مَن يُحاسِب؟ ومَن يُحاسِب مَن؟
لأول مرة في تاريخ العالم العربي الحديث نجحت انتفاضات شعبية سلمية في إطلاق مسارات أفضت إلى تنحي أربعة رؤساء دولة عن الحكم. ولأول مرة في التاريخ ذاته، أحيل هؤلاء الرؤساء إلى المحاكمة، وجاهياً أو غيابياً،...
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فيسبوكوأفلامومقاطعفيديو: قراءة في أحوال الصورة بعد ثورة ينايرلهيلاري كلينتون أن تصف ثورة مصر بأنها "انتفاضة" أو مجرد انتقال من نظام سياسي إلى آخر أكثر ديموقراطية، ولجون كيري أن يسعى للقضاء عليها من...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (April 22-28)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles, Editors picks and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content...
View ArticleThe Terror of Capitalism
Delhi.On Wednesday, 24 April, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building collapsed. The building,...
View ArticleThe Roundup: News and Analysis in Publishing/Academia from the Arab World
[The following is a roundup of the latest news and analysis from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For...
View ArticleFirst as Shadow, Then as Farce: An Evening with Medieval Puppeteer Ibn...
The thirteenth-century occulist Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, said to have occasionally blinded his patients, is remembered both for his tragic optometry and for his comedic shadow puppet plays. A refugee from...
View ArticleThe Lebanese Rocket Society: A Dream Takes Flight
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil JoreigeThe Lebanese Rocket Society--A Tribute to Dreamers (Parts II, III, IV, and V)CRG Gallery, ManhattanFebruary 28 -- April 20, 2013 In April 1961, students from...
View ArticleThe Active Feminine: Performance Art in Lebanon with Reference to Marya Kazoun
In the setting of the current Arab art boom and the political flux ignited by regional uprisings, the difficulty in differentiating between performance art and activism increases, further intertwining...
View ArticleAmong the Thugs
Delhi.“We are mere coolies working at the machines in these terrible times. We are mere dupes and fools to discover the diamond and to make a gift of it to the king, to adorn his crown.”– Nazrul...
View ArticleFrom “Islamic Art” to “Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South...
This is the exceptional collection in all America, and it is being neglected. I urge you to make the reinstallation of Islam your highest priority. If you were to create an Islamic wing, you’d find...
View ArticleApril Culture
Jadaliyya's April culture bouquet arrives with a special focus on the visual arts. Mehri Khalil contributes the first installment of a series on the reopened galleries for Islamic Art at the...
View ArticleLe Sahara, l’identité et l’africanité dans la littérature francophone du...
Moha Souag est un écrivain francophone qui a gagné une place prestigieuse dans le paysage littéraire francophone au Maroc grâce à sa persévérance, à l’abondance des ses écrits et à son style d’écriture...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 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 ArticleNot in the Revolution's Name: Egypt's New Judicial Authority Bill
Amid the recurrent standoffs between the Egyptian opposition on the one hand and President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails on the other, the opposition is often...
View ArticleCyprus, Divided and Financially Broke: An Interview with Rebecca Bryant
The economic crisis in Cyprus has put the eastern Mediterranean island nation in the lime light. Cyprus has been divided for more than four decades between the Turkish north and majority Greek south....
View ArticleAlternative Worlds at the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis
Last month, I attended my first World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. I study social movements and teach about the WSF and the very different and more established annual scrum of...
View Articleقراءة في الحراك السياسي في الجولان المحتل
البعد الثقافي-المثالي للثورة: قراءة في الحراك السياسي في الجولان المحتل مادة اثنوغرافية تمهيدية:"إذا كانت رجولتك مشروطة بغشاء بكارتي فهي حتما معدومة بزواله (الجولان المباع/المحتل 24-8-2012)"، هكذا...
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[The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Charles Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of...
Charles Tripp,The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Charles Tripp (CT):...
View ArticlePierced Memories: The Lebanese Archive of Diab Alkarssifi
[Text by Ania Dabrowska, photos courtesy of Diab Alkarssifi.]The Lebanese Archive of Diab Alkarssifi is a project about a collection of photographs belonging to an ordinary man with a passion and a...
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