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Counter-Proposal from Yemen's Revolutionary Youth
![[Protesters in Yemen. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_yemenyouthyemenyouthdemands.jpg "[Protesters in Yemen. Image from unknown archive.]")
While the Gulf Cooperation Council , the United States, the European Union, and the Yemeni president quibbled over who would sign a vague transfer-of-power concord President Ali Abdallah Salih nixed, the youth coalition of pro-democracy demonstrators have put together thirteen specific points for the coming transition (and had them translated into clear English). Their proposals are certainly not inspired by al-Qa’ida or the Muslim Brotherhood, as the discredited Salih regime asserts, nor any other outside agencies. Neither, however, are they the impractical aspirations of immature idealists. Rather, the points in the petition address specific issues ...
Keep Reading »Running on Empty: International Education Funding Gets Deep Cuts
![[President Barack Obama in Cairo, 2009]](/content_images/3/sm_6a00d8341c630a53ef011570bf1a88970b-800wi.jpg "[President Barack Obama in Cairo, 2009]")
Although education reform is a hallmark of the Obama presidency, we have just witnessed the largest cuts ever to the US Department of Education’s international education programs. In 2009, Obama and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, announced Race to the Top. A $4.3 billion program, it is one of the largest and most expensive education programs in US history. A central goal of Race to the Top is to “prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy.” Apparently, study abroad and foreign language training isn’t deemed essential for such preparation. In recent days, stunned students and faculty across American universities ...
Keep Reading »The PLO: A Positive Model or Doomed for Failure? Part II Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
![[Mural of Yasser Arafat. Image from pulitzercenter.typepad.com]](/content_images/3/sm_6a00d834520a2e69e2010537147117970b-800wi.jpg "[Mural of Yasser Arafat. Image from pulitzercenter.typepad.com]")
[This is PART II of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly. Read the INTRO, PART I: Palestinians Organizing in Diaspora, Part II: The PLO: A Positive Model or Doomed for Failure?.] 2. Is it fair to say that prior to Oslo, Palestinians had effectively organized themselves in a transnational governing body in the form of the PLO and the PNC? What are some elements of this historical experience that may be taken for granted in the current discourse on representational politics? ...
Keep Reading »On a NY Stage: Four Strong Characters Seek Out the Meaning of Gaza and the Arab Spring
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[This report was written by Phillip Weiss and originally published on Monoweiss.] Last night we had an event about Gaza in Manhattan with the Culture Project. It was so great and affirming that I was up most of the night savoring the experience. It was in a grand hall in midtown Manhattan, it was sold out, people actually paid money to go in, and they were rewarded with wisdom about Gaza, Goldstone and the Arab spring. Of the five people on the stage that night, four were women. Many people commented on that, and god knows I'm proud to have had a hand in that staging. But what did they say? The four experts were like four big characters in a David Hare play. They were ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation (INTRO)
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“[T]he formation of a diaspora could be articulated as the quintessential journey into becoming; a process marked by incessant regroupings, recreations, and reiteration. Together these stressed actions strive to open up new spaces of discursive and performative postcolonial consciousness.” -Okwui Enwezor In the wake of Arab revolutions across North Africa and the Gulf, a new discussion on Palestinian self-determination has emerged. While all such discussions touch on foreign colonization, this one is more or less internal to the Palestinian national body as it grapples with issues of representation, self-rule, and democratic governance. Within less than two ...
Keep Reading »An Excerpt from "Judgment Day" by Rasha al Ameer
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In Rasha al Ameer's Judgment Day (first published in Beirut in 2002 by Dar Al-Jadeed) a reclusive and middle-aged Muslim cleric from a rural background tells the story of how he falls in love with an independent, educated and urban woman who invites him to work on a book about the great Arab poet Mutanabbi. The relationship opens the man's eyes to aspects of life he has never encountered and leads him to reconsider everything he has ever learned. In this section, set in the early stages of their friendship, the sheikh goes to the woman's house and finds out that she wants their collaboration to continue, in a way that will bring them even closer together. ...
Keep Reading »Culture VI
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With Culture VI we discover that May is another cruel month, breeding/Out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain... And so it goes with three new offerings that might remind us that the end of spring is near: 1. An excerpt from Jonathan Wright's translation of Rasha al Ameer's novel, Judgment Day. 2. Palestinian Artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme discuss their current project, The Zone, with Eva Langret. 3. Rebecca Luna Stein reflects on media coverage of Osama Bin Laden's television. Previous weeks can be found here, here, here, here, and here. All culture posts ...
