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Social Origins of Israeli Unrest
Dafni Leef has been at both bookends of the recent protests in Israel. They started in mid-July, when Leef, a Tel Aviv filmmaker, was met with a hike in her rent that she could not afford to pay. Instead of moving to a new apartment, she moved to a tent on Rothschild Boulevard, the city's sleekest thoroughfare, and set up a Facebook event calling on her compatriots to join her. The spark of dissent hit tinder, and then the flames alit on a social landscape desiccated by decades of relentless neo-liberal adjustment. Seven weeks of fiery protest followed, reaching an apex on 3 September, as over 450,000 people–six percent of the “official” population–gathered in ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Anjali Kamat on Militarization and Reconciliation in Libya
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This is an interview conducted with Anjali Kamat on Wednesday, 14 September, in regards to the post-Qaddaif situation in Libya. The interview addresses the legacies of both Qaddafi's rule and the armed rebellion to overthrow him, highlighting questions of militarization, reconciliation, and the future role of NATO. As Libya’s former rebels begin to govern the country after the ouster of longtime leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi, we look at those who remain. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat has just spent 10 days crossing Libya, speaking with fighters, former political prisoners, journalists, and advisers to the new government. "Even though Gaddafi’s whereabouts ...
Keep Reading »Farewell Mohammad Ghani Hikmat
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"Baghdad, no matter what happens to you, you will always flower again," is the poem by Mustafa Jamal al-Din that Mohammed Ghani Hikmat found carved on the poet’s tomb in Damascus, and intended to cast in bronze on a fountain he designed for old Baghdad. It was to be his new work for the city he loved dearly but had to leave after the US led invasion of 2003 for fear for his and his son’s life. After seven years away, he could not resist her beckoning and his desire to help revive her. It is nearly impossible for me to reminisce about Baghdad without the images of the Fountain of Kahramana, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (1969), or Scheherazade and Shahrayar ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Steven Salaita, "Israel's Dead Soul"
Steven Salaita, Israel’s Dead Soul. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Steven Salaita: I'd been wanting for a long time to systematically explore the idea of Israel's soul being in some sort of crisis. The decline of Israel's soul is a notion much ridiculed by those opposed to Zionism, and I thought it would be fun and illuminating to articulate why such ridicule exists—and why it is completely justified. J: What particular topics, issues, and literatures does it address? SS: It is a basic discourse analysis of some of the basic philosophical and moral tenets of Zionism. I also try to identify some of ...
Keep Reading »Documentary Video Clip (DVC) Section: Clip from "Arabs and Terrorism"
We are hereby launching our DVC section, Documentary Video Clips, courtesy of Jadaliyya’s sister organization, Quilting Point (QP), which is also run by the Arab Studies Institute. Quilting Point is a Documentary/Film Production Collective that was established in 2003, and produced 4 research-based documentaries, About Baghdad (2004), What is said about . . . Arabs and Terrorism (2006), The Other Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe (2007), and Notes on the War (2007). The DVC series will involve posting weekly clips from our various documentary projects. Clips will be released in conjunction with particular events, or simply as a way of making them available to ...
Keep Reading »ميشيل كيلو: تطورات يجب أن تتوقف.. الثورة لا يصنعها الملائكة ولا حملة السلاح
تلوح في أفق الوضع السوري علامات مقلقة إلى أقصى حد، تزيد إلى درجة كارثية المخاطر التي تكتنفه. أهمها إطلاقا نزعة الاستئثار التي بدأ صوتها يتعالى هنا وهناك، والدعوة إلى حمل السلاح، وتزايد الشعارات والهتافات المذهبية، التي سيحدث تزايدها نقلة مخيفة في أهداف الحراك المجتمعي: قد تأخذه من مطلب الحرية إلى كارثة النزاع المذهبي. قبل أيام ظهر على التلفاز شاب يعيش في الخارج، قدم تعليقا على «المجلس الوطني الانتقالي» الذي تشكل في ظروف غامضة على يد أشخاص يبدو من تسرعهم أنهم لم يتصرفوا بروحية الشعور بالمسؤولية، فإذا به ينكر على أي طرف غير جماعته الحق في الحديث عن الداخل السوري أو تمثيله، بزعم أنها وحدها التي تقوده وأنه يقف وراءها دون أية جماعة أخرى. بعد أيام أعطاني صديق نسخة عن «الميثاق ...
