Turkey’s New Migration Policy: Control Through Bureaucratization
Images of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing from IS across the Turkish border last week thrust the issue of migration to Turkey into the international spotlight. But the influx of refugees to...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (September 29)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View Articleعندما يكون اسمك على "القائمة السوداء"
قرأتُ، مرةً، أنَّ عدد المسجلين على القائمة الاميركية "السوداء" يبلغ نحو مليون شخص. ولكنَّ ذلك قبل الحادي عشر من سبتمبر. بعده لا أحد يعلم كم بلغ العدد! قد يخطر في بال من يسمع بوجود هذه القائمة أن الأمر...
View ArticleWhen Your Name is on the Blacklist
[The Gallatin School of New York University invited Amjad Nasser, one of the major poets of the Arab world, to inaugurate its Gallatin Global Writers series on 30 September. On 27 September, US...
View ArticleCities Media Roundup (September 1-30)
[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...
View ArticleDisplaced Intentions
Write Down, I Am an Arab, directed by Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin. Israel/Palestine, 2014. Borrowing the opening line of one of Mahmoud Darwish’s most famous poems, “Identity Card,” filmmaker Ibtisam...
View ArticleA Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and...
On 3-5 July 1989, an unusual gathering, which went largely unreported in the media, took place in Toledo, Spain—“Judíos orientales y palestinos. Un diálogo para la paz árabe-israelí” (“Jews of the...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (September 30)
[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...
View ArticleEgypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (September 2014)
[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...
View ArticleLe projet de ville nouvelle Bio-Istanbul: Un urbanisme spéculatif, ségrégatif...
Ekolojik (écologique), yeşil (vert), doğal (naturel) ou akıllı (intelligente équivalent du smart anglais), tels sont les nouveaux concepts de plus en plus mis en avant par les brochures publicitaires...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic...
Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Abdullah Al-Arian (AA):...
View ArticleOn the Margins Roundup (September)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect...
View ArticleMaha Maamoun: Lingering in Vicinity
February - March 2014Gypsum Gallery, CairoMaha Maamoun's solo exhibition at Gypsum Gallery brings together two works she produced within the span of ten years. 'Cairoscapes' (2003) is a series of...
View ArticleISIS: The Explosion of Narratives - The Land of the Revolution Between...
If there is one benefit to the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it might be that it has brought together paradoxes and forced all concerned local, regional and international...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Turkish in the Armenian Diaspora
There we sat, the proverbial Turk and Armenian, at neighboring tables in a university student center in New Jersey. My back to his, I drew my eyes out of the book I was reading to concentrate on the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Boycotting Israel while Fighting Sanctions on Iran
As the bombs rained down on Gaza this summer, we were reminded yet again of the failure of peace talks, negotiations, or dialogue to attain meaningful results for the Palestinian people over the last...
View ArticleHow Not To Understand ISIS
October 2, 2014 The group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant or simply the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS, or IS) has attracted much attention in the past few months with its dramatic...
View ArticleO.I.L. Monthly Edition (September 2014)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that...
View ArticleSeize The Moment
Should the Palestinian leadership fail to seize the moment, it would condemn itself to eternal damnation.In the speech, Abbas rejected the notion of resuming peace negotiations in the usual manner. He...
View Articleنقطة تحول
يدلّ خطاب الرئيس على أن لحظة الحقيقة، لحظة اتخاذ القرار الذي طال انتظاره، تقترب، وإذا لم يتم التقاطها بسرعة ستطارد لعنة التاريخ القيادة الفلسطينية إلى الأبد. لقد رفض الرئيس في خطابه العودة إلى...
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