Follow Us
From the Editors
Jadaliyya Revamps Arabic Section . . . click here
Jadaliyya Launches Arabian Peninsula Page . . . Click here!
الآن . . . القسم العربي بحلة جديدة
The Culture Page Returns . . . . click here
Jadaliyya launches its new Syria page . . . Click here.
Want to find out about new books? Visit our expanding NEWTON page. Click here.
Call for Photos: Become a Contributing Photographer at Jadaliyya
Internship Opportunities at ASI (Jadaliyya, Arab Studies Journal, FAMA). Click here!
The Jadaliyya Egypt Elections Watch page archives! Click here for comprehensive coverage.
Interested in writing a Review for Jadaliyya? Visit our Call for Reviews here.
Yemen
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 8)
![[Saudi tank at a weapons exhibit at Janadriyya Festival, Riyadh, 2012. Photo by Rosie Bsheer]](/content_images/3/sm_childintank.jpg "[Saudi tank at a weapons exhibit at Janadriyya Festival, Riyadh, 2012. Photo by Rosie Bsheer]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] "Bahrain protest leaders appear in court for retrial," a Reuters article on the trial of thirteen Bahraini protest leaders that was adjourned because two defendants were too ill to attend. "Kuwait finance minister under fire, faces grilling," Kuwaiti opposition MPs filed two requests to investigate Finance ...
Keep Reading »Patriotic Criticism
This post is in response to some people’s comments regarding my criticism of aspects of the Yemeni transitional government. I was told by someone that my criticism is “accusatory, and will cause the state to fail!” I am humbled by the power this person has given me, as I do not have the means to make the state fail or succeed, I wish I did. Let me start by saying that the transitional government has of course taken many positive steps, including: Giving employment contracts for waste collectors, which will reduce corruption and guarantee the workers their right to salaries. Removing twenty generals and numerous governors from their posts. ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Junctures: Documenting the Yemeni Uprising on Film
![[The Life March arrives in Change Square, Sana'a. Photo by Ammar Basha 2011]](/content_images/3/sm_Bashaarticlephoto.jpg "[The Life March arrives in Change Square, Sana'a. Photo by Ammar Basha 2011]")
The two films presented here, “One day in the heart of the revolution ” and “Another day in the heart of the revolution,” provide snapshots of the Yemeni uprising in 2011. As a filmmaker, I wanted to show Yemenis who have taken to the streets, the ordinary citizens who fought for change against overwhelming odds. While Al-Jazeera and other international media outlets focused on the calculated remarks of politicians and political analysts, I sought to capture the voices of the revolutionaries, the hope, anger, frustration, and resolve that are the true power behind the Yemeni uprising. At the same time, these films endeavor to document not just people’s physical and ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Secret Bureaucracy of Targeted Killing
![[Soldier from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, conducts a night raid on 18 October 2007 in Baghdad. Image by Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum]](/content_images/3/sm_nightraidafd.jpg "[Soldier from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, conducts a night raid on 18 October 2007 in Baghdad. Image by Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum]")
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] Three US citizens were killed in Yemen in 2011 by drone strikes carried out under the auspices of the government’s targeted killing program. They were neither charged with any crime nor brought before a judge. The killings were carried out by the executive branch acting alone, with no oversight from the courts and no public presentation of evidence. ...
Keep Reading »Egypt and Yemen Developments: Interviews with Hossam Bahgat and Atiaf al-Wazir
![[Flags of Egypt and Yemen]](/content_images/3/sm_egyptyemen.jpg "[Flags of Egypt and Yemen]")
Recently, the international media’s attention was on Egyptian revolutionaries asking for the military junta to step down; But as news that the parliamentary elections were about to precede as planned, attention shifted to what the political structure in the Egypt of the near future and in the long term will look like. But What about myriad of issues human rights and Tahrir activist raised in the post Mubarak regime? Professor Saba Mahmoud spoke with Hossam Bahgat, founder and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights about early election trends and how his organization has been challenging the military’s repression and continuation of status quoi ...