Keep Reading »الكنائس والحراك الثوري في سوريا
عوّدتنا الآية الإنجيلية الشائعة على الألسن "دع ما لقيصر لقيصر وما لله لله" على استبطان حكم مسبق على دور الدين والمؤسسات الدينية المسيحية في الحراك السياسي. والحال أن المسألة السياسية في الفكر المسيحي، بالغة التبدل والتنوع، وفق الأوضاع الاجتماعية والظروف المحيطة. لذلك تشهد بعض الفضاءات المسيحية تطورا لافتا للاهوت السياسي وللعمل السياسي في حين يخفت في غيرها. وليست بلاد المشرق العربي بمنأى عن هذه الجدلية الشائكة بين المسيحي والسياسي، التي سنحاول النظر إليها من خلال واقع الكنائس السورية والحراك الثوري السائد. الكنائس متعدّدة والدين واحد عبر التاريخ المسيحي تشكّلت أربعة مراكز لاهوتية بارزة، توزّعت بين روما والقسطنطينية والإسكندرية وأنطاكية، والتفّت حول تلك المراكز ...
Keep Reading »Going to the United Nations, Sanctions, and the Tick-Tock of the Palestinian Spring
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Now it is official: if the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) pursues recognition of the Palestinian people’s claim to statehood in the United Nations this month, financial sanctions will follow. Such a response can be expected not only from Israel, which channels around one billion dollars of Palestinian public revenue to the Palestinian Authority (PA) per annum, but also from major donors whose collective aid has averaged around 1.5 billion dollars in recent years. Unfortunately, we have been here before and the history of a century of settler colonialism tells us that the economic damage such a move will inflict is considerable. The resilience of a battered ...
Keep Reading »Walls [Gone to Palestine: 8]
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We went to visit our friend who was participating in the summer program for foreigners at Aida camp in Bethlehem. We were surprised that it took only ten minutes from the center of Jerusalem to get to the checkpoint at Rachel’s Tomb. There we started to take pictures. We walked through the spotless new terminal and thought of our tax dollars. On the Bethlehem side, we took pictures of a huge sign that the Israeli Board of Tourism had put up on the wall. It said “Go in Peace” in Hebrew, English and Arabic. The taxi drivers wanted to give us tours of the Church of Nativity and Shepherds’ Field, and would not take no for an answer. Finally they relented and told us how ...
Keep Reading »Honoring the Law: Honor, Gender and Crime in the Lebanese Penal Code
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Last month the Lebanese judiciary repealed an article of the penal code commonly referred to as “the honor crime” law. Years of pressure from activist groups and national and international human rights non-governmental organizations led to the repeal of article 562. Its text stated that a man who “finds his wife or his sister or one of his female agnates in the act of (witnessed) illegitimate sexual relations and kills or harms one of the actors” can receive a lesser sentence from the presiding judge. This law is explicitly gendered because the victims it constructs are females who occupy different kinship relations to the imagined male perpetrator. Furthermore, article ...
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Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice. Compiled and edited by Alia Malek. San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books/Voice of Witness Series, 2011. Listen: I didn’t know I wasn’t an American until I was sixteen and in handcuffs. (Adama Bah) This time I got pulled out of the car by officers, thrown onto the hood of the car, and handcuffed. My kids were screaming in the backseat, everybody in the car was just screaming and crying. I said to the officers, “I was born and raised in this country! I was in the military!” For some reason I kept thinking this meant something to somebody. (Zak Muhammad Reed) I have not touched my father since December 2007. If I had known, I ...
