Jordan's Current Political Opposition Movements and the Need for Further...
The following is the second and final 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...
View ArticleTrying to Understand MUJWA
Since it first burst onto the scene in December 2011, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (generally MUJWA in English, or MUJAO in French) has been a difficult group to pin down. The group...
View Articleالإخوان المسلمون: سنوات ما قبل الثورة
يحوي كتاب "الإخوان المسلمون: سنوات ما قبل الثورة" للباحث الراحل حسام تمام (دار الشروق 2012)، مجموعة من الدراسات المتعلقة بجماعة الإخوان المسلمين المصرية وتحولاتها السياسة والاجتماعية قبيل ثورة يناير،...
View ArticleThe Economic and Human Toll of Syria's Worsening Refugee Crisis: Democracy...
The following interview was conducted with Omar Dahi, a Syrian professor of economics at Hampshire College on August 14th, 2012 regarding the economic consequences of the uprising in Syria, especially...
View ArticleConstructing the Self, Constructing the Other
[In her essay, US-Turkish philosopher Şeyla Benhabib criticises the current lack of any serious multicultural dialogue between the civilisations. Instead, European and US intellectuals continue to...
View ArticleAs Syria Free-Falls . . . A Return to the Basics (Part 1)
Lest we forget, or forget why, it has become important to consult the basics regarding the Syrian uprising. This might very well be the best time for such a review. For as the death toll rises and the...
View Articleعن الخليج: الحملة الأمنية في الإمارات
من النادر أن نرى تغطية إعلامية في الغرب عن القمع المنسق الذي يتعرض له الناشطون المطالبون بالديمقراطية في شبه الجزيرة العربية. تعد المملكة العربية السعودية الأولى بين أقرانها في الجزيرة العربية التي...
View ArticleOn Arabs and the Art Awakening: Warnings from a Narcoleptic Population
Amidst commentaries on American crony capitalism, security feminism, and the democracy movement in Mexico, “Art and the Arab Awakening,” Nama Khalil’s article in Foreign Policy in Focus (2 August...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Books in Egypt
Looking at Egypt, historian Khaled Fahmy affords a harrowing insight into the status of that most indispensable of commodities: the book. In recent weeks I encountered two incidents that made me feel...
View ArticleAbout the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran: An Interview with Mansour...
Iran was host to the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on 26-31 August 2012. In order to hold this gathering, the Iranian government spent a reported sum of six hundred million dollars....
View ArticleJadaliyya Monthly Edition (August 2012)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of July 2012. It also includes the most recent videos and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring...
View Article"استراتيجيات بديلة للنضال السياسي: من الأرض وحتى وثائق "التصور المستقبلي
في سنة 1964، وبعد محاولات متكررة وفاشلة للحصول على مصادقة قانونية في إسرائيل، قامت حركة الأرض بإرسال رسالة للأمم المتحدة تشرح من خلالها ضائقة المواطنين الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل وتطالب بتدخل المجتمع...
View Articleليبيا ما بعد القذافي وظائف تضخيم دور القبيلة
لا يوجد شك في أثر التدخل الغربي في ليبيا، الذي علاوة على نتائجه الجيوستراتيجية الكبرى على البلاد ومحيطها الإقليمي، كما تبين ذلك حالة شمال مالي، فهو يفعل في سيرورة إعادة البناء الوطنية وإنتاج الهويات،...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (Aug 27- Sep 2)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. The Balkanisation of Syria: Myth or...
View ArticleTrial of Saudi Civil Rights Activists Mohammad al-Qahtani and Abdullah al-Hamid
1 September 2012 at 9 a.m. in Riyadh’s Specialized Criminal Court Rows of supporters formed outside the Riyadh courtroom as they waited for the arrival of activists Mohammad al-Qahtani and Abdullah...
View ArticleWhen the Lights Go Out: A Discussion with David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the world’s leading figures in...
View ArticleGrappling with Israel: From Sontag to Lacan and the Maoists in Between
Susan Sontag, Promised Lands. Poland/France, 1974. Groupe Cinéma Vincennes, L’Olivier. France/Palestine, 1976. Mike Hoolboom, Lacan Palestine. Canada, 2012. In 1973, Susan Sontag, the visual critic and...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (September 3)
[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 Articleدليل المعترض على حجج المقترض
على مدى الأسبوعين الماضيين استمر التعتيم على عدد هائل من الأسئلة المحورية فيما يتعلق بالقرض الذي تسعى حكومة الرئيس مرسي للحصول عليه من صندوق النقد الدولي. مازلنا لا نعلم لماذا تم رفع القيمة المطلوبة...
View ArticleAnne and Rachel: a Legacy of Two Martyrs
Sixty-Seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement center in Madison, Wisconsin to...
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