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Cairo: The Myth of a City on the Verge of Explosion
Cairo is a crowded city. It is a truism that is easy to find in reportage about the city, which almost invariably begins with a description of Cairo as teeming, noisy, dusty, and polluted. Vendors and...
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Turkey Media Roundup (February 11)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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The State of the Western Sahara
In June 2013, Maghreb Page co-editor, Samia Errazzouki, and I produced an electronic roundtable of articles describing various historical and political contours of the Western Saharan conflict, opening...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (February 11)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors...
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Persian Translation of 'Fugitive Markets and Arrested Mobilities: Gaziantep’s...
بازار ایرانیان قازیانتب: بازارهای قاچاق و تحرکات متوقفشدهبا وجود مذاکرات جاری بین ایران و گروه 1+5 بر سر برنامۀ هستهای ایران و تحریمهای فلجکنندهای که بر این کشور و شهروندانش تحمیل شده، ساز و کار محرم...
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The Tunisian Constitution: The Process and the Outcome
The National Constituent Assembly (NCA) recently passed the new Tunisian Constitution on 26 January (and endorsed it officially on 27 January), to emotional and widely reported scenes. This...
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New Texts Out Now: VJ Um Amel, A Digital Humanities Approach: Text, the...
Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), “A Digital Humanities Approach: Text, the Internet, and the Egyptian Uprising,”Middle East Critique Volume 22, Issue 3 (2013). Jadaliyya: What made you write this...
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البحث عن غابة في عمّان
"والغابة الأَجمة ذاتُ الشجر الـمُتَكاثف، لأَنها تُغَيِّبُ ما فيها"- لسان العرب ملصق على شبّاك يطل على عمّانصباح كل يوم، وفي نفس الموعد، يخرج ستينيّ ملتحٍ من منزله بملابس النوم يحمل كيس قمامة وحقيبة...
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Commemorating Janet Abu-Lughod
The year 2013 was one of deep loss. One of the most profound of these was the death of the path-breaking and prolific sociologist, demographer, and urbanist Janet Abu-Lughod. Her passing is painful,...
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A Gentle and Generous Mentor: Janet Abu-Lughod
I first met Janet Abu-Lughod at a meeting of the Arab American University Graduates (AAUG). AAUG was co-founded in 1967 (disbanded in 2007), by Janet’s husband, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a leading political...
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The Janet Abu-Lughod I Knew
I first meet Janet L. Abu-Lughod in December 1990 when I invited her to be a keynote speaker for the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments...
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A Scholar Open to the World
Janet Abu-Lughod was a remarkable woman whom I had the privilege of knowing over a long period of time. A person of enormous intellectual curiosity, she approached the task of learning with an openness...
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In Memoriam
The swirl of articles and books in graduate school, perused and ingested during a few years to shape and inform one’s courses and research, felt unending at times. On the other hand, there are some...
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Before Theory: In Memory of Janet Abu-Lughod
There is a lively debate in urban studies nowadays about the Eurocentricity of the field’s canonical theories. The efforts to trace new geographies of theory are heterodox and heterogeneous, but they...
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On Protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Quickly and Darkly
Two VignettesConversation One was with the waiter in a large Sarajevo hotel, where we were generally a bit sheepish to be attending our conference (the deciding factor was that it was big enough for...
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Simdi anladik mi Erdogan’in niye hic kimseyi feda etmedigini?
Şimdi anladık mı Erdoğan’ın niye hiç kimseyi feda etmediğini?Şimdi anladık mı Erdoğan’ın bu güne kadar ne olursa olsun, bir kişiyi bile istifa ettirtmediğini, bir kişiyi dahi feda etmediğini? Gezi’de o...
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Syria Media Roundup (February 15)
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The Present Flies, the Past Remains
Le passé [The Past], directed by Asghar Farhadi. France/Italy, 2013.In an interview given last year, Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian filmmaker best known for his Oscar-winning film, A Separation (2011),...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (February 10-16)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
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Egypt Media Roundup (February 17)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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