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An Old Regime in New Sudan: Politics After Secession
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The government of Sudan is entering into a period of extreme instability. When the newly independent country of South Sudan seceded from the north on 9 July, it left behind a political and economic system on the verge of collapse. Many of the same conditions that prevailed in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya on the eve of their popular protests are present in Sudan as well, including rising commodity prices, high unemployment, and spectacular examples of official corruption. President Omar al-Bashir is deeply unpopular in many parts of the country, and as the economy slows he will find it increasingly difficult to pay the wages of the country’s bloated security ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Mohammad R. Salama, "Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History"
Mohammad R. Salama, Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun. London and New York: I. B Tauris, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Mohammad Salama: There were a few reasons that compelled me to write this book. First, I am a Muslim who has been living in the US since the September 11 attacks, and I have witnessed the dire consequences of those events on personal and public levels. After so much misinformation about Muslims and Islam invaded the public sphere and was unfortunately widely believed, I felt that it was urgent to address the roots and history of Islamophobia so that the reader ...
Keep Reading »Inhabiting the Possible: Pedagogy and Solidarity at Camp Ayandeh
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“A decent education cannot be limited to tolerating youth accessing their ethnic and cultural history but must be about facilitating their right to do so.” — Cornel West Globally and nationally, young people are garnering attention as historical actors and agents of social change. At the same time, federal, state, and local politicians are making drastic cuts to primary and secondary schooling, community services supportive of youth development, and higher education. These cuts coincide with a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and continued demonization of Muslim and Middle Eastern communities. They also intersect with attempts to restrict or dismantle hard-fought ethnic ...
Keep Reading »الظاهر بيبرس وإبنه بركة خان
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في قلب دمشق القديمة ضريح حجري مهيب لايبعد عن الجامع الأموي أكثر من ثلاث مئة متر. هذا الضريح يحوي مدفنين: واحد للسلطان المملوكي الظاهر بيبرس الصالحي والآخر لابنه السلطان بركة خان. وهو جزء من مبنى محدث وإن كانت أصوله أيوبية يعرفه جيداً الدمشقيون القدامى والمؤرخون الباحثون، ألا وهو المدرسة الظاهرية التي تحمل اسم السلطان الظاهر بيبرس والتي كانت حتى عهد قريب المكتبة التراثية الأولى في سورية قبل أن تنقل محتوياتها إلى مكتبة الأسد الوطنية. الضريح نفسه، الذي رمم أكثر من مرة في السنين العشرة الأخيرة والذي يقبع مقفلاً على الدوام لايزوره أحد، عبارة عن غرفة مربعة تغطيها قبة عالية ويحيط بجدرانها الأربعة الداخلية زنار من الفسيفساء شبيه إلى حد كبير بفسيفساء الجامع الأموي. في وسط ...
Keep Reading »محمد محسن، شهيد غير عادي
يعرف عن الشهيد محمد محسن أنه كان شاباً مفعما بقيم العدالة والكرامة، يناضل مع رفاقه من أجل تحقيق حياة كريمة في بلده ويتطلع إلى حرية لم يعهدها أبناء جيله. لذلك شارك محمد في ثورة يناير منذ بدايتها، فأتت مثابرته وإخلاصه، هو ورفاقه، لتنجح هذه الثورة المجيدة، التي سرعان ما ألهمت العالم كله بعد أن مكنت المصريين من أن يقولوا بفخر، <<ارفع رأسك فوق، أنت مصري>>. لا أظن أن هناك من سيختلف معي على أننا ندين لهؤلاء الشهداء بما حققناه من إنجازات، فلهم في رقبتنا دين لا يختلف عليه إثنان -- لا من باب الواجب فقط، ولكن من أجل بناء مستقبل يضمن لنا حقوقنا وكرامتنا. لهذا تواتر تبجيل شهداء ثورتنا حتى في منابر الإعلام كله، حتى المضلل منه، وتأججت رغبتنا في محاسبة قاتليهم، ليس لإحقاق ...
