زواج الــقــــاصــــــــــرات فــــــــي الــعــــــــــــراق: طــلاق...
ازدادت في الآونة الأخيرة ظاهرة إرغام الفتيات على الزواج بسن مبكِّرة، وأخذت منحى جديداً من حيث الأسباب وصيغ الإرغام. فمنذ تأسيس الدولة العراقية عام 1921 وحتى بداية السبعينيات، كانت الفتاة عرضة للزواج من...
View ArticleJadaliyya Page on Egypt's Constitutional Referendum
As debate over Egypt’s draft constitution proceeds, the editors would like to bring to your attention a page compiling Jadaliyya’s coverage of the lead-up to the constitutional referendum, as well as...
View ArticleEgypt's Draft Constitution in Focus: Torture
[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...
View ArticleSamer Soliman, Prominent Academic and Activist, Dies at Forty-Four
Egyptian academic, activist and author Samer Soliman has died after a battle with terminal illness. He was forty-four years old.Soliman was a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and...
View ArticleFarewell, Samer Soliman
“Today I lost part of my life. Farewell, Samer,” scholar Amr Abdel Rahman wrote of his longtime friend Samer Soliman, who family, friends, students and readers lost Sunday after a battle with cancer....
View ArticleRampage School Shootings: Reframing the Discourse
The most recent rampage school shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary (SHE), Newtown, Connecticut, that claimed the lives of twenty kindergarteners and six school staffers at the hands of another young...
View Articleملف من الأرشيف: أحمد فؤاد نجم
[”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.]...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (December 24)
[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 Articleصندوق الألم: جولان حاجي
صندوقالألم(مقطع)لم تكنْ هناك، هذا الفجر،حين أطلَّ المرضى والركابُ والجنودبرؤوسٍ صلعاء وحليقةمثل أكواخٍ معتمة في نوافذ بعيدة.ضبابٌ خفيف لم يمكثْ طويلاًعبَرهُ الصبيُّ أمام بوّابةِ المستشفىحيث وجدَ...
View ArticleWhy Chuck Hagel Is Irrelevant
The latest non-scandal scandalizing the American commentariat is whether Barack Obama will be able to nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his new Secretary of Defense. The narrative is...
View ArticleWill Brahimi Get a Breakthrough?
The killing has changed the city’s shape - This rock Is bone This smoke people breathing, Adonis, “The Desert,” 1982-83.On December 20, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ independent commission...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 25)
[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 ArticleEgypt’s Constitutional Referendum Results
Based on numbers reported by Egyptian media outlets, below is a summary of the constitutional referendum vote results broken down by governorate.What do these numbers tell us?In two stages of voting,...
View ArticleA New Judicial Moment in Egypt
The paradox is stark. Vice President Mahmoud Mekky, Justice Minister Ahmed Mekky and Constituent Assembly Chief Hossam al-Gheriany — three icons of the Independence Current in the judiciary — are in...
View ArticleNEWTON 2012 in Review
We have had the opportunity to highlight an extraordinary series of books and articles on New Texts Out Now this year. Before we make our way into the new year, here are all of the NEWTONs that we...
View ArticleDAM Responds: On Tradition and the Anti-Politics of the Machine
We were happy to find on the pages of Jadaliyya supporters and friends who understand our work and respect what we have been doing as artists and members of our community for many years. We also feel...
View ArticleOf Wife and the Domestic Servant in the Arab World
My goal in this short essay is to capture for the reader the gains and losses associated with Islamic-based family rules in the context of an economy that has a generous supply of cheap domestic...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (Dec 17-23)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
View ArticleHonoring Solidarity During Contentious Debates. . . A Letter to DAM From Lila...
Dear Tamer, Suhel, and Mahmood, If We Could Go Back in Time… we would have made even clearer that our reaction came from our deep admiration for you and our appreciation of your political and social...
View Articleاقتصاد مصر بين المُفْلِسين والمُفَلِّسين
هذه المرة تجيء نذر إفلاس مصر من كل صوب وحدب. بدأ الأمر بتصريحات من وزير الصناعة والتجارة عن صعود متوقع فى عجز الموازنة ربما يؤدي «إلى عدم القدرة على سداد الرواتب إذا لم يتم التعامل معه». ثم يقول الأمين...
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