Palestine Media Roundup (January 14 - 20)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Palestine and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Palestine Page Co-Editors or of Jadaliyya....
View ArticleArchiving Palestine: Building a Digital Platform for Oral History - A...
In this interview, Hana Sleiman takes Status deep below the American University in Beirut building where a vast archive is housed, keeping Palestinian memory alive. Hana Sleiman is an archivist and...
View Articleالساعة العاطلة لا تظهر في الصورة
بحوث في الأمومة لإيمان مرساليجّدُّ الإنسان فجأة في بحثه عن دلائل لحياته وعلاقاته بأهله ومحيطه، عبر دفاتر قديمة ربما، رسائل ومنقول شفاهي وصور. النص الأدبي والصورة هي من ضمن مفاتيح الشاعرة إيمان مرسال في...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (January 18-24)
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 ArticleBetween Wind and Water: A Dialogue with Members of MSF/Greenpeace’s SAR Team...
Description of piece: A conversation I was able to record and edit between some of the MSF/Greenpeace search and rescue team members based in the Greek Island of Lesvos. It’s a rare sneak peek into the...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (January 25)
[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 Articleعن الانتصار العسكري والهزيمة الإيديولوجية
هل تعيد السياسات المسبوقة لضبط المجال الديني فشل التسعينات؟ في يوم الأربعاء 20 مايو 2015 صرح صبري عبادة ، وكيل وزارة الأوقاف، إن الوزارة مستعدة للاحتفالات بمولد الحسين ، وحذر السلفيين من أي محاولة...
View ArticlePhoenix Rising from the Ashes? The Internal State of Affairs of the Muslim...
Today, Egyptians are commemorating the fifth anniversary of the revolution of 2011. It is not yet clear what the outcome of these events will be, but the high level of repression against civil society...
View ArticleThe Rise and Decline of a Heterotopic Space: Views from Midan al-Tahrir
“We are fortunate—the world is fortunate—that we had the Tahrir days, that for eighteen days we lived the dream, and so we know—absolutely—that life can be that dream.” (Soueif 2012:187) Centrally...
View Article“This Land is their Land”: Egypt’s Military and the Economy
The Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) is widely reputed to play an influential, even massive, role in the national economy. The EAF runs a parallel economy that produces a wide array of consumer products...
View Articleممنوع الاقتراب أو التصوير: الجيش والاقتصاد في مصر
يسود اعتقاد واسع أن القوات المسلحة المصرية تلعب دورا مؤثرا، بل وربما مهيمنا، في الاقتصاد القومي إذ أنه من الثابت أن القوات المسلحة تدير اقتصادا موازيا يقوم بإنتاج العديد من المنتجات الاستهلاكية من...
View ArticleHow the West Undermined Women’s Rights in the Arab World
This article is based on some of the research that I have conducted over the past two years on women’s activism in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, from independence until the Arab uprisings. I collected...
View ArticleJanuary 25 at Five
To mark five years since Egyptians took to the streets demanding bread, freedom, and social justice, Jadaliyya offers its readers a set of articles examining the state of some of the struggles that the...
View Article« Les organisations policières se trouvent en position de force » entretien...
[Emmanuel Blanchard est historien, spécialiste des pratiques policières en situation coloniale. Il est également engagé de longue date dans la défense des droits des étrangers en France et dans l'Union...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 26)
[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 ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (January 26)
EnglishNinth Anniversary of Hrant Dink’s AssassinationJustice, Peace Watch for Assassinated Journalist Hrant Dink Bianet covers the vigil in front of the Agos newspaper headquarters to memorialize the...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Haytham Bahoora, Writing the Dismembered Nation: The...
Haytham Bahoora, “Writing the Dismembered Nation: The Aesthetics of Horror in Iraqi Narratives of War,” in Arab Studies Journal(Vol. XXIII No. 1), Fall 2015: 184-209.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write...
View Articleعلى شواطئ تشيسبيك
قصيدة للشاعرة اليونانية ليا سيوموLia Siomouولدت الشاعرة ليا سيومو ونشأت في أثينا، اليونان. تخرجت من جامعة أثينا بعد أن حصلت على إجازة في الكيمياء وهاجرتْ إلى الولايات المتحدة حيث أكملتْ دراساتها في...
View Articleفي قصص "ميغ 21"لفاطمة ياسين الجغرافيا الإنسانية بديلاً من تمزق الأرض السورية
حيث سوريا حقل فسيح يحده الأفق، على حد تعبير فاطمة ياسين في مجموعتها "ميغ 21" (دار نون – الإمارات العربية المتحدة 2015)، تبدو مصائر الناس في الجغرافيا السورية الممزقة، والفصام السياسي الذي يجمع النظام...
View ArticleSyria Media Roundup (January 27)
[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...
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