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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 15)
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Saudi-Bahrain Proposed Unity "Gulf states 'need time to study' union plan," an article on the vague proposal of a union among the Gulf states to replace the Gulf Cooperation Council, by Elizabeth Dickinson in The National. "Gulf unity plan on hold amid Iranian warning," a news report on the proposal of unity among the Gulf states, by Ian Black in The Guardian. "Saudi-Bahrain unity deal draws fierce criticism," an article on the protests against the proposed unity deal between the two Gulf states, in Al-Akhbar English. "Saudi Arabia 'to announce union with Bahrain'," a news report on the unity deal between the two Gulf ...
Keep Reading »ثورة الجسد
لم يضرم الشاب التونسي، محمد البوعزيزي، النار في نفسه بل أضرمها في جسده. فعندما قام يوم الجمعة ١٧ ديسمبر/كانون الأول عام ٢٠١٠ بسكب الوقود على جسده وإشعاله احتجاجاً على بطش السلطات كان يرسل رسالة واضحة مفادها أن باستطاعة جسده أن يعبر عما تجيش به نفسه بشكل أبلغ من أي شكوى يكتبها وبطريقة أبلغ من أي هتاف يردده. وبالفعل كان من جراء هذا الفعل الدرامي أن سقط نظام من أقوى الأنظمة العربية ومن أشدها قمعاً واستبداداً. الجسد والعسكر إن هذا اليقين ببلاغة الجسد وقدرته على تحدي السلطة رأيناه يتمثل في أشكال أخرى في مصر. فخالد سعيد الذي قام شرطيان بضربه حتى الموت يوم ٦ يونيو/حزيران عام ٢٠١٠ أصبح أيقونة الثورة المصرية ليس بسبب مقطع الفيديو الذي يظهر فساد الشرطة المصرية ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Presidential Duel an Epic Moment (Video)
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Millions of Egyptians were glued to their TV sets on Thursday evening, 10 May 2012, watching the first-ever televised debate between the two presidential candidates leading opinion polls in recent weeks. The live telecast—two weeks before the country’s first multi-candidate Presidential elections—was an opportunity for Egyptians to learn more about the two expected election front runners‘ visions for “the new Egypt” and hear their stances vis-a-vis issues like security and the relationship between religion and the state. More importantly, Egypt’s independent media broke significant new ground in Arab media election coverage by sponsoring the debut high level ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants: Disobedience, Counter-Conduct and Political Imagination in the New Mediterranean (Island of Ikaria, 17-27 June 2012)
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Mataroea Summer Seminar: Disobedience, Counter-Conduct and Political Imagination in the new Mediterranean Island of Ikaria, Greece 17 - 27 June 2012 The Mataroa Summer Seminar is an experiment in creating an expansive political experience. Its ambition is to combine the arts of debate, analysis, and aesthetic engagement about pressing global and local socio-political issues with the acts of participation, learning, exchange and active immersion in the life of the island of Ikaria. It seeks to bring together a dozen scholars, artists and thinkers from a broad interdisciplinary background, willing to participate in ten days of both intellectual and affective ...
Keep Reading »Marcel Khalife: An Interview
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Marcel Khalife is one of the Arab world's most revered and celebrated cultural icons. Composer, singer, and oud player, he is best known as the musical voice of students, intellectuals, laborers, and all those committed to social justice, freedom, and human dignity. His arrangements, especially those inspired by the poems of Mahmud Darwish and performed by his band, the Mayadine Ensemble founded in 1976, became part of the daily cultural life of two generations. Since the early 1990s, Khalife has focused on orchestral music, occasionally writing innovative compositions for one, two and four ouds and instruments that were memorized by entire generations. With ...
Keep Reading »قراءة في الرحلة الرشدية بين شح الأمطار وشح الأفكار
إن المتتبع للخطاب السياسي للإسلاميين سيلاحظ ربطاً غريباً بين شح المطر وبخل السماء بمائها وبين انتشار السفور ونزع الحجاب وسياقة المرأة للسيارة، ولكأن ممارسة الحرية الفردية جريمة تستجلب قسوة السماء السحاء بحبس مائها وتجويع الناس والبهائم على حد سواء. ما كل هذه القوة الخارقة لقرار النساء التمتع بحرياتهم الفردية في ظل مجتمعات ترنو إلى الحداثة والعدالة والتقدم؟ فتخلي المرأة، حسب زعم هؤلاء، عن لباس يعتقدونه شرعياً أو استفادة الناس من مظاهر الحياة العصرية هي سبب شح الأمطار وكل الأذى الذي يلحق بمجتمعاتهم. لو صدقنا هذا الخطاب، فنتيجته ستكون وجوب تجريم كل أشكال الحرية ومحاولات الانخراط في الحداثة، رغم كل النقائص التي تعاني منها المجتمعات العربية، لعل السماء ترضى وتجود بمائها ...
Keep Reading »The Day Hafez al-Assad Died
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The day Hazfez al Assad died, I was having lunch with a friend. We were eating pasta at a family owned Italian restaurant in Ras Beirut when the news was announced. With everyone else, we stared at the small television. The owner kept changing the channel, and each time the news was confirmed. I don't remember if we finished lunch. But I do remember that when we went outside the streets seemed deserted. Beirut is not a quiet city, but that day it seemed as if sound had retreated from picture. My father called and demanded that I come home. Less than five minutes later my friend received the same call from her mother. No one knew what would happen next. The questions, I ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report Spring 2012
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PULL OF THE POSSIBLE Are the upheavals in the Arab world revolutions? Uprisings? Perhaps all such terms are misnomers, in that they imply an end point to processes that may not have a terminus. Regimes may fall or stand; movements may sputter or succeed in establishing a more democratic system. It often seems as if there are two parallel universes, one of revolution and one of retrenchment, which periodically collide with varying degrees of violence. The key, as argued in the spring 2012 issue of Middle East Report, “Pull of the Possible,” is that the status quo ante cannot be restored. John Chalcraft searches through critical social theory to ...
