Egypt Media Roundup (May 12)
[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...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (May 5-11)
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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منذ أصدر الاشتراكيون الثوريون بيانهميدعون فيه إلى التصويت لحمدين صباحي في مواجهة قائد الثورة المضادة، قرأت العديد من الاعتراضات وناقشت بعضها وزادتني كلها اقتناعا على اقتناع بضرورة التصويت لحمدين....
View ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (May 13)
[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...
View Articleشرعنة الديكتاتورية الجديدة في العراق
دَفْعُ رئيس مجلس الوزراء، نوري المالكي، باتجاه مكوثه على سدة الحكم لولاية ثالثة ينذر بإعادة البلاد إلى سكّة الديكتاتورية مجدداً. ثمّة دلائل على الأمر، أوّلها، إعادة المتورطين بقضايا فساد وإرهاب إلى جسم...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 13)
[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...
View ArticleSubaltern Is Not Voiceless – S/he Sings: Learning from Migrants’ Cultural...
[This article is the final in a Jadaliyya series that addresses the present sociopolitical landscape of migration in Morocco. Read the previous installements in the series by Sébastien Bachelet:...
View ArticleA Portrait of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
A Portrait of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)November 2013Beirut, Lebanon AFAC is an independent institution founded in 2007 to support the work of Arab artists and cultural initiatives. It...
View ArticleO.I.L. Monthly Edition (April 2014)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Sunaina Maira and Piya Chatterjee, The Imperial...
Sunaina Maira and Piya Chatterjee, editors, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this...
View ArticleCritical Currents in Islam Media Roundup (12 May)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating about Islam and reflects a wide variety of opinions and approaches. It does not reflect the views of the Critical Currents in Islam...
View ArticleForms that Matter: Six Exercises in Art Making
Mahmoud Khaled: Painter on a Study Trip Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt1 April - 6 May, 2014 Gypsum Gallery in Cairo opened only about a year ago in a leafy corner of the city’s Belle Époque neighborhood...
View ArticleThe General’s New Suit
His announcement on 26 March 2014 was a long awaited formality. Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to run in this year’s presidential election was no surprise to observers who, after the 3...
View ArticleCritical Currents in Islam Media Roundup (May 12)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating about Islam and reflects a wide variety of opinions and approaches. It does not reflect the views of the Critical Currents in Islam...
View ArticleStillbirth: The New Liberal-Conservative Mobilization in Turkey
Liberal-conservatism was the dominant intellectual discourse in Turkey for more than three decades. The 1980s was its moment of departure. It suffered a hiatus under the shadow of the Kurdish war in...
View ArticleIdentity Crisis: The Israeli ID System
The Nakba ("the catastrophe"), which refers to the ethnic cleansing of over 50% of the Palestinian population, was a defining moment of the long and ongoing history of forced displacement and...
View Articleهويات فريدة
أي هوية تلك التي اكتسبها حي بن يقظان بطل رواية ابن طفيل والتي سُمِّيت على اسم بطلها؟ ترويالحكاية عن مولود عاش وحيداً في جزيرة نائية بعد أن وضعته أمه، بعد ولادته مباشرة، ولظروف قاهرة؛ في تابوت ورمته في...
View Articleنداء القدس: ولادة خدمة الإذاعة الفلسطينية
في آخر يوم من شهر آذار 1930، وبينما كانت القدس تنتقل من الشتاء إلى الربيع، بدأت خدمة البث الإذاعي الخاص بفلسطين إرسالها من جهاز البث الجديد في رام الله، مع وجود مكاتب البث قرب مركز مدينة القدس. حضر...
View ArticleKnowledge as Politics by Other Means: An Interview with Wael Hallaq (Part One)
Throughout the last three decades, Wael Hallaq has emerged as one of the leading scholars of Islamic law in Western academia. He has made major contributions not only to the study of the theory and...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts: Omar Dahi on The Rebel Withdrawal from Homs and Brahimi...
[The agreement reached between opposition fighters and the Syrian regime with respect to Homs has solicaited an array of speculation as to what it precisely represents. When combined with the recent...
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