It rained profusely on the front of the car windows. It was 6:03 AM, and Beyoncé was blasting through the speakers, as we drove along the empty 403 Highway from Toronto to Chicago. “Feminist”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie declared on the soundtrack, “a person who believes in the social, political, a..
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DAM: Crime, Honor, and Hip-Hop
Palestinian rap trio DAM dropped their latest video “If I Could Go Back in Time” a week ago at a press conference in Ramallah. Working in
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Lebanon, the Sectarianization of Politics, and Genderalizing the Arab Uprisings: Interview with Maya Mikdashi
The following interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Maya Mikdashi was conducted by Eugenio Dacrema for the Istituto per gli studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), on whose website it was originally published on 21 June 2012. In the ..
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Honoring the Law: Honor, Gender and Crime in the Lebanese Penal Code
Last month the Lebanese judiciary repealed an article of the penal code commonly referred to as “the honor crime” law. Years of pressure from activist groups and national and international human rights non-..
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