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Syria's Inglorious Basterd
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On 13 May 2013, Human Rights Watch released a statement attesting to the authenticity of a disturbing video that circulated first on Syrian pro-regime websites and then on social media. In it, a Syrian man cuts open a dead regime soldier’s chest, pulls his heart and lung out, threatens “Alawite dogs” that they will all face a similar fate, and takes a bite of the viscera while addressing the video camera. This latest sectarian evocation by a member of the armed opposition, Khalid al-Hamad (“Abu Sakkar”), was simplistically depicted by many US and Gulf media outlets as an isolated abomination perpetrated by a savage man. However, the incident tells a more complex story ...
Keep Reading »Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
![[Newseum Chief Executive Officer James C. Duff speaks during the Journalist Memorial Rededication of 88 journalists who died reporting the news in 2012, at the Newseum in Washington, May 13, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)]](/content_images/3/sm_AP254157428908.jpg "[Newseum Chief Executive Officer James C. Duff speaks during the Journalist Memorial Rededication of 88 journalists who died reporting the news in 2012, at the Newseum in Washington, May 13, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)]")
Just two days before Palestinians were to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in November 2012 were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor “reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news” over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign
Keep Reading »Statement of the Arab and Middle East Journalists Association in Reference to Newseum Scandal
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The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) condemns in the strongest possible terms, the decision of the Newseum to exclude Palestinian journalists Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama from its memorial of journalists killed in the line of duty. Israeli missiles fired at a car clearly marked “TV” during Israel’s attack on Gaza in November, 2012, killing Messieurs Al-Kumi and Salama as they returned from covering a story for TV station Al-Aqsa at Al-Shifaa Hospital. The Newseum justifies its exclusion of the two journalists because of claims that they worked for news network run by Hamas, the governing party in ...
Keep Reading »On the Margins Roundup (May)
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[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each month's roundup to info@jadaliyya.com.] Somalia Is Somalia Ready For Aid? Jenny Lei Ravelo reports that some NGOs are concerned with Somalia’s fledgling government control over finances and the accountability mechanisms in place. Donors meeting in London pledge more than $300 million for Somalia to aid in security, justice The author reports that International ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Museum: An Agent Of Empowerment And Integration For Palestinians
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On 11 April 2013, the Palestinian Museum celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony in Birzeit, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The museum, the largest in Palestine, will be dedicated to celebrating the history, culture and society of modern and contemporary Palestine. A flagship project of the Welfare Association, a leading not-for-profit that provides development and humanitarian assistance in Palestine since 1983, the Museum is set to open in 2014. In this interview, Omar Al-Qattan, the Chairman of the Museum Task Force, describes how the Palestinian Museum aims to be a place where anyone can take part in a shared conversation about the present, past, ...
Keep Reading »Syria Media Roundup (May 16)
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[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] International and Regional Perspectives Russian Embassy in Beirut Becomes Hub for Syria DiplomacyKeep Reading »
Nakba 2013: The Palestinian Youth Movement Commemorates 65 Years of Al Nakba (Introduction)
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The fifteenth of May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth commemoration of the day the oppressive Zionist state came into being. It also marks sixty-five years from the beginning of our collective fragmentation and simultaneous resistance. This current period that we are living also marks a significant shift in our history not only as Palestinians, but as Arabs, colonized, and young people of today’s world. While there are strong sentiments of brokenness and rupture of Palestinian and Arab communities, we also must recognize, reflect on, and celebrate our histories of resistance and use these narratives as fuel for creating a new and strong resistance for ...
Keep Reading »حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من دراسات الصدمة
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حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من “دراسات الصدمة“ (Trauma) في البداية سأقدم لكم سرداً للاجئة من سوريا (تم تسجيله 6 آذار/مارس 2013، في مخيم عين الحلوة في لبنان): كان عمري ست سنوات ونصف عندما غادرنا [فلسطين]. كنا في وادي سلامة قرب بنت جبيل، بين جبلين، نجلس تحت أشجار الزيتون. كان الناس يحصدون القمح. كانت أمي تغطيني بالقش. جاءت الطائرات الإسرائيلية وقصفت أشجار الزيتون والصبار. قصفوا كل شيء. قُتل عمي. إلى أين نستطيع الذهاب؟ نمنا على الطريق [وهي تبكي]. ...كان عمري ست سنوات ونصف. رمى الجنود اللبنانيون فتاتاً من الخبز، العفن. كنت أجلب الخبز لكي نأكل. كان بائتاً ورائحته سيئة، فقمنا بالتخلص منه. كنت أبكي وأقول "ماما، أريد أن أشرب". كان هناك شرطي لبناني. كانت ...
