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مطلوب صندل وبشكل فوري لسجن الجلبوع
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- هل أعطوك نسخة من الصورة التي أرسلتها بالفاكس؟ - لا! - وماذا عن الصورة التي أرفقتها لرسالتي من قبل أسبوع، ألم تصل؟ - لا ، لم أستلم شيئًا. ونكمل محادثتنا، وعلامات التعجب تجول في بالنا، بينما ننظر لعقارب الساعة التي تداهمنا وتسرق منا الوقت، لتعلن فجأة دون سابق إنذار عن إنتهاء الخمس وأربعين دقيقة. نودع بعضنا البعض. تتوقف سماعة الهاتف عن توصيل صوته عبر الزجاج. أُجبر نفسي على ترك الغرفة كي أخفف عنه صعوبة الفراق القسري، ونتواعد على أن نلتقي بعد أسبوعين. تمر الخمس وأربعون دقيقة. يبدأ على الفور العد التنازلي لللقاء القادم بكل ما يحمله من معان وشوق. صارت حياتنا مخططة على إيقاع لقائنا مرة كل أسبوعين، نتحدث عن ما قبل وما بعد يوم الأحد. مر أسبوعان. ...
Keep Reading »Human Dignity in Jerusalem
![[Gravestone broken by Israeli bulldozers on night of June 25-26, 2011. Image from Al Aqsa Foundation]](/content_images/3/sm_Khalidi.jpg "[Gravestone broken by Israeli bulldozers on night of June 25-26, 2011. Image from Al Aqsa Foundation]")
The lengthy history of Jerusalem is distinguished by diverse episodes of both benevolent tolerance and inhumane intolerance. For several lengthy periods, such as most of the nineteenth century, a spirit of coexistence generally characterized the holy city. On too many other occasions, it witnessed sectarian persecution and cruel massacres. Two of the most horrific of these episodes took place after Jerusalem was captured following a prolonged siege, once by the Persians in 614 CE, and again by the Crusaders in 1099. In both cases, the victors slaughtered thousands of the city’s residents. An area adjacent to the ancient Mamilla Pool west of the city walls of ...
Keep Reading »Emergency Laws, the Arab Spring, and the Struggle Against “Human Rights”
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The Arab Spring could not be more textured as different governments, political interests, and international relations have uniquely shaped each nation’s uprising. Still, certain patterns have been common to this turning point in the Arab world. These have included burgeoning protests, state-sponsored violence against civilians, and the disconnected speeches of Arab heads of state to their empowered and teeming Arab streets. Emergency laws, or the codification of a legal abyss wherein absolute power is transferred to the executive and justified in the name of restoring or preserving national welfare, have also figured prominently in the epoch transformation of ...
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فى حوار مع مجلة صندوق النقد الدولى (آى ام اف سيرفى IMF Survey)، اعتبرت راتنا ساهاى، وهى الخبيرة التى رأست بعثته إلى مصر للتفاوض على قرض بـ3 مليارات دولار قبل أسابيع، أن رفض قرض المؤسسة الدولية جعل الموازنة المصرية معرضة لمخاطر نمو أقل للاقتصاد ولخلق الوظائف بسبب تقليل الانفاق على الصحة والاسكان والتعليم «فى وقت يطالب فيه المصريون بالعدل الاجتماعى». وتضيف ساهاى، التى تصف الموازنة الجديدة بأنها تقشفية: «نحترم قرار السلطات هذه المرة بتقليل الانفاق والتوجه لعجز أقل فى الموازنة». يرصد الحوار الاختيارات المطروحة أمام حكومتنا المؤقتة وكأنها بين اثنين لا ثالث لهما: إما الاقتراض من المؤسسات الدولية وإما العودة إلى سياسات تقشفية بتخفيض العجز، ومن ثم الانفاق العام. بل إن ...
Keep Reading »On Cultural Production and the Syrian Revolution: Part 3 of an Interview with Rosa Yaseen Hassan
In late June, a Jadaliyya affiliate sat with Syrian novelist Rosa Yaseen Hassan to talk about the Syrian revolution. The interview was conducted in Arabic and transcribed/translated into English. This post represents Part 3 of the interview, in which Hassan discusses culture and culture production in Syria during the Syrian revolution. Part 1 and Part 2, each dealing with the nature of the Syrian revolution and regimes attempts to suppress it, respectively, will be published later this week. [Rosa Yaseen Hassan is a Syrian writer and activist. She studied architecture and worked as a journalist. She has published a short story collection, Sama' Mulawwatha Bi-l-daw' (A ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Cartoons: An Interview With Ahmad Nady
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[The January 25th Revolution in Egypt brought to the fore the artistic talents of many of the youth who participated in the sit-ins and demonstrations of Tahrir Square. This is the first installment of a series of short interviews with the artists of the Egyptian revolution. Samples of Nady's work appear below the interview.] Ahmad Nady, a comics artist and cartoonist who studies at the College of Arts, came to be known through his work in two of the most famous children’s/teens’ magazines in the Arab world, Majid and Basim. He also worked for Al-`Arabi Al- Saghir magazine and the Arabic version of Sesame Street. As he developed his style he won three Daily Deviations ...
