Turkey Media Roundup (June 30)
[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 ArticleAlif: Aynama-Rtama
Alif, a band of five musicians at the forefront of the Arab underground music scene, is launching its debut album Aynama-Rtama (Wherever It Falls) in the September 4th, 2015. Conceived in 2012 and...
View ArticleDARS Media Roundup (June 2015)
[This is a monthly 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 the...
View ArticleMeydan Politics: Taksim in Flux after Gezi
Political engagement in contemporary democracies can easily be reduced to private individuals voting separately in anonymity. Yet, politics is a state of constant negotiation, preferably where...
View ArticlePhotography Media Roundup (July 2)
[This is a roundup of articles on photography in the Middle East and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Photography Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting...
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, editor, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization...
Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias,”Middle East Policy 22.2 (2015): 145-155.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Marc Morjé Howard...
View ArticleThe Saudi Leaks and Egypt: A Recap
It was not long after Wikileaks had released the Saudi cables that the dirty laundry it revealed about Egypt’s political elite began circulating in news reports and social media. Although many of the...
View ArticleMore than Money on their Minds: The Generals and the Economy in Egypt Revisited
Following the July 2013 power takeover by Defense Minister and later President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, the economic activities of the Egyptian military have been reportedly on the rise. For many, that...
View ArticleIn Response to Mubarak
On 10 June the Youm7 website carried a summary of my book Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance(Cambridge University Press 2012), translated into Arabic under the title إجهاض...
View ArticleEgypt under the New July Republic
The prevailing characteristic of the time before the revolution, all those moons ago, was Egypt’s political moribundity. There were elections of sorts, or at least votes went in ballot boxes but their...
View ArticleMahienour Al-Masry: An Icon of the Revolution in Prison
Text and Photos by Heba Khamis Translated by Eman HashimWhether as a revolutionary activist chanting at protests or as an attorney advocating on behalf of the underprivileged in the courtroom,...
View ArticleEgypt Two Years after the Coup
Today marks two years since the 3 July 2013 coup that paved the way to the rise of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and the military-sponsored regime that he leads. On this occasion, Jadaliyya brings its...
View Articleمضيق المتعة
فى المنتصف من هذا الشارع الضيق المسمى شارع أديب والذى يربط بين شارعي صلاح سالم (شريف سابقا) وسعد زغلول يقع مطعم وبار "الكاب دور" أو" الشيخ علي" وهو الاسم الذى اشتهر به. تأسس البار سنة 1900 على يد...
View ArticleThe Land of Fear and Oppression
Kazeboon revisits Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's Egypt two years after the 3 July military coup. The video below serves as a collage of footage highlighting what sort of state Egypt has become under Sisi....
View Articleالمال ليس كل شيء: إعادة النظر في الاقتصاد العسكري في مصر
شهدت مصر توسّعاً واضحاً في النشاط الاقتصادي للجيش في أعقاب إطاحة القوات المسلحة المصرية بالرئيس الإخواني محمد مرسي في يوليو 2013، والذي تلاه ترجمة سيطرة الجيش على المشهد السياسي إلى صعود عبد الفتاح...
View ArticleWill the Greferendum Bring A Rupture?: Answers from the European Left
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult. Heraclitus, FragmentsHaving participated in the international anti-EU forum just days before...
View Article'I must save my life and not risk my family’s safety!': Untold Stories of...
[This article is the second in a two-part series on untold stories of Syrian refugee women. Click here to read Part 1] Mona’s Story Mona is a warrior (both figuratively and literally) who does not...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (June 29- July 5)
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...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (July 6)
[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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