Keep Reading »The Makers of the Revolution
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All it takes is three or four fida’iyyin [persons ready to sacrifice for a cause] in every mosque chanting slogans after the end of prayer. It also depends on many factors. For example, in the coastal city of Banyas, the residents are all very familiar with each other, and it is easy to distinguish “strangers” or “collaborators/spies.” It was enough for one young man, Anas al-Shaghry—who enjoyed everyone’s respect and possessed a certain level of charisma despite his young age (twenty-three years)—to start praising the omnipotence of God and to chanting slogans for the rest of the congregants in the mosque to follow him. Thereafter, most of the city’s residents ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches "New Texts Out Now" (NEWTON)
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Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest section: New Texts Out Now (NEWTON); click here to access the page directly. NEWTON features interviews with writers of recently published and forthcoming books, articles, and translations, along with short excerpts from these new works. We hope it will be a resource for readers anxious to keep up with new publications in the field, as well as those looking for more information about a variety of topics and issues related to the Middle East. In our inaugural installment, we are very pleased to be featuring: Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Paul Amar, "Middle East Masculinity Studies"
Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ‘Men in Crisis,’ Industries of Gender in Revolution,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 7.3 (Fall 2011): 36-71. Jadaliyya: What made you write this article? Paul Amar: I began drafting this article two years ago in order to seek ways out of the impasse in which the study of sexuality in the Middle East had become trapped. I was asking myself, how do we highlight aspects of coloniality, geopolitics, and power in the study of sexuality, without, on the one hand, reducing the social subjects of sexuality to the dupes, tools, or incitements of Empire or, on the other hand, celebrating “sexual minority ...
Keep Reading »تيمورلنك في سورية
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غزا تيمورلنك سورية عام 1400. كان ذلك جزءاً مما عرف بحملة السنوات السبع التي قادها هذا الفاتح الدموي العجوز (ولد عام 1336) ضد كلٍ من المماليك والعثمانيين بعد قضائه على التغلقيين في الهند. وقد شجع تيمورلنك على هذه الحملة وفاة السلطان برقوق المملوكي في مصر، فسار وجيشه اللجب من سمرقند عام 1399 وفتح أرمينيا وأذربيجان وجورجيا، وقتل أفراد حاميات وأهل المدن التي احتلها كما كانت عادته في غالبية غزواته. ثم سار جنوباً عبر الأناضول واحتل ودمر سيواس وملطية وعين تاب، وفعل الشيء نفسه بحامياتها وأهلها قبل أن يعبر باتجاه شمال سورية. أرسل تيمورلنك رسالة إلى نائب السلطنة في حلب يهدده بالويل والثبور لكي يستسلم ويفتح أبواب المدينة أمام جيشه. فما كان من الأمير المملوكي ...
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 has become a focal point for urban planners and architects who see recent events as an opportunity to position the city at the center of public discourse. Since January ...
Keep Reading »On the Current Conjuncture in Israel
Many progressives around the world have been wondering out loud about what exactly has been going on here for the last month. Who are the unprecedented crowds taking to the streets in the name of "the people" (ha'am), demanding "social justice" (tzedek hevrati), and what exactly do they want? Is there any connection to the ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinians? And if not, can the protests be at all justified? In order to achieve true "social justice" – that is, to defeat exploitation in all its forms – it is necessary to defeat the particular kinds of exploitation inherent in the situation, even if these appear as something ...
Keep Reading »The Syrian "Common": The Uprising of the Working Society
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The ongoing Syrian uprising has paradoxical effects on Syrian society. On the one hand, it is an unparalleled opportunity for political education and for gaining a better understanding of the country’s affairs in general. On the other, it raises the human cost of the political transformation that an increasing percentage of Syrians yearn for and has the potential to lead to an internal conflict as well as major threats to the national entity. 1. This exceptional crisis allows hundreds of thousands of Syrians to follow politics intensely. It represents a formative experience for the thought and character of tens of thousands of youth and that is a great asset for ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Nadine Naber, "Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism"
Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press (Nation of Newcomers Series), forthcoming in 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Nadine Naber: As part of my work in Arab American Studies for the last fifteen years, this book is, in part, an internal critique of my own field and much of my own previous scholarship. Most Arab American Studies research—important and necessary as it is—has taken one of two approaches. First and foremost, ...
Keep Reading »The Suspicious Revolution: An Interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where he is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Distinguished indeed: with books like Genealogies of Religion and Formations of the Secular, as well as numerous articles, Asad’s work has been formative for current scholarly conversation about religion and secularity, stressing both global context and the ways in which their ...
