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Sargon Boulus: The Child of War

[Sargon Boulus (1944-2007). Image by Samuel Shimon]

[''Tiflat al-Harb'' appeared in Sargon Boulus' posthumous collection `Azma Ukhra li-Kalb al-Qabila (Baghdad and Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2008) The Child of War (To an Iraqi child who was born, and died, during the war)   The child came The one missing in the war She stood at the end of the hallway Holding a candle I see her whenever I wake up at the first hour of dawn She waits for me to hit the wall of reality   Her eyes, vast because of the of horror of wisdom, are patient among the hills’ thorns There, where my thoughts search at night My hand can break her chains My voice might pose questions to the murderer or to God Questions ...

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Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanes: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Arabe

[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]

[This interview was conducted by Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat, and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanés: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Árabe [Traducido para Rebelion por Loles Olivan.] Ahmad Shokr y Anjali Kamat (AS y AK): El pueblo sirio ha estado resistiendo desde hace meses y sigue saliendo a las calles a pesar de que la represión va en aumento. ¿Cómo caracterizaría el levantamiento en Siria y hacia dónde cree que se dirige? Fawaz Trabulsi (FT): La gente con la que he hablado en Siria me dice que la moral está muy alta. La gente es muy optimista. Creo que les ...

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...أيام السينما المغربية: المسكوت عنه، ولكن

مشهد لفيلم«ايام الوهم» لطلال السلهامي

تسعة أفلام شاركت في تظاهرة احتفائية بالسينما المغربية في بداية شهر أيلول/ سبتمبر في برلين. فرصة ثمينة لاكتشاف تجارب شابة لا تخلو من راديكاليّة، في طرحها لقضايا شائكة مثل حقوق المرأة والقمع السياسي والمجتمع البطريركي... رغم افتقارها أحياناً إلى العمق الفكري والنضج الفنّي. تحت شعار «التحول والتنوع»، أقيمت  «أيام السينما المغربية في برلين» بين أوّل أيلول (سبتمبر) والرابع منه، في سينما «أرسنال»، بالتعاون مع «مركز الشرق المعاصر». في معرض تقديمهم للتظاهرة التي أُعدّ لها قبل اندلاع الربيع العربي، وصف المنظمون الأفلام التسعة التي اختيرت للمشاركة بأنّها أعمال مخرجين ومخرجات مغاربة أُنجزت بين عامي 2001 و2010 تخترق التابُوات الاجتماعية، وتتناول مواضيع تعكس التحولات ...

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Abbas's Next Move

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Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September fell considerably short of Yasir Arafat’s electrifying 1974 speech from the same podium. Nor did it compare with Haidar Abdul Shafi’s dignified – and unanswerable – call for justice at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference. Yet it may come to be seen as a historic turning point in the fortunes of the Palestinian people. Abbas’s agenda was transparent. He was sending the Americans a message: grow a spine, stop appeasing Israel and launch credible negotiations – because if you don’t, my next failure will be my last. There are several problems with his approach. For one, the so-called peace process ...

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Academic Tourists Sight-Seeing the Arab Spring

[American University in Cairo downtown campus. Image Source: culturelatte.wordpress.com]

I would like to share with this short piece a concern that several of us in academia in Cairo have been facing with the impact of the Arab Spring, to point to some frustrations regarding the continuing unequal academic relationship between so-called “local” and Western experts of the Middle East, between broadly speaking the North and the South (although this classification is clearly clichéd), and the reshuffling of the international division of labour in the academic field whereby inequality is and will still be prevailing. Without sounding xenophobic, which is a growing concern that personally worries me more than ever, there is much to say about the ongoing ...

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Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 3)

[Center: Leila Khaled. Image from unknown archive.]

[This is Part 3 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, and here to read Part 2.] The 1960s were particularly formative for many activists and thinkers in the Middle East, Leila Khaled among them. It was the high point of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), one of the major political parties of the period. Many of its members would splinter off and develop new organizations, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This decade also marked important shifts ...

