The Chronicle of Higher Education Interviews Jadaliyya Co-Founder Bassam Haddad
The following interview was conducted by Ursula Lindsey with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad in preparation for a feature about Jadaliyya for The Chronicle of Higher Education. The feature was...
View ArticleAlaa Abd El Hamid: Visual Lab Rats
June - July 2014Medrar for Contemporary Art, CairoCairo-based sculptor Alaa Abd El Hamid attempts to incorporate viewers into his latest exhibition. Through a series of mirrored objects, placed around...
View ArticleJadaliyya's Top 50 of All Time
Waiting for AliaWhy Mubarak is OutNo, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian TerritoryThe Right to the City Movement and the Turkish...
View ArticleRemembering Those Who Were Slain
Thousands of Coptic Christians marched down the streets of Cairo demanding equal citizenship. The chants were loud, the slogans rhymed, and the resolve was unwavering.The date: first week of October...
View ArticleJadaliyya Turns Four (or something like that)
Jadaliyya turns four this September (totally behind on the announcement). As we promised this time last year, we were going to have a busy year, but we were somewhat wrong. It was actually pretty...
View ArticleReflections-in-Progress on the Salaita Case: Contradiction,...
Much has already been said in the weeks since University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise informed Steven Salaita that she was not forwarding his appointment to the Board of Trustees and was thus...
View ArticleCan Arabs Be Human Rights Defenders?
In September the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), a caucus of fifty-two members of the European parliament from nineteen political delegations and fourteen...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (October 11)
[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....
View ArticlePhotography Media Roundup (October 13)
[This is a monthly roundup of articles on photography in the Middle East and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Photography Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View ArticleShort Skirts and Niqab Bans: On Sexuality and the Secular Body
Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work in the public sector or access public services, including hospitals, universities, and...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (October 6-12)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
View ArticleHashem L Kelesh
Egyptian visual artist and musician, Hashem L Kelesh's online presence is even stronger than in the real world. He studied art history and musical composition online, on his own. And he continues to...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (October 13)
[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 ArticleSyria Media Roundup (October 13)
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...
View ArticleSoma ve Kobane’yi birlikte dusunmek
Soma ve Kobane’yi birlikte düşünmekRafine ve eşitleyici bir katil olarak paraKapitalizm maddi refah kadar uhrevi bir vaatle de kendini pazarladı, pazarlıyor. Sol ve sağ liberallere göre para evrensel...
View ArticleRoj Roja Rojava
Kobanê’nin böylesi eşitsiz bir savaşta böylesi destansı bir direniş göstereceğini çok az kişi hesaplamıştı. Bugün daha da iyi anlaşıldığı üzere ittifakların ve hesapların yeniden düzenlendiği...
View ArticleEgypt’s Conservative Nationalism: Discourse and Praxis of the New Regime
Egypt has been witnessing a tidal wave of conservative nationalism since June 30 and particularly as the new regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi takes hold. Conservative nationalism cuts across regime...
View ArticleSuphi Nejat Agirnasli’nin Anisina
Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı’nın AnısınaDostumuz, yoldaşımız, meslekdaşımız sosyolog, çevirmen, yazar, devrimci Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı’yı 5 Ekim 2014 günü Kobane’de Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye/...
View ArticleA Politics of Hope: A Tribute to Brief Lives at a Time of Perpetual Death
Sara Khatib died on 5 September. The last time I saw Sara, she was lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by a worried and loving grandmother, a selfless mother camouflaging her sense of helplessness with...
View Articleرحلتي إلى الراب والسياسة والسجن
لماذا "الراب المحابسي"؟ لماذا لا أترك الموسيقى بعد أن تم حبسي ثلث مرات؟ أي دور يلعب الراب فيالدفاع عن المجتمع ضد من يحكمونه بالفساد والاستغلال؟سأخبركم قصة قصيرة. في صيف ٢٠٠٧ حينما كنت في العشرين من...
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