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Resistance within Resistance
![[Anti-regime protest in Aleppo marking the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising on 15 March 2013. Image by Aleppo Media Center via Associated Press]](/content_images/3/sm_AAP474826223782-1.jpg "[Anti-regime protest in Aleppo marking the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising on 15 March 2013. Image by Aleppo Media Center via Associated Press]")
In October 2012, Haytham Manna of the Syrian National Coordination Body for Democratic Change gave a talk at the London School of Economics. Therein, he argued for the importance of continuing nonviolent resistance in Syria, warning against the dangerous logic of both armed resistance and foreign intervention. For this, many in the audience roundly and vocally attacked him, accusing him of being irrelevant to the Syrian struggle, of being a capitulationist, or even a collaborator. The vehemence of some of the reactions echoed those that had greeted the advocate of nonviolence and negotiation, Louay Hussein of the movement Building the Syrian State, earlier in the year., ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (March 25)
![[A man attacked by the security forces during covering the Nile corniche clashes last week. Image originally posted to Flickr by Bora Kamel. Photo by: Mustafa Darwish.]](/content_images/3/sm_8556399254_f3316e6bf0.jpg "[A man attacked by the security forces during covering the Nile corniche clashes last week. Image originally posted to Flickr by Bora Kamel. Photo by: Mustafa Darwish.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] “Investigations into Moqattam clashes commence” The prosecution is investigating more than 200 individuals accused of taking part in the violent clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents in Moqattam. “Intense clashes at Egypt's Brotherhood HQ” Hundreds clash in Moqattam after anti-Brotherhood protesters organize a demonstration ...
Keep Reading »زينب الخواجة: رسالة من سجن بحريني
القادة العظماء خالدون. لوقع أقوالهم وأعمالهم صدى عبر السنوات والعقود والقرون، وعبر المحيطات والحدود. وهم إلهام يمس حياة الناس الراغبين بالتعلم. مارتن لوثر كينغ قائد استثنائي. عندما أقرأ كلماته، أتخيله يقرأ لنا من أرض أخرى ومن عصر آخر، ليعلمنا بعض الدروس المهمة جداً. وفوق ذلك، هو يحدثنا عن تفادي فخ المرارة أو النزول إلى مستوى مضطهدينا، وعن الإرادة لبذل تضحيات كبيرة من أجل الحرية. ومع بذور الأمل ومقاومة الاضطهاد التي أورقت في العالم العربي، رأى الشعب البحريني بصيص فجر جديد. فجر واعد بنهاية ليل الاضطهاد والدكتاتورية الطويل، بنهاية خريف الخوف والصمت الطويل، وبحلول دفء وضوء عهد جديد من الحرية والديمقراطية. ومع ذلك الأمل والتصميم، نزل الشعب البحريني إلى الشارع في ...
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"مات عمو صباح"، قالتها أمي بتردد وهي تسبقها بكلمات تمهد لها. " أعرف أن هذا سيحزنك" قالت بهدوء وهي تحادثني اليوم على الهاتف من حيث لا تزال في الشرق الأوسط، وهي تطمئن علي في عاصمة الثلج والإسمنت. لن يمر وقت طويل حتى أودع كل من أناديهم بلقب "عمو"، وهو ما ننادي به من نحترمهم ونحبهم كآبائنا. هو صديق أبي، وأخ أصغر لرئيس سابق للعراق، ولكن هذا لم يكن يوماً سبباً في محبتي له. هو بغدادي أصيل، أعني بذلك لهجته، وروحه المرحة ونكاته التي تنتهي دوما بضحكات مجلجلة يسمعها كل من في البيت. كان فطري المرح، بشوش الوجه، حاضر النكتة. تطوف في أحاديثه حين تجلس معه ببغداد العتيقة، بغداد الأربعينات والخمسينات التي كانت تفور بكل ما هو جديد من السياسة حتى الشعر. تسلل ...
Keep Reading »Ennahda: A Party in Transition
![[Members of Ennahda hold a press conference in Tunisia, with their leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, in the center. Image by Monia Ghanmi/Magharebia.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-03-22at10.25.39AM.png "[Members of Ennahda hold a press conference in Tunisia, with their leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, in the center. Image by Monia Ghanmi/Magharebia.]")
Since the assassination of Chokri Belaid, Tunisia is living the most difficult stage of its revolutionary transition. Even before the murder of Belaid, a long institutional crisis had kept the country in limbo with the prolonged absence of a constitution. Belaid’s death pushed it on the edge of chaos. Much has been written about the context within which the assassination took place, with the secular-leftist camp openly accusing the Islamist party, Ennahda, of having provided the ideological and political context for it. In order to bring the country back from the brink of a potential explosion of violence, on the night of the assassination, Prime Minister Hammadi Jebali ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (March 25)
![[United States President Barack Obama waves to the audience after delivering remarks at the Jerusalem Convention Centre on 21 March 2013. Image by Pete Souza.]](/content_images/3/sm_Barack_Obama_at_the_Jerusalem_Convention_Centre.jpg "[United States President Barack Obama waves to the audience after delivering remarks at the Jerusalem Convention Centre on 21 March 2013. Image by Pete Souza.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Kuwait Lengthens Sentence of Man Who "Insulted" Emir", Swiss Info.ch A court in Kuwait has raised the sentence of a man previously sentenced to two years for insulting the Emir over twitter to five years, according to his lawyer Jasser al-Jidei. "Israeli Police Dismantle ...
