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New Texts Out Now: Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam
Maaike Voorhoeve, editor, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What led you to edit this book? Maaike Voorhoeve (MV): When I started my PhD on the contemporary application of Tunisian family law by Tunisian judges, my idea was as follows: the Tunisian family code deviates significantly from Islamic law, and therefore it is interesting to examine if judges apply the code, or whether they apply Islamic law instead. This approach was informed by other studies on family law in the Muslim world that focus on the relationship between legislation and Islam. But during my fieldwork, I ...
Keep Reading »عشق السيدة
يا فاتناً لولاهُ ما هزّني وجدٌ ولا طعمُ الهوى طابَ لي هذا فؤادي فامتلك أمره واظلمه إن أحببتَ أو فاعــــدل ماذا يعني أن تعشق السيدة، أم كلثوم، بعد الأربعين من عمرك، تنصت من كلِّ قلبك، تهيم بآهاتها، وتلينُ أحجارُ روحك في البحّة الفادحة؟ الترنيمة، وحدها، تلمسُ شيئاً في قاع نفسك هوى واستقر، ونبرة الألم، تقدح حزناً لم تكن قد تصورته ممكناً ذات يوم. ها أنت ذا مأخوذ بها، وَلِهٌ، وحزين، تشفّ، مع الأربعين، وتعرف أن كل عاطفة تؤول إلى شجن. تفكّر، أحياناً، أن علاقتك المستجدة بها، ولما تكمل العقد بعد، عتبة لفراق ما، غربة موعودة، غياب، بذرة موت سقطت في دواخلك، نبتت في الأرض المهجورة ...
Keep Reading »الرجل والمرأة صنوان لهما كرامة واحدة
![[ممرضة متطوعة تعالج أحد المتظاهرين بالقرب من ميدان التحرير في ٦ شباط ٢٠١٠. الصورة بعدسة إميليو موريناتي ]](/content_images/3/sm_An-anti-Mubarak-protester-032.jpg "[ممرضة متطوعة تعالج أحد المتظاهرين بالقرب من ميدان التحرير في ٦ شباط ٢٠١٠. الصورة بعدسة إميليو موريناتي ]")
تعاني المرأة من مشاكل عديدة في كل المجتمعات، وتختلف حدة ونوعية هذه المشاكل من مجتمع إلى آخر. والمرأة العربية ليست إستثناء من هذا التعميم. ولكن المؤكد أن مشاكل المرأة العربية ليس سببها كراهية الرجل لها لأن هذه الكراهية المزعومة لا وجود لها. والزعم بأن الرجل العربي يكره المرأة ـ كما جاء في مقال منى الطحاوي في مجلة “فورين بولسي” Foreign Policy" لماذا هم يكرهوننا" ـ ما هو إلا زعم نمطي يتردد في المجتمعات الغربية، و تردده كل من أرادت لنفسها شهرة و حياة تحت أضواء الإعلام الغربي. لم يكن غريبا اًن أتذكر فيلم "آيان هيرسي علي” عن الإسلام "Obsession" والذي صورت فيه الدين الإسلامي كدين مهين للمرأة والرجل المسلم كرجل يتعامل مع المرأة على أنها جسد لقضاء ...
Keep Reading »Al-Jazeera's (R)Evolution?
![[Screenshot of Al-Jazeera host Faisal Al-Kassem reporting on Syria.]](/content_images/3/sm_Aljazeera.jpg "[Screenshot of Al-Jazeera host Faisal Al-Kassem reporting on Syria.]")
In March of 2011, an unusually forthright editorial by an anonymous writer made its way into The Peninsula Qatar, an English language daily bankrolled by a member of the emirate’s ruling family. At the time of publication, protesters had already toppled the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, uprisings were in full swing in Libya and Yemen, and in the Persian Gulf, Bahrainis were gearing up for what would prove to be a bloody battle, only days after the op-ed ran. “Businesses and institutions are treated as ‘holy cows,’” the author wrote in the editorial, entitled “Why are we so timid?” “What essentially ails the Qatari media (English and Arabic-language newspapers) is ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba Abdullah
![[Image from www.nadinenouawad.com]](/content_images/3/sm_we_can_do_it_arabic.jpg "[Image from www.nadinenouawad.com]")
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 a movement’s progress is reassessed. The most prevalent criticism of Manal al-Sharif was that she was accepting an award for political dissent when she was only, at ...
