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Ghosts of Comfort and Chaos
When I was invited to write this article for the series Visuals in 1500, I was asked to begin with an image that would help clarify my thinking about the work I do as a visual artist. I decided to...
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Saadi Youssef: Genesis 34
[Today, March 31 is the anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi Communist Party in 1934. This poem, "Genesis 34," by Saadi Youssef, was written to commemorate the event.]Saadi YoussefGenesis 34 Before...
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Media On Media Roundup (March 31)
Egypt Issues Arrest Warrant for SatiristEgyptian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for popular television host and satirist Bassem Youssef for insulting Islam and President Mohammed Morsi....
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Salah Faik: On the Tenth Anniversary of Murdering my Country
POEMSSalah Faik On the Tenth Anniversary of Murdering my Country My country disappeared without a funeralBecause it shunned the beauty of palm treesIt avoided its marshesThought that mountains were...
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Caught Shopping While Iranian: Diasporic Solidarity and the Globalization of...
In recent years, the Iranian New Year, Norooz, has become a fairly predictable time for US presidents to gesture towards “dialogue” and mutual respect between the United States and the Iranian people,...
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March Culture
In Jadaliyya's monthly culture bouquet Ella Shohat re-members Baghdad elsewhere, Sinan Antoon translates poems by Iraqi poets Saadi Youssef and Salah Faik, Samia Halaby writes on Abed Abdi and...
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Remembering A Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography
A widespread narrative has maintained that Israel rescued Jews from the Arab/Muslim lands, brought them from the Diaspora to the Promised Land, thus ending a millennial Babylonian Exile. Could it be, I...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (March 25-31)
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...
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Syria Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (March 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Syria. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they...
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حورية المطلقة في سن الثالثة عشرة لا تنفع إلا لقراءة كتب الاطفال
رأيتها في بيت إحدى صديقاتي ، كانت تجلس في زاوية «الديوان» كما نسميه في اليمن. تنظر إلي وتبتسم إبتسامة خجولة. كل ماعرفته عنها أنها إبنة عم صديقتي: فتاه صغيرة تبدو في الإعدادي. لم تتفوه بكلمة طوال...
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Port Said in Revolt
Tears in the eyes, bullets on the ground, and blood on the pavements - as injustice prevails. That is Port Said.The city has witnessed unrest again in February in response to an Egyptian court ruling...
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Egypt Media Roundup (April 1)
[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...
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Melancholia and the Possibility of a Geopolitics of Mourning
Nouri Gana, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011.In the preface to his recent book, Signifying Loss, Nouri Gana argues that “[i]n a world...
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Iraq: Ten Years Later
“The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence(2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows.” It may indeed...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 2)
[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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O.I.L. Monthly Edition (March 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that...
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!موريتانيا :الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام
كان لإحراق المواطن التونسي محمد البوعزيزي نفسه يوم 17 ديسمبر/كانون الأول عام 2010 ، وما أعقبه من انتفاضة شعبية في وطنه تأثير كبير على نقاشات الموريتانيين. ولم يمض إلا شهر واحد حتى تحول النقاش من فعل...
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Celebrating El Haqed’s Freedom: Soundtracking Resistance
After being arrested twice and serving a one year jail term for his critical lyrics “Dogs of the State,” Mouad Belghouat, whose alias is El Haqed, is finally free. His outspoken lyrics are known for...
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Protests in Ouargla: Focusing on Job Creation in Algeria
[The National Committee for the Rights of the Unemployed (Comité national pour la défense des droits des chômeurs, CNDDC) made a call for protests that brought together thousands (more than ten...
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قراءة في كتاب: هوامش على دفتر الثورة
“هوامش على دفتر الثورة” للكاتب أحمدبلال، الصادر عن وزارة الثقافة -الهيئة العامة لقصور الثقافة/ القاهرة- مصر، 2012. أحمد بلال كاتب شاب وناشط سياسي، انتخب كعضو مكتب سياسي لحزب التجمع والإتحاد الاشتراكي...
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