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"كان ديمقريطس وهرقليطس فيلسوفين. اعتبر أولهما الحالة البشرية مضحكة باطلة، فما ظهر بين الناس إلا والضحك والسخرية ملء وجهه. أما هرقليطس فقد شفق على الحالة البشرية وعطف عليها، فما انقشع الأسى عن وجهه يوماً، وماخلت عيناه من الدموع.." مونتين الخيال / الثورة: الثورة "فعل رفضوي حاسم" ، فهي تقوم على رفض الحاضر كاملاً وكلية، والجنوح بشتى الوسائل التعبيرية –بداية من اللغة- إلى نقضه وإزالته ، و إستبداله -وليس إصلاحه- ، وهو فعل لا يصدر بمنأى عن التخيل الحر إذ أنه قمة الحرية في التخيل ،ماكانت لتكون ثورة مالم تكن فكرة رحيل إبن علي ومبارك حتى اللحظة الأخيرة الماقبل ثورية بل وفي اثناء الثورة إلا محض خيال فاضح وجامح. فمن منا تخيل يوماً أن طغاة العرب ...
Keep Reading »هل كان الربيع العربي جديراً بذلك كله؟: غطرسة السلطة التي تذهب بالعقل
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إنها البداية فحسب كنا على وشك ركوب الطائرة من واشنطن إلى إسطنبول، عندما ظهرت هذه الصورة على الشاشة عند البوابة: عنوان على قناة سي إن إن: "هل كان الربيع العربي جديرا بذلك العناء كله ؟" اعتاد المرء، عموماً، أن يرى ويسمع تعليقات "خاصة" حول المنطقة في وسائل الإعلام الرئيسية. ولكن، بين الفينة والأخرى، يطل برأسه علينا أمر شديد الإثارة، يبعث فينا الدهشة. ولعل هذا العنوان واحد من تلك التقارير، التي باتت تعبّر عن المزاج الغالب لما تقدمه ليس فقط الـ سي إن إن، ولكن معظم القنوات الرئيسية الأخرى، بعد ردود الفعل العنيفة على الفيلم المسئ لنبي الإسلام. لا شك أن الفيلم كان مهيناً وبائساً، وأن ردود الأفعال العنيفة والقتل الذي نتج عنها كانت مثيرة للغضب وتبعث على ...
Keep Reading »Conference: Aesthetics and Politics - Counter-Narratives, New Publics, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World (Cairo, 16-26 Sep. 2012)
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"Aesthetics and Politics: Counter-Narratives, New Publics, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World" is the theme of the International Summer Academy the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) of the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien and the ‘Center for Translation Studies’ of the American University in Cairo are jointly organizing from September 16 — 27, 2012 at the American University in Cairo in cooperation with the English Department of Cairo University and the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies of Philipps University Marburg, Germany. The Summer Academy is designed to support scholarly networks and ...
Keep Reading »Anatomy of the US Targeted Killing Policy
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As President Barack Obama geared up for the 2012 campaign, he and his administration were eager to capitalize on their most bipartisan “victory” -- the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011. With the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, top officials took to podiums to deliver remarks that, while differing in some particulars, were consistent in their message: The targeted killing policy is legal, it is necessary to keep Americans safe, it is effective in eliminating terrorist threats, and it is undertaken with great care to minimize civilian casualties. Meanwhile, other top national security officials -- some on the record, some ...
Keep Reading »The South Gathers in Tehran
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Next week, representatives from one hundred and eighteen of the world’s one hundred and ninety two states will gather in Tehran, Iran for the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. Created in 1961, the NAM was a crucial platform for the Third World Project (whose history I detail in The Darker Nations). It was formed to purge the majority of the world from the toxic Cold War and from the mal-development pushed by the World Bank. After two decades of useful institution-building, the NAM was suffocated by the enforced debt crisis of the 1980s. It has since gasped along. In the corners of the NAM meetings, delegates mutter about the arrogance of the North, ...