Keep Reading »استمرارية بعد تمزق: الحضور الغائب لدير ياسين
استمرارية بعد تمزق: الحضور الغائب لدير ياسين في فيلم ”لم يُصنع“ (Unmade Film) ”لم تكن الأسلحة الصهيونية الموجهة إلينا مجرد عائق مادي. لقد كانت تذكيراً قاتلاً بأن مدينتنا لم تعد سوى ذكرى؛ حلم بأننا الآن قد عدنا إلى نقطة الصفر. فلتتمع بالمشهد إن كنت تستطيع ذلك وسط آلاف المشردين. إلا أنك قد تم اقتلاعك من الجذور. فكتبك وأفكارك ورؤاك: لم تعد سوى مؤشرات عبثية في عالم تتفوق فيه القوانين العبثية.“ جبرا إبراهيم جبرا قد تكون التفاهة (banality) أبرز ما ما يميز الجهود الاسرائيلية لتشكيل تاريخ وإقليمية وهوية لا جدال فيها في فلسطين: التفاهة التي غالباً ما يصاحبها تطبيع العبث. ويتطلب الاستمرار في العيش مع العلم بأحوال الظلم الكبير الذي يحدث حالةً من الإنكار الواعي أو ...
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في الذكرى الخامسة والستين لنكبة فلسطين [رسم أمل كعوش خاص بجدلية]
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 13)
[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.] “Arrests made in Egypt over embassy plot” The Minister of Interior announces the arrest of three individuals connected to Al-Qaeda who were preparing a bomb plot. “Constitutional Court adjourns key lawsuit on status of Shura Council” The Constitutional Court delays its decision on the cases of the legality of the Shura Council and the Constituent ...
Keep Reading »The Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary Issue
[Jadaliyya will be posting excerpts from the Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary issue. What follows is the Editor's Note and Table of Contents from that issue.] Editor’s Note We can scarcely believe that two decades have passed since the publication of the first issue of the Arab Studies Journal. We are proud and humbled to have published groundbreaking work by scholars at the onset of their careers as well as at the pinnacle. During the last twenty years, the Journal has taken part in extraordinary changes in the field of Middle Eastern studies: paradigm shifts (and, on occasion, returns), the growth of once-nascent fields (like gender and sexuality ...
Keep Reading »Maghreb Media Roundup (May 17)
[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 D’importants chefs d’Aqmi encerclés : trois militaires tués dans une opération antiterroriste à Bouira Faycal Hamdani reports that the Algerian army ...
Keep Reading »كتب: أطفال الندى
["كتب" هي سلسلة على صفحات "جدلية" نستضيف فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بمقطع من الكتاب بعد المقابلة] ["اطفال الندى" للكاتب محمد الأسعد عن دار الفيل، القدس، 2013.] جدلية: رواية “أطفال الندى” هي رواية عن النكبة، عن ذلك اليوم الذي تهجرت به عائلتك من قرية أم الزينات الواقعة على سفح جبل الكرمل، هل هي إذن سيرة ذاتية فردية؟ وما هي مدلولاتها في السيرة الفلسطينية؟ محمد الأسعد: لا أنظرُ إلى هذه الرواية على أنها "سيرة ذاتية ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Maya Mikdashi, What is Settler Colonialism? and Sherene Seikaly, Return to the Present
Maya Mikdashi, “What Is Settler Colonialism?” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37:2 (2013) Sherene Seikaly, “Return to the Present,” Elisabeth Weber, editor, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write these pieces? Maya Mikdashi (MM): I had visited my mother's family in Michigan and gone to the reservation for a holiday. Prior to this trip and to reading through ...
Keep Reading »On the American Association of University Professors' Opposition to Academic Boycotts
On 10 May 2013, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a “Statement on Academic Boycotts” which states, not for the first time, its “opposition to academic boycotts as a matter of principle.” The statement was issued in response to two recent victories for the movement for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel: physicist Stephen Hawking’s recent announcement that he would not attend a major conference in Israel, and the Association for Asian American Studies’ (AAAS) adoption ...