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Call for Participants: IFPB Olive Harvest Delegation (Palestine, 29 October-11 November, 2011)

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IFPB Olive Harvest Delegation Palestine October 29 - November 11, 2011 This delegation will provide an opportunity to participate in the Palestinian olive harvest season — generally a time of great community activism, where people of all ages from Palestine, Israeli peace and justice groups, and international groups join farmers as they reap their harvest. It is international support that makes the harvest possible in many cases. You will hear from Palestinian farmers and learn of the importance of agriculture to the Palestinian economy and culture. As with other delegations, you will also meet additional Israelis and Palestinians working for peace and justice. To ...

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دليل المواطن الصبور للرد على خصوم رفع الأجور

61% من قوة العمل في بلادنا يعملون مقابل أجر. 72% من دخل الأسر المصرية يأتي من الأجور. 44% من دخل الفقراء يموله العمل المأجور. لهذا فإن الأجور أمر يمس حياة الأغلبية الكاسحة منَّا، مما يجعل منها عن حق المقياس الذي يعتمده المصريون للحكم على أحوالهم بعد الثورة. لكن هذا الطموح المشروح في حياة أفضل يصطدم بحجج يقدمها متخصصون وسياسيون ومسئولون حكوميون. 1.   الإنتاجية ضعيفة والمصريون كسالى يكرر المعارضون لرفع الأجور في مصر هذه الحجة المرة تلو المرة. عندما ينتج الموظف أو العامل المصري الكسول أولا يصبح من حقه ثانيا أن يطالب برفع أجره. ويقارن المتخصصون بين معدلات إنتاجية المصريين وبين إنتاجية العاملين من شعوب أخرى في قطاعات مختلفة للتدليل على هذه الفكرة. لكنها في الحقيقة ...

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Report on Palestine's Application for Admission to the United Nations

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[The following is the latest from the Columbia University affiliated Security Council Report on the Palestine statehood bid.] Expected Council Action
On Monday, 26 September, it is expected that the Council will meet in consultations at 3pm on the issue of Palestine’s application for UN membership. However, at time of writing it remained unclear if or when the Security Council might vote on such an application. Key Recent Developments 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally submitted Palestine’s application for UN membership to the Secretary-General today (Friday, 23 September) before his address to the General Assembly. Ambassador Nawaf Salam of Lebanon, ...

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Nour Merheb, RIP (1985-2011)

[Nour Merheb, Image from Facebook]

On September 16, 2011, Nour Merheb killed himself. Nour did not leave a wife, husband, or children behind. He did not publish any books, did not write opinion pieces for influential newspapers, and did not parade himself in front of television cameras to provide expert opinions. He did not die in a protest facing down an authoritarian regime, he was not killed by an occupier's bullet, and his death will not inspire a popular uprising in Lebanon. He was not what academics would call an intellectual, nor was he what politicians would claim as a martyr. But it feels wrong to let his death go unmarked, as if his citations, or markings, could only ever be found in books, ...

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Text of Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly

[President Mahmoud Abbas. Image from unknown archive.]

[The following statement was made by President and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the U.N. General Assemby on 23 September, 2011. It was published by the U.N.] Mr. President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the outset, I extend my congratulations to H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz AI-Nasser on his assumption of the Presidency of the Assembly for this session, and wish him all success. I extend today my sincere congratulations, on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian people, to the government and people of South Sudan for its deserved admission as a ...

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Statement by Palestine Youth Movement on the September 2011 Declaration of Statehood

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[The following statement was issued in both English and Arabic by the Palestinian Youth Movement on September 22, 2011. It was recently published on pal-youth.org] Statement on the September 2011 Declaration of Statehood We, in the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), stand steadfastly against the proposal for Palestinian statehood recognition based on 1967 borders that is to be presented to the United Nations this September by the Palestinian official leadership. We believe and affirm that the statehood declaration only seeks the completion of the normalization process, which began with faulty peace agreements. The initiative does not recognize nor address that our ...

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ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi

[The following statement was issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 30 September 2011.] NEW YORK – U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime. ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, "The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial ...

