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الدين/الأخلاق، سوريا/المقاومة : أين ”اليسار“ من سوريا؟
محادثة بين اصدقاء. . . وليست بالضرورة للجميع. في مقال كتبته قبل ثلاثة أشهر، انتقدت قسماً من اليسار الذى واصل دعمه للنظام السوري وقمعه الوحشي للمتظاهرين على أساس سجل النظام في المقاومة ومعاداة الامبريالية، سواءً كان هذا السجل مبالغاً فيه أم لا. منذ ذلك الحين، إتسّعت الانتفاضة في سوريا (وازدادت أعداد القتلى وأغلبيتهم من المدنيين) وتكاثرت الانشقاقات في صفوف الجيش وتصاعدت الضغوط الإقليمية و الدولية بشكل كبير. قرأ البعض هذه التطورات ، ولا سيما زيادة التدخل الإقليمي والدولي، كدليل على أن سوريا مستهدفة من الخارج من قِبَل كل القوى الإقليمية والعربية والتركية من جهة، والقوى الغربية من جهة أخرى. ومن اللافت بأنّ المسؤولين الاسرائيليين منقسمون، ...
Keep Reading »من التخلف إلى الإستبداد
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منذ عشرة أشهر وحين بدأت الشرارة الشبابية في سوريا، أبدى مجموع من الشباب والمواطنين والمراقبين دهشتهم مما بدأ يبرز، خصوصاً في العاصمة. وكان آخرون في بلدان عربية قد عاشوا المأساة البطولية، التي قدمها الشاب "بوعزيزي" في تونس. وكان سؤال كبير يطرح نفسه في الرأي العام العربي، بعد هذا الحادث: ما هو الاستثنائي الخطير، الذي جرى تناقله بتونس وبعده في سوريا "بسوق الحميدية" الشهير في دمشق؟ وكانت أحداث مصر الانتفاضية قد أعلنت شرارتها؟ لم يطل الأمر، حتى بدأ الناس يكتشفون ما هو في طور البحث عنه، لقد عرفوا أن ما يصنع الكائن الإنساني إنساناً بعد أن أنجز الاستحقاقات الثلاثة الكبرى، والانتقال إلى وضعية العمل وتطور الدماغ، إنما هو الكرامة الإنسانية. وهنا ظهرت الشعلة ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali (Part 1)
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This is Part 1 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and obejectives with regards to the Middle East. In Part 1, Asli tackels the question of whether Turkey's foreign policy positions vis-a-vis the Middle East have changed with respect to what is otherwise described as a "western orientation." She also explores whether whatever changes have occured can be traced directly to the AKP's rise to power within Turkish domestic policy, or rather form part of a larger strategic calculation on the part of Turkey's political elites. The interview was conducted on 30 November 2011 by phone. It was transcribed by Ziad ...
Keep Reading »Will the Gulf Countries Escape the Revolutionary Fires?
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Moataz Salama, Al-thawra am el-eslah: al-kehyar al-aamen le dual al-khaleej (Revolution or Reform: The Peaceful Choice for Gulf Countries). Cairo: Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies – Strategy Papers No 221, 2011. Moataz Salama in this remarkable study concludes that it is very difficult for the Arab Gulf countries to catch the train of revolutions that so far cross five Arab countries in the unfolding Arab Spring. One might have expected that the sparks of nearby revolutionary fires would have set light to one of these countries. The study doesn't attempt to research the conditions of one particular country, but considers all the countries of the Gulf ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Adam Hanieh, "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States"
Adam Hanieh, Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Adam Hanieh: Although this book is very much focused on the political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman), it has its origins in the six years (1997-2003) that I lived in the West Bank, Palestine. During that time, I had the opportunity to travel throughout the Middle East, and was repeatedly struck by the centrality of the Gulf to the political economy of the region as a whole. This was true not just concerning migration and remittance flows between the Gulf ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: The Back to School Edition
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Just in time for the new semester, we are happy to present a series of eminently teachable texts in the latest edition of NEWTON: James Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History and The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims Saadia Toor, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan We hope that the author interviews and excerpts from these texts, together with the others we have featured thus far in New Texts Out Now, will be helpful for those busy assembling syllabi and reading lists, as well as readers searching for sources on a variety of topics. This is also the perfect ...
Keep Reading »NATO's "Conspiracy" against the Libyan Revolution
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” at the point of a gun, and an ardent supporter of full-scale US military engagement in Libya—referred to a Financial Times article (15 June) that compared the current aerial bombing campaign over Libya and the Kosovo air war in 1999 in order to emphasize “the lack of firepower in the Libya operation.” Boot commented, dwelling on the same comparison with additional details: The earlier war was hardly “Apocalypse Now”—it was tightly limited in its own right. But after 78 days in Kosovo, ...