Keep Reading »عزف منفرد على القانون
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قصة يحمل آلته ويخرج. هي ضخمة، ثقيلة، هشة. حجمها لا يناسب المصاعد وصناديق السيارات. أبعادها، لا تتوافق مع أبعاد هذا العصر. يحملها على ظهره ويمضي في طريقه. الحر يعصف به من جهة وازدحام المدينة يعصف به من جهة أخرى. تجده يعزف في نوادٍٍِ ليلية، عزفه خلفية لاهتزاز أرداف راقصة، يعزف أربع ساعات كل مساء. يتقاضى أجره مياومة. مرة في الأسبوع يعزف في مقهى بدلاًٍ من الملهى. الأجواء هنا أفضل بالتأكيد. نعم هناك انحطاط، ولكنه انحطاط من نوع آخر. أحد المشاكل هنا مثلاً هي عازف الجيتار. كل مرة تبدأ الفرقة بالعزف في انسجام وشيء من الذوق، ثم يبدأ عازف الجيتار هجومه. أربعة ... ثلاثة ... اثنان ... واحد ... واحد...! واحد!!! واحــ ... أخيراً دخل الفظ. دخوله خطأ طبعاً، لا توقيته صحيح ولا ...
Keep Reading »A Conversation with Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme on "The Zone"
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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work collaboratively from their base in Ramallah, Palestine. They have performed together with Ramallah Underground and recently founded the sound and video performance collective Tashweesh. Recent exhibitions and projects include New Sound (NY LYD) Images Festival, 2011 (Copenhagen); the 6th Liverpool Biennale (Future Movement); 23es Instants Video CCF, 2010 (Marseille); Home Works V, Ashkal Alwan, 2010 (Beirut); the 3rd Jerusalem Show, Al Mammal Foundation, 2009 (Jerusalem); The Delfina Foundation, 2009 (London) and the 53rd Venice ...
Keep Reading »Que ha pasado con las protestas en Jordania
[This article was written in English by Ziad Abu-Rish and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] ¿Qué ha pasado con las protestas en Jordania? [Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván] A raíz de “la primavera árabe”, en Jordania se celebraron durante los viernes de nueve semanas consecutivas numerosas protestas y sentadas en las que se reclamaban reformas políticas y económicas. Pero mientras que la intervención de la OTAN en Libia se ha intensificado, la sociedad civil de Bahréin ha sido tratada brutalmente, las protestas en Siria se han ido extendiendo, y el combate por los límites del cambio de ...
Keep Reading »Amnesia: Ben Ali's Infamous Legacy
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On independence day, March 20, and then again on April 30, the eve of Tunisia’s Labor Day, Tunisia’s interim president Fouad Mebazaa -the watchdog legislator of Ben Ali’s authoritarian rule since 1987- called upon the Tunisian people for national reconciliation without specifying its terms and conditions. His call echoed the campaign led by interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi -one of Bourguiba’s notorious old guard- and the security forces that urged Tunisian society to turn the page and move forward. The Tunisian interim government is attempting to monopolize the discourses on reconciliation, tending to legitimize abuses committed by the security forces ...
Keep Reading »A Critique of Reporting on the Middle East
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I’ve spent most of the last eight years working in Iraq and also in Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, and other countries in the Muslim world. So all my work has taken place in the shadow of the war on terror and has in fact been thanks to this war, even if I’ve labored to disprove the underlying premises of this war. In a way my work has still served to support the narrative. I once asked my editor at the New York Times Magazine if I could write about a subject outside the Muslim world. He said even if I was fluent in Spanish and an expert on Latin America I wouldn’t be published if it wasn’t about jihad. Too often consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You ...
Keep Reading »Whither Palestinian Resistance? Part III Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
[This is PART III of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly. Read the Keep Reading »
Manal al-Sharif: Saudi Woman Drives the Streets of al-Khobar (Video)
The video below shows Manal al-Sharif driving around the streets of al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, while discussing the impact of women's inability to drive in Saudi Arabia. Manal is one of the women who are organizing the call for Saudi women to drive themeselves on June 17 as an act of protest. Click here to read the "I Will Drive Myself" for action. She was recently detained by Saudi authorities for her driving and her related statements. Click here to read the Letter Calling for Release of Manal ...
Keep Reading »Kenyon Review Interview with Sinan Antoon on Literature and Arab Uprisings
[The following interview was conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon on the relatonship between the Arab uprisings and literature. The interview was originally published on the Kenyon Review Blog.] 1. How do you think literature may or should respond to this spring’s events? What role (or roles) would you say literature has played, and how might those roles change? Literature always responds to history, of course, but works hastily written under the pressure of responding often risk being ...
Keep Reading »Palestinians Organizing in Diaspora: PART I Roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation
[This is PART I of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It features Naseer Aruri, Seif Da'na, Karma Nabulsi, and Sherene Seikaly.] Palestinians are not unique for organizing themselves in diaspora. The Tamils of Sri Lanka have recently elected their transnational government and other ther ethnic polities like indigenous communities in Latin America, including the Mayans of Zapata, have organized ...