Keep Reading »State Sanctioned Killings
![[Image from articles.nydailynews.com]](/content_images/3/sm_450x362-alg_al_awlaki.jpg "[Image from articles.nydailynews.com]")
It is now an undisputed fact, confirmed by President Obama: the United States has executed two American citizens far away from zones of actual armed conflict and without due process. More than anything, the targeted killings of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen represent serious challenges to the United States’ reputation for abiding by the rule of law. The killings further complicate US foreign policy in a region currently witnessing bloody revolutions and uprisings motivated by a desire for stronger protection of human rights. It is hard to escape the impression that Obama’s unlawful targeted killings program will ultimately stain this administration’s ...
Keep Reading »Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanes: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Arabe
![[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]](/content_images/3/sm_fawwazspanish.jpg "[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 ...
Keep Reading »Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Revolution: Syria, Yemen, and Visions of Democracy (Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi)
![[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]](/content_images/3/sm_trabulisbiopic.jpg "[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]")
Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat (AS&AK): The Syrian people have been resisting for months now and keep coming out on the streets despite escalating repression. How would you characterize the uprising in Syria and where do you think it is heading? Fawwaz Traboulsi (FT): People I’ve talked to in Syria tell me that spirits are very high. People are very optimistic. I think they are moved by the certainty that this regime cannot remain. Now that’s not necessarily going to happen soon, if it happens at all. And if it does, it will not necessarily be a comprehensive regime change. But people are now serious that the time has come to end the Ba‘th regime in Syria, which ...
Keep Reading »Postcards from the Yemen Uprising
![[Green Uprising: Plastic bottles used to construct a tent. The colors reflect the Yemeni Flag. Image by Mohamed Al Haj]](/content_images/3/sm_GreenUprising.jpg "[Green Uprising: Plastic bottles used to construct a tent. The colors reflect the Yemeni Flag. Image by Mohamed Al Haj]")
[This series of images from Sana'a, Yemen was taken by Dr. Mohamed Al Haj of Sana'a University during June, 2011.] [A man with his daughter on their way to protests, Friday, June 3rd]
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani on Saleh Departure
![[Image from democracynow.org]](/content_images/3/sm_dndndndndndndndnd.jpg "[Image from democracynow.org]")
This is an interview conducted with Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani on Monday, June 6, in regards to President Ali Abdallah Saleh's departure from Yemen. The interview addresses the events surrounding his departure to Saudi Arabia, highlighting the possibilities of regime change and the role US foreign policy. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. Thousands of people in Yemen are rejoicing at the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The embattled leader is reportedly in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after being injured in a rocket attack on his presidential compound. Saleh temporarily ceded power to his vice president on Saturday night. His nephew ...
Keep Reading »The End(s) of Stability
In September 2010, Saudi Arabia marked the anniversary of the 1962 Republican Revolution in Yemen by funding lavish parties in the country’s capital. Large numbers of Yemenis thronged the Saudi Arabian embassy in Sana’a to collect the cash dispensed to commemorate this momentous occasion. Such a degree of profligateness in Saudi foreign policy is hardly new, but the pretence of solidarity demonstrated in their celebration of the Republican Revolution is particularly perplexing—even by Saudi standards of ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 24)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] "Leading Bahrain Activist Zainab al-Khawaja Detained," for the seventh day after allegedly insulting Bahraini police at an anti-Formula One ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Stephen Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen
Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Stephen Day (SD): This book had a long gestation period, so answering this question is a bit complicated. I would say the book has been more than ten years in the making. It originates with my doctoral thesis at Georgetown University. I started field research in Yemen in 1995, five years after the country’s national ...
Keep Reading »American Empire and the Good Life: Hypocrisy and Fantasy at Home and Abroad
On television, we watch attractive lovers drinking red wine in a lush New Zealand vineyard. Cut. Syrian soldiers drag a body down the street. Incongruous images like these aren’t just the stuff of late-night television viewing; equally discordant scenes, "links," flash up on computer screens where many of us surf. In fact, just about everywhere you look, advertisements for the "good life" coincide, with almost naturalized self-evidence, with registrations of another ...
Keep Reading »Breaking Point? Yemen's Southern Question
[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Yemen.] Executive Summary and Recommendations Ten months of popular protest spiked by periodic outbursts of violence have done little to clarify Yemen’s political future. Persistent street protests so far have failed to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh or bring about genuine institutional reform. The country is more deeply divided between pro- and anti-Saleh forces than ever, its economy is in tatters ...
