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O.I.L. Media Roundup (5 June)
![[A portion of the Israel West Bank separation wall in Jerusalem. Image by Paolo Cuttitta.]](/content_images/3/sm_3862734651_5bb3018e60_z.jpg "[A portion of the Israel West Bank separation wall in Jerusalem. Image by Paolo Cuttitta.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week.] News "Israel to Build New Outposts In Jerusalem," Al Jazeera English AJE details Israel's plans to build more than 1,000 settler homes in predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem. "Social, Economic Situation of Palestine Refugee Bedouins is 'Nonviable,' UN Reports," UN News Centre The ...
Keep Reading »Right of Return Conference at Boston University: Realizing Return In Practice
![[Image of Noura Erakat at Right of Return Conference at Boston University. Crop of Screencap from Video Below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-05-27at3.36.25AM.png "[Image of Noura Erakat at Right of Return Conference at Boston University. Crop of Screencap from Video Below.]")
On 6-7 April 2013, activists, scholars, and community members converged at Boston University to participate in the Right of Return Conference at Boston University. The last Right of Return Conference took place in Boston more than a decade ago, and featured the late Edward Said as its keynote speaker. This Conference is especially critical at this juncture as the Oslo Peace Accords turns twenty, and in the direct aftermath of President Barack Obama's first visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in his two-year term. The Oslo Accords sought to establish two ethno-nationally homogenous states as a remedy to ...
Keep Reading »سعادت حسن منتو: قصة قصيرة
![[سعادت حسن منتو]](/content_images/3/sm_Manto.jpg "[سعادت حسن منتو]")
[سعادت حسن مَنتو واحد من أشهر كتاب القصة القصيرة بالأردو وأكثرهم إثارة للجدل. ولد منتو في أيار سنة ١٩١٢ قرب مدينة لودِيانا في أقليم بنجاب (في الجزء الذي أصبح لاحقاً في الهند) وتوفي في كانون الثاني سنة ١٩٥٥ في مدينة لاهور في باكستان. نشر إثنين وعشرين مجموعة قصصية ورواية واحدة بالإضافة إلى سيناريوهات عديدة للسينما والإذاعة. وعمل في الأربعينيات في صناعة الأفلام الهندية في مدينة بومباي (مومباي حالياً) ككاتب سيناريو. لا يوجد له نظير في معالجة جنون التقسيم الذي تعرضت له شبه القارة الهندية أثناء التحرر من الحكم البريطاني سنة ١٩٤٨. فضح نفاق المجتمع أثناء المذابح الطائفية وقت التقسيم عبر تناوله لأكثر فئات المجتمع تهميشاً كالمومسات والقوادين وأكثر المواضيع حساسية كسفاح المحارم ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Maya Mikdashi, What is Settler Colonialism? and Sherene Seikaly, Return to the Present
![[The Wall. Image by Sherene Seikaly]](/content_images/3/sm_noname.jpeg.jpg "[The Wall. Image by Sherene Seikaly]")
Maya Mikdashi, “What Is Settler Colonialism?” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37:2 (2013) Sherene Seikaly, “Return to the Present,” Elisabeth Weber, editor, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write these pieces? Maya Mikdashi (MM): I had visited my mother's family in Michigan and gone to the reservation for a holiday. Prior to this trip and to reading through my deceased grandfather's piles and piles of papers documenting his family's history, I felt very uneasy with my own interest in settler colonialism in the United States ...
Keep Reading »An Ongoing Displacement: The Forced Exile of the Palestinians
![[Crop from below infograph by Visualizing Palestine]](/content_images/3/sm_vppalestinedit.jpg "[Crop from below infograph by Visualizing Palestine]")
15 May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed more than fifty percent of the entire Palestinian population. In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, Visualizing Palestine has released this new visual: "An Ongoing Displacement." The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement and loss of land.
Keep Reading »Statement by Palestinian Youth Movement on Refugee Camps in Syria
![[Palestinian Youth Movement logo]](/content_images/3/sm_pymweb050813.jpg "[Palestinian Youth Movement logo]")
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Youth Movement on 6 May 2013.] The Camps Are Above the Siege In general, the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, and particularly Yarmouk camp, formed as the capital of the diaspora, are among the largest groups of Palestinian refugees and have been the starting point for many resistance operations, fueling the Palestinian revolution in its various stages and sacrificing many lives for Palestine. The last demonstration of resistance to their just cause was shown with their bodies alone during the commemorations of al Nakba and al Naksa at the border of the occupied Golan heights between Syria and Palestine, ...
Keep Reading »Windows to Refuge: Camp Life through the Eyes of Palestinian Youth in Lebanon
![[“Buildings in Shatila are side by side with no space. Not every camp is like this.” Shatila, by Haneen B.]](/content_images/3/sm_Shatila_byHaneenB_cropped.jpg "[“Buildings in Shatila are side by side with no space. Not every camp is like this.” Shatila, by Haneen B.]")
