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Syria Media Roundup (February 23)
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Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, killed in Syria on Wednesday reminds us all of the importance of front line reporting (1) along with a French photographer, Remi Ochlik and, on the previous day a Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed (2) ‘Phone Calls to Hell’: Syria’s citizen journalists, including Rami Al-Sayed ‘Damascus Launching the Syrian Journalists Association after Decades of Oppression’ ‘Syrian Security Forces Target Doctors’, in The Guardian ‘Red Cross tries to broker Syria truce as tanks move on Homs’ ‘Officials killed in Syria’s Idlib Province’, report by Al-Jazeera English ‘Syria: Razan Ghazzawi and female colleagues freed’, in ...
Keep Reading »الاستفتاء على الدستور السوري: النظام الفردي كما هو
![[ANP/AFP,تجمع امام مجلس الشعب السوري للمطالبة بالغاء المادة الثالثة من مشروع الدستور الجديدI]](/content_images/3/sm_syria_vote1j.jpg "[ANP/AFP,تجمع امام مجلس الشعب السوري للمطالبة بالغاء المادة الثالثة من مشروع الدستور الجديدI]")
14مليوناً و 600 الف من السوريين والسوريات مطالبون بأن يقرأوا ويناقشوا مشروع دستور من دزينة من الصفحات قبل أن يستفتوا بقبوله أو رفضه في غضون اسبوعين لا أكثر. للاستحقاق وجهان: امتحان نسبة المشاركين في الاستفتاء، واختتام مسيرة «الإصلاحات»، على اعتبار ان الدستور المقترح هو أم التشريعات وصيغة التعاقد «الجديد» بين الحكام - والأحرى الحاكم الفرد - والمحكومين. إن نظرة مدقّقة لمواد الدستور الصادر بمرسوم جمهوري في الخامس عشر من هذا الشهر لا تبشّر بأكثر من دعوة للاستفتاء على إبقاء النظام كما هو او يكاد. إذا استثنينا الرطانة الحضارية والحداثية في المقدمة، بما تحمله من «الاعتزاز بالانتماء العربي» وبموقع سوريا الاقليمي ومخاطر الامبريالية والصهيونية، يلاحظ القارئ ثلاثة امور نافرة: - ...
Keep Reading »في الشبّيحة والتشْبيح ودولتهما
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خرجت من سورية، ولا فخر، كلمة الشبيحة إلى العالم ولغاته، بينما كان المسمى يخرج إلى "الشارع" السوري كالجنّي، يروع ويقتل، ويكره ويقذع في البذاءة. "يُشبّح". ودخلت اللغة العربية ذاتها كلمة لم تكن معروفة خارج سورية، بل لم تكن معروفة في سورية نفسها على نطاق واسع. ولم تلبث أن أدرجت في عائلة من الكلمات النسيبة: شبّح، يشبّح، تشبيحا؛ وأن جُعلت علما على الموالين للنظام، يقابلها "المندسون" التي استصلحها المعارضون الشباب عنوانا جامعا لهم؛ وأن أدخِلت في سياقات جديدة: شبيحة القلم (رنا قباني)، شبيحة المعارضة، شبيح الفلاسفة، وهذا لقب سوري لبرنار هنري ليفي. أصل الكلمة غير واضح: هل هي مشتقة من أشباح، لكون الشبيحة خارجون على القانون يعملون في الظلام، ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Betty S. Anderson (BSA): I always joke that I conceived the project in the pool of the Carlton Hotel in Beirut. In June 2000, I visited Beirut for the first time so I could attend an Arab American University Graduate (AAUG) conference. One day, I walked with some friends all along the Corniche and up through the American University of Beirut (AUB) campus and then back to the hotel. Since it was late June and ridiculously hot, the only option at that point was to jump in the pool as ...
Keep Reading »A Year After: The February 20 Protest Movement in Morocco
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On the one-year anniversary of the February 20 protest movement in Morocco, (henceforth referred to as Feb. 20), the kingdom boasts relatively meager political progress. Despite the much-vaunted reforms and constitutional changes, Morocco has reinvigorated its state edifice, managed to outmaneuver an inexperienced Feb. 20 protest movement, and engaged in a crackdown on freedom of the press and speech. In the last couple of weeks, the regime has arrested three Moroccans for crimes against his majesty’s person and “defaming Morocco’s sacred values.” In a country where the monarch is inviolable, the use of cartoons depicting the king is considered an outrage to a symbol of ...
Keep Reading »The Real Me and the Hypothetical Syrian Revolution - Part 1
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The Syrian revolution undeniably belongs to the street. It’s rooted in the public realm where masses of physical bodies occupy the squares and real voices fill the air with defiance against the brutality of a relentless regime. The virtual realm of the revolution is a strong, second line of defense. Communities of online activists in Syria tirelessly spread the voices and events from the street as far and wide as possible, while the activists outside Syria continue the ripple effect, transferring what is happening inside Syria across the world. Supporters of the regime like to demeaningly describe the Syrian revolution as iftiraadiyyeh, hypothetical, “a virtual ...
