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BADIL Proudly Announces the Release of its Report on Palestinian National Identity
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BADIL Proudly Announces the Release of its Research Project: One People United: A Deterritorialized Palestinian Identity -- BADIL Survey of Palestinian Youth on Identity and Social Ties-2012 The violent establishment of Israel in 1948 constituted a catastrophe, or Nakba, for Palestinian aspirations for self-determination. More significantly, the Nakba resulted in the mass forced displacement of the majority of the Palestinian people from their homeland, thereby undermining the social cohesion amongst the Palestinian national body. One of the most visible outcomes of the Nakba is the geographical dispersal of Palestinians, mainly across the Middle East, but also in ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Marwan M. Kraidy, The Revolutionary Body Politic
Marwan M. Kraidy, “The Revolutionary Body Politic: Preliminary Thoughts on a Neglected Medium in the Arab Uprisings.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 5.1 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Marwan Kraidy (MK): I received an invitation from the editors to write an essay with a brutal time frame (if I recall correctly, an author had dropped out two weeks before the copy deadline, and I was asked to fill in). But that was just technical. What really made me write the article was that I had been preoccupied with the implications of Alia al-Mahdy’s action for several days, because it came on the heels of other performances in the Arab ...
Keep Reading »NEWTON 2012 in Review
We have had the opportunity to highlight an extraordinary series of books and articles on New Texts Out Now this year. Before we make our way into the new year, here are all of the NEWTONs that we published in 2012. Enjoy, and see you in 2013. Myriam Ababsa, Badouin Dupret, and Eric Denis, Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser’s Egypt” Ali Ahmida, “Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship, and the Challenge ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Laleh Khalili (LK): In the course of completing my first book, I was performing some final interviews with Palestinian residents in Lebanon who had been detainees in Israel at various points over the last couple of decades. I was conducting these interviews when the news of Abu Ghraib tortures broke and pictures of detainees being held by leashes, of dogs attacking detainees, of the sexualized torture emerged. More than one interviewee told me that the images felt familiar. That was one of the first ...
Keep Reading »جدلية: لماذا وكيف؟ حوار مع بسام حداد
[نشرت هذه المقابلة مؤخراً في العدد الأول من مجلة "البوابة التاسعة" وكان قد أجراها نات مولر وعمر خليف قبل أشهر لكن نشرها تأخر لحين صدور العدد الأول. وهنا تعيد جدلية نشرها] الإطلاق التجريبي الذي جرى في أيلول (سبتمبر) الماضي للمجلة الإلكترونية الإنكليزيّة – العربيّة، "جدليّة"، وهي المبادرة غير الربحيّة التي أطلقها معهد الدراسات العربيّة (ASi) في واشنطن، لم يقدّر له استشراف الموقع الذي تحتلّه المجلّة اليوم. فالانتفاضات العربيّة، البالغة زخمها بعد أشهر قليلة من ذاك الإطلاق، دفعت هذه المجلّة الالكترونيّة بقوّة لتحتلّ مركزًا متقدّمًا في قلب السجالات والتحليلات الدائرة في العالم العربي. منبر الأفكار الذي تمثّله "جدليّة"، التي تُدار على نحو ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Elisabeth Weber, Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace
Elisabeth Weber, editor, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this collection? Elisabeth Weber (EW): The volume was conceived after the conference I organized with my colleague Thomas Carlson in October 2003 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, on “Irreconcilable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion.” The conference turned out to be Jacques Derrida’s last public appearance in the United States. The collection of essays is grouped around Derrida’s keynote address, “Avowing—The Impossible: ‘Returns,’ Repentance and ...
Keep Reading »ملف من الأرشيف: عبدالله الطريقي
[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.] الإسم: عبد الله الشهرة: الطريقي إسم الأب: حمود إسم الأم: لؤلؤة تاريخ الولادة: 1919 تاريخ الوفاة: 1997 الجنسية: السعودية مكان الولادة: الزلفي الفئة: سياسي المهنة: وزير عبد الله الطريقي سعودي. ولد في 19 آذار 1919 في بلدة الزلفي في السعودية. توفي في القاهرة في 7 ايلول 1997 ودفن في الرياض. زوجته الأولى: إليانور نيكولاس (أميركية). زوجته الثانية: مهى ...
