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Rise Up: Iraq
The street that your question describes as “quiet” is actually silent only as a result of repression, especially after the protests of February 2011 when the authorities revealed their violence...
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The Forgotten Protagonists: The Invasion and the Historian
During the past week Americans, Europeans, and Middle Easterners were reminded of Iraq. A stream of photos, articles, essays, and analyses has tried to make sense of the situation in Iraq during the...
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Not Enough Water in the West Bank?
This Friday is World Water Day and an opportune time to highlight the gross misallocation of water resources between Israel and the Palestinians. Water is one of the five permanent status issues in the...
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Syria Media Roundup (March 21)
[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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The Most Important Thing: Syrian Refugees
[Photos by Brian Sokol/UNHCR, text by UNHCR.]What would you bring with you if you had to flee your home and escape to another country? More than 1 million Syrians have been forced to ponder this...
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بورتريه غير وافٍ عن بسام حجار
قيل فيه كلام كثير. أصدقاء وشعراء ونقاد وفنانون وزملاء مهنة ودارسون اجتمعوا حول ورق الصحف ليملؤه في اليوم التالي لوفاته. كان رحيل بسام حجار في السابع عشر من شباط 2009، بمثابة فاجعة أدبية. حتى أولئك...
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من الثورة على توريث آل مبارك إلى الثورة على توريث الإخوان
التفاعلات السياسية والأحداث التي رافقت إحياء الذكرى الثانية لبدء الثورة المصرية تؤكد أن الانتخابات في حد ذاتها ليست كفيلة بالانتقال للديمقراطية. فمصر في السنين الأربعين الماضية، لم تخل من انتخابات أو...
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Iraqi Tragedy; More than 10 Years in the Making: An Interview with...
March 19 marked the 10th anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq. Ten years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what has changed for the country and its people? To understand the legacy of...
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The Full Story: Silencing English-Language Media in Egypt
“It is always the fixer who dies,” is the title of a seminal article by George Packer that appeared in The New Yorker in 2009 to mourn the death of Sultan Munadi, a local fixer who lost his life in a...
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ماهي علاقة كل من الإسلاميين - الدولة القومية الحديثة - الديموقراطية ببعضهم...
بعد أي حراك سياسي، كل شيء يحدث في عالم اليوم، يتعلق ويدور حول مفهوم الدولة الحديثة وأذرعها الأمنية والأيدولوجية وكيفية التعامل مع الشرائح المختلفة للمجتمع، كما يتعلق بمفهوم الديموقراطية الغربي الذي تم...
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Mona Kareem on Blogging and Dissent in Kuwait
[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...
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When I Saw You
Lamma Shoftak [When I Saw You]. Directed byAnnemarie Jacir. Jordan-Palestine-UAE-Greece, 2012. Annemarie Jacir’s Lamma Shoftak/When I Saw Youextends her examination of exile and occupation begun in her...
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Open Sesame: Memories from a War-Torn Generation
Open SesameCurated by Ola El-Khalidiapexart, Manhattan 17 January -- 2 March 2013 Through a small collection of objects, maps, letters, and photographs, Open Sesame leads viewers back in time to 2...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (March 22)
[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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Street Wars on a Hill: An Eyewitness Testimony
[The following is an eyewitness testimony covering some of the events that happened on 22 March 2013 near the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in al-Moqattam area.]Having missed the march to the...
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King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Statesman?
This week, Jeffrey Goldberg published a now infamous interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in The Atlantic. Its contents have reverberated all around the blogosphere, generating heated real-life...
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Reading Poetry in Tehran: The Case of the Forbidden
Sholeh Wolpé, The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exiles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. La redonda, suprema y celestial sandíaEs la fruta del árbol de la sedEs la ballena...
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Media On Media Roundup (March 24)
Iraq War and News Media: A Look Inside the Death TollFrank Smyth reflects on the record number of slain journalists during the Iraq war as the tenth anniversary approaches. Al-Jazeera Plans British,...
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Zainab Al-Khawaja: Letter From A Bahraini Prison
Great leaders are immortal, their words and deeds echo through the years, decades, and centuries. They echo across oceans and borders and become an inspiration that touches the lives of many who are...
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