Search Results For “ satire ” 20 articles

The State of Myth has lowered its curtains. The state-sponsored Iraqi television series, which introduced itself to the world with a musical trailer featurin..

Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail. Washington, DC: Tadween Books, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What was the idea behind putting together this collection of politic..

The Arab world has a rich satirical tradition that has appeared in numerous forms throughout its history, ranging from satirical al-hija¹ poetry of the pre-Islamic era to the satirical n..

The rise of ISIS and the declaration of a Caliphate that controls large swaths of Iraq and Syria signals a moment of exceptional danger not only for Iraq and its future existence as a state, but for US national interests...

There is a genre of satirical theatre from the Arab world that is correctly presumed dead. Famous among millions, Egyptian plays like

While all Saudis live under a hyper capitalist, sectarian and

Egypt Issues Arrest Warrant for Satirist
Egyptian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for popular television host and satirist Bassem Youssef for insu..

It emerged today that the American satirical magazine The Onion is to sue Lebanon for unfair competition practices and for making its headlines look totally reasonable. The Onion is demanding millions of dollars in compensation, claiming that the small Mediterranean country has..

Bassam Haddad mentioned in his article entitled “

[The following report was issued by the Prince Claus Fund Gallery on 19 July 2012.] 

Culture in Defiance: Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art, and the Strug..

[The following text is a satirical confession, intended to highlight the absurdity of Tunisian justice under the Islamist-led government, where acts of violence or vandalism are tacitly supported while sleeping on a beach is prosecuted as a threat to society.]

Al-Nahia court in th..

As antigovernment protests gripped Syria in 2011 and 2012, observers celebrate a new generation of activist artists and their innovative forms of creative dissent. The wall of fear that had long curtailed artistic expression has collapsed, they argue, with youthful satirists moving beyond the de..

Moved by the immense courage of Arab men and women who have toppled vicious dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and those who are still at it in Yemen, Syria and Bahrain, some of the brightest stars of American culture and arts have initiated a campaign to show their solidarity with Arabs and to cal..

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.

Original cartoons for Jadaliyya by Khalil Bendib.   

[Jadaliyya is inaugurating its cartoon and arts sections. We encourage the submission of cartoons and other art work. Email your material..

In my capacity as a founding editor of Jadaliyya, I hereby endorse Boutros Harb, current Lebanese Minister of Labor, for the office of President of the republic. If Lebanon were a country where presidential candidates actually st..

We don’t recall how our day started, but we do remember being out of the house with none of our usual spots in sight. Everything was different that day: the number of people in the street, the look in their eyes, and the closed-up stores. Amman isn’t the place to take big risks. The consequences..

When Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek writer and CNN host, God bless his merciful soul, gave back “the award he received in 2005 from the Anti-Defamation League over the Jewish group`s opposition towards the Ground Zero

On the morning of July 14, France’s independence day (the irony of it all), Octavia Nasr was found dead in her home after her self-inflicted crucifixion.* After twenty years of service to CNN, Nasr had been fired in July 2010 aft..