Egypt Media Roundup (November 12)
[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 ArticleCairo Event: PhotoCairo 5 "more out of curiosity than conviction" (14 Nov -...
Cairo Event:Photo Cairo 5: more out of curiosity than conviction 14 Nov – 17 Dec 2012Photo Cairo 5: more out of curiosity than conviction is a large-scale contemporary art project in Downtown...
View ArticleCairo Event: In tribute to the history of studio photographic practice in...
Cairo Event:In tribute to the history of studio photographic practice in Egypt: On Photography, at Studio Viennoise14 November - 16 December 2012 (Soft Opening: 14 November at 7 pm. Closing event,...
View ArticleLiving Under Threat of Expulsion: Palestinian Women Photograph Life in Susiya...
These photographs were taken by women residents of Susiya village from the Nawaja family, ranging from teenagers to the elderly. Here are their names: Wadcha, Basma, Iman, Iam, Hitam, Ula, Rabicha,...
View Article“I Have the Picture!” Egypt’s Photographic Heritage between Digital...
Egypt has no sole institution devoted to the preservation and study of its 150-year-old photographic history. Instead, photographs lurk in multiple private and institutional collections across the...
View ArticleImagining Tahrir
I.Egyptians saw themselves for the first time through their own eyes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January and February 2011, and reveled in that encounter. Participating in and recording that experience...
View ArticleThe Swallows of Syria
Somaya left Homs, Syria after finding the corpse of her tortured son in a sewage ditch. Zaynab escaped with her family when she discovered that Syrian soldiers kidnapped, raped, and killed three of her...
View Article"قراءة نقدية في مفهوم ''أوروبا المسيحية
لدى تناول موضوع أوروبا وفهمها لذاتها وبخاصةٍ لدى تناول قيمها، يبقى الحديث عن أوروبا "المسيحية" شائعًا وبشكل واسعٍ، وكما يبدو على نحوٍ متزايدٍ، أو تتم الإشارة على الأقل إلى جذورها المسيحية ويجري الإصرار...
View ArticleJadaliyya Launches Photography Page
With this bouquet of articles and photo essays, Jadaliyya is hereby launching a Photography Page. The Photography Page aims to provide a space for reflection on photography in its various forms and...
View ArticleDAM: Crime, Honor, and Hip-Hop
Palestinian rap trio DAM dropped their latest video “If I Could Go Back in Time” a week ago at a press conference in Ramallah. Working in cooperation with UN Women, the subject of the song is domestic...
View ArticleWhy Not Jordan?
The November 13 withdrawal of fuel and electricity subsidies has sparked vigorous demonstrations in Jordan, prompting renewed speculation about whether the wave of Arab uprisings that began in late...
View Articleغزة "القلعة الأخيرة"والأولى
أتذكر في خضم الأحداث الثورية في مصر، كنت دائماً أميل لفكرة التصعيد على حساب التسليح التي راجت بين شباب الثورة المصرية رداً على توحش العسكر والداخلية وتحديداً في فترات محمد محمود وأحداث مجلس الوزراء...
View ArticleTadween Publishing Joins The Jadaliyya Community Today
Tadween Publishing is a new kind of publishing house that seeks to institutionalize a new form of knowledge production. A subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute, Tadween aims both to publish critical...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (Nov 12-18)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on...
View ArticleNoura Erakat and Yousef Munayyer on Gaza Assault: Interview with MSNBC's...
In a repetition of its aerial and ground offensive in Winter 2008/09, Israel has once again embarked on a military campaign against the Palestinian population in Gaza. This assault comes just after US...
View ArticleO.I.L. Media Roundup (19 November)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page...
View Articleعمودُ السّحاب يرتد على نتنياهو وحكومته
حتى كتابة هذه السطور، ولليوم السادس على التوالي، يتواصل العدوان الإسرائيلي على غزة، ويستمر الصمود وإطلاق الصواريخ على تل أبيب والقدس ومناطق لم تصلها من قبل بالرغم من إعلان الحكومة الإسرائيليّة منذ...
View ArticleAssiut, Qursaya, Mohamed Mahmoud: Making the Connections
Mourning has seemed the order of the day in Egypt this week. Just as Egyptians prepared to remember and mourn the protesters who lost their lives at this time last year in the Battle of Mohamed...
View ArticleOut of Sight, but Not out of Mind: Mohamed Mahmoud Remembered
On 19 November 2011, all hell broke loose in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, which juts east from Tahrir Square.Security forces brutally dispersed a sit-in of about two hundred relatives of those injured or...
View ArticleMohamed Mahmoud Clashes, One Year on: "A Battle for Dignity"
Since the eruption of last year's January 25 Revolution, Egyptians have lived through anxious nights filled with fear and violence. But nothing has been more painful than the four days of clashes in...
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