك التي تجري خارج سوريا– هي وبكل بساطة منفصلة عن واقع المأساة في هذا البلد، وقد تكون كتاباتي من بينها. فمثلاً، ولأول مرة بعد خمس عشرة عاماً من البحوث المعمقة عن السياسة والمجتمع السوري، بما تطلبه ذلك من زيارات متعددة ومطولة في كل سنة، أمضيت العامين المنصرمين وأنا أكتب (وأتعذب) حول سوريا دون أن تتاح لي الفرصة للزيارة، وذلك يعود بشكل رئيسي لأنه قيل لي بأني غير مرحب بي هناك. (كانت زيارتي الأخيرة في كانون الأول / يناير عام 2011، عندما كتبت، وبالمصادفة، هذه المقالة عن الانتفاضة التونسية.) فعلى سبيل المثال، قصف طائرات النظام لمخيم ...
Keep Reading »Syria and the United States: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Al-Jazeera's "Empire"
The Al-Jazeera English show Empire looks at the history of the US relationship with Syria and the current state of the armed uprising. The host, Marwan Bishara, explores what is - or should be - the Obama policy towards Syria, with guests: Bassam Haddad, the director of the Middle East studies programme at George Mason University, who is also editor of the online magazine Jadaliyya, and author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience; David Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Juan Cole, a professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan, and author of several ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 30)
![[The King, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain. 28 November 2007. Image from flickr/Chris Price]](/content_images/3/sm_alKhalifas.jpg "[The King, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain. 28 November 2007. Image from flickr/Chris Price]")
[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 Saudi Looks to Lebanon for Regional Boost A news report on the Saudi-Lebanese relations in light of the Lebanese prime minister’s meeting the Saudi crown prince in Riyadh, on Al-Akhbar English. Qatar Leaks: The Business of Foreign Affairs Radwan Mortada writes on Al-Akhbar Newspaper’s ...
Keep Reading »Another Year of Rage
![[Demonstrator walking through teargas in Cairo's neighborhood of Mohandessin on 28 January 2011. Photo by Mariam Soliman (from Wikimedia Commons)]](/content_images/3/sm_DayofRage.jpg "[Demonstrator walking through teargas in Cairo's neighborhood of Mohandessin on 28 January 2011. Photo by Mariam Soliman (from Wikimedia Commons)]")
The date 28 January 2011, also known as the “Friday of Rage,” holds a special place in the hearts of many Egyptians and is widely seen as the turning point at which the “January 25 protests” turned into the “January 25 uprising.” Some associate that day with the image of flames emanating from government buildings and the National Democratic Party headquarters near Tahrir Square, along with the looting and the condition of lawlessness that swept the country shortly thereafter. However, many Egyptians remember the Friday of Rage as the day they were able to defeat Hosni Mubarak’s almighty coercive apparatus, as symbolized by the withdrawal of uniformed police forces from ...
Keep Reading »The Meaning of Revolution: On Samira Ibrahim
![[Graffiti of Samira Ibrahim and Khaled Sa‘id on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Photo by Sherene Seikaly]](/content_images/3/sm_shereneseik.jpg "[Graffiti of Samira Ibrahim and Khaled Sa‘id on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Photo by Sherene Seikaly]")
At that thin membrane, the hymen, narratives unfold and lives are determined. There, the binaries of the clean and the stained, the righteous and the debauched, the honorable and the shamed flourish. There the blurry border between the civilized and the backward, the liberated and the oppressed, the East and the West, pretends to lie. There the claims to flesh as an evidentiary terrain stand. For the last year and a half, one woman has chipped away at this edifice erected on her hymen. The task is larger than her. Yet whatever its outcome, her battle bares the force and the meaning of revolution. Samira Ibrahim, like hundreds of thousands of her compatriots, reclaimed ...