Keep Reading »DAM: Crime, Honor, and Hip-Hop
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Palestinian rap trio DAM dropped their latest video “If I Could Go Back in Time” a week ago at a press conference in Ramallah. Working in cooperation with UN Women, the subject of the song is domestic violence and crimes against women. With this release, DAM members Mahmoud Jreri, Suhell Nafar, and Tamer Nafar affirm their reputation as audacious socially-conscious rappers by continuing to take on taboo issues in Palestinian society. They do so through hip-hop, whose mainstream stars are all too often themselves guilty of propagating intensely sexist and homophobic content. In so doing, DAM are contributing to transforming hip-hop into a safe space for women and women’s ...
Keep Reading »Bidayat: New Beginnings for All Seasons of Change
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[The following article was translated from Arabic to English by Mark Marshall and Assaf Kfoury.] The idea for this journal emerged from our growing desire to be present and take an active role in the development and reinvigoration of an agenda for the Left in the Arab world. The final impetus for this journalistic venture was the outbreak of the popular Arab revolutions, with all the new beginnings that they contain and inspire. We believe that despite the inundation of “social networks” and the tyranny of the electronic media, there is still a place for periodical publications. That place lies somewhere on the continuum between the intellectual “fast food” that is ...
Keep Reading »Studying Social Streams: Cultural Analytics in Arabic
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One of the challenges of studying technology is learning how to deconstruct the tools from the political ideologies held by those who develop them. As Timothy Mitchell explains in his book Colonising Egypt, the practice of science and systems of ordering national standards are modern projects that enable governments to maintain discipline and surveillance. A cog in the colonial project, the science of documenting every political act reflects a “tendency of disciplinary mechanisms, as Michel Foucault has called these modern strategies of control, was not to expect and dissipate as before, but to infiltrate, and colonise.”[1] In this article, I will discuss a set of ...
Keep Reading »London Event -- The Arab Uprisings: Between Change and Continuity (29 October 2012)
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[This event has already occured. Click here to read Naira Antoun's review of both the event and the book in Egypt Independent.] Panel Discussion and Book Launch Event This event marks the release of Jadaliyya's first book, which is published by Pluto Press. The panel features one of the volume's co-editors (Ziad Abu-Rish) as well as one of its contributors (Adam Hanieh). The panelists will offer commentary on both the book (as a resource) and the general trajectory of the uprisings (as socio-political phenomena). The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012) Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad ...
Keep Reading »الهامش الاحتجاجي يسقط المركز التسلطي: العملية الثورية لا تنتصر إلا بالتضامن العالمي
ظهر كتاب" التهميش والمهمشون في مصر والشرق الأوسط" من تحرير حبيب عائب –راي بوش عن دار العين للنشر في خضم اندلاع الثورات العربية 2011-2012 (وربما تستمر في بلد أو تستأنف في آخر أو تنفجر دون سابق إنذار!)، والسودان والجزائر شاهدتين على ذلك. الكتاب مكون من ثلاثة أقسام، الأول: الهامشية، الفقر، والاقتصاد السياسي شارك به آصف بيات وراي بوش وريم سعد. والثاني: إنتاج وإعادة إنتاج الهامشية شارك به علي القادري وحبيب عائب ومشيرة الجزيري وداليا وهدان. والثالث: حالات من التهميش شارك به رباب المهدي وصقر النور وكمال فهمي وهبة هجرس وصوفي بافا. ينطلق الكتاب من مقدمة كتبت مشتركة بين محرري الكتاب بعنوان" الهامشية والاستبعاد في مصر والشرق الأوسط" تقدم هذه ...
Keep Reading »المثليّات المضمرة في أغاني رباب والخليج العربي
[تنشر هذه المقالة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين "جدلية" و"معازف"] الخطاب المشفّر للأغنية الأنثويّة العربيّة تتبدّى لنا في تجربة المغنية رباب (1958-2010) عراقيّة الأصل وكويتيّة الانتماء، بعد مسيرة تجاوزت الثلاثين عاماً في الحقل الثقافي على مستوى الشعر والموسيقى والغناء، وبعد أرشيف من الأغنيات المصورة، سواءً لصالح الدراما (كالمسلسلات) أو للعرض التلفزيوني، صورة محددة الملامح يمكن تمييزها هنا: - الشخصية الثقافية وعلاماتها في تكريس النموذج المتحول. - القيمة ...
Keep Reading »عن الفن الإسلامي
قبل عامين، نظم معهد العالم العربي في باريس، معرض الفن الاسلامي، كسابقة احتضنت لأول مرة في العاصمة الفرنسية، من قبل إدراة المعهد التي ترى بوجوب تعريف الناس على هذا الفن، الذي اشتهر كإرث قائم بحد ذاته، وليس كحركات مستقلة أو متتابعة. 471 عملا بأحجام، وتكاوين وتشكيلات مختلفة تراوحت بين الخزف والزجاج والرسم والتصاوير والنحت والنجارة والنسيج والسجاد والخط العربي والأسلحة كالسيوف والخناجر، والمجوهرات وأدوات الزينة المختلفة، وحتى صناعة الحيوانات المعدنية. ربما لا يعرف العالم "الغربي" الكثير عن ...
