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View ArticleBeirut Event -- Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s: A Panel Discussion (28 July...
Join us in Beirut for a panel of presentations dealing with state formation, public institutions, and social mobilizations in the first fifteen years since the formal end of the French of mandate in...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (July 20)
[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 Articleوردة باراثِلسو: قصة للكاتب الأرجنتيني خورخِ لويس بورخِسْ
في ورشته، التي تشغل غرفتي القبو، طلب باراثِلسو من ربّهِ، ربِّهِ غير المحدَّد، من أيّ رب كان، أن يبعثَ له تلميذاً. خيّم المساء. نار الموقد القليلة أطلقت ظلالاً . كان نهوضه لإشعال المصباح الحديدي عملاً...
View ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (July 21)
[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 ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (July 21)
[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 ArticleHas Amnesty International Lost Its Way? A Forensic Analysis of Amnesty’s...
Amnesty International is among the premier human rights organizations in the world. Its pronouncements shape public opinion, while councils of state feel obliged if not to heed them at any rate to...
View ArticleWhy are LGBT Equality Organizations Joining Forces with Israel Advocacy Groups?
The widespread celebration of the recent US Supreme Court decision on gay marriage provides a great opportunity to think about how governments and their institutions get politically rebranded. These...
View ArticleAttacks against Solidarity with Kobane: The Suruç Massacre of Young Socialists
A suicide attack killed at least thirty young socialists in Suruç in Urfa, the Turkish city near the Syrian border, on 20 July 2015. The attack on the Amara Culture Center, where at least three hundred...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth
Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth. Arles: Actes Sud/Sindbad, 2015. Jadaliyya (J): Qu’est-ce qui vous a fait publier ce livre? Franck Mermier (FM): Après des recherches sur la...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (July 22)
[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 ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Ali Issa, Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in...
Ali Issa, Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq. Washington, DC: Tadween Books, 2015. [Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq is co-published with the War Resisters...
View Articleخلافـــــة الرئيـــس
كلمّا تقدّم الزمن تُطرح مسألة خلافة الرئيس محمود عباس بقوة أكبر، لأن الرئيس تجاوز الثمانين من عمره وانتهت الفترة القانونية لولايته منذ حوالي سبع سنوات من دون إجراء الانتخابات التي لا يعرف أحد متى ستعقد...
View Articleلا بشرٌ ولاحجر... تدمر وسرديات الحرب على الآثار
كان من عادات الملوك المنتصرين في العالم القديم أن يقوموا إما بمسح ذكر أولئك المهزومين، أو بتخليد هزيمتهم وإذلالهم للأبد ليكتبوا بدورهم تاريخهم ويخلدوا إنجازاتهم عبر العصور. مع بروز عصر القوميات والنشاط...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts: John Reynolds on Recent Amendments to the Israeli Penal Code
[On 20 July 2015 Israel’s parliament adopted legislation pursuant to which individuals convicted of throwing stones at moving vehicles can be sentence for up to twenty years in prison. To be applied to...
View ArticleGay Hanging in Iran: Atrocities and Impersonations
Everybody on earth knows that a deal on Iran’s nuclear program was announced in mid-July. Everybody also knows that this apparent step toward peace launched a new stage in an old war: of...
View Articleتدمر، واحة للظلام
تعرضت تدمر منذ مدة لغزوة بربرية في وقت قياسي، وتردد صدى الخبر في أنحاء سوريا والعالم لأن تدمر تتمتع بشهرة خاصة كونها رمزاً ثقافياً وحضارياً، ونظراً لموقعها الجغرافي الذي جعل منها في الأزمنة القديمة...
View ArticleDaoud’s Camus Fanfiction Is More of the Same
Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation. Translated by John Cullen. New York: Other Press 2015.Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud’s debut novel The Meursault Investigation, recently translated into...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (July 20-26)
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 ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (July 28)
NOTE: Due to the Turkish government’s censorship of media outlets affiliated with Kurdish and leftist movements, Jadaliyya was unable to access a number of newspapers that are regularly included in the...
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