Keep Reading »South Sudan: Post-Independence Opportunities and Challenges
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The independence of South Sudan, and the birth of the fifty-fourth state on the African continent, is a pivotal and historic event for the state of Sudan, and for the continent as a whole. The significance of the event goes beyond a mere change in the geographical boundaries of the divided country and the end of an era in its political history; its consequences will necessarily result in long-term change in the geopolitical realities of the region, and will lead to the emergence of new strategic equations. Conflict between two elites The independence of the southern state – whose 640 000 square kilometres comprise a quarter of Sudan’s territory, and whose ...
Keep Reading »New Arab Studies Journal Issue . . . Around the Corner!
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the latest issue of Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya's sister organization under the umbrella of the Arab Studies Institute, and its peer-reviewed research publication arm. For more information about the Arab Studies Journal, please visit our About page here. Revolutions, uprisings, demonstrations and protests have unfolded in ways both exultant and heartbreaking across North Africa and the Middle East in the last several months. As individuals, communities, citizenries, and populations tired of decades of a manipulation of history, a usurpation of resources, and a corruption of rulers finally said ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Youth and Citizenship in a Digital Era (Workshop 1 of MRM 2012)
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Workshop Directors Linda Herrera University of Illinois, USA lherrera@illinois.edu Peter Mayo University of Malta, Malta peter.mayo@um.edu.mt Abstract This workshop will tackle challenging questions about changing relationships between education, youth cultural politics, and citizenship in a digital era. There is a growing rift between the citizenship education young people learn in schools versus those they learn in youth driven communication spaces. In authoritarian states and unsteady democracies in the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe the differences are especially acute. Education systems tend to perpetuate notions of citizenship that are highly ...
Keep Reading »Palestine in Scare Quotes: From the NYT Grammar Book
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When I feel the need for my blood pressure to go up, I read the New York Times’ coverage of Israel-Palestine. The extent to which the Times’ reporting (or misreporting) is deeply slanted, selective, and misleading has been thoroughly documented in Richard Falk’s and Howard Friel’s Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss provide excellent ongoing critiques of the Times’ day to day coverage (see, for example, this recent piece by Ali Abunimah), and both were quick to report the seemingly obvious conflict of interest in the fact that Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner’s son ...
Keep Reading »Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising, Take Two: A Response to Rabab el-Mahdi and Her Interlocutors
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Published by Jadaliyya on April 11 2011, Rabab el-Mahdi’s “Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising” precipitated a spirited discussion both in online comments on the article and offline discussions among Jadaliyya readers. While it is impossible to do justice to the article and the debates it has generated, the crux of el-Mahdi’s argument is that the Egyptian uprising – as distinguished from revolution – has been “orientalised” by international and local media, academics, politicians and the local elite. El-Mahdi argues that the “grand-narrative” of Arab Awakening, through which the aforementioned groups are narrating the uprising, does not differ fundamentally from the ...
Keep Reading »رسالة إلى المجتمعين في القاهرة: الوقت من دم والتاريخ لا يرحم
أبلغ رسالة يمكن إيصالها إلى المجتمعين اليوم في القاهرة أن الوقت من دم وحقوق وتقطيع أوصال واعتقال وإهانة وتعذيب وحرق الأشجار والمساجد وحصار وعدوان، خصوصًا على غزة، وتهويد للقدس وعزلها وإبعاد سكانها عنها وتوسيع جنوني للاستيطان، بحيث لن يقبل الشعب الفلسطيني من المجتمعين إضاعة المزيد من الوقت وتأجيل إنهاء الانقسام واستعادة الوحدة الوطنية لأي سبب، بما في ذلك انتظار مصير مبادرة اللجنة الرباعية الدولية، واللهث وراء سراب استئناف المفاوضات وإمكانية توصلها إلى حل متوازن أو انتظار مصير الربيع العربي، خصوصًا استكمال ...
Keep Reading »المصالحة بانتظار 26 كانون الثّاني وما بعده
تتقاطر وفود الفصائل والشخصيات الفلسطينيّة على العاصمة المصرية منذ أيام عدة؛ من أجل التحضير للاجتماعات الفلسطينية القادمة: اجتماع "فتح" و"حماس" في 18/12، والفصائل في 20/12، ولجنة المنظمة في 22/12. وعلى أهمية الاجتماعات التحضيرية التي تشهدها القاهرة إلا أن اختراقًا حقيقيًا في ملف المصالحة لن يتحقق، وإذا كان سيتحقق فعلًا فلن يتحقق قبل 26 كانون الثاني القادم، وهو الموعد الذي تنتهي فيه المهلة التي منحتها اللجنة الرباعية لفسطين وإسرائيل ليقدما وجهة نظرهما إزاء قضيتي الحدود والأمن. وفي ...
