القرار الفلسطيني لمجلس الأمن: فتش عن حق العودة
اتسعت حدّة الجدل حول مشروع القرار الفلسطينيالذي قدمه الأردن، العضو العربي الوحيد في مجلس الأمن، بالاتفاق مع الفلسطينيين وجامعة الدول العربية. وعلى الرغم من رفض القرار في 30 ديسمبر/كانون الأول الماضي من...
View ArticleAt Least Twenty-Two Dead in Clashes between Zamalek Football Fans and Police
At least twenty-two died and many more were injured on Sunday evening during clashes between Zamalek’s hardcore football fans, the Ultras White Knights, and police forces at the Air Force stadium in...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (February 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...
View ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (February 10)
[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 Articleالأقلام: ذاكرة أخرى لثقافة في العراق
ترى كم تاريخٍاً للثقافة في العراق "وهل العراق بدع من البلدان ليكون له تواريخ ثقافية عديدة!؟" شخصياً لا أدري؛ مادام أن للثقافة تاريخياً شخصياً: تاريخ أفراد بعينهم، كثيرون يعضون على نواجذهم قائلين،...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (February 10)
[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 ArticleISIS Kills Gays: A History of Violence
Hands shove them forward, bound and blindfolded. Then comes the step when the stone beneath them stops and nothing is there. The photographs appall but they have the solidity of things you can see;...
View ArticleBecoming a 'Media Intellectual': The Platitudes and Partisanships of Etyen...
As politics in contemporary Turkey is gradually steered towards a de facto Imperial Presidency shrouded in regurgitated myths of Ottoman revivalism and defended against ostentatious conspiracies, it is...
View ArticleJadaliyya Monthly Edition (January 2015)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of January 2015. It also includes the most recent roundups, editors picks, and most read articles. Progressively, we will...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Elisabeth Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the...
Elisabeth R. Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom.Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Elisabeth Anker (EA): There are two answers...
View ArticleAl-Wihdat Refugee Camp: Between Inclusion and Exclusion
Drawing on the influential writing of Arendt, Foucault, and Agamben, much of the literature on refugees and refugee camps has generally emphasized the liminality and extraordinariness of the space of...
View ArticleWho Are the People? A Conversation on the Assemblages and the Archives of the...
Scholars of the Middle East have grappled for several decades with what seemed to be the death of “formal” or “official” politics in their attempt to explain the seemingly impenetrable force of...
View ArticleThe Vagaries of Laïcité
[This is the second of three responses to Muriam Haleh Davis’ review essay of books by Joan W. Scott, Naomi Davidson, and Mayanthi Fernando. For Joan W. Scott’s response, “More on Laïcité in Historical...
View ArticleRami Abadir and Mostafa El-Sayed: On 'Shawakish' Album
In early 2014, Cairo based musicians Rami Abadir and Mostafa El Sayed decided to jam together. They had known one another for a few years and shared a passion for using synthesizers and analog...
View ArticleCould Cantonizing Palestine Bring Peace?
An interesting plan for dividing Israel into provinces was published a few months ago by Haaretz. It suggested a remedy for the fragmentation of Israeli society and its failure to create a melting pot...
View ArticleManufacturing Silence: On Jordan's ISIS War, Arab Authoritarianism, and US...
On 24 December 2014, ISIS reported and the US-led coalition confirmed that a Jordanian fighter pilot, Mu‘ath al-Kassasbeh, had crashed in Syria and was now in ISIS custody. On 3 February 2015, ISIS...
View ArticleBio-Istanbul: A Speculative, Segregationist, and Sustainable Urbanism
Ekolojik (ecological), yeşil (green), doğal (natural), or akıllı (smart): these are the new concepts increasingly emphasized in brochures advertising real estate projects in Istanbul. Stamped with the...
View ArticleCairo Downtown Passages Redesign
The Cairo Laboratory for Urban Studies and Environmental Research (CLUSTER) has been exploring the network of Cairo’s downtown passages for almost three years. as CLUSTER co-founder Omar Nagati...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (February 16)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya....
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (February 16)
[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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