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On the Margins Roundup (May)
![[Image of a Tuareg encampment in northern Mali. Image by Erik Cleves Kristensen/Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-05-16at10.21.07AM.png "[Image of a Tuareg encampment in northern Mali. Image by Erik Cleves Kristensen/Flickr.]")
[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 ...
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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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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 »DARS Media Roundup (May 14)
[This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the DARS Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each bi-weekly roundup to DARS@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every second week.] News & Commentary Boycotting Israel, by Al Jazeera The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has become the latest high-profile figure to support an academic boycott of Israel, pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres. Hawking's decision marks another victory for ...
Keep Reading »The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
Vijay Prashad. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. Forward by Boutros Boutros-Ghali. London and New York: Verso, 2012. Correct ideas are never sufficient; they are not believed or enacted simply because they are right. They become the ideas of the time only when they are wielded by those who have a united belief in their own power, using it in ideological and institutional struggles that, in turn, consolidate their social authority. - Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations On 15 November 1975, the leaders of the newly formed G7 met at Chateau de Rambouillet, the French President’s summer residence located thirty miles southwest of Paris. The G7 had ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration
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[The following report was issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on 9 May 2013.] The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration Executive Summary With the onset of occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities began to pursue a policy of physical, political, and economic segregation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), which continues apace today. Segregation strategies gained momentum during the last decade through measures that have altered the physical and demographic realities of the city and its predominantly Palestinian ...
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 ...
Keep Reading »The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. New York: Verso, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In that historical moment after the September 11 terrorist attacks, American politicians and pundits launched a debate about whether torture should be employed to combat terror. Those who endorsed the use of torture, and even some ...
Keep Reading »Amidst a Violent Conflict, Syria’s Students Struggle for an Education
[The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook and Twitter.] In a rare public appearance, Bashar Asad visited Damascus University on 4 May to dedicate a statue to the martyrs from Syrian universities who have been killed in the country’s two-year ongoing violence. While Asad’s ...
Keep Reading »Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Today, as violence intensifies in Syria, external powers, including the United States, are openly debating direct intervention. Such intervention is justified as serving multiple goals at once: it is a means of securing chemical weapons caches; a mechanism to protect the civilian population; and a necessary measure to ensure that the successors to the Asad regime are adequately beholden to the United States and its regional allies. However, whether the intentions are humanitarian or strategic, policies ...
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