Keep Reading »Remembering Anthony Shadid
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His untimely death silences one of the best Middle East reporters. We at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, along with the global Middle East Studies community, mourn the loss of the brilliant, gifted Anthony Shadid, whose reporting of the Middle East over the past two decades enlightened all of us. Perhaps he was not well known in Southeast Asia, except for readers of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Boston Globe. But Shadid was a “must” for anybody seriously following the often bloody events in our region. The Middle East is a dangerous beat for journalists. Anthony, quietly fearless, braved ...
Keep Reading »نداء الأسير خضـر عدنـان إلى العالم
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نحوعمل تضامني دولي ينطلق في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني (17 نيسان/ أبريل) " أؤكد على أن إضرابي عن الطعام، ليس من أجل قضيتي كفرد، إنما من أجل قضية أبناء شعبي، ومئات الأسرى الإداريين المحرومين من أبسط حقوقهم". هكذا كتب الأسير خضر عدنان، في رسالة مناشدة أطلقها من على سرير مستشفى الرملة الإسرائيلي، في الحادي عشر من شباط/فبراير الجاري، وأضاف أنّ الجنود الإسرائيليين يسيئون معاملته، ويقيّدون أقدامه بالسلاسل الحديدية، ويشدّونها إلى قضبان السرير، وهو خائر القوى لا يقوى على الحِراك، في حين ينظر العالم إلى تدهور حالته الصحية، دون تحريك ساكن، كما قال. وتابع أن على المجتمع الدولي، والأمم المتحدة، الضغط على إسرائيل من أجل إلزامها باحترام حقوق الإنسان، والكف عن المعاملة ...
Keep Reading »"Violating Sacred Values" in Morocco: Free Speech with an Exception
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A simple caricature by a cartoonist and a four-minute video featuring an activist expressing his dissent are arguably some of today’s most common mediums for political expression. In post-constitutional reform and post–parliamentary-election Morocco, sharing a political cartoon and criticizing the monarchy in a video is a crime, met with jail time. While reforms have been implemented for months, vague language has allowed Mohammed VI’s regime to selectively interpret and enforce its reforms whenever the monarchical institution is seen to be threatened. Morocco’s previous constitution contained many controversial articles that were either lost or split in the 2011 ...
Keep Reading »Statement on Hunger Strike of Khader Adnan by Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations on 15 February 2011.] To: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Khader Adnan at Risk of Death on 60th Day of Hunger Strike Urgent Call for Action 15 February 2012 As Palestinian organizations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), we reiterate our most grave concern about the critical health condition of Khader Adnan. Khader is now entering his 60th day of hunger strike in protest at his continuing administrative detention and ill-treatment at the ...
Keep Reading »Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisings: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Discusses the Role of the Human Rights Community
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On 14 February 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat participated in an American University Law School's 2012 Founders' Celebration entitled "The Impact of the Arab Spring Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa: Building the Rule of Law and the Role of the International Community in Domestic Conflicts." Noura was invited to speak on immunity in international law as it relates to the already deposed and prospectively deposed heads of state of several Arab countries. Her panel, "Protection in Practice: Intervention, Accountability, and the Role of the International Community in Domestic Conflicts," also addressed questions of the ...
Keep Reading »Patent for an Invented People
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This cartoon is a response to the dangerous and perplexing position stated, and reiterated, by US Republican party 2012 presidential nomination candidate, Newt Gingrich, that the Palestinians are an invented people. Specifically, he claims that they were invented in the 1970s. In such a strange and an unfounded claim, Mr. Gingrich, is echoing a statement made by Ms. Golda Meir. She was one of the founders of the State of Israel and the fourth Israeli Prime Minister who was quoted by The Sunday Times (15 June 1969) and the Washington Post on (16 June 1969) as saying that "Palestinians did not exist." The danger of such a statement by a US politician who ...
Keep Reading »The International Symposium on the Arab Spring Through the Eyes of Arab Novelists: Testimonies and Readings
In the grim depths of winter, the Arabic novel keeps the sun of the Tunisian Revolution shining. Although the sun of the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring is still playing hide and seek, it is imperative that artists, writers, and poets find a venue to discuss the cultural and artistic sides of the revolution. On 18 and 19 January 2012, an international symposium on the “Arab Spring Through the Eyes of Arab Novelists” took center stage at the Ibn Rachiq Culture House in Tunis. The symposium ...
Keep Reading »A New Kind of Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation
In October 2011, the newly renovated Sourp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church reopened in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Among the hundreds gathered to celebrate its first mass in over ninety years were local men and women who had chosen the occasion to be baptized into the Armenian Apostolic Church. Raised as Sunni Muslims, these men and women were the children and grandchildren of Armenians who had converted to Islam to escape persecution in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Living ...
Keep Reading »It Is What It Is
A call by the Hayward gallery has been circulating regarding a second installment of the Jeremy Deller piece, It Is What It Is. The call, an excerpt of which follows, was sent out to look for participants in the gallery show opening this month (February 22) in London: “I work as Assistant Curator at the Hayward Gallery and am currently carrying out research for our forthcoming exhibition on Turner prize-winner Jeremy Deller which takes place at the Hayward Gallery from 22 February - 13 May 2012. ...
