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التوافق السياسي ننتزعه من قلب المعركة
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ظهر هؤلاء في مظاهرة 27 مايو بالتحرير التي سميت بـ "جمعة الغضب الثانية". مجموعة من الشباب طافت الميدان بحثا عن أي لافتات حزبية لانزالها بالقوة، "لأن الثورة فوق الأحزاب التي تولد الاختلاف وتقوم على المصالح الخاصة". هذا العداء للحزبية، الذي يتسع للتوجس من الاختلاف السياسي عموما، لدى قطاعات من السياسيين والكتاب، وليس فقط بعض الشباب حديث العهد بالسياسة، هو امتداد لثقافة سنوات من القمع السياسي والتحريض الاعلامي على الحزبية والاختلاف، الذي لابد وأن يكون مأجورا ومعبرا عن مصالح سياسية أنانية وربما مؤامرة دولية. ولا يمكن الفصل بين النزعة المتطرفة في البحث عن توافق سياسي عام، يكاد يصل لضرورة التوصل لاجماع، في كل القضايا الرئيسية والتحديات المطروحة على أجندة ...
Keep Reading »Iraq's Other War: The 23rd Anniversary of the End of the Iran-Iraq War
![Saddam Hussein (right) by an artillery piece during the Iraq-Iran War. Image from www.Boston.com]](/content_images/3/sm_saddam.jpg "Saddam Hussein (right) by an artillery piece during the Iraq-Iran War. Image from www.Boston.com]")
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the end of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Few Iraqis would commemorate or even remember this anniversary. In Iraqi popular memory, this war has been overshadowed by the sanctions imposed on Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait in the summer of 1990, and by two major wars in 1991 and 2003. Indeed, the 1980s is now nostalgically remembered as “the good days.” Then, food and security were abundant, corruption was not heard of, and electricity and water were available twenty-four hours a day. Health, educational and state institutions also functioned at the time, and infant mortality was the lowest in the world. In light of the ...
Keep Reading »عزت القمحاوي: الصورة تنتقم لتاريخها المهدور
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لأن المحاكمة كانت الدليل الأول على خلع مبارك، توهمت للحظة أنه لم يزل في الحكم، وتصورت أن تتصدر صحف الصباح التالي صورة مبارك على منصة القضاء، والقاضي على المحفة في القفص. لكن 3 آب/أغسطس 2011 غير 3 ايلول/سبتمبر 2010 عندما أجرت صحيفة الأهرام مونتاجًا وضعت فيه مبارك بدلاً من أوباما في مقدمة صورة جمعتهما مع ملك الأردن ورئيس السلطة الفلسطينية ونتنياهو! وبينما تمثل المحاكمة انتقامًا لشعب أهدرت أبسط حقوقه على مدى ثلاثين عامًا؛ فإن ظهور مبارك في القفص جاء تعويضًا للفوتوغرافيا عن تاريخها المهدور مع رئيس كرهته الكاميرا فحاول خبراء التزييف إجبارها على حب لم تعرف كيف تمنحه لرئيس تسلم حكم بلد كبير بعد ثلاثة رؤساء أولهم محمد نجيب الذي لم يُعط فرصة في الحكم تكفي لالتقاط صورة، والثاني ...
Keep Reading »Fear of Arrest
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The author of the following text is anonymous. But his deeds have rocked the foundations of our world in Syria. He is one and he is everyone. I don't know his whereabouts. He is probably already dead or in prison. Or maybe he is still roaming the streets of cities and towns in Syria trying in all earnestness to get the frame of his next picture right where it is supposed to be. At this very moment I imagine him cursing his laptop because it froze a few seconds before the video was successfully uploaded; or struggling to figure out why his Skype cannot work with the new VPN software even though he was told that it should configure itself automatically. But he could very ...
Keep Reading »في البحث عن راجي بطحيش الجزء الأول
هناك من النقاد من لا يفتأ يفاجئك بمدى رومانسيته النافية للعقل، وللذوق أحياناً أخرى؛ ذلك العقل- المعيار الذي وضعوه لأنفسهم وأعلنوا عنه كشعلة يستضيئون بها أينما حلوا نصاً و/أو مكاناً. فها نحن نقرأ مقالة لفيصل دراج، الناقد الفلسطيني المخضرم، وقد يكون الناقد الأدبي المثابر الوحيد على خارطة الإنتاج النصي الفلسطيني، نشرت في موقع "الجزيرة.نت" بتاريخ 9 حزيران 2011، تحت عنوان لماذا تغير الأدب الفلسطيني؟ يقول دراج هناك إنّ الأدب الفلسطيني لم يعد كما نعرفه، بل أصبح شيئاً آخرَ، وهذا التحوّل لا يمكن له أن يحمل تراث الآباء المؤسِّسين، وهم بتعداده جبرا وكنفاني وحبيبي، وبالطبع درويش. يتساءل دراج ويرثي لحالنا: فمن أين تأتي شرعية السؤال، ولماذا يبدو متأسيًّا، كما لو كان ...
