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Why Chuck Hagel Is Irrelevant
The latest non-scandal scandalizing the American commentariat is whether Barack Obama will be able to nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his new Secretary of Defense. The narrative is...
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Will Brahimi Get a Breakthrough?
The killing has changed the city’s shape - This rock Is bone This smoke people breathing, Adonis, “The Desert,” 1982-83.On December 20, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ independent commission...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 25)
[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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Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum Results
Based on numbers reported by Egyptian media outlets, below is a summary of the constitutional referendum vote results broken down by governorate.What do these numbers tell us?In two stages of voting,...
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A New Judicial Moment in Egypt
The paradox is stark. Vice President Mahmoud Mekky, Justice Minister Ahmed Mekky and Constituent Assembly Chief Hossam al-Gheriany — three icons of the Independence Current in the judiciary — are in...
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NEWTON 2012 in Review
We have had the opportunity to highlight an extraordinary series of books and articles on New Texts Out Now this year. Before we make our way into the new year, here are all of the NEWTONs that we...
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DAM Responds: On Tradition and the Anti-Politics of the Machine
We were happy to find on the pages of Jadaliyya supporters and friends who understand our work and respect what we have been doing as artists and members of our community for many years. We also feel...
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Of Wife and the Domestic Servant in the Arab World
My goal in this short essay is to capture for the reader the gains and losses associated with Islamic-based family rules in the context of an economy that has a generous supply of cheap domestic...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Dec 17-23)
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 videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
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Honoring Solidarity During Contentious Debates. . . A Letter to DAM From Lila...
Dear Tamer, Suhel, and Mahmood, If We Could Go Back in Time… we would have made even clearer that our reaction came from our deep admiration for you and our appreciation of your political and social...
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اقتصاد مصر بين المُفْلِسين والمُفَلِّسين
هذه المرة تجيء نذر إفلاس مصر من كل صوب وحدب. بدأ الأمر بتصريحات من وزير الصناعة والتجارة عن صعود متوقع فى عجز الموازنة ربما يؤدي «إلى عدم القدرة على سداد الرواتب إذا لم يتم التعامل معه». ثم يقول الأمين...
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عن الفن الإسلامي
قبل عامين، نظم معهد العالم العربي في باريس، معرض الفن الاسلامي، كسابقة احتضنت لأول مرة في العاصمة الفرنسية، من قبل إدراة المعهد التي ترى بوجوب تعريف الناس على هذا الفن، الذي اشتهر كإرث قائم بحد ذاته،...
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Syria Media Roundup (December 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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قطر والفلسطينيون
سواء من حيث التوقيت أو من حيث الجوهر، فإنه من الصعب تفسير زيارة أمير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني إلى غزة في تشرين أول/أكتوبر 2012 بشكل مبسط. وكما هو الحال عادة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالسياسة في فلسطين،...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (December 27)
[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....
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أربع قصائد
ثلاث زنابقثلاث زنابق،أم ثلاث أمّهات؟. . .ثلاث زنابق:الأولى تفتّحتكأن بتلاتها البيضاء تتضرّعُتسألُ إلهاً ماعن أولادهاالثانية انحنتْيكاد ظهرها ينكسرُإذ تبحثُ في الأرضعن ميسمهاالثالثة مازالتتخبّئ...
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Behind the Bahraini Revolution: An Interview with Maryam Al-Khawaja
[The following is an interview conducted with Maryam Al-Khawaja, the acting president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the deputy director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights. She is...
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Sons of Beaches: How Alexandria's Ideological Battles Shape Egypt
A Salafist Muslim intellectual, overlooking an Alexandrian beach last summer, tells me over coffee: “The cosmopolitanism of our city [Alexandria] may look like it has died, but the skeletal structure...
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My Father is Still a Communist
My Father is Still a Communist. Dir. Ahmad Ghossein, (Lebanon, 2011, 32’)The transient circulations of bodies for labor constitutes a hidden history of the late-20th century world, with an accumulation...
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Baghdad: Mirages and Melancholia
It is well known that preeminent figures of early modernism, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, designed architectural proposals for Baghdad around the middle of the 20th century. Many may be...
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