Keep Reading »في نقد ما يسمى بالنموذج الليبي الناجح
بعد اكتمال انهيار نظام القذّافي ودخول الثوار العاصمة الليبيّة طرابلس ارتفعت بعض الأصوات المتفرّقة، والقليلة، في الوسط السوري مطالبةً بالاقتداء بالنموذج الليبي ومعتبرة اﻻتجاه نحو التسلّح وطلب التدخّل العسكري الخارجي هو الطريق الأفضل "لإسقاط النظام" في سوريا. تتميّز هذه الأصوات، الهامشية وغير الممثلة للرأي المعارض السوري، بعلو النبرة وقسوتها على الجزء الرافض للتسلّح وللدخول العسكري الأجنبي، معتبرةً أن هذه المواقف ليست إﻻ "وطنيات فارغة" أو "هرطقات" رومانسيّة وطوباوية وتعبّر عن تخاذل وعدم شعور بفداحة ما يعانيه الشعب السوري، وربما كان هذا الرافض تابعاً لمخابرات النظام. يحلو لبعض هؤﻻء رمي أرقام فروع استخباراتيّة يتهمون هذا وذاك بالعمل لصالحها إن ...
Keep Reading »On Racial Literacy: "A White Side of Black Britain"
France Winddance Twine, A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Despite the central role they play in our lives, the intimate spaces of family life have unfortunately remained beyond the reach of most sociological research. This empirical blind spot has led to a surprising lack of knowledge around how people, in their private spaces shared with loved ones, think and act about social issues. There are some perfectly understandable ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Mahmood Mamdani on Regional Implications of NATO Intervention
This is an interview conducted with Mahmood Mamdani on Wednesday, 14 September, in regards to recent developments in Libya and Sudan. The interview addresses the implications of NATO's intervention in Libya and the independence of South Sudan, highlighting the regional implications for the African continent. As the African Union meets today, Columbia University professor and Africa scholar Mahmood Mamdani joins us to give his take on the regional and global implications of NATO’s intervention in Libya, ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Adam Hanieh, "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States"
Adam Hanieh, Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Adam Hanieh: Although this book is very much focused on the political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman), it has its origins in the six years (1997-2003) that I lived in the West Bank, Palestine. During that time, I had the opportunity to travel throughout the Middle East, and was repeatedly ...
Keep Reading »السجون الإسرائيلية وإنتهاكات جديدة لحقوق الإنسان
المعتقلات والسجون الإسرائيلية بعيدة كل البعد عن المستوى المقبول في الدول المتقدمة. هناك انتهاكات خطيرة لحقوق الإنسان فيها، ظروف سجن قاسية، مبان لا تستوفي المعايير التي حددتها المحكمة الإسرائيلية بنفسها، اكتظاظ كبير واختناق في الزنازين. هناك انخفاض مستمر في الحيز المتاح لكل سجين، وهو أصلا اقل بكثير من المطلوب؛ ظروف صحية سيئة تشكل أحيانا خطرا حقيقيا، تهوية غير ملائمة، تقصير في توفير العلاج الطبي للسجناء والمعتقلين ؛ مشاكل في تطبيق الحق بلقاء ابناء العائلة وفي الحق في لقاء محام؛ نقل المعتقلين الى جلسات ...
Keep Reading »"Zahra's Paradise": An Interview with Amir and Khalil
[The writer Amir and the artist Khalil (both have chosen anonymity for political reasons) began publishing the webcomic Zahra’s Paradise online in February 2010. This week, First Second Books will publish Zahra’s Paradise as a graphic novel. Jadaliyya interviewed Amir and Khalil on the occasion of the book’s publication.] Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Amir: When we started Zahra's Paradise, we simply wanted to tell the story of today's Iran. As a kid growing up in Iran, I had witnessed, ...