Keep Reading »Zainab Al-Khawaja: Letter From A Bahraini Prison
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Great leaders are immortal, their words and deeds echo through the years, decades, and centuries. They echo across oceans and borders and become an inspiration that touches the lives of many who are willing to learn. One such leader is the remarkable Martin Luther King Jr. As I read his words, I imagine him reading out to us from another land, another time, to teach us some very important lessons. Above all, he tells us, we should never become bitter or sink to the level of our oppressors; that we should be willing to make great sacrifices for freedom. As seeds of hope and resistance to oppression started flowering across the Arab world, the people of Bahrain saw the ...
Keep Reading »Media On Media Roundup (March 24)
![[Three-year-old Hussein in Firdos Square Baghdad holding a photo of the site taken by Jerome Delay (AP) of US forces and Iraqis on 9 April 2003 pulling down Saddam Hussein's statue. Image by Maya Alleruzzo-AP]](/content_images/3/sm_firdous_square.jpg "[Three-year-old Hussein in Firdos Square Baghdad holding a photo of the site taken by Jerome Delay (AP) of US forces and Iraqis on 9 April 2003 pulling down Saddam Hussein's statue. Image by Maya Alleruzzo-AP]")
Iraq War and News Media: A Look Inside the Death Toll Frank Smyth reflects on the record number of slain journalists during the Iraq war as the tenth anniversary approaches. Al-Jazeera Plans British, French News Channels Al-Jazeera plans to launch a news channel in the UK as reports suggest the TV network is at an “advanced stage” to launch a French-language channel. Breaking the News Mold: Egypt's Community Media Gains a Much-Needed Voice Miriam Berger on a new wave of community-focused media that hopes to “broaden the Cairo-centric cycle of Egyptian media through innovative local newspapers, Internet news sites, online radio, and YouTube ...
Keep Reading »King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Statesman?
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This week, Jeffrey Goldberg published a now infamous interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in The Atlantic. Its contents have reverberated all around the blogosphere, generating heated real-life debates. Even before the full interview was made public, the New York Times culled out the most egregious of quotes for an article on 18 March. It was this truncated version that was initially circulating through the Internet and in the media in Jordan. Increasingly, references to the fuller Atlantic article were also being passed around. Initially, parts of the article were circulating in Arabic, and eventually the whole article was translated. Already, at least one ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (March 23)
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] The Crime of Insulting the President, A Crime of an Authoritarian Regime The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information reports on the history of governmental violations of freedom of expression in Egypt. An Open Letter From Salman al-Odah Saudi sheikh and former political prisoner Salman al-Odah addresses the Saudi Arabian regime with his concerns and observations on the prison system, the media, and the political atmosphere in general. Jailed Human Rights Defenders on Hunger Strike The Bahrain ...
Keep Reading »Open Sesame: Memories from a War-Torn Generation
Open Sesame Curated by Ola El-Khalidi apexart, Manhattan 17 January -- 2 March 2013 Through a small collection of objects, maps, letters, and photographs, Open Sesame leads viewers back in time to 2 August 1990— the morning Iraq invades Kuwait. The exhibit pieces together the miscellaneous belongings of children at the time, whom curator Ola El-Khalidi refers to as the “Open Sesame” generation. “Open Sesame” is also the Arabic name for the pan-Arab edition of the American children’s TV series Sesame Street, on which one of the children was to appear that day, but never did. Open Sesame captures many similar moments of loss and anxiety that had a ...
Keep Reading »Mona Kareem on Blogging and Dissent in Kuwait
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[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What motivated you to start blogging? Mona Kareem (MK): I blogged anonymously starting from 2006 about Kuwaiti politics and minorities in Kuwait. The uprisings motivated me to put my literary and journalistic writings together in a blog, considering the lack of scholarship and reporting on the Gulf region. The stateless minority in Kuwait that I come from did not have any access to media or public exposure, except through blogging and social media. J: ...
Keep Reading »Sinan Antoon on Iraq Ten Years After US Invasion: Panel Interview on DW
Ten Years ago, the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq while justifying such an act on shifting, conflicting, and false pretenses of combating terrorism, containing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and democracy promotion. Subsequent to that invasion, the United States proceeded to occupy Iraq and disastrously reconfigure its political structures, economic organization, and social fabric. Of note is that such a history of destruction did not begin in 2013, but was ...
