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Year One of the Egyptian Revolution: Some Lessons
Revolutions, as students of the French and the Russian ones know full well, require an inflammatory event, something that Vladimir Lenin described as a spark (the name of his newspaper in Russian),...
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اماكن التجمع والمسيرات ليوم 25 يناير 2012
أماكن التجمع والمسيرات ليوم 25 يناير 2012 1- ميدان مصطفى محمود امبابه التجمع الساعه 12 امام كنيسة الوحده بشارع الوحده بجوار كشري الاستاذ 2- جامع الاستقامه بميدان الجيزه *العمرانيه التجمع امام جامع...
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New Texts Out Now: Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation...
Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ziad Fahmy: Growing up in...
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New Texts Out Now: Karima Khalil, Messages from Tahrir
Karima Khalil, editor, Messages from Tahrir. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you put together this book? Karima Khalil: One of the first things I saw...
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الدولة المصرية العميقة وسيناريو الفشل: نبيذ ديناصوري قديم في زجاجات جديدة
بعد مرور عام على قيام ثورة 25 يناير، يبدو مطلوباً الآن القيام بكشف حساب لما آلت إليه الأمور في مصر. وبرغم اقتناعي بالفوارق المهمة بين تجربتَي التحول الثوري في 1952 و 2011 ، والتي تجعل القياس على...
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Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon a Quest for justice or a Political...
In 2007, in response to a request by the 2005 Lebanese government, the UN Security Council established he Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Based in the Netherlands, the STL seeks to prosecute those...
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Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections is a mere eight. Indeed women do not exceed two percent...
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The Mother of Tahrir Square
Sipping juice in one of downtown Cairo's heirloom coffee houses, Khadiga Hennawi lights a cigarette with her hand bound in plaster, which is the only indication of what she has witnessed since the...
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25 January Anniversary Demos: All Roads Lead to Tahrir
Activists map out locations from which they plan to march towards Cairo's Tahrir Square Wednesday on the first anniversary of uprising that toppled Mubarak. Activists have established multiple...
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25 January Anniversary Demonstrations: All Roads Lead to Tahrir
Activists map out locations from which they plan to march towards Cairo's Tahrir Square Wednesday on the first anniversary of uprising that toppled Mubarak. Activists have established multiple...
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The Battle for Public Space: Squares and Streets of the Egyptian Revolution
Over the course of the first year of the January 25 revolution, some public squares have become symbols of revolution, while others have come to represent support for regime. Space is never something...
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The Revolutionaries Will Return on January 25
While 25 January 2011 marks the first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, for many Egyptians, 25 January is not a day for celebration, but a day to complete the unfulfilled promises of the revolution...
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Uproar at PENN over a BDS Conference
A Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) conference is set to take place next week at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN). As one would expect, the fact that the conference is taking place has created...
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War Talk: The Obama Administration and Iran
“Let there be no doubt,” President Obama declared in his 2012 State of the Union address. “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table...
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Video: The Revolution Lives on in Marches Throughout Cairo
The revolution lives on in marches throughout Cairo, 25 January 2012.
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الثورة السورية نحو مزيد من التعقيد: تصريحات برهان غليون "غير المدروسة" للوول...
[نشرت هذه المقالة لأول مرة باللغة الإنجليزية على صفحات جدلية تعقيباً على المقابلة التي أجرتها ”وول ستريت جورنال“ مع رئيس المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي برهان غليون. ترجم المقالة إلى العربية يوسف حداد.] فلنضع...
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In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when...
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الثورة المصرية فى مرآة التاريخ
عندما يُؤرَخ للثورة المصرية التي تحلّ ذكراها الأولى فإن أقرب ما قد توصف به هو أنها كانت "ثورة الأطراف المهمّشة" Peripheries’ Revolution . فمن أطلق شرارة الثورة ودفع ثمنها، ولا يزال، هي تلك الكتلة...
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ديناميتان للثورة السورية: المستقبل في الحاضر
لم يعد هناك أدنى شك في أن النظام السوري سائر نحو السقوط، وأن الأمور تتجه بثبات إلى نقطة الانكسار التي يبدأ عندها بالانهيار النهائي. واضح أكثر فأكثر أنه يفقد ثقته بالجيش النظامي، ويعجز بصورة مضطردة عن...
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