Keep Reading »Rap Rage Revolt
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Two months ago the private radio station Mosaïque FM asked Rachid Ghannouchi whether he preferred rap music or mizwid (Tunisia’s most popular sha‘bi or folk music, whose name derives from the main instrument that accompanies the singing, i.e., the goatskin bagpipe). Ghannouchi, leader of Ennahda (Renaissance), the previously banned Islamic party and now one of the major players in Tunisia’s postrevolutionary political scene, did not hesitate to say “rap.” This is, perhaps, an ironic reaction for the Islamic party leader whose detractors have consistently portrayed as regressive, “salafist,” and “integrist” (or, as in the Tunisian dialect, khwanji, a derogative, if not ...
Keep Reading »One Night in Hamra
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[The following is an eye-witness account of the violent dispersion of an anti-regime protest that took place this past Tuesday outside the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. The author of the report-back has chosen to remain anonymous.] Last Tuesday evening at around 8 o’clock, a group of people gathered at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut in order to protest the ongoing atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against the Syrian people. Earlier that day I had received an email, part of a “secret email chain,” informing me that the protest would take place and that I should only share the email with people I trust. The secrecy with which the protest was planned was in response to ...
Keep Reading »Popular Upsurge and Political Pacts in Morocco
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The making of the 2011 constitution in Morocco has renewed debates and theoretical curiosity about the trajectory of elite accords and their impact on pushing countries in transition beyond their intermediate phase of liberalization. Proponents of cooperative transitions shaped by soft-liners within regimes and assisted by political and civil society actors assert that democratic transitions based on compromise and a strategic necessity to reform have a better chance of success in managing uncertainty and securing a safe exit from authoritarian rule. Despite its elitist and undemocratic nature, the new Moroccan political pact is desirable as it constitutionalizes ...
Keep Reading »The "State of Emergency" is Not a Law . . . It is a Structure and a Regime
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The elimination of the Emergency Law and martial law in Syria has long been one of the basic pillars of the demands put forward by opposition forces, intellectuals, and human rights activists. This law has been frequently characterized as poisoning public life as well as being the root cause of the gross human rights violations of the five decades following the 8 March, 1963 coup, led by Ba'thist and Nasserist officers. Political and human rights activists have repeatedly challenged the Emergency Law, often from a human rights perspective, because it grants great powers to the executive and absolves it from accountability and punishment. The state of war those ...
Keep Reading »South Sudan: Post-Independence Opportunities and Challenges
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The independence of South Sudan, and the birth of the fifty-fourth state on the African continent, is a pivotal and historic event for the state of Sudan, and for the continent as a whole. The significance of the event goes beyond a mere change in the geographical boundaries of the divided country and the end of an era in its political history; its consequences will necessarily result in long-term change in the geopolitical realities of the region, and will lead to the emergence of new strategic equations. Conflict between two elites The independence of the southern state – whose 640 000 square kilometres comprise a quarter of Sudan’s territory, and whose ...
Keep Reading »Culture XVI
This is our sixteenth weekly section. We have five posts; Amal Hanano continues her diary from Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates a poem by the great Syrian poet Saniyya Salih. Youssef Rakha examines the cultural discourse in Egypt. Nezar Andary reviews May Odeh's Diaries. Sinan Antoon translates a text by Ahmad Saadawi about Iraqi dogs. We will be taking a summer break and will return in the fall with more energy and lots of culture. Enjoy! It's Not Him, It's Them by Amal Hanano The Trial by Saniyya Saleh translated by Gaelle Raphael The Body Cannot Live Without the Mind: Egyptian Cultural Discourse in the Wake of the Revolution by Youssef ...
Keep Reading »"The Trial" by Saniyya Salih
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[Saniyya Salih was born in Misyaf, Syria in 1935. She won numerous awards early in her life and published several collections of poems including Narrow Time (1964), The Ink of Execution (1970), and Poems (1980). She died in 1985 following a battle with cancer. She was married to the Syrian poet Muhammad al-Maghut] The Trial Saniyya Salih I am the hostage woman Predecessors claim me; so do successors I snatch myself from the mouth of the two voids I dream of the end of the universe, Perhaps human glory witnesses the end Waits long until civilizations Lovers and peoples expire, Or maybe migrate, And earth remains for me, Only me, For me to ...
Keep Reading »Mahmoud Darwish: A Traveller
A Traveler Mahmoud Darwish (March 13, 1941- August 9, 2008) This road takes me; a horse guiding a horseman A traveler like me cannot look back I have walked far enough to know where autumn begins There, behind the river, the last pomegranates ripen in an additional summer and a beauty mark grows in the seed of the apple The road and I will sleep like partners behind the river, beneath our shadows Then rise at dawn and carry each other I will ask it: Why so fast? Slow down, ...
Keep Reading »The Namesake
[This is the tenth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] My name is not Amal Hanano. Before you even think Amina Abdallah, I assure you I am a real person, a Syrian-American from Aleppo who was physically in the city this summer, writing under a pseudonym. Of course, the pseudonym turned out to have its own issues which I will address, but first, a story... In the early decades of the last century, when certain events were unfolding as ...
