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قالوا عليّ ملحد
[تختار جدليّة في فقرة ”نغم“ عملاً فنياً مميّزاً للتعريف به وبالمبدعين الذين يقفون وراءه]”قالوا عليّ ملحد“ أغنية راب لفريق Egy Lions Familyمن كلمات الأغنية”وأنتو قولتو إن أنتو لينا إخوان، فلما أمنت...
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Unpacking Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Discourse
Noam Chomsky’s Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda argues that effectively crafted and controlled media messages can turn otherwise rational people into “hysterical” warmongers....
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Should Egyptians Believe Morsi?
On 26 June, President Morsi gave a long-winded two and half hour speech that could be described as a “state of the nation” speech. It was labeled as an “accounting” of his accomplishments in the first...
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Nostalgia, Hope, and Fear on the Path to 30 June
[This is the first in a series of dispatches that Mona Atia will be sending from Egypt to present some views from the ground about the lead up to 30 June protests and their aftermath. As part of her...
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Back to the Margins
Like many, I came home yesterday after hours of being stuck in traffic congestion, thanks to the long lines of cars queued at gas stations due to an acute fuel shortage. But instead of throwing myself...
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White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: The Politics of Polarization
On 11 June, in the midst of the return of the Istanbul police forces to Gezi Park and Taksim Square, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rose in the Turkish parliament and expressed his frustrations...
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Syria’s Third Grueling Summer: What Should One Write About?
For the past several weeks in Beirut, I have been inundated with emails and comments from colleagues and observers about developments in Syria. The same goes for Jadaliyya’s coverage. Why, the question...
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!بحثّاً عن حلف تاريخي جديد
ما هو الخطر الأكبر على الثورة؟ يخطئ من يظن أنه السلطة، أو حتى الثورة المضادة أيًا ما كانت درجة شراستها. الخطر الأكبر على الثورة هو قيادة غير ثورية تلجم، تنحرف يمينًا، وتخون. أناقش في هذا المقال مسألة...
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Between Inaction and Complicity: The Shi‘a and the Brotherhood
Some have commented on the incident of sectarian violence in the village of Zawiyat Abu Musallam in the Giza district on 23 June 2013 as the product of a "simple" people and a "crowd" mentality. The...
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توني موريسون: وطن
[مقطع من رواية “وطن” لتوني موريسون (نيويورك، كنوبف، ٢٠١٢) التي ستصدر بالعربية بترجمة سنان أنطون قريباً.]التنفس. كيف يقوم به بحيث لا يعرف أحد بأنه مستيقظ. يفبرك شخيراً عميقاً منتظماً ويترك الشفة السفلى...
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When Civic Action Confronts Militia Politics in Beirut [To be updated]
[The following is the combination of an eye-witness account by Jadaliyya affiliate and interviews s/he conducted with affected persons of the thuggish and violent behavior of a Lebanese MP convoy, the...
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What Happens on 30 June? The Silver Lining
Numerous questions surround 30 June protests, most of which revolve around whether or not President Mohamed Morsi will be pushed out. The subtleties surrounding such questions are more important to...
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الديمقراطية التشاركية والثورات العربية
عندما طالبت الشعوب العربية باسقاط النظام هنا وهناك، لم يكن لديها تصوّر مُفصّل حول طبيعة نظام ما بعد الثورة تتعدّى كونة نظاماً ديمقراطياً يتميّز بالشفافية واحترام حقوق المواطن وانعدام الفساد والمسؤليّة...
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Intimidation and Resistance: Imagining Gender in Cairene Graffiti
The issue of women’s empowerment continues to be of paramount significance in determining the future of the incomplete Arab revolutions. Numerous scholars, activists, and feminists have commented with...
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Egypt’s Ultras: No More Politics
Swinging between politics and football, the Egyptian “Ultras” football fans have spent the two years since the beginning of the 25 January Revolution trying to discover, redefine, and highlight their...
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June to June: The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same
A year is a long time in politics, especially those of contemporary Egypt. In June 2012 the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) appeared to be firmly in the saddle. Acting in league with...
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Gender and the People in Revolutionary Times
For decades, the "people" and the very possibility of politics in the Arab world have been objects of despair. Proclaiming the extinction of the Arab people’s capacity for politics and their...
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Tamarod: Egypt's Revolution Hones its Skills
Since Mubarak's dramatic toppling on 11 February 2011, Egypt has been center stage in most discussions, theoretical and methodological, on the role of social media in political communication and...
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Obsessed with Turkish Models in Egypt
Shortly after the outbreak of Turkey’s Gezi Park protests, Egyptian public forums were flooded with a variety of expressions that drew parallels between the respective situations in each of the two...
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Jadaliyya Coverage of Egypt on 30 June 2013
For almost all Egyptians, 30 June 2013 is a day of celebration. Yet, while partisans of the Muslim Brotherhood are celebrating the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi’s presidency, the twenty-two...
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