Keep Reading »The Revolution Will Not Be Celebrated
![[A protestor encourages others to defy the police, Cairo, 26 January 2011. Photo by Pauline Beugnies]](/content_images/3/sm_PaulineBeugnies_CairoWomanPolice.jpg "[A protestor encourages others to defy the police, Cairo, 26 January 2011. Photo by Pauline Beugnies]")
The common, seemingly benign question, “where were you during the revolution?” leaves most partisans of the January 25 Revolution with a strong sense of unease. While it is obvious that the question, whenever it comes up, is almost always posed in reference to 2011's eighteen days of national protests that led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s thirty-year rule, this innocent query fails to do justice to the belief that the revolution and the eighteen-day uprising are not one and the same. The phrasing of the question, moreover, proceeds on an assumption that the revolution ended with Mubarak’s departure, and that what followed was “politics as usual.” This assumption happens ...
Keep Reading »التحرير لامركزية الميدان
على مدار عقود عانى فيها المصريون من حكم استبدادي جثم على الصدور لم يترك لهم فرصة لإلتقاط الأنفاس ولا مخرج فانصرفوا إلى متابعة أمور حياتهم اليومية، بينما انصرف آخرون إلى الهجرة. هجرة خارج حدود الوطن، وأخرى خارج حدود الزمن فعادوا القهقرى إلى الوراء حيث أزمنة غابرة خلت كنوع من الهروب من واقع قاتم وكمحاولة أيضاً لاستعادة هذه الحقب الزمنية الفائتــة لتطبيقها فى الواقع بالقوة، إن اقتضــت الضرورة ذلك. في إطار الحديث عن وطن تبدو ملامحه بين أبناء هجروه خارح الحدود سواء كانت هذه الحدود جغرافية أو تاريخية، وبين كتلة جماهيرية عريضة مهمشــة، ونخبة بدلاً من أن تمارس دوراً فى تحريك وتشكيل هذه الكتلة انصرفت عنها متوقعقة على ذاتها فى أبراجها العاجية "بكل تنظيراتها" أو بتملق ...
Keep Reading »عــامـــان عـلــى 25 يـنــايــــر فــي مصــــر مـكـــــامــــــن الــقــصــــــور فـــي الــثـــــــورة
![[مصدر الصورة ملحق السفير العربي ]](/content_images/3/sm_midan25.jpg "[مصدر الصورة ملحق السفير العربي ]")
تهدف الثورة، أي ثورة، الى دفع السلطة الحاكمة للدخول في علاقات مباشرة مع الجموع، على النحو الذي يمكِّن الثوار من قلب منطق القوة وكيفية ترتيبها، فتتم تعرية ممارسات السلطة، ونزع فتيل الشرعية عنها، ومنعها من الاختفاء وراء علاقات غير مباشرة، أو خلف شبكات متوارية ملساء الوجه. تستدرج الثورة السلطة لكشف وجهها العنيف الذي تلجأ إليه عندما تشعر بالتهديد المطلق على بقائها، أي حين تفقد ميكانزمات الانضباط والسيطرة والخطاب فاعليتها على الجماهير، فتخسر السلطة قدرتها على شن حرب الأفكار والإقناع. وقد كشفت قوات الأمن عن وجهها العنيف في مساء الخامس والعشرين من يناير (25 كانون الثاني 2011) حينما بدأت بقمع المتظاهرين. وهذه كانت أولى المواجهات المفتوحة والمباشرة بين قطاعات مختلفة من الناس ...
Keep Reading »تزييفُ الوعي وتطييفُ التاريخ في سياقات الثورة السوريّة
(إلى الصديق الأستاذ جورج طرابيشي مفكرًا فوق الطوائف، وإلى ضحايا الطوائف) رغم الاختلافات الهائلة (ديمقراطيًّا) بين حقبةِ ما بعد الاستقلال وحقبةِ البعث، فإنّ الفترتين تتقاطعان من حيث الغياب شبه التامّ لأيّة دراساتٍ علميّةٍ للمسألة الطائفيّة في سوريا. فقد بقيتْ هذه المسألة من المحرَّمات طوال فترة حكم البعث، ومن المهمَلات طوال الفترة التي تلت الاستقلال، رغم أنّ حكومات الاستقلال المتعاقبة عاشت الطائفيّة من خلال الدويْلات الطائفيّة المجزّأة التي أنشأها الانتدابُ الفرنسيّ. في تطييف الطيف السوريّ منذ انطلاقة الثورة السوريّة سعى النظامُ إلى حشر الثورة، التي احتضنتْ ألوانَ الطيف السوريّ، في ساحة الصراع الطائفيّ التي يتقن اللعبَ فيها، مستفيدًا من خبرته في الحرب الأهليّة ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London and New York: Pluto Books, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Paolo Gerbaudo (PG): I have been involved in progressive social movements in Italy and the UK for the last twelve years, some times as a participant, other times as a journalist for il manifesto, a newspaper of the Italian New Left, other times as a social movement researcher, and still other times as an organizer. Thus, the first reason for writing this book for me was a strong sense of commitment to, and solidarity with, the movements I studied, and an enthusiasm about the sense of possibility they ...
