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The Ultras' Politics of Fun Confront Tyranny
Wednesday’s massacre of Ahly Club fans in Port Said’s football stadium was the latest in a tragic crescendo for young Egyptians who continue to clash heavily with Egypt’s Central Security Forces. And...
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US on UN Veto: "Disgusting," "Shameful," "Deplorable," "a Travesty" . . . ....
A Quick Listing of The United States' Record of Veto Use at the UN* (1972-2011) [Including Resolutions Against Decades of Atrocities/Violations, Often Supported/Bankrolled by the United States]...
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Al-Zahawi's Revolt in Hell (Part II)
[This is part II of the translation. You can read the introduction and part I here and the original Arabic here] XVI. Taking the dead down to hell Jettisoned I was from the...
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Suzanne Alaywan's The Gazelle's Throw
[Suzanne Alaywan was born in 1974 in Beirut to a Lebanese father and an Iraqi mother. Because of the war, she spent her childhood years and adolescence between Andalusia, Paris, and Cairo. She...
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Seven Hours in Hama
“That's it! We cannot wait anymore. We are going to Hama, this morning.” My mother stood facing both of us, my twin and I, helpless and without words. It was Tuesday 16 March, two weeks after Hafez...
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The Sleep Thief
The Sleep Thief I will never forget that the interrogator called me “The Sleep Thief.” The name stuck in my mind whenever I used to steal a few seconds of sleep to hold it together before them even if...
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Pictures from a Camera
Here in this region, amid the initial, proven, lasting fervor that sends our bodies into perpetual (welcome) disturbance; from these variously perplexing, disappointing, exhilarating, terrible, or...
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February Flowers
Spring is not here yet. It was a cold and bloody week. Reach out and pluck all the flowers you see—real and imagined—and make a wreath for those who died! And for those who will...for words, and what...
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Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for a Leadership with a Strategy
In Search of a Collapsed Palestinian Leadership Palestinian leadership briefly returned to the weathered tables of diplomatic niceties to negotiate a path to negotiations. The return signaled an...
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Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for Leadership with a Strategy
In Search of a Collapsed Palestinian Leadership Palestinian leadership briefly returned to the weathered tables of diplomatic niceties to negotiate a path to negotiations. The return signaled an...
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An Ongoing Nakba: The Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq
In September 2011, the month that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud ‘Abbas submitted Palestine’s statehood bid at the United Nations, Qusai Abdul-Raouf of the Lebanon-based Palestinian Human...
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Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
Till Roeskens, Videomappings: Aida, Palestine. Palestine/France, 2009. The struggle over Palestine, a struggle in which ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images are all fiercely contested, has...
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The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts Both LGBTIQ and...
Israeli democracy, through its promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in...
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الساعة الثامنة والنصف صباحاً. أجلس أمام التلفزيون. أشرب قهوتي وأدخن. الجزيرة مباشر تنقل لنا "بابا عمرو" هذه اللحظة. كاميرا مثبتة على سطح ما أو على شرفة عالية. تظهر سطوح العمارات. مئذنة تنتصب على يمين...
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The Syrian Revolution on Four Packs a Day
Who populates the Syrian revolution? The Syrian revolution has three core populations: urbanite survivors of the 2001 Damascus Spring, disenfranchised classes rural and urban, and the traditional...
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One Morning in Homs
It’s nighttime here and I’m about to go to bed. Before I disconnect from Syria, I notice Omar is on Skype. I send him a message telling him that his video on Anderson Cooper tonight was impressive. I...
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Jadaliyya: A New Form of Producing and Presenting Knowledge in/of the Middle...
[This interview appeared in a series of articles in the journal Cultural Anthropology.] Julia Elyachar (JE): Jadaliyya has quickly become the go-to place for information and analysis of what is going...
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New Texts Out Now: Joshua Stacher, Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt...
Joshua Stacher, Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Joshua Stacher: The central reason for...
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الإنتخابات الديموقراطية: إيماء (ما بعد الـ) كولونيالي
سعود عمر، هو عضوٌ في نقابة عمال قناة السويس، ترشح للانتخابات البرلمانية كمستقل عن دائرة مدينة السويس الساحلية. لكن قبل أن يتوجه الناخبون إلى صناديق الإقتراع في الدورة الثانية يومي 14 و15ديسمبر(كانون...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's War
For a couple of centuries now, we have had to make due with Samuel Johnson’s famous phrase: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Thanks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, we can now revise this phrase for...
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