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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 22)
[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...
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Focus sur le Mali, troisième partie: Une périlleuse démonstration de force de...
[Cet article est le troisième d'une série de trois, avec des perspectives différentes sur les développements au Mali. Les articles précédents - « Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive...
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Tipping Towards Iraq's Squares: An Interview with Falah Alwan
The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave of mass anti-government...
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Advocacy, Uprising, and Authoritarianism in Bahrain: An Interview With Ahmed...
Almost two years after the beginning of the February 14 uprising, the Bahraini regime is still struggling to crush the ongoing political and civil rights movement, all the while working to rehabilitate...
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مالي الحرب الماحقة
بدأت فرنسا حملتها في مالي ودس أنفها في شؤون مستعمرتها السابقة متعذرة بمحاربة "القوى الإسلامية المتطرفة" وضرورة وضع حد لسطوتها في مالي. خططت وأرست القواعد والجنود وقررت القصف ومطاردة هذه الجماعات، قتلت...
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“I Have The Picture!” Egypt’s Photographic Heritage between Neoliberalism and...
The Arab Image Foundation (AIF)—a private archiving initiative founded by a group of artists and collectors in 1997, and run through foreign and local grants—appears on the surface like the very...
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في مديح دار للسينما في بغداد
في مديح دار للسينما ببغداد: شاشة الأحلام حين تصبح مرآة لتحولات مدينة في العام 1960 كانت سنتي الأولى في مدرسة، سأحتاج سنوات كي أعرف معنى اسمها: "التهذيب". ثم خمس سنوات لاحقاً في "مدرسة المثنى...
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Early Perspectives from Algeria on Northern Mali and French Intervention
Thus far, Algerian press coverage and reactions are divided on France’s military intervention in northern Mali, Operation SERVAL, as well as the additional thrusts in the south by Mali’s jihadist...
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The Human Rights Situation in Egypt: An Interview with Aida Seif El-Dawla
Aida Seif El-Dawla is a psychiatrist, long time Egyptian human rights activist, and Executive Director of the al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Since 1993 the Nadeem...
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New Texts Out Now: Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender,...
Madawi Al-Rasheed,A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Madawi...
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New Texts Out Now: Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and...
Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London and New York: Pluto Books, 2012.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Paolo Gerbaudo (PG): I have been...
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اليمن ودورة جديدة للصراع بالوكالة
لا يمكن وصف ما أثير ضد السفير الإيراني بسبب تصريحاته يوم السادس من يناير الجاري بأقل من زوبعة. في لقائه مع مجموعة من الصحفيين اليمنيين احتج السفير على الاتهامات الموجهة ضد بلاده من الرئيس اليمني عبد...
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تزييفُ الوعي وتطييفُ التاريخ في سياقات الثورة السوريّة
(إلى الصديق الأستاذ جورج طرابيشي مفكرًا فوق الطوائف، وإلى ضحايا الطوائف)رغم الاختلافات الهائلة (ديمقراطيًّا) بين حقبةِ ما بعد الاستقلال وحقبةِ البعث، فإنّ الفترتين تتقاطعان من حيث الغياب شبه التامّ...
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Habits of French Colonialism
“In other days France was the name of a country. We should take care that in 1961 it does not become the name of a nervous disease.” -- Jean Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the...
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Parallel Walks in al-Khalil: A Photo Essay
I last visited al-Khalil (Hebron) with my family when I was a child in the mid 1970s. I only have vague recollections of that visit, except for the place where Ibrahim (Abraham) was to sacrifice his...
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Rhetoric or Critical Action? The Role of Human Rights in EU-UAE Relations
An EU resolution passed in October 2012, which condemned human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates, caused outrage among defenders of the Emirati regime and gave hope that human rights may play a...
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Maath Musleh on Social Media and Palestine
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.]...
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A Loss in the Battle for Free Access to Information
[The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing...
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Mali in Focus, Part Three: A Dangerous Show of Force from a Former Colonial...
[This article is the final of a three-part series featuring different perspectives on the recent developments in Mali. Previously published: "Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive Revisited"...
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Syria Media Roundup (January 24)
[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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