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Cities Media Roundup (July 1-28)
[This is a monthly roundup of news articles, and other materials related to urban issues in the region, and beyond. It does not reflect the views of the Cities Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (July 29)
[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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Turkey Media Roundup (July 29)
Presidential ElectionsPM Erdoğan Dragging Turkey into Sectarian Fights: Kılıçdaroğlu (1)-(2)-(3)-(4)-(5) Murat Yetkin analyzes the presidential candidacies of Erdoğan, İhsanoğlu, and Demirtaş. Erdoğan...
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A City-Sized Prison-House
The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat, quiet place. Tumbleweeds might appear if there was movement in the...
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فصل من رواية نوكيا
عندما تخلع المدينة ثيابها لا تعود إليها أبداً.طرطوس تتغير، تتوسع، تتضخم حتى كورنيشها قضم قضمة طويلة من شطّها ومدّ لسانه محاولاً أن يتذوق جزيرة أرواد، أستغرب من نفسي وأنا أتكلم عن التغيير المكاني،...
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Once Again on Caesarism: Continuing the Debate with Joel Beinin
In his reply to my previous contribution on Jadaliyya, Joel Beinin addresses some of the points he raised earlier in his criticism of my article “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt”. Having...
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The FBI’s War on Fake Terrorism
As part of the effort to prevent terrorist attacks, the FBI has a program in which agents recruit undercover informants who then “listen” for developing terror plots. Two new reports show how this...
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Malak Helmy: Lost Referents of Some Attraction
Malak Helmy: Lost Referents of Some AttractionApril 2014Sharjah Gallery, The American University in Cairo This solo show, curated by Beirut for the AUC Sharjah Gallery, presents works from the past...
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New Texts Out Now: Muriam Haleh Davis, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution
Muriam Haleh Davis, editor, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution. Special Issue of JadMag (June 2014).Jadaliyya (J): What made you create this pedagogical publication?Muriam Haleh Davis (MHD): In...
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CNN Discusses the Palestinian Perspective with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani
CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses the Palestinian perspective with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani. Cooper got the Israeli view from Mark Regev, top spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu prior to this...
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Arab Studies Journal Call for Papers: "Wayn al-Dawleh?" In Search of the...
One of the most common expressions of popular rhetoric in Lebanon is the question, “Wayn al-dawleh?” Where is the state? The idea that the Lebanese state does not exist imbues the daily perceptions and...
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Racism is the Foundation of Israel's Operation Protective Edge
On June 30 Ayelet Shaked, chairwoman of the Knesset faction of the ultra-right wing ha-Bayit ha-Yehudi (Jewish Home) Party, a key member of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu,...
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Zionism, BDS, and American Muslim Leadership
Organizing American Muslims American Muslims are among the most diverse and heterogeneous national populations of Muslims in the world, made up of many different communities with different histories...
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The Economic Challenges of the Gaza War: Relief and Reconstruction but No...
As both on-the-ground pressure in the Gaza Strip and diplomacy inexorably move towards a ceasefire, the eyes of the world have been fixed upon the mounting casualty toll suffered by the territory’s 1.8...
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Seam Zones, Security Zones, Death Zones, and Walls
I wrote Time in the Shadows in order to puzzle out why the counterinsurgency practices of enormously powerful state militaries—the US and Israel at the time I was writing the book—so often invoked law...
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The Other Israelis
Following Operation Protective Edge, many cities around the world have witnessed demonstrations sympathizing with the people of Gaza. Tel Aviv had a few as well. Haggai Matar, a leftist activist,...
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Israel "maht den Rasen“
(London Review of Books). Im Jahre 2004 – ein Jahr vor dem einseitigen israelischen Abzug aus dem Gazastreifen – erklärte Dov Weissglass, die Graue Eminenz hinter Ariel Sharon, gegenüber einem Reporter...
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A Teenager Contemplates Life and War in the Gaza Strip
Who I AmI am Noor Omar Shaban Ismail, a sixteen year-old teenager who lives and grew up in one of the most dangerous areas in the world, the Gaza Strip. I have only one brother who is studying civil...
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The Economic Challenges of the Gaza War: Relief and Reconstruction but No...
As both on-the-ground pressure in the Gaza Strip and diplomacy inexorably move towards a ceasefire, the eyes of the world have been fixed upon the mounting casualty toll suffered by the territory’s 1.8...
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Watching the Occupation at a Close Distance
On May 15, 2014, Nakba Day—a day on which Palestinians commemorate the mass dispossession caused by the formation of the state of Israel—Israeli army snipers shot and killed teenagers Nadeem Siam...
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