Keep Reading »The Opposite of Silence
[This is the twelfth and last installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] There is always a certain acclimation period needed when moving from east to west or west to east, a few days to re-situate yourself. It disguises itself as jet lag, but it is more of a re-calibration of your inner compass. This time, my resetting lasted for weeks not days. The phone kept ringing, from family and friends in the U.S. making sure I was okay and asking endless ...
Keep Reading »العدالة الثورية
"إن القضاة يقدرون لك ياسيادة الرئيس حق التقدير انك من أعاد إلي مصر مجلس قضائها الأعلى في مستهل ولايتك وانك أضفت إلي هذا الانجاز فضلا لا ينسي حسم الطبيعة القانونية للنيابة العامة كشعبة أصيلة من شعب السلطة القضائية“سري صيام، 10 يناير 2011. وقف رئيس محكمة النقض ورئيس المجلس الأعلى للقضاء السابق "سري صيام" قبل أيام قليله من قيام ثورة 25 يناير- في مبنى دار القضاء العالي الشامخ في وسط القاهرة، ليلقي وصله نفاق في حضور الرئيس المخلوع "حسني مبارك" مشيداً بموقفه الأخير ...
Keep Reading »The Arab-UK Spring
Western nations have long snickered at the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East and North Africa and have offered ad nauseum free advice to Arab leaders on how to conduct their own affairs. But on occasion tables are turned, and the special wisdom and expertise of these oft-derided Middle Eastern leaders becomes very precious indeed for Western leaders who know a thing or two about bombing foreign civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, yet are at a loss when it comes to taming their own ...
Keep Reading »حول النفي والخوف: فكرتان على ضوء الاحتجاج الإسرائيلي
لقد طُرحت مواقف عديدة فيما يتعلق بالاحتجاجات الاجتماعية-الاقتصادية في إسرائيل يناقش معظمها مضمون هذا الاحتجاج، أي ما فيه من شعارات ومطالب وجهات مشاركة، وتُظهر آراء كثيرة تناقُض هذه المطالب وهذا الاحتجاج مع نضالنا كأبناء الشعب الفلسطيني من خلال مضمون الاحتجاج، شعاراته والمشاركين فيه. قبل أن أبدي وجهة نظر مختلفة لا بد من طرح تنويهين لا يمكن للموقف أن يكتمل دون توضيحهما. الأمر الأوّل: إن الحديث عن علاقة التناقض أو التماثل بين طرفين "نحن" و"هم" لا يُقصد فيه تقسيم عرقيّ، بمعنى أننا لا ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, "Brown Skin, White Masks"
Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks. New York and London: Pluto Press, 2011. JADALIYYA: What made you write this book? HAMID DABASHI: This book is very much a product of the Bush era (2000-2008) — a record of my fears and trembling at the sight of a criminally delusional man at the helm of an imperial killing machine and lacking any moral conception of what it was he was doing when he ordered the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, two catastrophic decisions that Afghans and Iraqis continue to pay for ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ahmed Kanna, "Dubai, the City as Corporation"
Ahmed Kanna, Dubai, the City as Corporation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ahmed Kanna: This is my first book. It emerged from my dissertation research. When I first started studying anthropology in graduate school, I thought I would do fieldwork in Lebanon and on Levantine cultures (having spent a couple of summers traveling and living in Damascus and especially Beirut). At ...
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, ...
Keep Reading »A Creature Which Would Be Impossible If It Did Not Exist: "Midnight's Children" Turns Thirty
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, which turns thirty this year, opens with one of the most celebrated bouts of throat-clearing in literary history: I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it’s important to be more...On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful ...
Keep Reading »I'm Sorry
[This is the eleventh installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] The hours before leaving are always the worst. It is the curse of al-mahjar, the diaspora, no matter how long you have lived away from home, a part of you is uprooted every time you leave. On departure days, you suffocate in a fog of gloom. But this time was not every time, this time the contradiction between the fragility here and the stability there, magnified my sadness. The fear ...
Keep Reading »Trying Mubarak
On the morning of August 3, 2011, Egypt stood still as millions watched the televised trial of their former president Hosni Mubarak begin. The other defendants in Case 1227, Qasr al-Nil, were Mubarak’s two sons Gamal and Alaa, his tycoon business associate Hussein Salem, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and six of his aides, variously charged with the deliberate killing of protestors, and profiteering on a massive scale. Traffic reduced to a trickle on Cairo’s streets, as shop-keepers, cafe owners ...
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