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View ArticleJadaliyya Monthly Edition (March 2013)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of March 2013. It also includes the most recent videos, roundups and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be...
View ArticleBattle for the .book Domain
Amazon has come under critical fire recently in the publishing world for its attempt to take control of generic top-level domains (gTLD) that end in .book, .author, and .read. The Authors Guild, the...
View ArticleNEWTON in Focus: Thinking Through Gender and Sex
This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of gender and sexuality. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives, approaching questions relevant to the MENA...
View ArticleWomen Under Seige: Stateless in Lebanon
Lebanon, and its capital Beirut, are often represented by the media as islands of freedom in the Middle East. The well-heeled neighborhoods of Achrafieh and Downtown are reminiscent of a Parisian...
View ArticleEgypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (March 2013)
This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide...
View ArticleSettler Colonialism and Alliance: Comparative Challenges to Pinkwashing and...
Critics of Israeli pinkwashing in the United States and Canada have increasingly engaged in comparative critiques of settler colonialism. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto has invoked this...
View Article'What Good Are Free Elections When A Country Is Destroyed?'
[More than two years into the uprising in Syria, important questions remain about a number of a dynamics concerning the present situation and future prospects in Syria. Below, Muhammad Dibu interviews...
View ArticleSyria Media Roundup (April 4)
[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...
View ArticleMorocco's Justice and Charity Party and the Left: A Critical Reflection
There has recently been controversy regarding the Democratic Path Party’s position concerning Islamist movements, particularly the Justice and Charity Party (Al Adl Wal Ihsane) following an article...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande au Maroc : plutôt les affaires que les droits de l'homme
C'est un Président français sévèrement diminué politiquement qui s'apprête à se rendre en visite d'Etat au Maroc, les 3 et 4 avril.Battant des records d'impopularité, François Hollande n'a cessé,...
View Articleأحمد الواصل عن "الخروج من المعبد"أو الهدم طريق الغناء العربي
["كتب" هي سلسلة تستضيف "جدلية" فيها الكتاب في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة، نرفقه بمقاطع من الكتاب.]أحمدالواصل عن"الخروجمنالمعبد" أوالهدمطريقالغناءالعربي: محاولةلقراءةالهويةوالذاكرةالعربيةوالمسكوتعنه...
View Articleماذا عن ربيع فلسطين؟
لو ألقينا نظرة فاحصة على كل موجات الاحتجاج الشعبي التي نشبت في فلسطين بعد الربيع العربي، فسنجد أنّ كلمة السر التي تصلح لها جميعًا هي الاحتواء. سواء كانت موجهة ضد إسرائيل والمفاوضات، أو سياسيات سلام...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (April 5)
[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....
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (March 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Arabian Peninsula. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to...
View ArticleWafa Ben Hassine on Social Media in Post-Ben Ali Tunisia
[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...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Question and Turkish-Israeli Relations: An Interview with...
In his Nowruz message on 21 March, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, declared a ceasefire and called on armed militants to withdraw from Turkish territory. He...
View Articleتمام سلام رئيساً للحكومة اللبنانية: شركة غير تنافسية
أن تعود رئاسة مجلس الوزراء إلى بيروت ليس بالأمر المستغرب. أما أن تعود إلى "دار المصيطبة"، دار آل سلام، التي كانت محوراً للسياسة اللبنانية منذ ما قبل الاستقلال العام ١٩٤٣، فهذا ما يطرح العديد من الأبعاد...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Revolutionary Violence in Egypt
“All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.” - C. Wright MillsViolence is related to notions of justice. In Egypt there are two forms of justice that we have been...
View ArticleTwo Saints and a Sinner
The name Ahmad Lutfi Ibrahim does not, for most people, evoke any particular memories. It would hardly surprise me if a few friends thought I had meant to type Ahmad Lutfi Al-Sayyid, the renowned and...
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