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Covering Iran's Ninjas
On the evening of 29 March, a line in my twitter feed read, “You don’t want to mess with Iran’s lady ninjas.” Cara Park’s snarky comment had been retweeted by someone I follow in Cairo. I clicked her...
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Press Release: Adalah, Bimkom, the RCUV and Arab Bedouin Living in the Naqab...
[The following press release was issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 25 March 2012.] (Beer el-Sabe, Israel)--On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab...
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Does International Law Shelter States from Accountability?
Regrettably, states’ power to protect themselves and to ensure impunity has continued to grow in recent years. This paper discusses two recent examples of this political trend: the far-reaching...
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Press Release: Stop Home Demolitions and the Displacement and Dispossession...
[The following press release was issued by Adalah--The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 27 March 2012.] 30 March 2012 is the thirty-sixth Land Day. The first Land Day began as a...
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Essential Readings: Reading Lebanon
My dissertation studies intersections and impasses between law and citizenship in Lebanon. I do so through examining two phenomena, activism for a secular personal status and/or civil marriage law, and...
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المرشح لرئاسة مجلس إدارة مصر
يقول أحد عمال سيراميكا كليوباترا المضربين بحماس شديد في فيديو مدته ١٠ دقائق من قلب الإضراب بثت حركة مصرين على يوتيوب:"احنا لما قمنا بالثورة قمنا عشان نلغي حكومة رجال الأعمال. احنا عايزين الحكومة اللي...
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New Texts Out Now: Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early...
Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600-1800). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book, and what particular topics,...
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April 6: Genealogy of a Youth Movement
Go to any protest outside Tahrir Square today and you will inevitably hear onlookers grumbling about “April 6 youths destroying the country” — even when the group has no presence at the demonstration....
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Egypt Media Roundup (April 9)
[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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العمود الفقري لاستثمارات النظام السوري
رغم مضي ما يقارب العام على بدء الانتفاضة السورية، التى راح فيها أكثر من 7500 قتيل، لم يحظ النزاع الذى طال أمده بفهم جيد أو تغطية إخبارية جيدة على الرغم من طوفان الكتابات، يلاحق معظمها أحداثاً تتحرك...
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Why the Syrian Regime Will Abide By the Cease-Fire This Week
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Reading Fanon in Palestine/Israel
The fiftieth anniversary of the death of revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was commemorated this past December. In late February, the not-so-revolutionary judge Asher Grunis was...
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O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 10)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page...
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Sonia M'Barek: A Musical Innovator Rooted in Tradition
Sonia M’Barek, Proshansky Auditorium, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, 23 March 2012. In traditional Arabic music, a vocalist is not just referred to as a singer, but is...
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Epic or Farce: Preliminary Assessment of Iran's Parliamentary Elections (Part...
[Read Part One here.] "Epic" Turnout After the 2 March polls closed, Khamenei said that the turnout had been “one of the highest” throughout the history of the Islamic Revolution. “These elections were...
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On Uprisings and Interventions: An Interview with Vijay Prashad
Since the start of the events in the Arab World, termed as the so-called “Arab Spring,” Vijay Prashad has been writing about the different countries where people turned against their regimes across the...
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A Monarchical Affair: From Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula
When protests in North Africa ousted dictators and began spreading elsewhere in the region, decades-old alliances between the Arab monarchies were strengthened with the common interest of staying in...
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The Day Hafez al-Assad Died
The day Hazfez al Assad died, I was having lunch with a friend. We were eating pasta at a family owned Italian restaurant in Ras Beirut when the news was announced. With everyone else, we stared at the...
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Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to...
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