Keep Reading »Plundering the Past: Scholarly Treasures
“Not a year has passed without hunger in Iraq,” wrote the great Iraqi poet al-Sayyab (1926–1964) more than half a century ago in his memorable poem “Rainsong.” Now, many years and many wars later, there is hunger aplenty. Were he alive today, al-Sayyab would have expressed nothing short of horror at the massive hunger in the “new” Iraq, especially when considering the obscene wealth that has been and is still being plundered and squandered by its rulers. One in six Iraqis live in poverty. This is in a ...
Keep Reading »حين يكون الكوكب بأسره ضد الثورة
"لقد رأيت الشجرة، لكن الجذور في مكان آخر." (مثل هندي) إنّ الصورة المهيمنة اليوم حول الثورة السورية والتي يتمّ إغراقنا فيها، سواء عبر أبواق النظام السوري أو عبر القنوات الغربية و العربية "المعادية" له مثل "الجزيرة" وأبواقها في العالم العربي، هي أنّ العالم ينقسم الى فسطاطين لا ثالث لهما: لديك من جهة "الثوار" وجيشهم الحرّ، تركيا "العثمانية الجديدة" ودول مجلس التعاون الخليجي، وفي قلب هؤلاء قطر وأميرها، وفي الخلفية هناك الولايات المتحدة الاميركية وأوروبا ...
Keep Reading »Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
A year has passed since Arab youth took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity, unleashing a long-awaited revolution. As authoritarian regimes fell in Tunisia and Libya, were shaken in Egypt, and are struggling fiercely in Yemen and Syria, I went searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah, looking for the reverberations of the Arab uprisings on Palestine. Euphoria as much as apprehension accompanied me as I looked for the promise of a revolution devoid of any grand ideology, a revolution about ...
Keep Reading »Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his sixty-third day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without trial, without charges, and without any indication of the evidence against him. From the outset of his brutal arrest by scores of soldiers, featuring blindfolding, cuffing, and physical roughness in the middle of the night, a gratuitous ritual enacted in the presence of his wife and young daughters, Khader ...
Keep Reading »الإخوان في البرلمان؛ محاولة للفهم
حققت جماعة "الإخوان المسلمون" فوزاً كبيراً في الانتخابات التشريعية المصرية الأخيرة، والتى تعد بحق أول انتخابات نزيهة تجري في مصر منذ ثورة يوليو ١٩٥٢. لم تكن النتائج مفاجئة بنظر الكثيرين، فتاريخ الإخوان النضالي وتنظيمهم وقاعدتهم الشعبية كانت عوامل واضحة ومؤشرة إلى فوزهم المحتمل. بدا المشهد يوم الثالث والعشرين من يناير٢٠١٢ وكأن ثورة يناير ٢٠١٢ أفرزت بعد عام أول ثمارها. ورغم تخوفات البعض من سيطرة التيار الإسلامي فقد اعتقد الكثيرون أن كوادر الإخوان مؤهلة بالفعل لتولى دفة الثورة. وسادت اعتقادات ...
Keep Reading »Our Friend Anthony Shadid's Stories
I feel like I need to write the stories, he would say, or the stories will not get told. And so often Anthony Shadid did write the stories no one else would—the stories from Iraq, from Lebanon, from Libya, from Syria. In the end, he died on a dirt road in Syria, carried by a fellow journalist across the border to Turkey, like a fallen hero. To many, he was a hero, but he was also a beloved friend, a son who adored his parents, a father who lived for his children, a husband who beamed at mention of his ...
Keep Reading »Struggles That Fueled a Revolution
Bulaq: Among the Ruins of an Unfinished Revolution. Directed by Davide Morandini and Fabio Lucchini. UK/Italy/Egypt, 2011. “Bread, freedom, and social justice” has been one of the most memorable chants from Egypt’s year of mass protests. Although world and Egyptian media have been fixated on the symbolic Tahrir Square, little attention has been directed towards places where many Egyptians converging on the square actually live. Bulaq, only a few hundred meters north of Tahrir Square, is one such ...
Keep Reading »Anthony Shadid Is No Longer with Us
Anthony was a dear friend and colleague to so many of us at Jadaliyya. We are shocked and devastated by this loss. We have very little to say at this point, except to offer our deepest condolences to his family. Jadaliyya Editors From the New York Times (Thursday Evening): At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East ...
Keep Reading »The Insha'at Exodus
Nadia* is a beautiful young lady from a prominent family in Homs. Every day for months, she would stare at her closet in agony; she had nothing to wear. Her behavior was typical of millions of girls her age around the world, but unlike those millions of girls, she wasn’t on her way to meet friends, go to a party, or spend the day shopping. She was going to a protest. She said her wardrobe decision was difficult because she had to choose an outfit that was fitting enough for a protest, modest enough for ...
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