Keep Reading »Reflections on Ideology After the Arab Uprisings
A key conceptual problem for observers of the Arab uprisings–academics and journalists alike–continues to be how to classify and assess the ideological transformations taking place. “The people want the downfall of the regime,” the central slogan of the uprisings, has been interpreted as anything from a return to pan-Arab sentiments to a new Arab liberalism. For some, it signaled the unification of action around a single idea that resisted the atomization of Arab societies under the neoliberal-military-Western nexus of power. Many in the West now regard the revolutionary potential more skeptically, not least due to Islamist parties winning elections. The question is ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Introduction
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[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings. Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar.] On 5 March 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech in which he laid out the US position on law and national security. The second half of his speech was devoted to the targeted killing program, which has escalated dramatically during the Obama administration. Although the military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been engaged in such attacks for years, rarely have government officials acknowledged the ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba Abdullah
On 9 May 2012, Manal al-Sharif was awarded the Havel Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. This came shortly after al-Sharif was honored as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World at a Gala in New York City. Such events have given rise to a pattern: just as numerous pictures and videos of activists attending various conferences and receiving numerous awards surface, waves of criticism pour in. Their motives are viewed with suspicion, worthiness is questioned, and ...
Keep Reading »Call for Artists: Watermill Center/ArteEast 2013 Residency (January-June 2013)
In 2011, The Watermill Center and ArteEast partnered to launch an annual residency supporting the development of a new work by artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. The residency is accompanied by an artist talk with the community about the work done in residence. The 2011/2012 ArteEast artist was Abbas Akhavan. ArteEast is proud to announce that the partnership will be included in one of the Spring 2013 Residency slots (January - June 2013) at The Watermill Center. Deadline for ...
Keep Reading »Suleiman and the Revolution (In both Arabic and English)
ستقوم "جدلية" ابتداء من اليوم وبالتعاون مع موقع "العربي الحر"، بإعادة نشر شريطين وثائقيين من إنتاج "العربي الحر" كل اسبوع. توثق هذه الأشرطة الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها ...
Keep Reading »Image Fever: Arab Photography Now
Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (eds.), Arab Photography Now. Kehrer: Heidelberg & Berlin, 2011. [This review is forthcoming in Goethe Institut's publication Fikrun Wa Fann.] Rose Issa and Michket Krifa, curators of art from the Arab world, recently published a collection of photographs by Arab artists in a major catalogue entitled Arab Photography Now (2011). Anthological publications in general and photography catalogues in particular that include reproductions of art works are often the product of ...
Keep Reading »Contesting Narratives, Locating Power: Updates from Jadaliyya's Second Co-Sponsored Conference on the Arab Uprisings
Jadaliyya and Lund University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies are co-sponosring a conference entited "Arab Uprisings: Contestining Narratives, Locating Power," being held in Lund, Sweden, on 25-28 April 2012. Over the span of two-and-a-half days, over forty scholars, artists, activists, and opposition figures will meet in roundtable formatt to discuss a range of themes, case-studies, and issues related to the Arab uprisings. Those in attendence include Haytham Manna', Alaa Shehabi, and ...
Keep Reading »Art and Subversion: An Interview with Omar Kholeif
Subversion. Featuring work by Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Khaled Hafez, Larissa Sansour, Marwa Arsanios, Sharif Waked, Sherif El-Azma, Tarzan and Arab, and Wafaa Bilal. Curated by Omar Kholeif. Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK. 14 April - 5 June 2012, preview/symposium 13 April 2012. [Omar Kholeif is Curator of Subversion, a large-scale exhibition and public program, which runs until 5 June 2012 at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. More about Omar Kholeif here; follow ...
Keep Reading »NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
Since we have featured so much remarkable work in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON), we wanted to pause for a second to let you catch up. Here are a few great posts that you might have missed from the past several months: Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, "Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq" Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ‘Men in Crisis,’ Industries of Gender in Revolution” James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third ...
Keep Reading »How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East
One: Gender is not the study of what is evident, it is an analysis of how what is evident came to be. Two: Before resolving to write about gender, sexuality, or any other practice or aspect of subjectivity in the Middle East, one must first define what exactly the object of study is. Be specific. What country, region, and time period forms the background picture of your study? Furthermore, the terms “Middle East,” “the Islamic World” and the “Arab world” do not refer to the same place, peoples, or ...
Keep Reading »The Myth of Middle East Reporting
The tragic death of Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin, two celebrated American reporters in chaotic Syria last month, has generated due tributes from colleagues and readers who admired their Middle East coverage over more than two decades. Shadid, a New York Times reporter, who died of an apparent asthma attack, and Colvin of the Sunday Times, who was killed in shelling in Homs, were also praised for their sense of duty to go on secret assignments, braving Bashar Al-Assad's dictatorship and defying ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawfare and Targeted Killing Revisited--A Response
[This is the sixth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] The speech that Attorney General Eric Holder delivered on 5 March 2012 in which he outlined the Obama administration’s position on the legality of the targeted killing program ...
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