Keep Reading »Call for Artists: Watermill Center/ArteEast 2013 Residency (January-June 2013)
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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 applicants is 1 June 2012. Who Can Apply? Artists, art practitioners, and institutions based or active in the Middle East and North Africa are invited to apply for ...
Keep Reading »Suleiman and the Revolution (In both Arabic and English)
![[Suleiman Abdel Hakam. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_ArabiHor_Suleiman.jpg "[Suleiman Abdel Hakam. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
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 لأسباب معروفة. الشريط الأول في هذه السلسلة بعنوان "سليمان والثورة". وسليمان عبد الحكم هو طفل مصري في السادسة من عمره يعيش مع والديه بمنطقة العجوزة بالقاهرة. ...
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 actual, even thematic, exhibitions. Instead this volume is emblematic of bricolage, a genre that is eclectic and reflects a grouping-together of diverse thematic subjects ...
Keep Reading »Contesting Narratives, Locating Power: Updates from Jadaliyya's Second Co-Sponsored Conference on the Arab Uprisings
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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 Nabeel Rajab. Jadaliyya will be tweeting highlights from the conference (follow the #JadLund) as well as updating this post with text, images, soundbites, and ...
Keep Reading »Art and Subversion: An Interview with Omar Kholeif
![[Still image from Khaled Hafez, “On Presidents and Superheroes” (2009, video). Copyright and courtesy of the artist.]](/content_images/3/sm_noborders.jpg "[Still image from Khaled Hafez, “On Presidents and Superheroes” (2009, video). Copyright and courtesy of the artist.]")
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 him on Twitter here.] Anthony Alessandrini (AA): What was the idea behind this show, and what made you decide to curate it? Omar Kholeif (OK): The spark for Subversion ...
Keep Reading »NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
![[New Texts Out Now]](/content_images/3/sm_NEWTONLOGO.jpg "[New Texts Out Now]")
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 Edition and The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know Amal N. Ghazal, Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the ...
Keep Reading »How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East
![[Changes in traditional Sudanese dress. Image by Khaled Albaih]](/content_images/3/sm_large.jpg "[Changes in traditional Sudanese dress. Image by Khaled Albaih]")
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 histories, but the linkages between them are crucial. Moreover, the “state” is a relatively new phenomenon in the Middle East. In order to study gendered political economy in ...
Keep Reading »Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players (Beirut, 31 May - 1 June 2012)
Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players 31 May - 1 June 2012 Auditorium A, West Hall American University of Beirut (AUB) Beirut, Lebanon This Symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which was launched and is supported by the Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. AUB has invited over twenty scholars from the Arab world and abroad to this ...
Keep Reading »The Elevation of Jeffrey Feltman
A blog visited mainly by UN insiders announces that US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman is up for a very important UN job. Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Public Information Samir Sanbar’s blog, UN Forum, notes that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is set to replace B. Lynn Pascoe with Feltman in the post of UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs. The office was created in 1992 to help identify and resolve political conflicts around the world. ...
Keep Reading »"We are All Palestinian Prisoners": Exclusive Interview with Artist Hafez Omar (VIDEO)
Hafez Omar, the young Tulkarm-based artist and activist, is the man behind many of the images we have come to associate with online Palestinian and Arab revolutionary campaigns—from the hunger striker Khader Adnan's stencil with a lock for a mouth, to the late Egyptian Azharite Sheikh Emad Effat, killed by the military police in Cairo in December. His most recent design, that of a faceless, blindfolded Palestinian prisoner, became a Facebook sensation as thousands adopted it and other variations of the ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 15)
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 ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Presidential Duel an Epic Moment (Video)
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 ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants: Disobedience, Counter-Conduct and Political Imagination in the New Mediterranean (Island of Ikaria, 17-27 June 2012)
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 ...
Keep Reading »Marcel Khalife: An Interview
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 ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »The Day Hafez al-Assad Died
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 ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report Spring 2012
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 ...
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 ...
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