Keep Reading »The Space Between: March 14, March 8 and a Politics of Dissent
This week a pro-Syrian protest was staged at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. A group of about fifty people gathered to express their solidarity with the Syrian people against the atrocities currently being committed by the Asad regime. As reported in Jadaliyya and elsewhere, this pro-Syrian protest was met violently by pro-Asad counter-demonstrators. Many of the pro-Syrian protestors sustained injuries, some of which were serious enough to require trips to the emergency rooms of nearby hospitals. ...
Keep Reading »في البحث عن راجي بطحيش الجزء الثاني
مما لا شك فيه أن المؤلف/راجي يبحث في مدينة لم تكن محط بحث مُعلن لدى المؤلفين الفلسطينيين الأوائل، وإنما كان هؤلاء يبحثون في مدن أخرى، تحددت بحسب موقع المؤلف في التجربة الفلسطينية ذات الأوجه المتعددة والمتشابكة. فمن بيروت درويش، إلى بغداد جبرا، فخليج كنفاني، فحيفا حبيبي، كلها لعبت أدواراً كمحطات يتحرك فيها الفلسطيني الباحث عن ذاته، والمتجوّل في أوطان عدة كامتداد مرتد إلى رحلة البحث في وعن ذات الذات في ذات المدينة وجسدها. مدينة راجي الأولى، الناصرة، والثانية حيفا، أما الثالثة فهي تل-أبيب. وهي مقارنة الحدث، ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir August 1st: Masquerade for a Lost Legitimacy
After a nearly three-week long sit-in, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sent their forces—the same forces that are reportedly tasked with “defending us from our external enemies”—to violently attack peaceful demonstrators, clear a site of protest, and, with the help of a propaganda media machine, try to win over more support of the Egyptian public. I will map out the logic I see in this violent rampage. From his perch @kikhote captures an important vantage point of the joint military and ...
Keep Reading »Bodies Moving to Memory
antinormanybody. Curated by Barrak Alzaid. Organized with the support of Kleio Projects & International Resource Network. June 23 – August 10, 2011. Kleio Projects: 153½ Stanton Street, New York, NY. I wandered the Lower East Side on a sweaty summer morning in search of Kleio Projects Gallery, curiously located on 153 and a half Stanton Street, feeling like a young Harry Potter on his first visit to King’s Cross Station, trying to find the peculiarly titled Platform 9 3/4. I entered the small, ...
Keep Reading »Hope, Translated
Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2005. Tahar Ben Jelloun, A Palace in the Old Village. Translated by Linda Coverdale. New York: Penguin, 2011. Already, the narratives of the Arab Spring dominating the American media have a nebulous relationship with the human stories behind the events. The deaths of Mohammed Bouazizi and Khaled Said usually mark the beginning of the story, to be sure. But beyond a handful of famous and visceral anecdotes, most coverage has ...
Keep Reading »Occupation Law and the One-State Reality
For decades, the international law of occupation – a branch of the laws of war (or “international humanitarian law”) – has played a major role in structuring debates around Israel/Palestine. As applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the law of occupation has provided a useful and globally shared set of criteria for analyzing Israel’s discriminatory and repressive policies, as well as certain Palestinian actions. There is perhaps no legal document cited more frequently in debates on ...
Keep Reading »Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor on the UN Security Council and Syria
This is a brief interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on the UN Security Council and Syria, and the pressure that might be placed on the Syrian regime to halt its crackdowns on protesters. The interview comes after the Syrian regime entered and besieged the northern city of Hama, resulting in more than 120 civilian deaths. Bassam discusses the stalemate that is likely to take place at the UN and the incompetence of the Arab League. He also highlights the role of the ...
Keep Reading »"The Real News" Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor on Islamists and the Egyptian Revolution
This is an interview conducted by TheRealNews.com with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Hesham Sallam after the events of this past Friday in Tahrir Square. Hesham discusses some of the tensions underlying the conduct os Islamists vis-a-vis the larger struggle to institutionalize the revolution in Egypt.
Keep Reading »It's Not Him, It's Them
[This is the ninth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here] On the quietest Friday, a few weeks ago, I convinced my parents to honor a family tradition and go out for lunch. The narrow, cobblestoned streets were still and empty, as was the courtyard of one of my favorite restaurants, a renovated traditional house in the historic Jdeideh Quarter. The waiters hovered, not for news, but out of boredom, as they served the two lonely tables on what used ...
Keep Reading »Dogs
[This text, translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon, was originally published in al-Aalem (Baghdad) in July 2010 following a campaign to exterminate stray dogs in Baghdad] I smelled a strange odor at night. It was a nagging and repulsive odor. I was told it was “Johnny” or “Tony’s” corpse. Tony is Johnny’s son. They both share the same genetic features as if they were twins. One day Johnny would be making a loud noise in the alley, the next day it would be Tony. They were never together. Now there ...
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