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DARS Media Roundup (May 16)
[This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of...
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Subaltern Is Not Voiceless – They Sing: Learning from Migrants’ Cultural...
[This article is the third in a Jadaliyya series that addresses the present sociopolitical landscape of migration in Morocco. Read the previous installments in the series by Sébastien Bachelet:...
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The Art of Resistance: Labor, Debt, and G.U.L.F.'s Guggenheim Campaign
[This interview is the result of a month-long email conversation between the activists of Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) and Jadaliyya's Arabian Peninsula page editorial team.]Nate Christensen...
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Quick Thoughts: Cihan Tugal on the Soma Mining Disaster
[An explosion at a coal mine in the Turkish city of Soma on 13 May 2014 has resulted in the death of at least 284 miners. With another one hundred miners still unaccounted for, it is the worst such...
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O.I.L. Media Roundup (17 April)
[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...
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Syria Media Roundup (May 17)
[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...
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Sharjah Art Foundation's March Project
March ProjectMarch - June 2014Bait Al Shamsi, SAF Art SpacesSharjah, UAE The March Project is a group exhibition, showcasing seven newly commissioned, site-specific artworks. The show is the result of...
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Abdullah Al-Tariki: A Profile from the Archives
”A Profile from the Archives“ is a series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left...
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On Erdogan’s ‘Ordinary Things’: The Soma Massacre, the Spine Tower, and the...
On 14 May, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reached Soma, the site of the coal mine explosion that has so far killed 321 people—an already horrific number feared to surpass 350. In his first...
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Can T-Wall Murals Really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?
Since April 2007, Baghdad has been experiencing a walling strategy designed by the US-led Multi-National Forces (MNF) occupying Iraq then. Between 2005 and 2008, kidnappings, assassinations and...
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Sahrawi Realities: Space, Architecture, and Mobility of Displacement (Part 1)
[This is the first of a series of articles that seek to reflect on the ways in which social mobilization, creation of space, and new modes of resistance intersect within the Sahrawi community. Between...
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Quick Thoughts: Vijay Prashad on India’s Parliamentary Elections
[Between 7 April and 12 May 2014, more than half a billion Indians voted to elect 543 members of the sixteenth Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. The result, announced on 16 May, stunned...
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DARS Media Roundup (May 28)
[This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of...
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The Empty Promise of State-Sponsored Feminism in the Arabian Peninsula
States in the Arabian Peninsula have maintained, and in some cases strengthened, their authoritarian structures in the shadow of the recent Arab uprisings. In spite of this, the US government and many...
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Militarization and External Intervention: The Syrian Crisis
The US organization Women Against War held a symposium in Chicago on 23 April 2014, to which researcher and scholar Bassam Haddad, Co-Founder and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya and Director of the Middle East...
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The Black Box of French History
Andrew Hussey, The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs. London: Granta, 2014.In 2005, a series of disturbing events occurred in France. In February, the parliament attempted to...
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Lebanese High Court Consecrates the Right to the Truth: Natural Rights as a...
Lebanese High Court Consecrates the Right to the Truth: Natural Rights as a Foundation On 4 March 2014, Lebanon’s State Council issued a historic ruling declaring that relatives of people who have...
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On the Margins Roundup (May)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect...
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Religion, Race, and Repression in Mauritania: The Ould Mkhaitir Apostasy Affair
On 2 January 2014, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ould Mkhaitir, a young Mauritanian engineer from the northern industrial city of Nouadhibou, published a denunciation of caste-based racism, which he...
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The Struggle for Information: Revelations on Mercenaries, Sectarian...
"No person may be punished on national security grounds for disclosure of information if (1) the disclosure does not actually harm and is not likely to harm a legitimate national security interest, or...
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