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Occupy Angara: A Situation Assessment in a State of Emergency
[NOTE: Angara is an alternative pronunciation of the name Ankara, which reflects the peculiarities of the city and the country.]The Political Atmosphere Leading Towards Gezi Park ProcessIt can be said...
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Producing Pera: A Levantine Family and the Remaking of Istanbul
In recent years, urban space has emerged as a critical point of political contention in Turkey. However, this is by no means a new phenomenon. The politics of urban transformation in Istanbul—Turkey’s...
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'All of a Sudden!': Gezi Park Resistance in Ankara
Perhaps the best words to express the beginning of the resistance in Ankara belong to the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık: “Everything happened all of a sudden!” We had been following the developments in...
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Jadaliyya Launches Turkey Page
Jadaliyya is proud to announce the launch of its new Turkey Page. Similarly structured to our Egypt, Syria, Arabian Peninsula, and Maghreb Pages, the page will feature articles written by those on the...
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The Agony and the Irony of Guantanamo’s Mass Hunger Strike
The executive order pledging to close Guantánamo within a year, signed by freshly inaugurated President Barack Obama on his second day in office, is a dead letter. Over the past two months, however,...
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Counting the Votes: Reflections on the Presidential Election in Iran
It is fair to say the presidency of Hassan Rohani came as a surprise to everyone. This includes 50.7% of Iranian voters, who according to government accounts, voted for him in the June 15th...
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Palestinian Agency And New Campaigns In The Arab World: An Interview With...
On 7 June 2013, the Boycott National Committee (BNC) convened the Fourth National Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) conference at Bethlehem University. Comprised of three panels and one set of...
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Maghreb Page Media Roundup (June 21)
[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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كل الأشياء
“Except that the dog is here and now, while its concept is everywhere and nowhere, always and never.” ألكسندر كوجيڤحَرّ. ناس يتكلمون لغة غريبة ويعجّون شوارع أغرب. شوارع غير تلك التي اعتدت شكلها. يدي...
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Tadween Roundup: News and Analysis from the Publishing/Academic World
[The following is a roundup of the latest news and analysis from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For...
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Syria Media Roundup (June 20)
[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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لا جسد لا سياسة
أن تسير في شوارع القاهرة، وفي فضاءها المديني العام، وعلى إحدى شوارعها الأخطبوطية المرتفعة، فيصدمك سترٌ وحجبٌ صوري، لجزء من جسد مؤنث في فوضى المدينة الدعائية الضوئية، فذلك وإن بدا جديداً في فظاظته؛ إلا...
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Upheavals in the Arab World Two Years on (Video)
The following video features the proceedings of a panel discussion titled “Upheavals in the Arab World Two Years on,” and that took place at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Boston on...
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War's Yawning Mouth
I sat down today to write an article on proposed legal reforms to both the personal status and the electoral system in Lebanon. I have been meaning to write this article for over a month, and have it...
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Erdogan’s Masculinity and the Language of the Gezi Resistance
Most observers of Turkey have been surprised by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s unwillingness to compromise with the Gezi Park protestors, whose resistance for the preservation of an İstanbul...
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A New Oppositional Politics: The Campaign Participants in Iran’s 2013...
Iranian politics took all of us by surprise again. While the election of Hassan Rowhani as the new president of Iran marks an important turning point in the factional rivalries and elite conflict in...
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A New Oppositional Politics: The Campaign Participants in Iran’s 2013...
Iranian politics took all of us by surprise again. While the election of Hassan Rowhani as the new president of Iran marks an important turning point in the factional rivalries and elite conflict in...
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi, editors.Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5, 2007 Bombing of Baghdad's "Street of Booksellers."Oakland: PM Press, 2012 You can...
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Gezi, the Kurds, and Our Kids
Those who wanted to march towards the Democratic Solution Tent were intercepted by gas bombs and water cannons. Yet you didn’t see them, although there were kids present in that march. You didn’t see...
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جسد المرأة الغواية ومحنة الإنسان - الجزء الأول
مقدمة: العولمة وعرش الجسديتزامن نظام العولمة مع حضور طاغِ لجسد المرأة في الإعلام والإعلان. حضور يشتد يوماً بعد يوم، إن لجهة الكم أم النوع حيث يزداد هذا الجسد، في المرئي والمقروء، عرياً وأوضاعه غواية أو...
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