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Black Humor Facebook Pages of the Syrian Opposition
The uprising in Syria has unleashed a wave of dark humor and satire across a range of media, from the clever posters of the Local Coordinating Committee of Kfarnebel, and the short sketches from...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Aug 13-19)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles and the latest videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
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مأساة الكتب في مصر
واقعتان مررت بهما الأسبوع الماضي جعلتاني أتحسر على وضع الكتب والقراءة والثقافة بوجه عام في مصر. الواقعة الأولى حدثت لي في مكتبة جامعة نيويورك حيث أقضي هذا الصيف في محاولة لكتابة الفصل الأخير من كتاب عن...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (August 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...
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An Invisible Nation: The Gulf’s Stateless Communities
The issue of statelessness in the Gulf is as old as the post-colonial oil states from which they are actively being excluded. Until the 1980s, the status of the Bedoon was not seen as a political...
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On the Nature of the Hashemite Regime and Jordanian Politics: An Interview...
The following is the first installement in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq...
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Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis I. Nov 19, 2005 Haditha, Al-Anbar Province, Iraq Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division . . . Twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians Including: A seventy-six year old amputee In...
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Case Review: Pardoning Protestors against the Disengagement from Gaza
HCJ 1213/10, Eyal Nir, et al. v. Speaker of the Knesset, et al (decision delivered 23 February 2012) "Within the Hebrew language's concept of amnesty," wrote former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim...
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Writing, Revolution, and Change in Syria: An Interview with Nihad Sirees
It can be said without hesitation that Nihad Sirees is an Aleppine writer, not because he hails from that city and lived there for most of his life, but because the bulk of his writing starts there and...
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Back to the Table, Egypt and the IMF
Negotiations between the Egyptian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have resumed. On Wednesday, the IMF’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, met President Mohamed Morsy and Prime...
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Ghassan Kanafani: The Symbol of the Palestinian Tragedy
As I recall the year was 1966. We ran to the Nasr Cinema hall in Gaza City to attend a literary seminar held during a conference for the Union of Palestinian Writers. A surprise would unfold whose...
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Interview With Kuwaiti Filmmakers
[With a desert to one side and an ocean to another, living in Kuwait can offer very strange experiences. The skies are never blue, approaching a disconcerting beige, and the night bathes in the...
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Amal Dunqul: Spartacus' Last Words
[Amal Dunqul (1940-1983) was part of what is known as the "sixties generation" of Egyptian poets and one of the most significant (political) poets of modern Arabic literature who remains largely...
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Tunisian Constitution: Text and Context
On Wednesday, 8 August, al-Chourouq newspaper published an advance copy of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly’s newly released draft constitution to the public and to the Board for...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (August 23)
[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....
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Syria Media Roundup (August 23)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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An Excerpt from The Penguin's Song by Hassan Daoud
[Born in the village of Noumairieh in osuthern Lebanon in 1950, Hassan Daoud moved as a child to Beirut, though like so many Lebanese families, his retained strong links to the village and returned...
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Portrait of America: Kehinde Wiley at the Jewish Museum
The gap between propaganda about Palestine in contrast to the reality I know as a Palestinian has made me wary… The most serious failing in political art is that it does not make clear whose side the...
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August Culture
Jadaliyya's second summer bouquet features an essay by the new co-editor of the Culture Page, Maymanah Farhat, fiction from Lebanon, poetry from Egypt, a remembrance of the great Ghassan Kanafani, and...
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عندما يصبح تسييس القضاء ضمانة لاستقلاله: أفكار حول التجربة المصرية 1967-2012
أين اختفى قضاة "التيار الاستقلالي" في مصر اليوم؟ سؤال محير يراود أذهان أكثر من متابع للشأن القضائي المصري في الوقت الحاضر. فالمفارقة الغريبة هي أن القضاة الذين صنعوا الحدث القضائي والسياسي عامي 2005...
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