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Ongoing Reports On Escalating Events in Yemen . . . (This Weekend)
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Follow our ongoing reports from San'a, Yemen on our Twitter feed here (hashtag: #JadYemen) or in the right column of our homepage. For historical and contemporary background to today's event, visit Jadaliyya's Yemen Page. Here's what we have so far on the feed from both yesterday (June 3) and today (June 4). If electricity holds where our reports are coming from, we'll keep at it. Jadaliyya Tweets from San'a, Yemen Friday June 3 [10:15 AM EST] Conflicting reports of Saleh's injury/death during an attack on mosque within presidential palace. Suheil TV in Yemen reported Saleh dead. AP reports he has a head wound. GPC (ruling party) claims ...
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This is an 11-minute edited video of an interview conducted with James L. Gelvin after President Barack Obama's "Middle East Speech" that was delivered on May 19, 2011. In it, Gelvin discusses the lukewarm reaction throughout the Middle East to Obama's speech, outlining the ways in which the stated objectives and policies of the United States fell short of both the needs and expectations of the people of the Arab world.
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[This article is written by Khalid Saghieh and translated by Assaf Khoury*] Translator's Introduction Up until a few months ago, Hizballah could legitimately claim pride of place in the Arab anti-imperialist camp. Hizballah was the only Arab force that repeatedly stymied the powerful Israeli military and never caved in. Over a period of nearly two decades, it was the most stubborn obstacle to imperialist domination of the Middle East. In more recent years, to its credit, Hizballah embraced an inclusiveness it had shunned in earlier times. It shed its earlier visceral enmity of left secular groups and parties, however fitfully, and welcomed their support, ...
Keep Reading »The Arab World's Forgotten Rebellions: Foreign Workers and Biopolitics in the Gulf
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The Arab world is undergoing a potentially world-historical transformation. The Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazizi’s self-imolation, following mistreatment by state authorities in late 2010, sparked a deluge of populist anger and activism that has toppled the Ben Ali and Mubarak regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, respectively, soon to be followed by street demonstrations and battles across the region. At the time of this writing, Libyan rebels in alliance with a NATO coalition are battling Qaddafi and his loyalists. Bahrainis, Omanis, and Yemenis, and most recently Syrians, have taken to the streets en masse, and have been met by the bullets and security ...
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السؤال الذى يتردد اليوم بقوة فى الشارع السياسى، ولم يعد فى مصر شارع ليس سياسياً، هو التالي: هل يمكن، وهل يجوز، للمصريين تجاهل الماضي القريب المليء بالفساد والانتهاكات البشعة للحقوق وطى صفحة هذا الماضى، ليمضي المجتمع - الآن وسريعاً – صوب المستقبل المأمول محققاً أهداف ثورة 25 يناير؟ وإذا لم يكن من الممكن تناسي عصر مبارك القميء ، فكيف يمكن للمجتمع المصري تجاوزه بأنجع الطرق وأقصرها وأقلها كلفة مادية وإنسانية ؟ والحق، فإن مصر ليست أول دولة تجابه مثل هذه الأسئلة. فكل بلدان العالم التى شهدت تغيرات عميقة فى بنيانها السياسي والاجتماعي، والتي عاشت سنوات من تاريخها فى ظل أنظمة ديكتاتورية وبوليسية مستبدة وفاسدة ، قدمت خلالها مئات وربما آلاف الضحايا قربانا لاستمرار بقاء أنظمة ...
Keep Reading »نصيبنا من كعكة الإقتصاد
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إجراء مدهش ذلك الذي أعلنته الحكومة منذ أيام بتجميد الضريبة العقارية. لم تختر حكومة شرف التأجيل بل التجميد مما يعني أن أمده أطول وغير محدد. ووجه الدهشة فيه هو أن هذه الضريبة هي إجراء اقتصادي نادر من نوعه في حكومة نظيف من حيث إنه يضع العبء على الأغنياء لا الفقراء. وفي زمن ثورة قامت من أجل العدالة الاجتماعية وضد عدم المساواة، كان غريبا أن تختار حكومة، اختار الميدان رئيسها، أن تقدم بهذه السرعة والجرأة على إجراء يسعد كل هؤلاء المستفيدين الذين اشتروا عشرات العقارات للمضاربة والتجارة وتغازل أولئك الذين يمتلكون ثروة عقارية بالمليارات في الساحل الشمالي، لا يسددون عنها للدولة (التي بنت ووصلت جميع الخدمات وتصونها لهم من أجل قضاء شهرين في العام في بعض من وحداتها) أي ضرائب. في ...