Keep Reading »Rampage School Shootings: Reframing the Discourse
The most recent rampage school shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary (SHE) in Newtown, Connecticut, that claimed the lives of twenty kindergarteners and six school staffers at the hands of another young white male, took the US and the world by a storm. As messages of sympathy poured down from world leaders and interfaith vigils were held in solidarity with the victims and their families, people in their shock and disbelief tried hard to make sense of this unthinkable act of violence against these innocent ...
Keep Reading »برهان شاوي: وهم الحرية
[“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.] ”وهم الحرية: مقاربات حول مفهوم حرية الفكر والإرادة“ المؤلف بُرهان شاوي، عن الدار العربية للعلوم ناشرون 2012 جدلية: كيف تبلورت فكرة الكتاب، وما الذي قادك نحو الموضوع؟ بُرهان شاوي: أنا لم أفكر في تأليف كتاب حول هذا الموضوع، أقصد هنا سؤال الحرية والإرادة، وإنما تشكل الموضوع بشكل عفوي في البداية. فقد كنت أفكر في كتابة روايتيّ (متاهة آدم) و(مشرحة بغداد)، وهما خطوة جديدة في تجربتي ...
Keep Reading »حول العرب وصحوة الفن: تحذيرات من الشعوب المخدَّرة
في خضم التعليقات حول امبريالية المحسوبية الأميركية، والمفهوم الأنثوي للأمن، والحركة الديمقراطية في المكسيك يظهر مقال "الفن والصحوة العربية"، لنعمة خليل في Foreign Policy Focus في الثاني من آب، 2012 كوصف مضيء وممتع للانتاج الفني الذي بدأ يستحوذ على الاهتمام العالمي خلال "الصحوة العربية." لقد شهدنا الكثير من الاحتفاء بالفن العربي منذ 2001[i]، ولكن وضع مقال خليل في منتدى أميركي- للناطقين بالانجليزية عن السياسة الخارجية يثير أسئلة عن العلاقات الدولية التي تُمارس عن طريق الانتاج ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, Fifth Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Ann Elizabeth Mayer (AEM): Many things have changed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since the first edition of this book, published in the mid-1980s, examined proposed “Islamic” versions of human rights. I wanted to update the earlier versions of this book to take into account new developments in the ongoing contention ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order?
Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish, editors. The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? London: Pluto Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish (BRZ): This volume is primarily comprised of articles that were originally published on Jadaliyya during the first six to nine months of the Arab uprisings. As the initial phase of the uprisings subsided, counter-revolution set in, and grand narratives ...
Keep Reading »The Left in Time of Revolution
[This article was translated from Arabic to English by Mark Marshall and Assaf Kfoury. Read the original article in Arabic here.] The Arab revolutions are presenting the Left with a mixture of existential challenges and historical opportunities. The decisive factor will be the Left’s ability to learn from the rich lessons of its own past experiences and vast revolutionary legacy, in order to develop its own project and role in the coming period, and to work out a coherent plan for tackling challenges ...
Keep Reading »NEWTON Year in Review
Since we first launched our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page a little more than a year ago, we have had the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books and articles for Jadaliyya readers. With authors generously agreeing to discuss their new works, offer background information on their research, and allow us to post excerpts from their books and articles, we have been able to offer first looks at some of the most important new work in the field, from established names and rising stars ...
Keep Reading »ملف من الأرشيف :أحمد محمد الخطيب
[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.]
الإسم: أحمد
الشهرة: الخطيب
إسم الأب: محمد
إسم الأم: وضحة الخبيزي
تاريخ الولادة: 1926
الجنسية: كويتي
الإختصاص: إجازة في الطب
الفئة: سياسي
المهنة: طبيب - نائب
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Jadaliyya's First Book is Now Available from Pluto Press
Jadaliyya Co-Editors are excited to announce the release of The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of An Old Order?, published by Pluto Press. This book is the first publication produced by the Arab Studies Institute, co-edited by Jadaliyya Editors, and featuring Jadaliyya contributors. The volume is currently available in paperback and Kindle format at these and other locations: In the US: Macmillan and Amazon US In the UK: Pluto Press and Amazon UK ...
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