Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”
We write this piece as (disappointed) fans of the Palestinian hip hop group DAM at a time when the fierce attack on Gaza reminds us of grim realities that are the everyday stuff of life and death for...
View ArticleGaza Reprieve: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani On What The Cease-Fire Tells...
The following interview was conducted on Friday 23 Novemeber 2012 by Russia Today's CrossTalk. Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Harry Fear, and Yoram Meital discusses several issues in the aftermath...
View ArticleThousands Fill Tahrir on Friday to Protest Morsi's New 'Dictatorial Powers'
By Friday night, the number of the protesters, who began arriving in Tahrir Square for "Eyes of Freedom" Friday throughout the morning, had reached tens of thousands after rallies from Talaat Harb...
View ArticleRevolution Protection Law May Fail To Live Up To Its Name
After passing a controversial constitutional declaration late Thursday giving himself expansive powers, President Mohamed Morsy later went on to articulate the details of the Revolution Protection Law...
View ArticleFrom Opposition to Puppet: Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development
A protest repressed, a journalist beaten, an artist detained, a newspaper censored, and an activist tortured. Sixteen months after what was hailed as a “landmark” constitutional referendum, and exactly...
View Articleتيار استقلال القضاء: من مواجهة مبارك إلى تقاسم كعكة السلطة مع الإخوان
بعد فوز الرئيس محمد مرسي بالانتخابات الرئاسية شهدت قيادات تيار الاستقلال صعوداً كبيراً، سواء في مؤسسة الرئاسة أو على صعيد الجمعية التأسيسية أو مؤسسات رقابية وقضائية، حيث احتل المستشار محمود مكي منصب...
View ArticleInfographic: Palestinian & Israeli Deaths
This infographic reflects the death toll and peaks of armed force in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It draws on detailed data gathered by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem since the outbreak...
View ArticleDemocracy, Democracy, But The Courts Can’t Touch Me
Through the release of a controversial set of executive decrees, President Mohamed Morsi has granted himself unheralded powers—powers normally reserved for dictators, not democratic leaders. The raft...
View Articleفواز طرابلسي: حرير وحديد
[“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.]فواز طرابلسي،“حرير وحديد:من جبل لبنان الى قناة السويس”، رياض الريس للكتب والنشر، بيروت، كانون...
View ArticleWhy Israel Didn't Win
The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza...
View Articleتفكيك أمننة المجتمع
ألقت الثورة المصرية الكثير من زجاجات المولتوف الحارقة على خطوط المواجهات بين قوات الأمن والثوار على مدار أكثر من عامين- أشتدت فيهما المواجهات تارة وهدأت تارة أخرى. فالصراع على نمط السلطة وتجلياتها في...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (Nov 19-25)
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 Articleنزع القداسة عن سلطان عمان
امتلأ صيف 2012 بتقارير متعددة تتحدث عن اعتقالات وإدانات لمدونين وناشطي حقوق إنسان. حملة القمع هذه بدأت في أيار (مايو) حين تم اعتقال ناشطي حقوق انسان ومحامٍ أثناء محاولتهم الالتقاء بعمال نفط مضربين في...
View ArticleThe President and the Fatal Trilateral Logic of US, Egyptian and Israeli...
In 2007, Mohammed Morsi, then chairman of the Brotherhood’s political department and member of the Executive Bureau, complained of the inability of Washington to match its rhetoric on promoting...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (November 26)
[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 ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (November 27)
[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...
View ArticleDispatch from Mohamed Mahmoud Street: Egyptian Revolts
“We are not thugs, and we are not criminals,” It is the sentence that every single protester in Mohamed Mahmoud street used as they began to tell me about the protests that began on November 19. That...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, Fifth Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Ann Elizabeth Mayer (AEM): Many...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Elisabeth Weber, Living Together: Jacques Derrida's...
Elisabeth Weber, editor, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this...
View ArticleWhat is Jadaliyya? "Portal 9" Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Founder Bassam Haddad
[This interview was published recently in the innaugural issue of the Portal 9 Journal, by Nat Muller and Omar Kholeif. However, the interview was conducted many months prior, and awaited the...
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