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حِنّة

 نهض في السادسة والنصف كعادته منذ سنين طويلة، بلا منبّه، منذ أصبحت مثانته أفضل مُنَبّه طبيعي يجبره على الاستيقاظ وزيارة الحمام أكثر من مرة. وقف أمام المرآة في الحمّام الذي يحاذي غرفته. غسّل وجهه وحلق ذقنه. أخرج طقم أسنانه من القدح المليء بالماء وأعاده إلى فمّه وثبّته فيه. أعاد نظاراته إلى وجهه. وفي طريقه من الحمام نحو المطبخ كي يعدّ الشاي، وقف أمام التقويم المعلق على جدار الممر كما كان يفعل كل صباح. وهي عادة قديمة لم يقلع عنها حتى بعد أن تقاعد وخلت أيامه من المواعيد وقلّت مشاغله وواجباته. فقد اعتاد ...

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New Texts Out Now: Mohamed Daadaoui, "Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge"

Mohamed Daadaoui, Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge: Maintaining Makhzen Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Mohamed Daadaoui: I wrote the book because of a long-standing interest in my own country’s political system and the remarkable longevity of monarchical rule in Morocco. Looking at the literature in general, the book attempts to fill the literature gap in Maghreb studies in the English language, and sheds light on the idiosyncrasies of ...

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Study: U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians

[The following statement was issued by Inter Press Service on September 21, 2011. It was recently published on commondreams.org] New Study Says U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians WASHINGTON - U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at the U.S. military presence, at civilian non- combatants in order to exploit their possible intelligence value, according to a new study published by the Open Society ...

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Will the Gulf Countries Escape the Revolutionary Fires?

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 ...

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Witnessing the Censored Exhibit: "A Child's View from Gaza"

A Child’s View from Gaza. 917 Washington Street, Oakland, CA. Currently on view. A Child’s View from Gaza, a traveling exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian children living in the Gaza Strip, opened in downtown Oakland, California this week as scheduled, despite the fact that the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland (MOCHA) canceled their agreement to house the project this Fall. After the news on September 8 that Zionist groups had successfully pressured MOCHA’s Board of Directors to cancel their ...

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Missing Edward Said

Today marks the eighth anniversary of the passing of Edward Said. It is an anniversary that continues to fill me with a deep sense of melancholy, one shared, I know, by so many admirers of his work and his example. The ways in which we miss Said today, and have found ourselves missing him over the course of this bloody decade, are innumerable. Some comfort can be found in the fine work inspired by Said’s legacy in the intervening years, including the excellent and inclusive new volume Edward Said: A ...

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Bahrain's 14 Feb Coalition Press Release: Winning the Psychological War against a Defeated Regime

[The following press release was issued in both English and Arabic by Bahrain's 14 February Coalition on 24 September 2011.] Winning the Psychological War against a Defeated Regime The call of the 14 February Youth Coalition to the masses to participate in the ‘Friday Crawl’ to Martyrs Square (formerly Pearl Roundabout) was adhered to by thousands and proved a devastating psychological blow towards the blood thirsty Al Khalifa regime, who added to their long list of crimes against humanity by ...

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From Gun to Pen: The Palestinian Revolution Lives

[Note: This Is My Picture When I Was Dead is the opening film at the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival, Monday, 26 September 2011 at Landmark E Street Cinema, 7pm. The festival runs Monday-Friday 26-30 September. For more information please visit http://dcpff.tumblr.com. This review of the film was originally posted on 11 May 2011.] This Is My Picture When I Was Dead. Directed by Mahmoud Al-Massad. Netherlands/Jordan, 2010. "If you don’t know Ma’moun Mreish, you don’t know the history ...

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An Excerpt from 'Remarking January 25 - A Series of Six'

Months have passed since the uprising of 25 January and yet many of the struggles for transformative change that the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak attempted to advance remain at best incomplete and at worst under attack. Immediately after Mubarak’s resignation, it was hard to imagine that seven months later Egypt would remain a country of emergency laws and military trials, and one in which labor strikes and demands for distributive justice are constantly demonized and dismissed by ...

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Text of Netanyahu Speech to the UN General Assembly

[The following statement was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assemby on 23 September, 2011. It was published by the UN.] Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and good ...

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Palestine at the UN. . . . Again

Just about ninety minutes ago Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, posed the perennial Palestinian question to the delegations assembled in New York: Is there one people too many or one state too few? For the past two decades, bilateral negotiations have quarantined a matter of broad international concern and consequence. Under the veneer of the “peace process,” Israel has consolidated its occupation and escalated its colonial settlement ...

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