Keep Reading »Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon’s magnum opus, was published in 1961, a few days after his death. The book was not only influential for several generations of grassroots movements and activists in Africa, the United States, and Latin America; it was also discussed and debated extensively in intellectual circles across the globe. The reception of the book was more mitigated in the Arab world. This might be due to Fanon’s sweeping criticism of national bourgeoisie, which seized power after decolonization and became an intermediary class between Western powers and local populations. The Martiniquan intellectual was skeptical of revolutions from above, as was the ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Akram Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East
Akram Fouad Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Akram Khater (AK): This book was partly a happenstance, and came partly out of a keen awareness of a gaping hole in Middle Eastern scholarship. The happenstance is common enough in scholarly research. Tired of the texts I was reading at the Bibliotheque Nationale for my PhD dissertation, I turned to the Arabic card catalog to browse for interesting manuscripts. I stumbled upon one titled Aghrab imra’a fil ‘alam [The Strangest Woman in the World]. With such an unabashedly over the ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants: Arab Feminist Knowledge Production Meeting (Beirut, 27-31 July 2012)
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Arab Feminst Knowledge Production Meeting 27-31 July 2012 Beirut, Lebanon What are We Calling for Exactly? Young women activist, writers, and feminists have been setting up alternative electronic media websites/blogs to provide more critical coverage and points of views on various issues in the Arab region, including gender issues, Islamophobia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the recent uprisings in the region. Many of these websites, journals, and even blogs do not have the space to reflect on the work that they are producing, especially regarding language, access, responsible publishing, privilege, and honest representation. What are the common ...
Keep Reading »القرآن ـ جزء من أوروبا؟
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[نشر المقال في صحيفة فرانكفورتا الجماينة Frankfurter Allgemeine بتاريخ 16 ابريل 2012 وهي من أهم الصحف الألمانية وأكثرها توزيعا وتأثيرا. ترجم المقال كل من حامد فضل الله وعصام حداد.] إنها لمجازفة المطالبة بجعل القرآن الكريم مقبولا وواضحا كجزء من الثقافة الغربية إذ لا يوجد موضوع آخر يلهب العلاقة التي تربط بين العالم الإسلامي والغرب الأوروبي. وقد يبدو للوهلة الأولى أن هذا الجدل خاضع لحسابات سياسية مما يجعل التوصل إلى خلاصة مقنعة أمراً متعسراً. ولكن لا بد من الإقرار بادئ ذي بدء بأن هناك نواة تاريخية لهذا
Keep Reading »Doha's Failed Olympic Bid
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On 24 May, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ended an executive meeting in Quebec, Canada. Among the topics on the docket was the selection of potential host cities for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Of the five “applicant cities” submitting bids for consideration–Baku, Doha, Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo– Baku (Azerbaijan) and Doha (Qatar) were not selected to proceed to the “candidate” phase of the bidding process. After losing a bid for the 2016 games (to Rio de Janeiro), this marks Doha’s second unsuccessful Olympics bid. This episode is a relatively minor setback: failed event bids are common for many cities, and the bidding often has less to do with the global ...
Keep Reading »Media on Bahrain: An Interview with Alaa Shehabi
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Hotspot, Bloodspot, or Blindspot? Bahrain's protracted and intransigent political deadlock remains one of the paradoxes of the Arab uprisings. At the nexus of regional influence, global political power, and economic interests, the human rights and democracy movement there face colossal challenges to realizing its goals. Not the least of these is a complicated network of media that both advantages and disadvantages the regime and its adversaries. In this video interview, we speak with Alaa Shehabi, a British-born Bahraini who is an economics lecturer, activist and writer on the varied aspects of media in this ongoing conflict. From the hyperbolic narratives of ...
Keep Reading »Malayalee Associations in the Gulf: Pushing Boundaries of Political Imagination
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The migration of Keralites to the Arab Gulf region has generated various forms of translocal political moorings in the host countries. They are translocal in the sense that they are impacted by even the minutest currents within the political intricacies and specificities of Kerala politics, yet are increasingly identified and consumed by the migrants from Kerala—popularly known as Malayalees—in the Gulf. This article elucidates the ways in which Kerala politics, as a “translocal” entity, are being perceived and produced by expatriate Malayalees and their organizations within the political constraints of the Gulf monarchies. A plethora of organizations make visible ...
Keep Reading »The Southern Silk Road
1. Paralysis in Washington US policy on Iran is paralyzed. A report from mid-September by the Iran Project shows how the Obama agenda is poorly considered. This report, “Weighing the Costs of Military Action Against Iran,” comes with the imprimatur of Washington’s retired eminences: politicians (Republican Senator Chuck Hagel and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton), ambassadors (Frank Wisner and Thomas Pickering), and military officers (Admiral William Fallon and General Anthony Zinni). It suggests ...
Keep Reading »Radical or Reactionary: Islamic Resistance in Apartheid South Africa and Lessons for Interpreting the Arab Spring
In a recent article posted on the website of the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa, an observer of the recent Egyptian elections declared that, “Just as Mandela emerged from the dungeons of apartheid, so too have Morsi and thousands of his colleagues from Mubarak’s hideous torture cells.”[i] The significance of the events in Egypt, particularly the victory of one of the world’s most high-profile Islamic political parties, is no doubt a source of inspiration for many. Regardless of one’s opinions of ...
