Quick Thoughts on Tragedy and Treachery in Yemen: A STATUS/الوضع Conversation...
In this Quick Thoughts conversation for Status/الوضع, Sheila Carapico discusses the recent turmoil in Yemen, and describes the growing entrenchment of factionalism and sectarianism in Yemen as a result...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (September 2)
[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 ArticleThe Moroccan Non-Exception: A Party, an Army, and a Palace (Part I)
[The following is the first part in the final installment of "The Moroccan Non-Exception" Jadaliyya roundtable. Read the introduction here.]The year is 1958. Morocco has entered its second year of...
View ArticleA Perfect Metaphor? The Trash Crisis in Lebanon: An Interview With Ziad Abu-Rish
On Tuesday, Lebanese security forces arrested and beat up protesters staging a sit-in at the office of the environmental ministry in Beirut.For the past two weeks, thousands of people have been...
View ArticleDARS Media Roundup (July-August 2015)
[This is a monthly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the...
View ArticlePhotography Media Roundup (September 4)
[This is a 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 send...
View ArticleThe Moroccan Non-Exception: A Party, an Army, and a Palace (Part II)
[The following is the final part of "The Moroccan Non-Exception" Jadaliyya roundtable. Read the introduction here. Read the first part of this installment here.]The interaction of memory and forgetting...
View ArticleHow Should Rationalists Deal with Dogmatism? The Case of the Birmingham Quran...
One of the reasons I do not to write about early Islamic history is that I find it very difficult to manage the constant clash of faith claims and appeals to empirical evidence. When it comes to...
View ArticlePlace as Provisional: Site-Specific Art Commissions in Sharjah
Two metaphors, both equally decrepit, are alternately deployed in discussions of “place” in the Gulf Arab states: on the one hand, the notion of a tabula rasa, and, on the other hand, an attachment to...
View ArticleGarbage Crisis Exposes Arrogance and Conflict Among the Political Elite of...
The government just does not seem to get it. Protests that kicked off in Lebanon a few weeks ago are no longer about the garbage crisis. They are fundamentally about the failure of successive Lebanese...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (August 31-September 6)
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 ArticleFrom Fragmentation to Totalization
For nearly ten years, Oussama Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. In neo-expressionist paintings that reimagine...
View ArticleAhmed Badry: The Provisionary That Lasts
The Provisionary That Lasts includes two huge valves that one cannot turn simultaneously, a hybrid pair of headphones, a plug and a series of drawings, all inspired by popular designs to solve everyday...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (September 7)
[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 ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (September 8)
[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 ArticleThe Property Regime: Mecca and the Politics of Redevelopment in Saudi Arabia
The 1990 Gulf War was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East, one that altered the political economies of the region as well as state-society relations therein. In Saudi Arabia, the...
View ArticleIs the U.S. Left Truly Anti-Zionist?: A STATUS/الوضع Conversation with Ilan...
In this interview with Ilan Pappe, Khalil Bendib asks Pappe about his new book On Palestine, co-authored with Noam Chomsky. Pappe discusses issues debated in the book, spanning from the Boycott,...
View ArticleWe Are, You Are
Graphic 1City-centers are named as such because they gather people. They should not belong, be managed, or be controlled by a few. They should not be accessible only to a few. They are where all...
View ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (September 8)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Wadie E. Said, Crimes of Terror
Wadie E. Said, Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this...
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