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DAM Explores the Unmapped in Their New Album "Dabke on the Moon"
DAM’s latest album “Dabke on the Moon”, released in November 2012, details the lives of prisoners of the occupation. This refers to both prisoners literally detained in Israeli jail cells as well as...
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Inside Syria: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad Interview with David Barsamian
The following interview was conducted by David Barsamian with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on 19 November 2012. The interview features an in-depth discussion of the historical and contemporary...
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New Texts Out Now: Amahl Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and...
Amahl A. Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Amahl Bishara (AB): Back Stories is...
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Tadween Blog Comes To Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya's sister organization, Tadween Publishing, launched recently (see announcement here). Tadween is a new kind of publishing house that seeks both to produce knowledge and to scrutinize the...
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Morsi's Democracy Devoid of Press and Media Freedoms
“No one will touch media freedoms. There will be no pens broken, no opinions prevented, no channels or newspapers shut down in my era.”This confident claim was uttered by Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi soon...
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Tadween Publishing Roundup: News and Analysis from the Publishing World
[The following is a roundup of the latest news and analyses from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For...
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The Battle for Sinai
Half a million people live in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip. For decades, they have been governed by a strong security paradigm, and the Camp David accords with Israel –...
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Egypt’s Draft Constitution in Focus – The Role of the Army [Video]
[The following video is part of a series of clips produced by the Mosireen collective to promote greater awareness around the draft constitution currently under consideration in national referendum in...
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Regional and International Players in Syria's Civil War, The Protest...
On Monday, 17 December, during a mass protest in Bahrain, 25 people were arrested, among them prominent human rights activist Yousef al-Muhafedha, who is the acting head of the Bahrain Centre for Human...
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From Yarmouk to Sabra-Shatila: The Guardian's Martin Chulov on Palestinian...
Following the recent bombing of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, over 2000 Palestinian residents of the camp have arrived in Lebanon, and the figures are expected to grow in the coming days....
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Syria Media Roundup (December 20)
[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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قولوا نعم للعيش والحرية والعدالة الاجتماعية
أمي ... أبي ... بعد السلام والتحية،لقد علمت أنكما ستصوتان على مسودة الدستور بالموافقة ولأني أعلم أنكما لا تقفان إلا مع الحق أحببت أن أقص عليكما قصة قصيرة وأن أطلب منكما طلباً بسيطاً:القصة حدثت في ليلة...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (December 20)
[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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Egypt's Draft Constitution in Focus: Freedom of Expression
[The following video is part of a series of clips produced by the Mosireen collective to promote greater awareness around the draft constitution currently under consideration in national referendum in...
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The Severed Branches of Local Government
Sometime in the middle of last March, while I was still living in Cairo, I was working at my desk when I heard a noisy argument outside my window. The street in Zamalek where I lived was home to about...
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Exile, Part One
My mother's mother tongue is not Arabic. This singular fact shaped much of my life and my education in Lebanon. When she moved to Beirut, she had two children, and then me in her belly. She met a...
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A Battle For Legitimacy: Gauging Kuwait's Electoral Results
On 1 December, Kuwait held an historic parliamentary election. What was extraordinary about the poll was that it took place despite a boycott by Kuwait’s main opposition groups, who represent a broad...
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How Thomas Friedman Distorts Realities in Egypt, Pakistan, and India
In a recent New York Times op-ed, liberal icon Thomas Friedman asks if Egypt— currently in the midst of street demonstrations, violent repression, and a referendum all surrounding a controversial...
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Say “Yes” to the Revolution
Dear Mom and Dad,I hear you are going to vote “yes” on the draft constitution. But because I know you well, and I know you only stand up for what is right, I would like to tell you a short story and...
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من القاهرة الجميلة - الجزء الرابع
"!جيييكه! جيييكه! جيييكه"في يوم صدامات قصر الإتحادية، نبضَ زفيرُ المدينة وشهيقها أكثر من مرةٍ، خلال الليلة الدامية، على هدير ذاك الهتاف الهادئ الهامس بالكاد: "جيييكه! جيييكه! جيييكه!" كان ذاك هدير همس...
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