Keep Reading »Some Panels from the Upcoming Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) will be holding its 43rd Annual Meeting in Washington DC this weekend, 1-4 December. Over a span of four days, scholars and researchers from across North America, the Middle East, and beyond will present their work via an impressive and diverse array of thematic panels (see complete program here). In order to highlight some of the panels, below is a list of MESA 2011 Annual Meeting panels in which one or more Jadaliyya Co-Editor is involved in as an organizer, ...
Keep Reading »Reclaiming Marx: Principles of Justice as a Critical Foundation in Moral Realism
Marx, in exemplary exposition of his irreconcilable opposition to rigid and reified formulations, wrote in Theories of Surplus Value, in a clearly humanistic and dialectical vein, that Man himself is the basis of his material production, as of any other production that he carries on. All circumstances, therefore, which affect man, the subject of production, more or less modify all his functions and activities, and therefore too his functions and activities as the creator of material wealth, of ...
Keep Reading »Kamal Salibi (1929-2011)
Scholars of Lebanon collectively grieved at the news of the passing of Kamal Salibi, eminent historian, professor, and prolific author, on Thursday, 1 September, 2011. Salibi spent most of his academic career as a faculty member of the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut (AUB), from 1953 until 1998, at which point he was appointed Professor Emeritus. Not only did he help shape the world view of undergraduates for over four successive decades, one would be hard ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: James Gelvin, "The Modern Middle East" and "The Arab Uprisings"
James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write The Modern Middle East: A History originally, and what led you to work on this revised and updated edition? James Gelvin: Oxford originally suggested I do the book and I agreed immediately. It was something I ...
Keep Reading »New Additions to the Literature on Cairo
Nezar AlSayyad. Cairo: Histories of a City. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. David Sims. Understanding Cairo: the Logic of a City out of Control. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. Nezar AlSayyad’s Cairo: Histories of a City and David Sims’ Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Control are the latest additions to a vast body of literature on Cairo’s urban development. In these early days following the 25 January revolution, Cairo ...
Keep Reading »Book Reviews in the Arab Studies Journal's Forthcoming Issue
We are pleased to announce the Book Review section of the upcoming release of the latest issue of Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya's sister organization under the umbrella of the Arab Studies Institute, and its peer-reviewed research publication arm. For more information about the Arab Studies Journal, please visit our About page here. This nineteenth year of the Arab Studies Journal review section continues the Journal’s tradition of bringing select new titles ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers - From Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy, and Citizenship (April 27-28, 2012)
Call for Papers Deadline: November 1, 2011 From Meydan Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy and Citizenship An interdisciplinary graduate student conference, hosted by the political theory graduate students in the Department of Government at Cornell University From revolutionary awakenings in the Arab world to protests against austerity measures in Europe and assaults on labor rights in Wisconsin, a “specter is haunting the world” – the specter of democracy and ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting (March 21-24, 2012)
Call for Papers Deadline: July 15, 2011 Goals Reaching its Thirteenth Session, the Mediterranean Research Meeting (MRM) aims: to foster theoretical and empirical research and dialogue among scholars from countries across the Mediterranean whose research focuses on the Mediterranean to cover all Mediterranean areas as widely as possible, with topics relating to the Middle East, North Africa, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, their mutual relationships and their relations ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Section on Occupation, Intervention, and Law (O.I.L.)
Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest page: Occupation, Intervention, Law or O.I.L. (click here to access the page directly). This page is co-edited by Lisa Hajjar, Sherene Seikaly, Mouin Rabbani, and myself. The purpose of O.I.L. is to explore the relationship between, and the debates within, the fields of armed conflict, politics, and international law. These debates include developments in international law, the implications of intervention, the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of ...
Keep Reading »Top Ten List: What To Expect In Lebanon Now That The STL Indictment is Out
1-Sa`ad al-Hariri will release a videotaped statement from Paris saying that everyone in Lebanon must be brave and steadfast in pursuing justice for assassinated Prime Minister Rafik al Hariri. He will then go out for a five course meal, in Paris. 2-Hassan Nasrallah will release a videotaped statement from an unknown location where he announces that there will be peace and stability in Lebanon. He will sweat profusely, smile, and point his finger at the camera.He will then dispatch armed forces around ...
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