Keep Reading »هلّ هلال الحرية
هلّ هلال الحرية في العالم العربي. فثورة السابع عشر من فبراير على بعد أيام من انتصارها المظفر، والقذافي في مخبأ ما يعد لحظاته الأخيرة أو يخطط لواحدة من عملياته الجنونية، ولكن حكمه انتهى فعلياً. وقريباً ستنضم ليبيا إلى تونس ومصر في خلاصها من طاغيتها. فهل سنحتفل بعد عيد تحرير ليبيا بأعياد تحرير سوريا واليمن وغيرها بعدها؟ طبعاً لانعلم، ولايمكننا حقاً التكهن في ظل الأحداث المتسارعة في البلدين الثائرين نفسيهما أوحول العالم، ولو أننا كلنا ندرك أن العقارب لن ترجع إلى الوراء وأن مصير ...
Keep Reading »Ten Years, Over a Trillion Dollars Later: What and How Much Has Changed?
As the tenth anniversary of September 11th passes, one question that is likely crossing many people’s minds is: What has changed ten years on? As mundane and somewhat cliché as this question may be, it has many of us weighing the costs along with the benefits of America’s campaign against “terror.” Unfortunately, for a segment of the American population, the answer to this question never goes beyond the rallying cry of patriotic retaliation and the abstract safety of US homeland security and defense ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Intro)
The protests and uprisings that have taken hold across the Arab world have given new contours to processes of politicization, as well as the use of the term “revolution.” Before 2011, references to “the revolution” around the Arab World would conjure images of Gamal Abdul Nasser, Abdul-Karim Qassim, Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, George Habash, and Yasser Arafat, among others. Put differently, “the revolution”—and all that the term entailed in terms of hopes, dreams, belonging, solidarities, and conflicts—had for ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 1)
[This is Part 1 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.] As the question of the “statehood bid”—or rather UN membership—dominates discussions of Palestinian politics, Leila Khaled’s recollection of her experience of the nakba and its aftermath highlight how the deeply rooted questions of destitution, salvation, and return are central to the Question of ...
Keep Reading »9/11 Lessons: Combating Ignorance, Avoiding Arrogance
Ten years ago, we were right, but it didn’t matter. Ten years ago, within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, it was clear that the architects of US foreign policy were going to use the events to justify war in Central Asia and the Middle East. And within hours, those of us critical of those policies began to articulate principled and practical arguments against the mad rush to war. We were right then, but it did not matter. Neither the general public nor policymakers were ...
Keep Reading »وحدها شجرة الرمان...رواية العراق بحق
أمامي رواية، لم اقرأ مثلها منذ سنوات، لا على الصعيد العربي، ولا على الصعيد العالمي. إنها رواية مذهلة، عنوانها «وحدها شجرة الرمان» (المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر)، بقلم الكاتب العراقي سنان أنطون. لو لم أسمع به من قبل، لقلت إنه إسم مستعار، أو لا أدري. فقد بدا لي مستغرباً جداً أن يلم كاتب مسيحي بطقوس غسل الموتى الإسلامية بدقة متناهية. لكنني توصلت الى قناعة بأن سر عبقرية الرواية يكمن في «مهنة» بطل الرواية وأبيه، غسل الموتى، فلا يصلح أي مسرح للأحداث العراقية أفضل من مغسل للموتى. لكن كيف وصل سنان أنطون الى ...
Keep Reading »An Interview with Ramy Esam
[This is the second installment in a series on artists of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Click here for the first interview.] Of all the artists who rose to fame during the demonstrations leading to the fall of deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, Ramy Essam was the most renowned. A twenty-three year old singer-songwriter from the Nile delta province of Mansoura, two hours away from Cairo, Essam’s perseverance, talent and enthusiasm quickly made him a staple of Tahrir Square’s daily life. Many ...
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