Keep Reading »Qatar Leaks: The Business of Foreign Policy
![[Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar. 22 October 2011. Image from flickr/Nader Daoud/World Economic Forum]](/content_images/3/sm_althani.jpg "[Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar. 22 October 2011. Image from flickr/Nader Daoud/World Economic Forum]")
[This report has been placed on hold until further corroboration emerges]
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 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 Relations Egypt lawyer Gizawi to get jail and lashes in Saudi Arabia A news report on the sentencing of the Egyptian human rights lawyer on charges of “drug trafficking,” on BBC. Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House A news report on the meeting between Barack Obama and ...
Keep Reading »ثورية الوسيلة وسلطوية الغاية
فض الأمن اليمني اعتصاماً سلمياً بالقوة يوم 25 ديسمبر الماضي عندما اتجهت مجموعة من الشباب نحو دار الرئاسة مطالبين بقرارت صريحة لعزل أحمد علي عبدالله صالح وعلي محسن من الجيش، وغالب القمش مدير جهاز الأمن السياسي. هذا الخبركان سيبدو مفهوماً قبل أكثر من عام، لكن بعد تنحي الرئيس الذي ثارت ضده الجماهير فأن الخبر يدعو للاستنكار. فهؤلاء الشباب جاؤوا لإحياء الذكرى الأولى لمسيرة الحياة الراجلة من مدينة تعز لصنعاء بمسافة 280 كم على طريق جبلي وعر وكانت مسيرة شعبية ضخمة انضم لها الآلاف من قرى ومدن اليمن التي ...
Keep Reading »On Algerian Civil Society and the Prohibition of Assembly
Despite the fact that its laws allow the assembly of people on the streets and squares of Algeria, the public space remains firmly blocked by the Algerian state. This closure is assured in two ways: firstly, through the restrictions placed by law on civil associations, and secondly, by the ways in which the police control crowds. The most recent amendment to Algerian law on public assembly details the administrative process required to form a legal public protest. In chapter II, on “public ...
Keep Reading »Sisyphus Goes on Demonstration
Animation/video installation 2012 Artist statement: "You are to suffer, to carry your burden and the weight of your existence on your back forever. And on this rough road you are to travel. You walk, with blackness round your eyes blocking your entire vision, and a hole in your head preventing you from knowing. You are not to learn, to see or to understand. You are to travel the path Sisyphus, this is your fate and this is how you are destined to exist. Note 1: We are all ...
Keep Reading »The Gendered Body Public: Egypt, Sexual Violence and Revolution
We must acknowledge, sit with, and address the sexual violence that has, is, and will occur in and around Tahrir Square. How do we do this work in a responsible and ethical manner that is in solidarity with Egypt's ongoing (and multiple) revolutions? How do we retain and respect political, economic, and social complexity in the face of the horrors of mass and public sexual assault? How to write when all you want to do is shout? Friday, 25 January 2013 was the second anniversary of the outbreak of the ...
Keep Reading »Protesting Is Not Enough
Another January 25 marked the third year of continued protests in the hopes of finding our way to a successful revolution. On Friday, I joined the Shubra march to Tahrir Square where I saw many the familiar faces along with many other protesters once again. This was not like last year’s march. This year there was certainly less energy and even less cohesiveness in the very long march that extended along Shubra’s streets. The street was laden with pockets of protesters. The pockets could be identified ...
