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Anti-Apartheid: An Interview with Ronnie Kasrils
Ronnie Kasrils is a South African author and activist. He was Minister of Intelligence Services from 2004 to 2008, and member of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1987 to 2007. He was a founding...
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دستور الثورة..الوصاية مستمرة
القراءة الأولية لمسودة باب الحقوق والحريات فى الدستور الجديد تظهر أن القيود الثلاثة المفروضة على حريات الأفراد والجماعات المشكلة لقوام هذه الأمة والتي نشأت فى خضم عملية بناء الدولة الحديثة عبر...
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Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu seemed inspired by the Road Runner cartoons, Glenn Beck and Reverend Gene Scott. The bizarre, almost hand drawn, “bomb” in one of his hands was complemented by the red...
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The Baghdad Campus of the School of the Americas
President Obama continues to tout the withdrawal of troops from Iraq on the campaign trail as one of his foreign policy accomplishments. The other being the extrajudicial assassination of Osama bin...
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Egypt’s Withering Paternalism and the Future of Its Political Economy
The 25 January revolution can be considered the final showdown of the Nasserist socio-political order, which has been slowly decaying since the 1967 defeat. Nasserism was based on a paternalistic...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (October 9)
[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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The Southern Silk Road
1. Paralysis in Washington US policy on Iran is paralyzed. A report from mid-September by the Iran Project shows how the Obama agenda is poorly considered. This report, “Weighing the Costs of Military...
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A Firsthand Account: Marching From Shubra to Deaths at Maspero
The march from the Cairo district of Shubra was huge, like the numbers on 28 January. In the front row was a group of men in long white bibs, “martyr upon demand” written on their chests. A tiny old...
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Justice Denied: Egypt's Maspero Massacre One Year On
"The moment I saw my brother laying on the ground covered with blood, after he was run over by an armoured military vehicle, fails to leave my memory, even one year later. Especially as I was hit when...
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Martyrdom at Maspero: Searching for Meaning
One year ago, nearly thirty Egyptians, almost all Coptic Christians protesting against sectarian violence, were murdered as they marched on Maspero, the Egyptian Radio and Television Union building in...
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ملف من الأرشيف : بدر شاكر السياب
[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة جديدة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم...
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الخيال/الثورة و الرواية/التاريخ
"كان ديمقريطس وهرقليطس فيلسوفين. اعتبر أولهما الحالة البشرية مضحكة باطلة، فما ظهر بين الناس إلا والضحك والسخرية ملء وجهه. أما هرقليطس فقد شفق على الحالة البشرية وعطف عليها، فما انقشع الأسى عن وجهه...
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The Violence of the Revolution Between Legitimacy and Deviance: Syria and the...
The persistence of the regime's cohesion in the face of all the fissures and strikes it has sustained demands that every Syrian—whether an activist, a fighter, a partisan, or [a] silent [observer]—take...
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The Cult of Ziad Rahbani
For people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, Ziad Rahbani is the biggest celebrity there is. Some non-Lebanese may not be aware of the extent and reach of the Ziad Rahbani cult. You will...
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New Texts Out Now: Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Denis, Popular...
Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis, editors. Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Cairo and New York: The...
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Queers Resisting Zionism: On Authority and Accountability Beyond Homonationalism
[This article was written as a response to a recently published article by Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir Puar on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatching activism....
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On Positionality and Not Naming Names: A Rejoinder to the Response by Maikey...
[This article was written as a rejoinder to Haneen Maikey and Heike Schotten's response to the authors' article on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatching...
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Syria Media Roundup (October 11)
[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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Unionizing in Lebanon: The Struggle is Elsewhere
Last month saw the successful founding of an independent workers’ union emerge out of the Lebanese private sector. Yet there has been little social media fanfare outside Lebanon over this success …...
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On Cartoon Journalism: An Interview with Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco, a comic artist, journalist, author, and illustrator, who has published works focusing on the Middle East is in conversation with historian Zachary Lockman, a professor in NYU’s Department of...
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