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Rachel Corrie: Blaming the Victim
On Tuesday, Judge Oded Gershon of the Haifa District Court dismissed the civil lawsuit I brought on behalf of Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for the unlawful killing of their...
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Beware of Small Cities
The physical spaces of the Arab uprisings emerged as powerful political tools in the course of the revolts for both protesters and regimes. Protestors in streets and squares affirmed that power also...
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Article 28 of the Tunisian Constitution: A Problem Among Many Others
Every year, Tunisians celebrate Women’s Day on 13 August with all due pomp and circumstance. This year, however, seven thousand Tunisians — mostly women — took to Mohamed V Avenue in downtown Tunis to...
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Syria Media Roundup (September 6)
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Maghreb Media Roundup (September 6)
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التحضّر والانتفاضات العربية: وسط القاهرة وسقوط مبارك
إذا كان القرن العشرين في أوروبا قرناً حضَرياً، فإنّ القرن الـ 21 يشير إلى مرحلة انتقالية عالمية نحو حقبة حضرية. ففي العام 2008، وللمرة الأولى في التاريخ، تجاوز عدد سكان المناطق الحضرية وشبه الحضرية عدد...
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What is to be Done: The Website as an Organizer #RevSoc
The Revolutionary Socialists Movement launched its new website on 7 August. The site represents a qualitative change in our propaganda work, but it also presents some major challenges to the membership...
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Tunisian Media: Al-Nahda Tightens its Control
Tunisia’s Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the ruling Islamist al-Nahda party, Hamadi Jebali, was invited to close a two-day event held in Tunis in May to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. In...
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الأردن: بريق إخواني وعدائية سلفية
يشكل المسلمون 97 في المئة من عدد سكان الأردن البالغ عددهم، وفق أرجح الإحصائيات، ستة ملايين نسمة. يصفُ 90 في المئة منهم أنفسهم بـ "المتدينين" أو "المتديّنين إلى حدّ ما"، بحسب استطلاع أجراه مركز الدراسات...
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Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (August 2012)
This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide...
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صور من كاميرا
هنا، في هذه المنطقة، في خضم الحماس الأوّلي، المؤكّد، الدائم. الذي يضع أجسادنا في اضطراب دائم (ومرحّب به)؛ من هذه اللحظات التي تتنوّع ما بين الحيرة، والخيبة، والنشوة، والرهبة، والإلهام ــ من هذه اللحظات...
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'Arab Spring,' Moroccan Winter
Recent analyses of the Middle East and North Africa indicate that the countries in the region are entering a “third phase” of the Arab Spring. The first phase was characterized by the massive...
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Islamists Took Over Years Ago
Twenty years ago, the French academic Olivier Roy published the book for which he is best known, “L’échec de l’Islam politique”, translated into English as The Failure of Political Islam. The title may...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Sep 3-9)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya"...
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Of Stupid Men and Smart Machines
It is too early to know the definitive story of what led to Tuesday’s protests at the US embassy in Cairo and the brazen attack on the US consulate in Benghazi later that night that killed four...
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الطاغية إبن الطاغية
[.إرتأت جريدة “الأخبار” ألّا تنشر مقالة أسعد أبو خليل الأسبوعيّة وهذا هو نصّها الكامل] يجثم فوق صدور العرب طغاة، ويجثم فوق صدورهم أبناء الطغاة. الطغاة يولّدون، لكن ليس إلى ما لا نهاية. الإنتفاضات...
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"Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?": The Fascinating Arrogance of Power
This is just the beginning. As we were boarding a flight from Washington to Istanbul, this image appeared on the screen at the gate, with the CNN headline, “Was The Arab Spring Worth It?” Generally,...
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انتفاضة الدفاع عن الرسول بين لوع جماعة الإخوان ومقاومة الاستعمار
لا يسع من يتابع تطورات الأحداث المترتبة على الفيلم المسيء للرسول في مصر والعالم العربي إلا أن يشعر بحسرة شديدة على ما آلت إليه أحوالنا، بعدما كشفته عبثية الأحداث من تدني مستوى الوعي المهيمن في البلاد...
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Whose Innocence?: Thoughts on Copts, Muslims, and a World Gone (Temporally) Mad
Note: The author posted the following addendum on 18 September 2012: I want to be very clear that I neither see the 'Innocence of Muslims' video as expressing a general Coptic view (if there is one)...
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السينما ومجازر المخيمات
ليس فيلماً عادياً. إنه صادم وقاتل وراعب وخرافي، وأكثر من ذلك يمكن وصف فيلم «مجزرة» لمونيكا بورغمان ولقمان سليم وهيرمان ثييسن. يتحدث الفيلم عن مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا من زاوية أخرى وهي رواية مرتكبي المجزرة...
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