Keep Reading »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 ...
Keep Reading »Report of the High Commissioner on OHCHR’s visit to Yemen
[The following is the latest from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Yemen.] Report of the High Commissioner on OHCHR’s Visit to Yemen Summary A delegation from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) visited Yemen from 28 June to 6 July 2011 to assess the human rights situation in the country. As a result of nine days of extensive meetings and consultations with representatives from the Government and civil society in the cities of Aden, Sana’a and Ta’izz, ...
Keep Reading »The Newly Formed National Governing Council: Will it Govern in a New Way?
Today, 17 August, Yemen's opposition groups met in the Grand Hall at Sana'a University, amidst tight security, for the formation of a national governing council to unite various groups in one legitimate opposition voice. The 1,000 members could only enter the Grand Hall after submitting their identification and obtaining their name cards. The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), Yemen's main opposition coalition, began circulating the idea for the governing council for a couple of weeks, and discussions have ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Toby Jones on Saudi Arabia's Role in Bahrain and Yemen
This is an interview conducted with Toby C. Jones on Thursday, June 16, in regards to Saudi Arabia's counter-revolutionary role in both Bahrain and Yemen. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. While the United States remains heavily involved in the Libya conflict, it has been noticeably silent on the violent suppression of popular uprisings against autocratic regimes in Bahrain and Yemen, both of which are close allies of Saudi Arabia. In March, Bahrain called in Saudi troops to help ...
Keep Reading »Yemen in the Wake of Saleh's Departure: Ongoing Updates from San'a
Follow our ongoing reports from our affiliates in San'a, Yemen below as well on our Twitter feed here (hashtag: #JadYemen). Click here for updates from Friday (June 3) and Saturday (June 4). For historical and contemporary background to today's event, visit Jadaliyya's Yemen Page. Below is what we have so far on the feed for today. If electricity holds where our reports are coming from, we'll keep at it. Jadaliyya Updates/Tweets from San'a, Yemen [As of late Saturday night, early Sunday ...
Keep Reading »Infomous
.jpg){kind=small}
Hot on Facebook
Tunisians are not willing to lose their newfound freedom of speech, and will be quick to take to the streets if any of the party’s activities displease them. Tunisians did not overthrow one dictator to vote for another, and Ennahda is no exception.click me | أنقرني email quote to a friend
.jpg){kind=small}
From Jadaliyya Reports
Top Jadaliyya Tags
Jadalicious / جدلشس
- هشام صفي الدين: الإستبداد والثورة عودة الكواكبي
- The Idiot's Guide to Fighting Dictatorship in Syria While Opposing Military Intervention
- "We Will Not Recognize Criminal Israel," Says Brotherhood Leader
- الأزمة المعيشية الفلسطينية بين الإستهلاك والمديونية الأسرية والأمولة
- Revolutionary Contagion: Morocco and a Plea for Specificity
Noteworthy
Twitter Updates
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
Latest Entries
View All Entries »- Artistic Depictions of Arab Women: An Interview with Artist Lalla Essaydi
- The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
- New Texts Out Now: Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
- Critical Perspectives on EBRD "Transition" Investment Priorities in Egypt (Video)
- Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 15)
- عين على المخيم
- سروة ونكبة...
- فضيحة بوعلام صنصال تدغدغ الوجدان الاسرائيلي
- Haera: Right of Return March (In both Arabic and English)
- Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 7-13)
- Egypt Media Roundup (May 14)
- Shock-and-Awe Nation Building: Iraq's Neo-Liberal Reconstruction
- Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba Abdullah
- Sanctions Against Iran: A Duplicitous "Alternative" to War
- Algeria's 10 May 2012 Elections: Preliminary Analysis
- Should Tunisia Pay Ben Ali's Debts?
- Penetrated Opposition and Failure of Consensus in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna`(Part 4 of 4)
- عن الوضع الحالي في سوريا: مقابلة مع هيثم مناع الجزء الرابع
- ثورة الجسد
- المسألة الكردية في سورية: مقاربة عامة
Archive
©2010-2012 by the Arab Studies Institute. All Rights Reserved. info@jadaliyya.com
site by concepcion design