Keep Reading »NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
With a new semester on the horizon, NEWTON is about to kick into high gear once again. Below are a few amazing posts that you might have missed the first time around. If you wish to recommend a book to be reviewed or if you have just published a book or a peer-reviewed article, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com Mohamed Daadaoui, Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge: Maintaining Makhzen Power Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture Belén ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report Fall 2012
PIVOT, REBALANCE, RETRENCH A 2011 poll of Washington savants found that, Democrat and Republican, most of them view the Middle East as declining in strategic value in relation to Asia and the Pacific. On cue, the Obama administration rolled out its plan to “pivot” to Asia in deploying the US Navy and investing diplomatic energy. It turns out, however, that a major reason for this “rebalancing” is to police China’s access to the Indian Ocean and, from there, the Persian Gulf. Is US grand strategy really ...
Keep Reading »مأساة الكتب في مصر
واقعتان مررت بهما الأسبوع الماضي جعلتاني أتحسر على وضع الكتب والقراءة والثقافة بوجه عام في مصر. الواقعة الأولى حدثت لي في مكتبة جامعة نيويورك حيث أقضي هذا الصيف في محاولة لكتابة الفصل الأخير من كتاب عن التاريخ الاجتماعي والثقافي لمصر في القرن التاسع عشر. الكتاب يتضمن فصلين عن تاريخ الطب، الأول عن تاريخ مؤسسة القصر العيني، والثاني عن تاريخ الصحة العامة في البلد ككل وليس القاهرة فحسب. أحد الأسئلة المحورية التي أطرحها في هذا الكتاب هو معرفة موقف المجتمع المصري من الطب الحديث، وتحديدا من تلك الممارسات ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: James Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know
James Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): How did you come to write this book? James Gelvin (JG): In the winter of 2011, I made contact with Oxford University Press about doing a condensed, “trade” (i.e., mass market) version of my The Modern Middle East: A History. I thought this would be useful because, among other things, the book lays out the historical background for the Arab uprisings we were witnessing. The ...
Keep Reading »Artist Call: NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond (New York, 16 July Deadline)
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, New York 11217 | p. 718.230.0492 | f. 718.230.0246 Important Dates: July 16, 2012: Submission deadline August 1, 2012: Artists announced via e-mail and web Exhibition Dates: October, 2012 – January, 2013 Exhibition Theme Be it in New York, Paris, or Bamako, the world is experiencing a paradigm shift that began in Africa. Worldwide, members of the financial and racial majority are no longer satisfied with matriculating into a ...
Keep Reading »Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Era: Critique of an Emerging Phenomenon
In a clip that is quite telling of how far relations between digital-savvy youth and power structures have come; the botched, now incarcerated, heir to Egypt’s throne, Gamal Mubarak, was asked a question on his view regarding the youth of Facebook. The young Mubarak dismissed the question mockingly by asking another reporter to answer it causing the audience to burst out in a fit of laughter. That was prior to the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today, as the leaked photograph of Egypt’s state ...
Keep Reading »NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
After taking a brief summer vacation, New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) will return next week. In the meantime, here are a few great posts that you might have missed from the past few months: Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and ...
Keep Reading »من وأد الإله إلى ختان الحق
المرأة ليست مهنة ولا انتماء سياسي إنها إنسانة هذا المجتمع! إن من الأمور المسكوت عنها في الثورات العربية، ولست هنا للفصل أو الكلام في جدلية التحقق والامتناع، وإن ظل الزمن يحتم السيرورة مسعى، وهي ما يوازي أو لا ينفك صلة ببعضه، في أن التحرر السياسي المتخذ صورة الدفاع عن الكرامة وإسقاط الدولة البوليسية وطلب العدالة الاجتماعية- الاقتصادية، يتوازى معه التحرر الثقافي بهدم الفساد وجذوره وآلياته، والتحرر الذهني بتهاوي القيم والأفكار والمبادئ نحو بدائل لها قيد التشكل والانبعاث، والتحرر الجسدي وقوفاً ضد انتهاك ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism. London and New York: Zed Books, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Hamid Dabashi (HD): As you well know, a massive set of revolutionary uprisings are sweeping across North Africa and Western Asia, from Morocco to Syria and from Bahrain to Yemen. This is all happening in the aftermath of an equally important uprising code-named the Green Movement in Iran. While the Arab uprisings were under way, the Eurozone crisis and civil ...
Keep Reading »The Arab World and the Media's Symbiotic Revolutions
The Arab world has forever changed, and so has the media. Some would argue governance, as we've known it, is also changing. Business is certainly changing; in fact, the whole world might just be changing too. The question is, is social media the catalyst? My simple answer is yes. For just over a year now, I've been fortunate enough to be immersed in a series of chaotic and fateful events that had deprived me of sleep, catapulted my career, but most importantly connected me through social media, at times ...
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