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The Hunger Strike Defeated the Secret Evidence: The Case of Khader Adnan
With a hunger strike lasting 66 days, Khader Adnan, a Palestinian baker from the village of Arabeh in the West Bank, successfully undermined the seemingly incontestable system of administrative...
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Egypt Media Roundup (March 5)
“Spectacle and political power in Egypt” The military's responses to recent unrest shows it is learning to use manipulate events to its own political advantage. “The Arab media paradox” Despite the...
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نجـاح الثـورة يتوقـف علـى تصحيـح مساراتهـا
وسط الاحتجاز السياسي العام، الذي يكتنف المسألة الوطنية السورية، وفي ظل تصريحات تصدر عن جهات مؤثرة في العمل السياسي المعارض، ترى أن التدخل الخارجي صار «الحل الوحيد» في سوريا، مع ما يعنيه ذلك من اعتراف...
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أربع قضايا مسكوت عنها فى حديث المعونة الأمريكية
كما ظهر الحديث عن المعونة الأمريكية «الاقتصادية» وضرورة الاستغناء عنها لحماية سيادة الدولة واستقلالية القرار الوطنى، هاهو يخبو بقرار سياسى. فهاهى مبادرات التبرع للمعونة المصرية تصبح بقدرة قادر لخدمة...
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawfare and Targeted Killing Revisited--A...
[This is the sixth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Secret Bureaucracy of Targeted Killing
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Need for Judicial Review of US Targeted...
[This is the fourth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawyering and Targeted Killing
[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: A Meditation on Reciprocity and Self-Defense...
[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Introduction
[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings. Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard...
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Occupy AIPAC Photo Essay
Sunday, March 4th was an action-packed day for Occupy AIPAC. From the early hours of the morning, protesters occupied the streets surrounding the convention center to greet conference attendees with...
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The Politics of Religious Freedom: Religious Freedom, Minority Rights, and...
The right to religious liberty is widely regarded as a crowning achievement of secular-liberal democracies that guarantees the peaceful co-existence of religiously diverse populations. While all...
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New Texts Out Now: Mervat Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in...
Mervat F. Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A’sha Taymur. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this...
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New Texts Out Now: Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey
Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Nergis Ertürk (NE): One of my motives...
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Hama: Post-Massacre
We went back to Hama after our first post-massacre visit. Three weeks later, the magnitude of destruction had become more apparent. The Kilani district had been flattened, and a brick wall was being...
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Syria Media Roundup (March 7)
“The Doves of Damascus” spotlight on the people working for change from inside Syria “Syria Today: Daily News Brief” A locally produced news roundup on Syria “Syrians fleeing Homs accuse troops of...
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Opposition to the Syrian Opposition: Against the Syrian National Council
First, let us be clear: the Syrian people have every right to protest, peacefully and violently, against the brutal regime. And let us be clear: the Syrian regime has no right to stay in power, and...
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Meet the Head of Egypt's Presidential Election Commission
Egypt is gearing up for the final stages of a tumultuous transitional period under the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and preparing to enter a new phase following a scheduled...
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Syria’s Currency Plunges, Raising Fears of Economic Chaos and Poverty
The exchange rate of the Syrian Pound has reportedly plunged to the 103 range against the dollar at mid-day Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 in Damascus. This is a loss of over 100% since the beginning of...
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Nada Bakri: Democracy Now! Interview with Wife of Anthony Shadid
In this Democracy Now! interview, Nada Bakri, the widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid, speaks about her husband’s passion for covering the Middle East and his posthumous memoir....
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