Keep Reading »A (Neocolonial) Musical Introduction to Lebanese Political Actors, complete with Wikipedia Hyperlinks
Lebanon has been in the news a lot lately. From union strikes to legal advocacy to intermittent Sunni-Shiite violence to daily Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty to the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees currently living in Lebanon to the election crisis to the resignation of Prime Minister Miqati, Lebanon has been boiling for (at least) over two years. While the most interesting political developments have been the work of activist, civil society, and union groups in Lebanon, it is ...
Keep Reading »Joint PHROC Statement: UN Resolution on Settlements--Another Missed Opportunity
[The following statement was issued on 25 March 2013 by the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council.] Occupied Ramallah, 25 March 2013 - On Friday, 22 March, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council) adopted a resolution, tabled by the State of Palestine, the Organisation of Islamic Conference, and the Arab Group, on the report of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), ...
Keep Reading »Last Week on Jadaliyya (March 18-24)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Statesman? The Lens of a Youth Photography Collective: Documenting Life and War in Syria Perpetual Recalculation: Getting Syria Wrong Two Years On The Full Story: Silencing English-Language ...
Keep Reading »Noura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
This week US President Barack Obama made his first Middle East visit of his second term in office. It was also his first trip to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since coming into office in 2008. The purpose of the trip was to warm chilled relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as well as to reiterate the US position towards Iran's nuclear power ambitions. In many ways, the trip signaled Obama's retreat from the region rather than the first step in an intensified ...
Keep Reading »Al-Moqattam Clashes in Photos
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gathered outside their headquarters on Friday March 22 2013 in the Cairo suburb of al-Moqattam in anticipation of opposition marches to the building. Clashes broke out that same day between opposition protesters and both security forces and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. [Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gather outside their headquarters in Cairo, Egypt as opposition protesters clash with Brotherhood members less than a mile ...
Keep Reading »Urgent Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja's Life at Imminent Risk
[The following is an urgent appeal that the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Issued on 24 March 2013.] Both Abdulhadi and his daughter Zainab Al-Khawaja were denied family visits again this weekend, prompting them to start a dry hunger strike today. Zainab Al-Khawaja was told by doctors that she is at risk of organ failure, cardiac arrest, or coma at any time. Her blood sugar has dropped to two on several occasions in the last two days. According to Dr. Fatima Haji, Internal Medicine ...
Keep Reading »Reading Poetry in Tehran: The Case of the Forbidden
Sholeh Wolpé, The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exiles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. La redonda, suprema y celestial sandía Es la fruta del árbol de la sed Es la ballena verde del verano At a Chilean food market in Santiago, a young fruit vendor hums verses in praise of watermelons: “Watermelon: round, supreme and celestial / it’s the fruit of the tree of thirst / it’s the green whale of summer.” The poem’s eloquent simplicity and creative metaphors pique ...
Keep Reading »Street Wars on a Hill: An Eyewitness Testimony
[The following is an eyewitness testimony covering some of the events that happened on 22 March 2013 near the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in al-Moqattam area.] Having missed the march to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)’s headquarters in al-Moqattam, I arrived late to the site of the protests. There had been reports of clashes at al-Nafoora (Fountain) square, one of the most used entrances to the area of al-Moqattam located at the west end of the district and closest to downtown. Reaching the protest ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (March 22)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.com by Thursday night of every week.] Algeria La révolte du sud algérien fait trembler le pouvoir Mélanie Mataresse reports on the recent demonstrations in Ouargla, Algeria’s “Tahrir Square. ...
Keep Reading »When I Saw You
Lamma Shoftak [When I Saw You]. Directed by Annemarie Jacir. Jordan-Palestine-UAE-Greece, 2012. Annemarie Jacir’s Lamma Shoftak/When I Saw You extends her examination of exile and occupation begun in her début feature Milh Hadha al-Bahr [Salt of This Sea] (2008), as well as her earlier shorts and documentaries. Salt of This Sea takes the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) as a moment of collective trauma through which Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a young Palestinian American woman from Brooklyn (and Jaffa), attempts ...
Keep Reading »ماهي علاقة كل من الإسلاميين - الدولة القومية الحديثة - الديموقراطية ببعضهم البعض؟
بعد أي حراك سياسي، كل شيء يحدث في عالم اليوم، يتعلق ويدور حول مفهوم الدولة الحديثة وأذرعها الأمنية والأيدولوجية وكيفية التعامل مع الشرائح المختلفة للمجتمع، كما يتعلق بمفهوم الديموقراطية الغربي الذي تم "أنمذجته" في العالم أجمع بعد سقوط الاتحاد السوفيتي. وهو بالأساس يعتمد على فكرة الدولة القومية الحديثة والديموقراطية بآليتها الغربية. الدولة القومية الحديثة تعتمد بدورها على فكرة العقد الاجتماعي (منذ أن أسس لفكرتها جان جاك روسّو مستكملاً ما بناه توماس هوبز وجون لوك، وكل الفلاسفة الذين نظرّوا ...
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