Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera...
On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied...
View ArticleAnniversary of a Revolution in Mansoura
January 25th in Mansoura, though replete with its own unique set of revolutionary characters, had all the trappings of anti-SCAF protests in Egypt, and in some ways, was a decent portrayal of the year...
View ArticleTheses on the "Arab Spring"
The gigantic upheaval that is shaking the entire Arab world since its initial tremors started in Tunisia on 17 December 2010 was determined by a long and deep accumulation of explosive factors: the...
View ArticleThis is Damascus
Never has Damascus been so gloomy. A quiet sadness hovers over the streets and alleys. The voices of people are strangulated, broken, and oppressed. The sound of a guilty conscience rings in their...
View ArticleThe Transformation of the Syrian Revolution: AJE Interview with Bassam Haddad
In this Al-Jazeera English interview, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad addresses the impending UN Security Council vote regarding Syria. He posits that the Syrian revolution is undergoing a...
View ArticleThe Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case HCJ 466/07,...
Raneen, a thirty-six-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to thirty-nine-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since...
View ArticleKnowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview with Daho Djerbal on the...
It is still very possible to work on Algeria without ever passing through the Contrôle Passeport in Algiers. For a host of reasons—archival, bureaucratic, historical and, perhaps,...
View ArticleAdalah on Jadaliyya!
Adalah has been at the forefront of promoting and defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) for over fifteen years. Its work includes challenging...
View ArticleImagine Africa
Imagine Africa. Published by the Pirogue Collective. Brooklyn, NY and Dakar, Senegal: Island Position, 2011. If you do a Google search for the phrase “Imagine Africa,” the results are not encouraging....
View ArticleTribalism in the Arabian Peninsula: It's A Family Affair
Across the Arabian Peninsula and stretching well into North Africa and Sudan, there is a common bond, perhaps only behind religion and language in importance, that binds Arabic language speakers...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and...
Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Magid Shihade: One...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation,...
Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ben White: I wanted...
View Articleخطاب الجعفري ...دريفوس معتقلاً
ﻻ ندري على أيّ آليّة استند السفير بشار الجعفري لتقرير أن الملائم لاجتماع مجلس الأمن يوم أمس هو موضوع تعبير إنشائي ركيك اللغة والمعنى، مناسبٌ لتلك المهرجانات الخطابيّة التي حررت فلسطين والجولان ولواء...
View Articleدروس لاتينية للعسكر
تعد مصر من أوائل البلدان العربية التي تواجه تحدي التحول عن الحكم العسكري، وهو ما نجحت فيه العديد من بلاد أمريكا اللاتينية خلال العقدين الماضيين، ومن ثم فإن هناك الكثير من الدروس المستقاة من تلك...
View Articleبدأت ثورة شعبية، ولكن هل استطاعوا حرفها؟
أمام الجامع الأموي في دمشق القديمة وقفنا ننتظر، وكان شهر نيسان من العام 2011 مازال في أوله، والثورة السورية كذلك في بداياتها. وقفنا في يوم الجمعة ذاك ننتظر خروج المصلين من الجامع بعد انتهاء الصلاة،...
View ArticleLegal Agenda on Jadaliyya!
The Legal Agenda is a critical and multidisciplinary non-governmental organization, based in Lebanon, that monitors and analyzes law and public policy in Lebanon, specifically, and the Arab region,...
View ArticleProphetic Politics: Charting a Healthy Role for Religion in Public Life
Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. Does God take sides in the elections? Is there a voters’ guide hiding in...
View ArticleNothing but my Words
“What are you getting out of this?” This is the question I’ve been asked over and over for the past ten months and three weeks by people in my real life. It’s a legitimate question for all of us. What...
View ArticleCynicism Around Syria: Russia as Smokescreen
Rehearsed statements filled the stale air of the UN Security Council on the last day of January. The Arab League’s Nabil el-Araby pleaded with the Council to adopt a draft resolution on Syria...
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أرى رجلاً في الأربعينيات. أو أنني لا أعرف كم يبلغ من العمر. ربما يكون في العشرينيات أو الثلاثينيات. الكدمات تملأ وجهه. شفته العليا متورمة من آثار الضرب. عيناه كحبتي خوخ يانعتين. مكبل اليدين. يرتدي...
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