Egypt News Update (21 August 2013)
[This is a collection of news updates on Egypt compiled from multiple sources by the editors.]Mubarak May Be Out By Week’s EndAn Egyptian court ordered the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak as...
View ArticleAmended Draft of Egyptian Constitution To Be Announced 'Very Soon'
The amended draft of Egypt’s 2012 constitution will be announced Thursday or next Saturday, said Ali Awad, the head of a ten-member technical committee entrusted with amending the national charter.This...
View ArticleSyria Media Roundup (August 22)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View ArticleOfficial Muslim Brotherhood Spokesperson Arrested in Cairo
Ahmed Aref, the official spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood, is arrested in Nasr City, Cairo, early ThursdaySecurity officials announced Thursday that official Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Ahmed...
View ArticleDeaths Without Dignity
"You want to see the bodies? Ok then, here!" the man working at the morgue said, holding me and a friend by the arm and practically pushing us into a humid room filled with bodies, lying on slabs or on...
View ArticleJadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat, Discusses Law and the Israel-Palestinian...
In the documentary film, "The Law In These Parts," Ra'anan Alexandrowicz examines the system of military law that has governed the lives of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory since 1967. The film...
View Articleاستقطاب الخطاب وانتصار الليبرالية في مصر
لستُ سوى مراقب عن كثب للسياسة والتاريخ المصريين. وآمل أن يسمح لي الذين يشاركونني في الحوار حول مصر بأن أقدّم بعض الملاحظات عمّا يمكن أن يصبح في نهاية المطاف مهماً لنا جميعاً، نحن الذين نحرص على...
View ArticleSpeaking of Resistance
“Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere resistance” is one of the most famous slogans of the popular uprising that emerged out of the Taksim Gezi park protests in Istanbul in May and June. Ironically, the 15...
View ArticleEgypt News Update (22 August 2013)
[This is a collection of news updates on Egypt compiled from multiple sources by the editors.]MENA: More Sectarian Violence in MinyaSectarian clashes have erupted in a village in Minya, upper Egypt,...
View ArticleComing Full Circle? An interview with Egyptian Journalist Ahmad Shokr
Since June 30, Egypt has seen one of its worst turmoil in the country’s modern history, with hundreds killed, dozens of police stations and churches burned, and a divided population. The Muslim...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (August 23)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya....
View ArticleThousands of Pro-Morsi Demonstrators Take to Streets in Egypt Amid Tightened...
Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators take to streets in Cairo and several provinces decrying Morsi's ouster and killing of hundreds of protesters last week, army and police forces tighten security at...
View ArticleReflections at the Margin of Bloodshed
The time of innocence has ended. During the Lebanese civil war we discovered that revolution is not pretty. And we watched as the romance of Che Guevara’s portrait faded, and the dreams of May 1968...
View Articleلماذا تُقلق صورة النساء الفلسطينيات المُقاوِمات مضجع إسرائيل؟ المظاهرات ضد...
كتب محامي أحد معتقلي مظاهرات "برافر لن يمر" ضد مخطط إسرائيل لتهجير أكثر من خمسينألف فلسطيني في النقب، والتي جرت في الخامس عشر من تمّوز؛ على حسابه على موقع التواصل الإجتماعي "فيسبوك"، أنه عندما دخل إلى...
View ArticleOut of Sight, Out of Mind
Minya church attacks unfold with little to no security intervention.MINYA - It was the same scene everywhere: blackened walls, floors littered with detritus, empty spaces where everything was ripped...
View ArticleOne Dead As Skirmishes Erupt in Egypt's Nile Delta
Angry mobs reportedly attacked pro-Morsi demonstrations and houses of Brotherhood members in Daqahliya and Gharbiya, leaving one dead in the latter governorate on 'Friday of Martyrs'.Violence broke out...
View ArticleTwenty-Six Brotherhood Leaders Referred To State Security Prosecution Over...
Security forces round up twenty-six Muslim Brotherhood leaders over their alleged involvement in violent clashes in Egypt's Nile Delta city of Tanta on Friday.Egyptian authorities on Saturday referred...
View ArticleGeneral Prosecutor Refers Report Against Political Activists to State Security
Prosecutor General refers report accusing well known activists Asmaa Mahfouz and Esraa Abdel-Fattah of espionage to Supreme State Security Prosecution.Egypt's General Prosecutor, Hesham Barakat, has...
View ArticleIn This Sublime Struggle of Ours: After Egypt, on Turkey and Terror
What does Prime Minister Erdoğan’s government in Turkey have in common with General Sisi’s in Egypt? “Nothing” cannot be the answer—at least not for those who have dared to confront the legal, liberal,...
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