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Roundtable on Iran Crisis, Part 1: War on Iran in 2012?
![[An U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet on duty over the Northern Arabian Sea. Image from U.S. Navy. Photo by Lieutenant Perry Solomon.]](/content_images/3/sm_iranarticle.jpg "[An U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet on duty over the Northern Arabian Sea. Image from U.S. Navy. Photo by Lieutenant Perry Solomon.]")
President Barak Obama’s triumphal proclamation of a US military victory in Iraq upon the December 2011 withdrawal of all US armed forces from that country made it possible for the unelected makers of American national security policy to focus attention on Iran, a nation high up on any list of US enemies since 1979. Indeed, from November 2011 until March 2012, the rhetoric of senior political leaders in both the United States and Israel about Iran’s alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon fueled a frightening depiction in the mainstream media of an Iran that posed an existential threat to Israel and to ‘vital’ US interests (i.e. oil) in the Persian Gulf region. ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part II: Lisa Hajjar)
![[Meir Shamgar in center. Image from idi.org.il]](/content_images/3/sm_ForumPresent1.jpg "[Meir Shamgar in center. Image from idi.org.il]")
[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] The West Bank and the Gaza Strip are the quintessential “hard case” in international humanitarian law (IHL). With the benefit of hindsight, we know that the authors of the 1949 Geneva Conventions were not very good at predicting the future when they promulgated the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV) to regulate the governance ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part IV: Asli Bali)
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[This is the fourth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part VI: Darryl Li)
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[This is the final part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] A reckoning is upon us – not simply a tallying of votes over the campaign for Palestinian membership in the United Nations, but of the dilemmas facing both the Palestinian leadership and the Zionist project. In both cases, there are lessons to be learned for the relationship between ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part VII: Abul-Magd)
![[Workers from Mahalla Textile Company on strike (February 2011). Image Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm]](/content_images/3/sm_partVII.jpg "[Workers from Mahalla Textile Company on strike (February 2011). Image Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm]")
[This is the last of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] Bringing The Economy Back in! I agree with Jason Brownlee that Egypt does have an “incomplete revolution” and is experiencing an era of “post-Mubarak authoritarianism.” I also support his argument that SCAF’s undeclared policy of maintaining the old security apparatus while pursuing ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part V: Brown)
[This is the fifth of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] Don’t Worry, Be Happy Jason Brownlee is right. Egypt is still led by a military leadership that has few democratic credentials; the transition process was badly designed from the beginning and continues to be confusing and uncertain; decision making in Egypt has become even more opaque; ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part III: Shehata)
![[Central Security Forces face Egyptian Protesters. Image Source: M. Soli/ via wikimedia commons]](/content_images/3/sm_partIII.jpg "[Central Security Forces face Egyptian Protesters. Image Source: M. Soli/ via wikimedia commons]")
[This is the third of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] Citizens and State in Post-Mubarak Egypt Jason Brownlee is correct to argue that the most daunting challenge facing efforts to advance democratic change in Egypt is not whether constitution writing should precede elections or choosing between different electoral systems, but security ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part I: Sallam)
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[This is the first of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata.] Introduction Almost six months have passed since former Vice President Omar Suleiman appeared on television to announce to the world that 30 years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule have ended. As monumental and decisive as Mubarak’s defeat was, it remains unclear (or perhaps unsettled) who exactly emerged victorious in this battle: The millions who rallied in public squares in Cairo ...
Keep Reading »The PLO: A Positive Model or Doomed for Failure? Part II Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
![[Mural of Yasser Arafat. Image from pulitzercenter.typepad.com]](/content_images/3/sm_6a00d834520a2e69e2010537147117970b-800wi.jpg "[Mural of Yasser Arafat. Image from pulitzercenter.typepad.com]")
[This is PART II of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly. Read the INTRO, PART I: Palestinians Organizing in Diaspora, Part II: The PLO: A Positive Model or Doomed for Failure?.] 2. Is it fair to say that prior to Oslo, Palestinians had effectively organized themselves in a transnational governing body in the form of the PLO and the PNC? What are some elements of this historical experience that may be taken for granted in the current discourse on representational politics? ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation (INTRO)
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“[T]he formation of a diaspora could be articulated as the quintessential journey into becoming; a process marked by incessant regroupings, recreations, and reiteration. Together these stressed actions strive to open up new spaces of discursive and performative postcolonial consciousness.” -Okwui Enwezor In the wake of Arab revolutions across North Africa and the Gulf, a new discussion on Palestinian self-determination has emerged. While all such discussions touch on foreign colonization, this one is more or less internal to the Palestinian national body as it grapples with issues of representation, self-rule, and democratic governance. Within less than two ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part I: Noura Erakat)
[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi.] September 2011 marks a historic juncture in the struggle for Palestinian self-determination as the Palestinian leadership approaches the United Nations with an application for ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part III: Ahmed Barclay and Dena Qaddumi)
[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] As Darryl Li argues, occupation law has effectively masked the settler colonial origins of the Israeli state as well as ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part V: Nimer Sultany)
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, a
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Full Series with Response by Brownlee)
Hesham Sallam, “Introduction” Zeinab Abul-Magd, “Bringing The Economy Back in!” Issandr Al-Amrani, “An Optimistic Rejoinder to Jason Brownlee” Nathan J. Brown, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” Daniel Brumberg, “A Revolution or a SCAF-Managed Transition?” Mohamed El-Menshawy, “SCAF Cannot Defeat the Square” Samer Shehata, “Citizens and State in Post-Mubarak Egypt” Jason Brownlee, “A Final Response” “Introduction,” by Hesham Sallam [open in separate window] Almost six months have passed ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part VI: El-Menshawy)
[This is the sixth of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] SCAF Cannot Defeat the Square Brownlee’s assessment of SCAF’s role coincides with growing public skepticism of ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part IV: Brumberg)
[This is the fourth of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] A Revolution or a SCAF-Managed Transition? I could not agree more with Jason Brownlee’s thesis that Egypt’s military ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part II: Al-Amrani)
[This is the second of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] An Optimistic Rejoinder to Jason Brownlee It is hard to find fault in the narrative described by my friend Jason Brownlee’s article on “Egypt's Incomplete ...
Keep Reading »Whither Palestinian Resistance? Part III Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
[This is PART III of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly. Read the Keep Reading »
Palestinians Organizing in Diaspora: PART I Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
[This is PART I of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly.] Palestinians are not unique for organizing themselves in diaspora. The Tamils of Sri Lanka have recently elected their transnational government and other ther ethnic polities like indigenous communities in Latin America, including the Mayans of Zapata, have organized ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Roundtable with Noura Erakat on Obama Speech and Palestine
This is a roundtable interview conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat, author Norman Finkelstein, and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami on Friday, May 20 in reference to President Barack Obama's May 18th "Middle East Speech" and U.S. policy towards Palestine and Israel. In a major speech on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and on the Arab Spring, President Obama said a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, the first time a U.S. president has explicitly taken ...
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