Keep Reading »The Year of the Citizen
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During the Spring of the so-called Arab Spring, the euphoria that characterized the Winter of 2010/2011 has increasingly given way to more somber attitudes associated with Winter. For those who were expecting a linear progression towards freedom, in which vain autocrats and sclerotic regimes would fall with growing ease and rapidity, despondency is an appropriate response to the increasing ferocity with which ruling elites seek to remain in power. Yet in the life of peoples, as in life itself, linear does not exist. There are no victories without defeat, hope is constantly shadowed by despair, the future consistently threatened by the combined weight of present and past. ...
Keep Reading »"To the Master of the Banquet" by Sargon Boulus
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"Ila Sayyid al-Walima" appeared in Sargon Boulus' posthumous collection `Azma Ukhra li-Kalb al-Qabila (Another Bone for the Tribe's Dog) (Baghdad and Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2008) To the Master of the Banquet If you are a master give us some bread a drop of medicine for the sick! You, who call yourself a master, give to those who walked in all these funeral processions bewildered in the dream of disaster for whom a cloud passing through the sky of slaughter or a child’s skull, light as a paper boat is sufficient reward for their daily prayer For them spread a white sheet a page in a book no one has written The pure gravy of pains sopped ...
Keep Reading »Prose of a Growing Movement
Yassin Alsalman, The Diatribes of a Dying Tribe. Write or Wrong / Paranoid Arab Boy Publishing, 2011. www.iraqisthebomb.com It’s a good time for a lyric exposé from an Iraqi-Canadian aged 25. Not that there could be such a thing as a bad time for one. With the “Arab Spring” turning the volume up, so to speak, of voices from the Arab world, “Westerners” building new ideas about the “East” are looking for different speakers and new narratives. Increasingly, it’s becoming obvious that Arabs in the diaspora are opening doors for eager spectators looking East while beaming messages West. Those who’ve spent the past two decades living biculturally, daily bridging ...
Keep Reading »Entry Denied: Revolution in North Africa and the Continued Centrality of Migration to European Responses
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The recent revolutions in Tunisia and Libya have brought the issue of trans-Mediterranean migration to the forefront of popular discussions about Europe’s relationship with its immediate neighbors in the Middle East and North Africa. It was on the back of hyperbolic and cataclysmic predictions of Europe being “swamped” by migrants that the case for intervention in Libya was partly made and following this, a number of EU member states have agreed on a temporary suspension of the Schengen Agreement. Schengen is an agreement that deals with the free movement of people throughout the European Union and was first signed on 14 June 1985 by five out of the ten members of what ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir Speaks: May 27th (Photos and Videos)
Today, May 27, 2011, Egyptians took to the streets in different parts of their country to affirm their continued commitment to the revolution that began on January 25, 2011. In Tahrir Square, approximately 150,000 protesters gathered to sing, laugh, chant, and assert their various demands. Preparations for the demonstrations began late Thursday night / early Friday morning and by mid-afternoon there was no doubt that a diverse array of Egyptians wanted much more than the resignation of Husni Mubarak: they wanted a new Egypt and had very specific ideas of what that new Egypt would look like. While we had hoped to report on the protest through more prose, we found ...
Keep Reading »Return to Tahrir Square: May 27th (Ongoing Updates)
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At 4 am, the two of us walked from Zamalik to Tahrir Square as protesters began to gather. We took some pictures and conducted some interviews. At this moment (7:00 am), we only have time to post a few of them (see three videos below, followed by images from Tahrir). UPDATE: Click here for our second post which features some of the signs, speeches, interviews, and music of the day's protests. Today, May 27, 2011, promises to be the largest mobilization across Egypt since Husni Mubarak was forced to resign as a result of the Egyptian Revolution. In Cairo, protesters began gathering at Tahrir Square late Thursday night, early Friday morning, as barricades were being set ...
Keep Reading »Crafting Chaos: Presidential Games and Yemen's Escalating Violence
I am sitting in the dark, having enjoyed a remarkable 6 consecutive hours of electricity today in our house near the “Square of Fear”, a roundabout in an affluent neighborhood of Sana’a that sits between the houses of General Ali Mohsen and Hamid al-Ahmar. The sounds of mortars, missiles and gunfire echo from across the city in al-Hasaba, where al-Jazeera will tell me tomorrow morning that 41 people were killed overnight. If we were to believe Yemen State Television and the Deputy Minister of ...
Keep Reading »The Stunting Role of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces After the Revolution: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mohamed Waked
During our trip to Egypt we had the fortune of meeting and interviewing a number of distinguished journalists, bloggers, and activists, as well as a host of other Egyptians from all walks of life. Our coverage of Friday, May 27, protests can be found here and here. Today, we begin publishing the video interviews we conducted, starting with our own Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Mohamed Waked. Mohamed is a researcher and an activist who led and participated in the mobilization leading up to the Egyptian revolution. ...
