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Roundtable on Language of Revolution: The Revolution Continues…(Sabra)
![[Protester wearing a mask showing the face of the martyr Khaled Said. 25 January 2012. Photo by Mostafa Hussein]](/content_images/3/sm_forsabraarticle.jpg "[Protester wearing a mask showing the face of the martyr Khaled Said. 25 January 2012. Photo by Mostafa Hussein]")
[The following article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” It features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, Joshua Stacher, Adam Sabra, and Elliott Colla. Click here to access the full series.] The Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt” raises an important, perennial question: what is a revolution? Without reviewing the copious historical and social science literature on the question, I would answer as follows: a process that radically changes the political and/or social structure of a society. As such, a revolution is not an event, although it often requires dramatic ...
Keep Reading »Transnational Discourses of Power, Revolutions, and Uprisings
![[US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, right, poses for a photo with Egyptian Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in the Pentagon on 25 March 2008. Photo from Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_jjadround_josh.jpg "[US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, right, poses for a photo with Egyptian Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in the Pentagon on 25 March 2008. Photo from Wikimedia Commons]")
[This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher, Adam Sabra, and Elliott Colla.] My friend and colleague Paul Sedra raises important points about the language we use as well as the implications that emerge from what’s in a name. His critique is nuanced and I agree it is vital to reflexively engage with the words we use. During and since the initial eighteen-day uprising that resulted in the forced resignation of long-time president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, many colleagues have ...
Keep Reading »Why the Language of Revolution Matters
![[Mural for prisoned fighter 'Sambo', on Mohamed Mahmoud street. Sambo is serving a military prison sentence after confiscating a shot-gun from police forces during clashes between them and families of martyrs of the revolution on 28 June 2011. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]](/content_images/3/sm_jadround_sedra1.jpg "[Mural for prisoned fighter 'Sambo', on Mohamed Mahmoud street. Sambo is serving a military prison sentence after confiscating a shot-gun from police forces during clashes between them and families of martyrs of the revolution on 28 June 2011. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]")
[This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher.] On 29 June, Mohamed Morsi presented himself to Tahrir Square as Egypt’s new president. The moment was hardly lacking for drama: “You are all my family, my friends,” he told the thousands assembled in the square and the millions watching on television. “We are here today to tell the whole world: these are the Egyptians, these are the revolutionaries, who made this epic, this revolution.” Morsi pointed to the crowd and identified the ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part I: Noura Erakat)
![[Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Image from unknown archive]](/content_images/3/sm_Israeli-settlement-expansion.jpg "[Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Image from unknown archive]")
[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 membership into the community of nations as a state. This move is rife with potential implications, including a shift from bilateralism to multilateralism and an insistence ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part III: Ahmed Barclay and Dena Qaddumi)
![[Image from arenaofspeculation.com]](/content_images/3/sm_barclayqaddumirt.jpg "[Image from arenaofspeculation.com]")
[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 encouraging a “partitioning of the imagination” whereby the Green Line divides “Israel” and “Palestine”. Allied with notions of a “temporary” occupation, this not only legitimises ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part V: Nimer Sultany)
![[Image from apieceofmonologue.com]](/content_images/3/sm_image-19041-bigimage420-aohh.jpg "[Image from apieceofmonologue.com]")
[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)
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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 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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part VI: El-Menshawy)
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[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 its leadership in Egypt, which has become more widespread and visible in the past weeks. For example, when I visited Cairo last April and participated in the “Friday of ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part IV: Brumberg)
![[Egyptian police protest low wages in front of the Ministry of Interior, as army soldiers stand guard atop their armored vehicle in Cairo, Egypt (March, 2011). Image Source: AP]](/content_images/3/sm_partIV.jpg "[Egyptian police protest low wages in front of the Ministry of Interior, as army soldiers stand guard atop their armored vehicle in Cairo, Egypt (March, 2011). Image Source: AP]")
[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 leaders are not “Self-abnegating stewards but shareholders in the authoritarian status quo.” But it is hardly surprising—and indeed quite predictable—that the overall ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part II: Al-Amrani)
![[Tahrir Square demonstrations. Image from unknown archive]](/content_images/3/sm_part2atl.jpg "[Tahrir Square demonstrations. Image from unknown archive]")
[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 Revolution.” He is correct to point out that no real reform of the security services is yet underway. He is right in thinking that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ...
Keep Reading »Whither Palestinian Resistance? Part III Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
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[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
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[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 themselves within their homelands, as opposed to without. How can the Palestinian national body be contextualized in a legacy of diasporic politics and calls for ...
Keep Reading »The Language of Revolution in Egypt: A Response to Stacher and Springborg
[This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, Joshua Stacher, Adam Sabra, and Elliott Colla.] I am indebted to Professors Stacher and Springborg for their trenchant and persuasive critiques of my piece. Indeed, it seems the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the 1952 Revolution was a suitable time to interrogate our use of the ...
Keep Reading »Why the Language of Truth Matters
[This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher.] Paul Sedra’s insistence that the term revolution be used to describe political change in Egypt since 25 January 2011 reflects the triumph of hope over experience, as he halfway admits. According to him, the language of revolution helped convert the 1952 coup into Gamal ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Iran Crisis, Part 1: War on Iran in 2012?
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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part II: Lisa Hajjar)
[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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part IV: Asli Bali)
[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)
[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, ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part VII: Abul-Magd)
[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 ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part III: Shehata)
[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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part I: Sallam)
[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 ...
Keep Reading »The PLO: A Positive Model or Doomed for Failure? Part II Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
[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 ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation (INTRO)
“[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, ...
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