“The pact that binds us to photographers puts our sight in their hands.” (From the introduction to Lahza, a book of Palestinian children’s photographs by ZAKIRA, Amers Editions, Beirut, 2009.) The Project These photographs were taken in July 2012 by Palestinian youth living in four out of the twelve refugee camps in Lebanon. The photographers, students aged eleven to fifteen, were participants in an intensive summer project called SHINE coordinated by both LEAP, an educational empowerment program dedicated to nurturing the intellectual growth and creative curiosity of Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon, and Beit Atfal Assumoud, a Palestinian NGO in Lebanon that ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon
![[Image from cover of below report by ANERA]](/content_images/3/sm_041313.jpg "[Image from cover of below report by ANERA]")
[The following report was issued by American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) in April 2013.] Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon A Vulnerable Community Following their expulsion from Palestine in 1948, many Palestinian intellectuals, businessmen, and craftspeople fled to Syria and established themselves as an integral part of Syrian society. Today that life has been broken and many Palestinian refugees from Syria have joined the ranks of Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees, who some call the “forgotten people.” Living in dark, cramped rooms without heat, these refugees have no respite from the fresh memories of the Syrian war and ...
Keep Reading »Reconciling Return and Rights: Palestinian Refugees and the Emergence of a "Political Society"
![[Portion of mural in Aida Refugee Camp. Image by Alan Mayers via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_aidacamp987.jpg "[Portion of mural in Aida Refugee Camp. Image by Alan Mayers via Flickr]")
Analyses and debates on the reconfiguration of rights, democracy, social justice, and dignity in the Arab region suffer from a chronic methodological nationalism—which perpetuates the idea that people seek and fight for rights and self-determination solely in their national state and territory, seen as the natural context for achieving a full social and political personhood. When refugees and displaced persons (short or long terms alike) are discussed, they appear by and large as volatile figures or fortuitous victims, or as an indistinct mass in need of humanitarianism, living transient non-lives and awaiting compensation and return. They are hardly ever represented as ...
Keep Reading »The Most Important Thing: Syrian Refugees
![[Ahmed, 70, holds his cane in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.]](/content_images/3/sm_BSokol_13.jpg "[Ahmed, 70, holds his cane in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.]")
[Photos by Brian Sokol/UNHCR, text by UNHCR.] What would you bring with you if you had to flee your home and escape to another country? More than 1 million Syrians have been forced to ponder this question before making the dangerous flight to neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq or other countries in the region. This is the second part of a UNHCR project that asks refugees from different parts of the world, “What is the most important thing you brought from home?” The first installment focused on refugees fleeing from Sudan to South Sudan, who openly carried pots, water containers, and other objects to sustain them along the road. By contrast, people seeking ...
Keep Reading »On the Margins Media Roundup (March)
![[The United Nations World Food Programme distributes food in Bamako, Mali, following the displacement of over 380,000 Malians. Image by DFID/ Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-03-20at11.05.55AM.png "[The United Nations World Food Programme distributes food in Bamako, Mali, following the displacement of over 380,000 Malians. Image by DFID/ Flickr.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each month's roundup to info@jadaliyya.com.] Somalia Somalia Donors Step Up To Help With Rebuilding Efforts Major Western donors announce aid for Somalia to promote stability and recovery. Somalia’s humanitarian needs should come first The author argues that recent million-dollar pledges to the fragile Somali government may be misguided. Rights group urges ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ilana Feldman, The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a "Palestine Refugee"
Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a 'Palestine Refugee.'" Journal of Refugee Studies 25.3 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Ilana Feldman (IF): There were two primary motivating forces for writing this article. First, it is part of a special issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies on “The Refugee in the Post-War World, 1945-1960,” that itself was a result of a conference of the same name. By participating in this issue, and by placing the Palestinian refugee experience within the broader landscape of post-World War II displacement, I seek to contribute to challenging conceptions of ...
Keep Reading »The Last Colony: Photo Essay on Western Sahara
[This is one of seven pieces in Jadaliyya's electronic roundtable on the Western Sahara. Moderated by Samia Errazzouki and Allison L. McManus, it features contributions from John P. Entelis, Stephen Zunes, Aboubakr Jamaï, Ali Anouzla, Allison L. McManus, Samia Errazzouki, and Andrew McConnell.] [The photos above were taken by Andrew McConnell, who also wrote the following text.] The territory of Western Sahara is Africa's last open file at the United Nations Decolonization Committee. The year ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Louise Cainkar, Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas
Louise Cainkar, “Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXI No. 1 (Spring 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Louise Cainkar (LC): This article was developed from a keynote speech I delivered at the Conference on Arab World Migrations and Diasporas, organized by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. When contemplating the keynote, I considered deeply what my particular contribution would be to a room full of multi-disciplinary ...
