O.I.L. Media Roundup (5 June)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Mounira Soliman and Walid El Hamamsy, Popular Culture in...
Mounira Soliman and Walid El Hamamsy, editors, Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you put...
View Articleالتطوير على طريقة عبد المنعم سعيد
كنا قد اتخذنا قراراً منذ بدء أزمة جريدة وموقع ”إيجيبت إندبندنت“، التابعَين لمؤسسة ”المصري اليوم“، ألا ندخل في مهاترات لا تهم القارئ الكريم. لكن مقال رئيس مجلس إدارة المؤسسة،الدكتور عبد المنعم سعيد،...
View Articleسيناء في ذكرى تحريرها: سيادة منقوصة وأجواء منتهكة وجنود مختطفون
وافق الخامس والعشرين من أبريل المنصرم الذكرى الحادية والثلاثين للأعياد الوطنية المصرية المرتبطة بتحرير سيناء وفقاً لمعاهدة السلام التي أبرمها الرئيس الراحل محمد أنور السادات عام 1979 مع الطرف...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Eyad Houssami, Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre
Eyad Houssami, editor. Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. Foreword by Elias Khoury. London: Pluto Press, 2012. Innana Mahkoumoun Bil Amal: Kitabat Fi Al Masrah. Beirut: Dar Al Adab, 2012.Jadaliyya...
View ArticleEgypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (May 2013)
This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide...
View ArticleJordan Starts Blocking "Unlicensed Websites"
The Commission directs you to do what is required to block the websites listed in the attached document and prevent your subscribers from accessing them before the end of today, 2 June 2013. Note that...
View ArticleErdogan in Morocco: The Politics of Reception
A widely mediatized and well-timed state visit can double up both as a political opportunity and as a convenient distraction. Such was the case, or as it seems, for Erdogan’s tour in the Maghreb,...
View ArticleTadween Roundup: News and Analysis in Publishing and Academia from the Arab...
[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 ArticleSyria Media Roundup (June 6)
[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 ArticleContours of a New Republic and Signals from the Past: How to Understand...
Much has been written about the protests in Istanbul and Turkey, which have unfolded since the initial occupation of Gezi Park by environmental activists on 28 May. In the attempt to make sense of the...
View ArticleO.I.L. Monthly Edition (May 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that...
View ArticleMaghreb Media Roundup (June 7)
[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 ArticleStudents Against Israeli Apartheid Walk Out from Olmert's Speech
On 4 June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington DC’s Woodrow Wilson Center to offer a so-called “moderate” perspective on Middle East affairs and the Palestinian-Israeli...
View ArticleLinah Alsaafin on Social Media and Palestine
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South...
View ArticleEgypt's Khaled Said: Three Years on, Still No Justice
In a small bedroom in Alexandria adjacent to the sea, the belongings of a young man: new trainers, a computer console and homemade speakers are quietly gathering dust. Three years of dust, to be...
View ArticleHasty Observations from the Gezi Park Resistance
The tweet I circulated before I went to the Gezi Park on Thursday read: “Could this place turn into a Tiananmen or Tahrir? Why not?” Under certain conditions, those things that we cannot fully grasp on...
View ArticleLet Us Dot the ‘i’ and Cross the ‘t’: Insurgence and the End of ‘Tough Love’...
I think it was on the second day of the protests that I saw the photograph: a Gezi Park protester standing in front of a yellow warning sign. The municipality sign warns drivers to use alternative...
View ArticleThe View from Istiklal
More than a week has passed since activity began in Istanbul’s Gezi Park at Taksim Square. İstiklal Avenue, where I live, has been full of protestors waving or draped in the Turkish flag, carrying...
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