Keep Reading »"We've Never Seen Such Horror": Crimes Against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces
[Below is the latest from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Syria.] "We've Never Seen Such Horror": Crimes Against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces Summary Since the beginning of anti-government protests in March 2011, Syrian security forces have killed hundreds of protesters and arbitrarily arrested thousands, subjecting many of them to brutal torture in detention. The security forces routinely prevented the wounded from getting medical assistance, and imposed a siege on several towns, ...
Keep Reading »Details of Military Prosecutor's Summoning of Egyptian Activist and Journalist Hossam El-Hamalawy
On Monday, May 30th, 2011, Egyptian activist and journalist Hossam El-Hamalawy was summoned by the military prosecutor in relations to on-air accusations (made Thursday May 26) of the military's attack on protesters and activists during the Egyptian uprising. Below are a sequence of videos and reports that highlight how the events unfolded, giving voice to Hossam El-Hamalawy at different stages of the controversy. [Jadaliyya will be conducting the fourth interview with Hossam on the Muslim Brotherhood. ...
Keep Reading »Reflections on Egypt after March 19
Return of Identity Politics The March 19 constitutional referendum and the lead-up to it have tempered the strong feeling of unity that Tahrir Square had instilled in the country’s political community. The referendum marked the return of adversity and competition to Egypt’s political arena, as political groups were actively supporting (if not campaigning on behalf of) the “yes” and “no” positions prior to the vote. Despite the unprecedented level of cohesion that the opposition showed immediately after ...
Keep Reading »"V for Vendetta": The Other Face of Egypt's Youth Movement
“Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea […] and ideas are bulletproof.” - From the film V for Vendetta In the summer of 2010 the youth of Facebook, “shebab al-Facebook,” began a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience through the Arabic “We are all Khaled Said” Facebook Fan Page. The success of their “silent stands” throughout the country gave youth a media friendly face as a group that espouses peaceful non-violent forms of civil disobedience to confront ...
Keep Reading »Culture VII
Spring is about to end (not the Arab one though). Sarah Palin wants to be Empress, but we still have culture. This week's picks: * Prose of a Growing Movement by Rayya El Zein * The Persistence of Jokes by Elliott Colla * To the Master of the Banquet by Sargon Boulus (tr. Sinan Antoon) You can read last week's section here. All previous culture posts can be found here. We look forward to your comments, queries, and contributions. Please take a look at our Call for Posts and ...
Keep Reading »The Persistence of Jokes
My friends laughed and called me a “revolution tourist” — which wasn’t incorrect, since part of my reason for coming was to see what was happening up close. But the other reason, of course, was to visit the state archives to check on the status of my application. Last fall, I wrote up a vague proposal for research I intended to undertake on the inefficiencies of cotton pricing in the nineteenth-century. I submitted the proposal in triplicate: one to the head of the Ministry of Higher Education; one to ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's ‘Orderly Transition’? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment
Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of the interim Egyptian government has been the object of intense debate in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). US President Obama’s 19 May speech on the Middle East and North Africa devoted much space to the question of ...
Keep Reading »Where is Khaled? The Story of a Disappeared Critic
The following is a BBC Arabic (with English subtitles) story about Khaled Mohammed, a Saudi citizen who walked up to and began speaking with reporters in Riyadh as they were being "shown" how calm and stable things were in the Kingdom on March 11, 2011. In his interview, Khaled spoke candidly about the lack of political freedoms in Saudi Arabia. He was subsequently disappeared with no indication as to his location. Click here to visit the Facebook page that was created for ...
Keep Reading »When An Act of War Is Not An Act Of War
Two weeks ago Israel attacked Lebanon. Troops opened fire on a large group of protestors at the border between these two states. The Israeli army used live ammunition, killing at least eleven civilians and wounding over 100 others, some critically. The Lebanese army also fired their weapons at, and over, the protestors who had arrived at the border in order to commemorate the Palestinian Nakba. Since May 15, 2011, the border has been quiet. Local and international powers such as the Lebanese state, the ...
Keep Reading »A Good Week for Bibi, a Bad Week for Barack, an Opportunity for the Palestinians
The past week in Washington was an extraordinary one. It witnessed an American president give two speeches in which he offered further concessions to Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a country that is a client of the United States. Netanyahu challenged the President from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, effectively seeking and receiving Congress's stamp of approval on his strikingly extreme positions. This end-run around the US Executive Branch followed an invitation from the head of the Republican ...
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