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عن الفن الإسلامي
قبل عامين، نظم معهد العالم العربي في باريس، معرض الفن الاسلامي، كسابقة احتضنت لأول مرة في العاصمة الفرنسية، من قبل إدراة المعهد التي ترى بوجوب تعريف الناس على هذا الفن، الذي اشتهر كإرث قائم بحد ذاته،...
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Syria Media Roundup (December 27)
[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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قطر والفلسطينيون
سواء من حيث التوقيت أو من حيث الجوهر، فإنه من الصعب تفسير زيارة أمير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني إلى غزة في تشرين أول/أكتوبر 2012 بشكل مبسط. وكما هو الحال عادة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالسياسة في فلسطين،...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (December 27)
[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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أربع قصائد
ثلاث زنابقثلاث زنابق،أم ثلاث أمّهات؟. . .ثلاث زنابق:الأولى تفتّحتكأن بتلاتها البيضاء تتضرّعُتسألُ إلهاً ماعن أولادهاالثانية انحنتْيكاد ظهرها ينكسرُإذ تبحثُ في الأرضعن ميسمهاالثالثة مازالتتخبّئ...
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Behind the Bahraini Revolution: An Interview with Maryam Al-Khawaja
[The following is an interview conducted with Maryam Al-Khawaja, the acting president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the deputy director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights. She is...
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Sons of Beaches: How Alexandria's Ideological Battles Shape Egypt
A Salafist Muslim intellectual, overlooking an Alexandrian beach last summer, tells me over coffee: “The cosmopolitanism of our city [Alexandria] may look like it has died, but the skeletal structure...
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My Father is Still a Communist
My Father is Still a Communist. Dir. Ahmad Ghossein, (Lebanon, 2011, 32’)The transient circulations of bodies for labor constitutes a hidden history of the late-20th century world, with an accumulation...
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Baghdad: Mirages and Melancholia
It is well known that preeminent figures of early modernism, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, designed architectural proposals for Baghdad around the middle of the 20th century. Many may be...
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Four Poems
The Box of Pain You were not there at daybreakWhen patients, passengers and soldiers Stretched their heads, bald or shaven,Like tiny cottages in distant windows.The boy passed the light fogWhich didn't...
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Three Poems
Three PoemsGhassan ZaqtanTranslated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah. That LifeI’m going to see how they died going toward that wreckage going to see them there tranquil on the hill of engagementDear...
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Leila Sebbar: I Do Not Speak My Father's Language
From Leila Sebbar's Je ne parle pas la langue de mon pèreTranslated from the French by Marilyn Hacker. I Do Not Speak My Father's Language A few useful dates so as not to get lost in the maze of...
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Labor Representation in Post-Mubarak Egypt: An Interview with the Late Samer...
[The following is the audio and transcript of an interview conducted by Julia Simon with the late Samer Soliman in September 2011. The interview discusses the state workers’ organization and...
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December Culture
Our last culture bouquet this year features poetry from Syria and Palestine, fiction from Algeria/France, and two reviews. Marilyn Hacker translates two chapters from Leila Sebbar's I Don't Speak My...
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Supporting Rula Quawas and Academic Freedom: An Interview With A Former Student
On 2 September 2012, Professor Rula Quawas was removed from her position as the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan under nebulous circumstances. In a letter addressed...
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Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Settlers to Take Over Another Palestinian Home
On Monday 31 December 2012, Israeli forces will evict the Shamasneh family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. The family of ten, including six children, have lived in the home since 1963. Ayoub...
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Egypt Media Roundup (December 31)
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Revolution’s Cost
He told me to get off at the last kiosk on the highway that connects East with West Cairo. After the driver dropped me off, there was no one to be seen in the area. I walked down the concrete stairs by...
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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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All Armies - the Syrian Regime, the FSA and Islamist - Are Thieves
During the 1990s, my small village which felt like it was cut off from half the known world experienced a strange new phenomenon. A big mosque was built by donors from the city of Hama, the cost of...
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