Keep Reading »Meet AbdelRahman Mansour Who Made 25 January A Date to Remember
AbdelRahman Mansour is the cyberactivist who set the date of 25 January for the Egyptian revolution. It is time for you to meet him. In June 2010, at twenty-three years old, AbdelRahman approached Wael Ghonim to set up a Facebook page and anti-torture campaign in honor of Khaled Said, the Alexandrian killed at the hands of police. The two had been working together as administrators (or admins) on Mohamed ElBaradei’s Facebook page and were ready to take their cyber-campaigning to the next level. The ...
Keep Reading »مستقبل السلفيين السياسي ماذا بعد الشريعة؟
ارتبط قرار السلفيين بالدخول للمعترك السياسي بعد الثورة بقضية الهوية الإسلامية للمجتمع. ومع إقرار الدستور الذي ضمن بشكل كبير للسلفيين تطبيق الشريعة يبرز السؤال التالي: وماذا بعد الشريعة؟ هل انتهى المبرر لوجود السلفيين في الحياة السياسية وانتهت القضية التي تمكنوا من خلالها من حشد الملايين للتصويت لهم في الانتخابات ؟ هل سيتم تكرار النموذج الباكستاني للأحزاب الإسلامية ؟ نحتاج أن نعرف ما هو الوضع الباكستاني أولاً للقيام بالمقارنة بينه وبين مصر. على عكس مصر التي تعد بلداً عريقاً تأسس على الأسس الطبيعية لقيام ...
Keep Reading »Rhetoric or Critical Action? The Role of Human Rights in EU-UAE Relations
An EU resolution passed in October 2012, which condemned human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates, caused outrage among defenders of the Emirati regime and gave hope that human rights may play a greater role in EU foreign policy. Several months on, has this resolution proved to be anything more than empty rhetoric? The resolution criticized repression of political activists in the United Arab Emirates, where seventy-seven individuals have been detained without charge in the past year. It also ...
Keep Reading »اليمن ودورة جديدة للصراع بالوكالة
لا يمكن وصف ما أثير ضد السفير الإيراني بسبب تصريحاته يوم السادس من يناير الجاري بأقل من زوبعة. في لقائه مع مجموعة من الصحفيين اليمنيين احتج السفير على الاتهامات الموجهة ضد بلاده من الرئيس اليمني عبد ربه بحجة اكتشاف شبكات تجسس إيرانية، قال فيها السفير “لا شيء في اليمن يستحق التجسس عليه والرئيس عبد ربه يستمد معلوماته من تقارير غربية.” تصريحات السفير الإيراني البعيدة عن الدبلوماسية واللياقة والقريبة جداً من واقع اليمن أثارت جزء من الرأي العام اليمني بجانبه المتحفز ضد إيران وتدخلاتها الحديثة العهد في ...
Keep Reading »Advocacy, Uprising, and Authoritarianism in Bahrain: An Interview With Ahmed Al-Haddad
Almost two years after the beginning of the February 14 uprising, the Bahraini regime is still struggling to crush the ongoing political and civil rights movement, all the while working to rehabilitate Bahrain’s “tainted” image. Media blackouts, relentless surveillance and scare tactics, arbitrary detentions, anti-protester violence, and expensive Public Relations campaigns have become daily occurrences. Yet on 20 January 2013, Bahraini authorities met with Amnesty International in order to showcase ...
Keep Reading »Tipping Towards Iraq's Squares: An Interview with Falah Alwan
The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave of mass anti-government protests mostly centered around the provinces al-Anbar, Niniweh, and Salah al-Deen, shaking Iraq since 21 December 2012. These evolving mobilizations have sometimes brought out numbers approaching hundreds of thousands (as in Mosul’s Ahrar Square) and led to the blocking of a major Iraq-Jordan-Syria Highway. ...
Keep Reading »European Parliament Calls for Sanctions Against Bahrain
[The following statement was published on the Bahrain Center for Human Rights website on 17 January 2013.] The European Parliament today endorsed a strongly-worded resolution addressing the ongoing human rights violations in Bahrain. The effort, led by Dutch Member of European Parliament Marietje Schaake (ALDE/D66), calls for targeted EU sanctions against human rights violators in Bahrain. “For almost two years now the world has ignored the lethal violence used against Bahraini peaceful protestors. We ...
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