Al-Moqattam Clashes in Photos
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gathered outside their headquarters on Friday March 22 2013 in the Cairo suburb of al-Moqattam in anticipation of opposition marches to the building. Clashes broke out...
View ArticleNoura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with...
This week US President Barack Obama made his first Middle East visit of his second term in office. It was also his first trip to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since coming into...
View ArticleEnnahda: A Party in Transition
Since the assassination of Chokri Belaid, Tunisia is living the most difficult stage of its revolutionary transition. Even before the murder of Belaid, a long institutional crisis had kept the country...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (March 18-24)
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 roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
View Articleمات عمو صباح
"مات عمو صباح"، قالتها أمي بتردد وهي تسبقها بكلمات تمهد لها." أعرف أن هذا سيحزنك" قالت بهدوء وهي تحادثني اليوم على الهاتف من حيث لا تزال في الشرق الأوسط، وهي تطمئن علي في عاصمة الثلج والإسمنت.لن يمر...
View Articleزينب الخواجة: رسالة من سجن بحريني
القادة العظماء خالدون. لوقع أقوالهم وأعمالهم صدى عبر السنوات والعقود والقرون، وعبر المحيطات والحدود. وهم إلهام يمس حياة الناس الراغبين بالتعلم. مارتن لوثر كينغ قائد استثنائي. عندما أقرأ كلماته، أتخيله...
View ArticleA (Neocolonial) Musical Introduction to Lebanese Political Actors, complete...
Lebanon has been in the news a lot lately. From union strikes to legal advocacy to intermittent Sunni-Shiite violence to daily Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty to the hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (March 25)
[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 ArticleSinan Antoon on Iraq Ten Years After US Invasion: Panel Interview on DW
Ten Years ago, the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq while justifying such an act on shifting, conflicting, and false pretenses of combating terrorism, containing weapons of...
View ArticleResistance within Resistance
In October 2012, Haytham Manna of the Syrian National Coordination Body for Democratic Change gave a talk at the London School of Economics. Therein, he argued for the importance of continuing...
View ArticleNot 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...
View ArticleDARS Media Roundup
[This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world, and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of...
View ArticleReconciling Return and Rights: Palestinian Refugees and the Emergence of a...
Analyses and debates on the reconfiguration of rights, democracy, social justice, and dignity in the Arab region suffer from a chronic methodological nationalism—which perpetuates the idea that people...
View ArticleBeyond the State: The Refugee Camp as a Site of Political Invention
Refugee camps have been at the center of radical historical transformations that have undermined the political existence of entire communities. Although states and non-governmental organizations have...
View ArticleThe Urban Subalterns and the Non-Movements of the Arab Uprisings: An...
This interview was conducted with Asef Bayat via electronic correspondence. In it, Bayat discusses the inside-out character of neoliberal cities in the Arab world and its influence on the recent wave...
View ArticleThe Infrastructure of Israeli Settler Colonialism (Part 1): The Jordan Valley
Since its establishment, Israel has distinguished the persons under its civil and military jurisdiction based on religion. Throughout Israel Proper and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),...
View ArticleJadaliyya Launches DARS Page: Daily Acts of Resistance and Subversion
OverviewThe DARS Page chronicles daily acts of resistance and subversion (DARS) in contemporary Arab societies and beyond. All forms of resistance and subversion to political, economic, social, or...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 27)
[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 ArticleThe Author’s New Writing Instructor: The Internet
Writers and prospective book authors are influenced by a variety of actors and subject matters. Their writing is shaped by other authors that they admire and by their teachers, from their English...
View ArticleSocial Struggles in Tunisia: A Curse or a Revolutionary Opportunity?
The Tunisian revolution was often painted as a sort of “divine” event during which the united and homogenous “Tunisian people” succeeded in getting rid of their “dictator.” As if by the force of some...
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