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من القاهرة الجميلة - الجزء الأول
أما عن القاهرة الجميلة؛ فيأبى قمرها السكون، ويظل يبعثُ لحاله، منذ عدة ليال، بصغار الميدان، لكسر صفاء عواء الكلاب في مدى المدينة الليلي الواسع. يملأ هؤلاء الصغار الشارع بالألوان؛ انتهى عصر اللون الزيتي...
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Egyptian Protesters and Imprisoned Iranian Hunger Striker: Interviews with...
Egyptians are revolting once again but this time against an elected President: Mohammed Morsi, who just passed a series of presidential decrees giving him near-dictatorial powers. Almost two years...
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Rules of Engagement: Documentary Filmmaking According to Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached’s latest documentary film, Nafass Tawil (Deep, Long Breath), premiered in September at the American University in Cairo as part of the International Summer Academy’s Aesthetics and...
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الحياة الحزبية في مصر بعد الثورة ... بين الإنطلاق والتعثر
أخرجت ثورة 25 من يناير 2011 الحياة السياسية في مصر من حالة الإنسداد والجفاف، التي ألمّت بها طيلة العقود الماضية، وفتحت أبواب المشاركة السياسية أمام ملايين المصريين، لتدخل مصر مرحلة التحول الديمقراطي،...
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Beirut Photographer: Interview with George Azar
In 1981, George Azar traveled from U.C. Berkeley to Beirut, Lebanon to see the Arab-Israeli conflict first hand. He got a job as a stringer photographing the Lebanese civil war for the Associated Press...
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Syria Media Roundup (November 29)
[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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Quick Thoughts on the Significance of the November 2012 Palestine UN Bid
The Palestinian UN bid for non-member observer status will certainly pass today as the majority of UN member states have expressed their support for the initiative. The positive vote will do little to...
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More Quick Thoughts on Palestine at the United Nations
The outcome of a United Nations General Assembly vote on enhanced membership status for Palestine has never been in question. The Palestinians will win, probably handily, because the international...
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Morsi and his Adversaries
With November nearly at an end, it seems like an eternity ago that Israel and Gaza were engaged in intense if unequal fighting. Yet it was only two weeks ago that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi spent...
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Social Justice and the Draft Constitution
The political economic system that the revolution rose up against was not successfully eliminated because it is built on an alliance between political despotism and unreserved capitalism, monopoly and...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (November 29)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya....
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Etel Adnan at the Base of the Mountain
Etel AdnanSeptember 12 – October 28, 2012Callicoon Fine Arts, Manhattan Roughly fifteen miles north of San Francisco, across the city’s iconic burnt-orange Art Deco masterpiece, is Mount Tamalpais,...
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Update: Thousands Converge on Tahrir for Opposition Protests
Tens of thousands gathered Friday in Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the 25 January revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak last February. They chanted slogans against President Mohamed Morsy,...
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Hurricane Sandy Hits Little Syria: Worrying about Buildings and Brothers
The cliché always reasserts itself as a truth: “as long as you are safe, that is all that matters.” In the wake of a disaster, material things – buildings, possessions, money – fade away in importance,...
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The Strong Egypt Party, the Constitutional Decree, and Gaza: An Interview...
Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh was a leading candidate in the 2012 Egyptian presidential election held last May, garnering approximately seventeen percent of votes cast in the first round (compared to...
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Wadih Saadeh: Because of a Cloud, Most Likely
Because of a Cloud, Most likelyWadih SaadehTranslated by Ghada Mourad ShadowsThey moved toward the water descending from their mountains like soft shadows so that as not to awaken the grass. When...
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Three Poems by Saadi Youssef
Three PoemsSaadi YoussefTranslated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon & Peter Money The Glance Our loss is not the earthfor the earth will stay,it stayed before us,it will stay after us,earth of the...
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Qatar and the Palestinians
Whether in terms of timing or substance, the October 2012 visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to the Gaza Strip defies simple explanation. As so often where Palestinian politics is...
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November Culture
Jadaliyya's November culture bouquet arrived on the last day of November. Culture Page co-editor Maymanah Farhat reviews a recent exhibit by the Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. Mai Serhan reviews...
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The Draft Constitution: Some Controversial Stipulations
After long hours of article-by-article voting on the Egyptian constitution by the Constituent Assembly, the draft was passed on early Friday.The current draft has been submitted to President Mohamed...
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