Keep Reading »A Journey into Refugee Camps along the Tunisian-Libyan Border
During a trip to Tunisia in April 2011, I had the opportunity to visit the Tunisian-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir, where thousands of refugees have fled Libya since the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi began on February 17. There, the refugees are living in makeshift camps with the hope of returning to their home countries, such as Eritrea, Egypt, and Mali. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up thousands of tents in the remote desert of Echoucha, a no-man’s-land near the ...
Keep Reading »Bin Laden's TV
“An aging man crouched before a TV -- a junkie TV, I might add -- in a darkened room. Not exactly how most people picture the man who called for global jihad.” --CNN Over the course of the last week, there has been much discussion of the Bin Laden videos released by the Pentagon, footage seized during the Navy Seal raid in Abbottabad. The most damning video captured during the course of the raid — or, thus we have been assured by media pundits — is that of a seated and stooped Bin Laden, ...
Keep Reading »خمسة ملاعيب اقتصادية للاستيلاء على ثورتنا
1. الاقتصاد ينهار مصر ستعلن إفلاسها والاقتصاد دخل مرحلة الخطر. نائب محافظ المركزي يحذر من ثورة جياع. المجلس العسكري يقول إن وحش الفقر سيطر على 70% من المصريين. لاشيء يمكن أن يسبب الفزع والصدمة أكثر من وضع كهذا بعد أقل من 4 شهور على اندلاع ثورة يناير؟ لكن هل هذا تقدير سليم للموقف؟ الحقيقة أن الأرقام التي أعلنت ونشرت بشكل واحد في جميع الجرائد المصرية تتمتع بدرجة هائلة من عدم الدقة وعدم العلمية اضطرت بعض وزراء الحكومة الاقتصاديين للتدخل بنهاية الأسبوع لتصحيح بعضها. أول الأرقام الخاطئة ...
Keep Reading »On Our Way to Palestine: An Eyewitness Account of Nakba Day at the Lebanese Border
Sunday 15th May, 2011. 7.30am, Nada calls. "The buses are already full and they told us if we want to hitch a ride we'd have to stand the whole way down, is there space with you?" The buses are full? Big smile on my face. "Of course!" Quick change of plan, and I wait for Rana before we set off to pick up Nada and Lara and join Ahmad in Khalde. After a stop for coffee, we began our journey down, with Ahmad leading our two-car convoy. It was very unlikely we would get lost though, ...
Keep Reading »من يحاسب المجلس العسكري: ورقة موقف
"المجلس العسكري" أو" المجلس الأعلي للقوات المسلحة" أو "قيادات الجيش المصري"، مرادفات للسلطة الحاكمة الحالية ، وهى الجهة التى تخلي الرئيس السابق عن سلطاته لصالحها وأعلنت وقف العمل بدستور 1971 بموجب إعلان أو بالأحرى تصريح دستوري فى 13 فبراير2011، ثم هي من طرحت تعديلات على الدستور ثم قامت بإصدار إعلان دستوري جديد. "المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة " أنشىء لتمكين رئيس الجمهورية من السيطرة على القوات المسلحة من خلال مجلس أعلى يضم كافة تشكيلات القوات المسلحة، وقد أصبح بعد ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Roundtable with Noura Erakat on Obama Speech and Palestine
This is a roundtable interview conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat, author Norman Finkelstein, and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami on Friday, May 20 in reference to President Barack Obama's May 18th "Middle East Speech" and U.S. policy towards Palestine and Israel. In a major speech on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and on the Arab Spring, President Obama said a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, the first time a U.S. president has explicitly taken ...
Keep Reading »المتهم حسني مبارك مجرم ضد الانسانية
كنت قد كتبت هذا المقال منذ أكثر من أسبوعين وأرسلته للنشر في بعض الجرائد المصرية وقيل لي إنه "لظروف ضيق المساحة نعتذر عن النشر." ولم أتناول هنا فكرة ترددت مؤخراً في مصر وهي فكرة العفو عن مبارك إذا تنازل عن أمواله للشعب المصري، وهي الفكرة التي نفاها مؤخراً المجلس العسكري بعد استنفار كبير من أبناء الشعب لمجرد طرح الفكرة. ورأيي باختصار أنه لا عفو بدون محاكمة وأن الوحيد الذي له حق إقرار العفو هو الشعب المصري، كما أن مبارك متهم بتهم ليست مالية فقط ولكن بجرائم ضد الإنسانية أثناء فترة حكمه. ...
Keep Reading »Dressing Like a Terrorist
Like many others, I was dismayed to learn of the two imams wearing traditional Muslim garb who were forcibly removed from an airplane that was to carry them to a conference on Islamophobia. The passengers who were removed from a Delta/ASA flight in Memphis, Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul, apparently frightened other passengers and upset one of the pilots, who refused to fly with them on board. Not everybody was dismayed, however. The Delta/ASA pilot and the frightened passengers have ...
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