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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. The exhibition will feature a number of works, including an installation of ‘It Is What It ...
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 ...
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 nation with the second highest oil reserves in the world and a budget surplus of more than ...
Keep Reading »A Year After: The February 20 Protest Movement in Morocco
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, ...
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 وإسرائيل. أما في الجهة المقابلة، فلديك النظام الأسدي في سوريا ومن حوله إيران و"حزب ...
Keep Reading »The Real Me and the Hypothetical Syrian Revolution - Part 1
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 ...
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 freedom and rights, inclusive of everybody—Christians and Muslims, Islamists and liberals, ...
Keep Reading »Remembering Anthony Shadid
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 ...
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