Keep Reading »ما هي النكبة؟
ما هي النكبة؟ تستدعي مفردة النكبة (أو الكارثة) إلى الذاكرة تأسيس دولة إسرائيل على أرض فلسطين عام 1948 عن طريق طرد أكثر من نصف سكان فلسطين التاريخية، وتدمير التراث الفلسطيني، والمؤسسات الاجتماعية والسياسية في الاراضي المحتلة. إن الاجابة الممكنة عن سؤال حول معنى النكبة في الزمن الحاضر يمكن أن نجدها في حوارات الذاكرة الجمعية الفلسطينية، خصوصاً تلك الموجودة في مخيمات اللاجئين الذين تم طردهم خارج حدود فلسطين التاريخية عام 1948. في حوارات الذاكرة الجمعية هذه، لا نجد النكبة كمؤشر واضح على الكارثة التي حاقت ...
Keep Reading »Too Close for Comfort: Syrians in Lebanon
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 13 May 2013.] Too Close for Comfort: Syrians in Lebanon Executive Summary Syria’s conflict is dragging down its neighbours, none more perilously than Lebanon. Beirut’s official policy of “dissociation” – seeking, by refraining from taking sides, to keep the war at arm’s length – is right in theory but increasingly dubious in practice. Porous boundaries, weapons smuggling, deepening involvement by anti-Syrian-regime Sunni Islamists ...
Keep Reading »Uncounted and Unacknowledged: Syria's Refugee University Students and Academics in Jordan
[The following report was issued by the University of California Davis Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund.] Uncounted and Unacknowledged: Syria's Refugee University Students and Academics in Jordan The following is a brief preliminary report on the status of refugee academics and university students from Syria residing in Jordan prepared by a multidisciplinary research collaboration between the University of California Davis ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Wendy Pearlman, Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon
Wendy Pearlman, “Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXI No. 1 (Spring 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Wendy Pearlman (WP): Five years ago I began to read widely about Lebanon in preparation for a trip there. While there are so many fascinating things about the country, I was most intrigued by its one hundred and fifty-year history with international emigration. There is hardly a corner of the globe in which Lebanese have not settled, ...
Keep Reading »Aid Inside Syria: Too Little, But Not Too Late
[The following report was issued by Refugees International on 24 April 2013.] Aid Inside Syria: Too Little, But Not Too Late Two years after the Syrian revolution began, there is much wider recognition of the dire humanitarian needs inside the country, and support for expanding cross-border aid activities is increasing. The United Nations, a handful of international non-governmental organizations, and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent all have humanitarian operations inside Syria. The Syrian regime, ...
Keep Reading »Beyond the State: The Refugee Camp as a Site of Political Invention
Refugee camps have been at the center of radical historical transformations that have undermined the political existence of entire communities. Although states and non-governmental organizations have and continue to actively participate in conceiving and managing camps, we are still struggling to fully comprehend how the camp form has complicated and transformed the very idea of a city as an organized and functional political community. The birth of the camp thus has the capacity to call into question ...
Keep Reading »Joint PHROC Statement: UN Resolution on Settlements--Another Missed Opportunity
[The following statement was issued on 25 March 2013 by the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council.] Occupied Ramallah, 25 March 2013 - On Friday, 22 March, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council) adopted a resolution, tabled by the State of Palestine, the Organisation of Islamic Conference, and the Arab Group, on the report of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Members of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery to President Obama
[The following English version of an open letter to President Obama was issued by the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery on 10 March 2013.] Dear Mr. President, In the name of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery we extend to you our warmest greetings. We write to welcome you to Palestine next week and also to seek your support as a matter of urgency due to the Government of Israeli's (GOI) announcement in December 2012 that it ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: As Obama Lands, Palestinians Erect New Bab al Shams Neighborhood
Palestinians assert their right to protect their lands from colonialism and their opposition to American policy which keeps granting Israeli occupation and repression of Palestinians full support. Hundreds of the Palestinians arrived this morning, Wednesday, 20 March, to Eizariya and erected about fifteen tents on lands of the village as new neighborhood of Bab al Shams village, on a hillside opposite to the one on which the original village of Bab al Shams was established two months ...
Keep Reading »The Turkel Report: A Preliminary Analysis
The Turkel Report, which includes important evidence and recommendations, may become a dead letter if the international community does not act to ensure that it contributes the pursuance of accountability vis-a-vis Israeli violations of international law and to justice for victims. On 6 February 2013, the Israeli government-appointed Turkel Committee published the second part of its report. The report examines whether Israeli investigations of claims of war crimes and breaches of international law ...
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