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نداء الأسير خضـر عدنـان إلى العالم
نحوعمل تضامني دولي ينطلق في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني (17 نيسان/ أبريل) " أؤكد على أن إضرابي عن الطعام، ليس من أجل قضيتي كفرد، إنما من أجل قضية أبناء شعبي، ومئات الأسرى الإداريين المحرومين من أبسط حقوقهم"....
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Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his sixty-third day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without...
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Remembering Anthony Shadid
His untimely death silences one of the best Middle East reporters. We at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, along with the global Middle East Studies community, mourn...
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Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
A year has passed since Arab youth took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity, unleashing a long-awaited revolution. As authoritarian regimes fell in Tunisia and Libya, were shaken in Egypt,...
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The Real Me and the Hypothetical Syrian Revolution - Part 1
The Syrian revolution undeniably belongs to the street. It’s rooted in the public realm where masses of physical bodies occupy the squares and real voices fill the air with defiance against the...
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Syria's Islamic Movement and the Current Uprising: Political Acquiescence,...
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حين يكون الكوكب بأسره ضد الثورة
"لقد رأيت الشجرة، لكن الجذور في مكان آخر." (مثل هندي) إنّ الصورة المهيمنة اليوم حول الثورة السورية والتي يتمّ إغراقنا فيها، سواء عبر أبواق النظام السوري أو عبر القنوات الغربية و العربية "المعادية" له...
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A Year After: The February 20 Protest Movement in Morocco
On the one-year anniversary of the February 20 protest movement in Morocco, (henceforth referred to as Feb. 20), the kingdom boasts relatively meager political progress. Despite the much-vaunted...
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Plundering the Past: Scholarly Treasures
“Not a year has passed without hunger in Iraq,” wrote the great Iraqi poet al-Sayyab (1926–1964) more than half a century ago in his memorable poem “Rainsong.” Now, many years and many wars later,...
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New Texts Out Now: Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab...
Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Betty S. Anderson...
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The Syria Leaks
“The American psyche can be easily manipulated,” writes Sheherazad Jaafari, press attaché of Syria’s mission to the United Nations (UN), in a brief sent to Syrian presidential media aide and former Al...
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It Is What It Is
A call by the Hayward gallery has been circulating regarding a second installment of the Jeremy Deller piece, It Is What It Is. The call, an excerpt of which follows, was sent out to look for...
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لا شيء يفنى أو يُخلق من عدم
يُعامل التاريخ على يد المؤرخين المحترفين كسلسلة من الأحداث المترابطة منطقياً، وغالباً ما تتحوّل معالجات كهذه إلى ما يشبه الحتميات التاريخية لدى آخرين. بيد أن ما يغيب عن التاريخ باعتباره سلسلة من...
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A New Kind of Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation
In October 2011, the newly renovated Sourp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church reopened in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Among the hundreds gathered to celebrate its first mass in over...
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الاستفتاء على الدستور السوري: النظام الفردي كما هو
14مليوناً و 600 الف من السوريين والسوريات مطالبون بأن يقرأوا ويناقشوا مشروع دستور من دزينة من الصفحات قبل أن يستفتوا بقبوله أو رفضه في غضون اسبوعين لا أكثر. للاستحقاق وجهان: امتحان نسبة المشاركين في...
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Syria Media Roundup (February 23)
Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, killed in Syria on Wednesday reminds us all of the importance of front line reporting (1) along with a French photographer, Remi Ochlik and, on the previous day a...
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في الشبّيحة والتشْبيح ودولتهما
خرجت من سورية، ولا فخر، كلمة الشبيحة إلى العالم ولغاته، بينما كان المسمى يخرج إلى "الشارع" السوري كالجنّي، يروع ويقتل، ويكره ويقذع في البذاءة. "يُشبّح". ودخلت اللغة العربية ذاتها كلمة لم تكن معروفة...
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An Elegy Out of Stories
When my close friend of nearly two decades, the celebrated New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, died suddenly last week of an asthma attack while crossing the border from Syria into Turkey, the...
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When the Entire Planet is Against the Revolution
"I have seen the tree, but the roots are elsewhere." - Indian proverb. Whether from the helms of the Syrian regime or through the "opposed" western media such as Al Jazeera and its helms in the Arab...
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Debating Tactics: Remember to Ask, "What Works?"
Our tactical debates should solve protesters’ problems, instead of dividing movements. In the midst of Yet Another Tactical Debrief, this time on the recent...
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