Keep Reading »An Ongoing Displacement: The Forced Exile of the Palestinians
15 May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed more than fifty percent of the entire Palestinian population. In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, Visualizing Palestine has released this new visual: "An Ongoing Displacement." The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement ...
Keep Reading »The Ongoing Nakba: The Forcible Displacement of the Palestinian People
Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization. Together, they aim to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine from its indigenous Palestinian presence. This Israeli regime is not limited to the Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), but it also targets Palestinians residing on the Israeli side of the 1949 Armistice Line as well as those living in forced exile. Reflections on whether a one or a two-state ...
Keep Reading »النكبة، هنا، الآن
النكبة، هنا، الآن في الذكرى الخامسة والستين للنكبة، ارتأينا أن نعيد قراءة معاني وتردّدات تلك الأشهر المعدودة بين شتاء 1947 وصيف 1948، التي شكّلت الحاضر الفلسطيني؛ بتقسيماته السياسية والجغرافية والديموغرافية والاجتماعية والطبقية. إن تمثيل وتمظهر القضية الفلسطينية في الوعي الفلسطيني والعربي والعالمي، هو أحد أهم الجوانب التي تستوجب التوقف عندها وتمعّنها. وما نقصده بالتمثيل هنا ليس معناه السياسي الضيق، وإنما المعنى الأوسع الذي يشمل إنتاج وإعادة إنتاج القضية الفلسطينية معرفياً وخطابياً في مجالات عدّة: في ...
Keep Reading »الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة
[”الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة“، هو أحد العناوين التسعة التي توزعت في كتاب “أنيس صايغ عن أنيس صايغ” للكاتب أنيس صايغ – عن دار رياض الريّس (بيروت، 2006). تقدم "جدلية" هنا مقطفات من هذا الكتاب الذي يعد مادة ثرية لا عن الحياة الاجتماعية والسياسية في فلسطين قبل النكبة فحسب، بل أيضاً عن مدنها وحياتها المدنية التي كثيراً ما يتم المرور بها مرور الكرام. في هذا المقطع يتحدث عن الحياة في مدينته طبريا التي ولد وعاش بها قبل النكبة عام 1931. ] تتناقض شهرة طبريا مع ...
Keep Reading »النكبة الفلسطينيّة ليست غزوة أحد
لم تثمر دعوات الإخوان المسلمون ورسائلهم إلى رؤساء الحكومة المصريّة المتعاقبين والتي دعت إلى مخاطبة «الحليفة بريطانيا» ومطالبتها بضمان استقلال وكرامة فلسطين؛ البلد العربيّ المسلم، كما ولم تسفر العلاقة الحميمة التي جمعت حسن البنا (1906-1949)؛ مؤسس الجماعة، بمفتي عموم فلسطين أمين الحسيني (1895- 1974) عن أيّة تحركات عملانيّة على نطاق واسع؛ إذ كان واضحًا أنّ النشاط الدعويّ، وحملات الدعم النفسي والمالي وحلقات التوعية التي نفذها الإخوان في أرجاء مصر الملكيّة إبّان إضراب الستة أشهر، وقبيل النكبة، إنما جاءت على ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Joel Beinin, Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine
Joel Beinin, “Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXI No. 1 (Spring 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Joel Beinin (JB): It grew out of a conference on late Ottoman Palestine at the University of Lausanne. I was invited to make a link between the democratic possibilities opened by the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the state of affairs one hundred years later. We tend to think we have made a lot of ...
Keep Reading »The Brothers, the Revolution, and the Right to Protest
A new political order always arrives with a package of legislation establishing its political and socioeconomic orientations as law. In its broad sense, a revolution effects a “fundamental change” in the political and economic order, with the support of the majority of the people.[1] Egypt experienced this shortly after the 1952 Free Officers’ coup d’état, as it developed into the July Revolution.[2] Egypt’s second experience in this regard came with President Anwar Al-Sadat’s accession to power, and ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 14)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Reports and Opinions FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after sightings of him with pressure cooker pot – only to discover he was cooking RICE Martin Jay ...
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