Keep Reading »Waiting for a Volcano? Don't Hold Your Breath
[This is the third installment of Amal Hanano's account of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the first two here and here] In the universe of Revolution 2.0, Facebook is the reigning capital, and The Syrian Revolution 2011 page (with over 218,000 “official” followers) is considered prime real estate. Earlier this week, the page boldly dedicated Thursday, June 30th to the “Aleppo Volcano,” but disappointment and low expectations began to appear days before, as the fiery graphic shrunk slowly, from proudly occupying the entire profile picture to sharing half the space with “Burn your Bills Wednesday,” and downgraded to a scant third after declaring the weekly national ...
Keep Reading »WANTED!
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The International Criminal Court has now officially made Qaddafi an internationally wanted felon, for Crimes Against Humanity. Libyans everywhere are excitedly anticipating his imminent downfall. However, the “King of Kings” seems to lack the ability to take a hint.
Keep Reading »Ma Fi Shi: The City of Nothingness
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[This is the second installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the first installment here] While “The people want to topple the regime” has become the anthem of the Arab Spring, “There is nothing” is the unofficial chant of the people of Aleppo. “Ma fi shi” is the must-use, “it” phrase of the season peppered into every conversation about the current events in Syria. Once upon a time in the 80’s, Aleppo was the capital of resistance against the regime, but now it has become the epicenter of nothingness, the place where nothing really happens; and if something does happen (like a “small demonstration” within the university walls that ...
Keep Reading »What Is [the] Left?
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Lebanon has been without a government for months. Finally, a thirty-member cabinet was formed two weeks ago. With a revolutionary uprising in Syria and the brutal response by the Syrian regime intensifying, there is now a Lebanese government whose sole function, it seems, is to weather the storm at the country's northern border, the increasing instability of its border to the south, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's indictment that approaches the country with the unstoppable velocity of a train wreck. What this constellation of forces will bring is unknown, but it is certain that when the floodgates open, we will either sink or swim in a tide of violence and further ...
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تقوم توجهات سياسية شتى اليوم بتوظيف شعار "الانتخابات أولاً" للهجوم على من يطالبون "بالدستور أولاً"، وعادة ما يستند هذا الشعار لاتهام المعسكر الأخير "بالالتفاف" على نتائج الإستفتاء، متجاهلين أن المجلس العسكري عينه قد التف على الاستفتاء بالفعل من خلال إعلان دستوري خرج عن حدود المواد التى أقرت في الإستفتاء، وعدل بالفعل المواد التي أقرها الاستفتاء، لكن لم تثر عملية الالتفاف السافرة تلك حفيظة حاملي شعار "الانتخابات أولاً" حينها. وفي المقابل يرد معسكر "الدستور أولاً" بالانخراط المستفيض في دحض دعاوى الالتفاف على نتائج الاستفتاء هذه، وهي دعاوى يسهل تقويضها بسهولة لتناقض منطقها. وقد أضر هذا التركيز على نقض دعاوى ...
Keep Reading »Mind the Gap
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[This is the first installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Syria] I begin to lose sleep weeks before I leave – waking in the middle of the night, my mind racing with anxiety. My insomnia may be the obvious sign that I have no business going to Syria while the country, as my close friend likes to remind me, “is on the brink of civil war.” Although I plan to visit Aleppo, where apparently “nothing” is happening, Bashar al-Assad’s forces have been steadily marching north in the last few weeks, creeping closer to my hometown. Moving from southern Daraa to the central cities of Homs and Hama, and along the coast through Banyas and Latakia, the latest frontier ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Section on Occupation, Intervention, and Law (O.I.L.)
Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest page: Occupation, Intervention, Law or O.I.L. (click here to access the page directly). This page is co-edited by Lisa Hajjar, Sherene Seikaly, Mouin Rabbani, and myself. The purpose of O.I.L. is to explore the relationship between, and the debates within, the fields of armed conflict, politics, and international law. These debates include developments in international law, the implications of intervention, the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of ...
Keep Reading »The Legal Campaign Against American Torture
Torture, like genocide and crimes against humanity, is a gross crime under international law. The right not to be tortured is constituted through the prohibition of practices that purposefully cause harm (physical and/or psychological) to persons who are in custody but have not been found guilty of a crime. (The international legal definition excludes lawful punishments regardless of their brutality.) The right not to be tortured is exceptionally strong, at least in principle, because it is absolute ...
Keep Reading »Through the Looking Glass
[This is the fourth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous installments here] After four months of waking up early every Friday, with hope and dread to watch the Syrian uprising, being here on a Friday named Irhal, “Leave!” was a highlight of my trip. Since the “Aleppo Volcano” failed to erupt the day before, I did not dare expect a local protest, so I watched, with pride, the largest demonstration to date, over 300,000 peaceful protesters in ...
