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I took it on as a favor for a dying friend. Michael Suleiman called me just days before his death and asked me to finish the editing for him.

Palestinian singer, Faraj Suleiman, has released an album in collaboration with the novelist, and songwriter Majd Kayyal. Titled “Better than Berlin,” the album was initially livestreamed on Facebook and then released on various platforms, including Soundcloud and Spotify. Its songs gra..

We had a conversation with Khalid Suleiman—a journalist and researcher of environmental affairs—who recently published Guardians of the Water: Drought and Climate Change in Iraq with Al-Mada Press in Baghdad. This book is partic..

This weekend, the Modern Language Association`s (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted against a detailed, closely-argued, and voluminously documented resolution to support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions (79 for, 113 against). A few..

Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 

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The Beginning: Rise of the Troika

On 23 October 2011, Tunisians took to the polls resulting in Ennahda’s electoral victory. An Islamist party previously oppressed by ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s ..

Youssef leans over his salmon-colored cement balcony overlooking Amman’s poorer neighborhoods. The houses in the distance are stacked one over the other like a bland-colored Lego city covered in smog. He sips his coffee alone, listening to the sound of the call to prayer. The scene is so grand a..

ستقوم "جدلية" ابتداء من اليوم وبالتعاون مع موقع "العربي الحر"، بإعادة نشر شريطين وثائقيين من إنتاج "العربي الحر" كل اسبوع. توثق هذه..

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It’s difficult to say how it started. For clarity’s sake, let’s begin on 28 November 2011. Enraged at the university’s enforcement of the niqab ban, a group of Salafists took the Dean of the College of Letters at Manouba University hostage. (Students at Manouba, and at universit..

Concert Review and Interview: Mashrou` Leila, Beirut Hippodrome, July 29, 2011.

Yalla, conjure your stereotype. Humid, jasmine-scented nights; hot, diesel-loaded days; pockmarked buildings; the blue Mediterranean crashing on the popular Corniche boardwalk; Lebanese women; Lebanese men; the..

On the old white door to his apartment, there’s a note from the neighbors saying “Welcome home”. But friends and family are not the only ones relieved to see Zeid Hamdan out of jail. Only a few hours after the Lebanese musician was d..

The Time that Remains [Al-Zaman Al-Baqi]. Written and directed by Elia Suleiman. UK/Italy/Belgium/France, 2009.

An early scene i..

Many groups in Egypt are working for political change – progressive and regressive, transparent and dubious – and the stakes are high because the power of the Mubarak regime has not been relinquished in substance. While the army has benefitted mo..

[Our first Roundtable is moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Lisa Hajjar]

Jadaliyya`s Editorial Committee presents an electronic roundtable about the politics..

On February 11th, Vice President Omar Suleiman gave Mubarak`s resignation speech, a speech that we had to see over and over, and over, again. Here it is, with a more accurate translation.

The naysayers who had been suggesting (or, in some cases, hoping) that the protests in Egypt were running out of steam have been proven wrong, once again, by the Egyptian people. By some accounts, the crowds in Midan Tahrir today were the largest yet — “hundreds of..

On 6 February 2011, Egypt’s hastily appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman invited in the old guard or what we could call the Businessmen’s Wing of the Muslim Brothers into a stately meeting in the polished rosewood Cabinet Chamber of Mubarak’s Presidential Palace...