Keep Reading »Culture XII
All Spring, Jadaliyya presented you with weekly offerings on poetry, fiction, music and art from the Arab world, a bouquet we called "Culture" because we didn't know a better word for the flowers we were finding. Summer is here and the flowers keep on blooming. Another week, and three more pieces to enjoy -- a nosegay for the eyes and soul. If they make you sneeze, take some antihistamines and see an allergist. Eman Morsi speaks with Egyptian cartoonist Ahmad Nady. A candid and urgent ...
Keep Reading »Kareem Abdulsalam: Teargas Poems
[With the smoke of the Egyptian uprising still hanging in the air, Kareem Abdulsalam recently published his ninth diwan, Teargas Cannisters (Qanabil musila li-l-dumu', Cairo: Dar al-Kitaba al-Ukhra, March 2011). Abdulsalam's poetry captures the elation of a revolution half started and the dread of waking too suddenly from a dream.] 1. Where have they Hidden Themselves? Those who fired rubber bullets at eyes Those snipers who aimed 12 mm. slugs At heads ...
Keep Reading »Egypt: The Struggle Continues
Thousands of demonstrators filled expressing anger and determination rallied in Tahrir Square on Friday, July 1. Sharp clashes between youth on the one hand and police and regime thugs on the other on Tuesday and Wednesday June 28 and 29 were the immediate impetus for the demonstration. But in addition to outrage about police brutality, which most Egyptians had hoped was a thing of the past, there is growing dissatisfaction with the limited changes since the fall of former president Hosni ...
Keep Reading »Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising, Take Two: A Response to Rabab el-Mahdi and Her Interlocutors
Published by Jadaliyya on April 11 2011, Rabab el-Mahdi’s “Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising” precipitated a spirited discussion both in online comments on the article and offline discussions among Jadaliyya readers. While it is impossible to do justice to the article and the debates it has generated, the crux of el-Mahdi’s argument is that the Egyptian uprising – as distinguished from revolution – has been “orientalised” by international and local media, academics, politicians and the local elite. ...
Keep Reading »100 Days of the 2011 Moroccan Constitution
The February 20th Movement is the public and youthful face of the Arab spring in Morocco, emerging on that date into the streets as part of a series of coordinated Sunday demonstrations throughout the country. One of its rallying slogans is dastarat tawsi’at hay’at al-insaf wa-al-musalaha, or “’constitutionalize” the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC).” The ERC, more commonly known by its French initials IER, “Instance Equité et Reconciliation,” is a state-mandated ...
Keep Reading »ما قبل العاصفة - سينما عربية مستقلة
لم يتوقع المنظمون من معهد غوته وسينما آرسنال، في العاصمة الألمانية برلين، أنهم سيضطرون لإعادة بعض القادمين لمشاهدة فيلم ابراهيم البطوط ”عين شمس“، إلى البيت. كانت القاعة البرلينية الصغيرة في سينما ارسنال في شارع بوتسدامر المكتظ بالعمارات الزجاجية، قد إمتلأت بمحبي السينما فجلس بعضهم على الأرض لمشاهدة عرض الأمسية الأولى من الأمسيات الأربع التي خصصت كل ليلة فيها لفيلم مصري روائي آخر. وأضطر المنظمون إلى تخصيص عرض أخر لم يكن مقرراً مسبقاً لفيلم ” عين شمس“ في اليوم التالي بغية تعويض هؤلاء الذين عادوا ...
Keep Reading »Debating the Future of the Arab Revolutions in Cairo: Democracy, Imperialism and Neoliberalism
Egyptian, Arab and international socialists and progressive forces met in Cairo 3-5 June, to discuss the future of the Arab revolutions in light of imperialism, Zionism and global capitalism. The Forum in Solidarity with the Arab Revolutions was organized by a number of progressive groups in Egypt and represented the first attempt to revive the annual Cairo Conference against Imperialism and Zionism, which was shut down by the Egyptian authorities in 2009. The Cairo Conference began in December ...
Keep Reading »Traffic Jam
Pardis Mahdavi, Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. In the ten years since Bill Clinton signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) into law, human trafficking has been transformed from a public policy backwater into a critical component piece of national security. At the time, TVPA provided the capstone to a growing international movement dedicated to combating the trade in people. It explicitly criminalized all forms of human ...
Keep Reading »On the Possible Recognition of A Palestinian State at the United Nations
There is much interest in what will happen regarding Palestine at the United Nations in September. Contrary to much of what has been written on this subject, this is not a matter of “declaring” Palestinian statehood. The PLO already declared the independence of Palestine in 1988. Like many things in life, this is something you can only do once. Moreover, this already proclaimed state of Palestine did not and does not enjoy sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the territory it claims. Nor do either ...
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