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Trials and Tribualtions of Turkish News Media
On 3 June, while mass protests against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government were raging in several cities around Turkey, something equally important happened in Istanbul. Close to three...
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Trials and Tribulations of Turkish News Media
On 3 June, while mass protests against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government were raging in several cities around Turkey, something equally important happened in Istanbul. Close to three...
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Is Everywhere Taksim?: Public Space and Possible Publics
In a speech on 1 June, responding to the wave of protests sweeping through Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proclaimed that “the issue is not the 5-10 trees that are being removed.” By...
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Delhicentric: Zarina’s Paper Like Skin
Zarina: Paper Like Skin. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 26 June – 22 September, 2013. Zarina Hashmi has been based in New York City since the 1970s, producing a significant body of work over...
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إصطفافات المعارضة وسياسة التسمية: تنظيم المقاومة في تركيا
خرج أكثر من عشرة آلاف شخص في شوارع العمرانية، منطقة سكنية للطبقة المتوسطة على الجانب الآسيوي من إسطنبول، في العاشرة من مساء الثاني من حزيران/يونيو، لا ليؤازروا المتظاهرين في متنزه غازي في ميدان تقسيم...
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Turkish Media's Moral Bankruptcy: An Interview with Haluk Sahin
Two weeks since the eruption of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the demonstrations show little signs of abating. Instead, they have proliferated across the country and taken on new political forms,...
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Egypt Media Roundup (June 10)
[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...
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Occupy Gezi: A Roundtable Discussion and Podcast
The world’s eyes are currently on Istanbul. As protests spread throughout Turkey, media outlets are scrambling to convey some type of picture of what is taking place to an eager audience that often...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 11)
[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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Last Week on Jadaliyya (June 3-9)
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...
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Ministry of Culture or Ministry of Intellectuals?
Since the new minister of culture, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, took up his post, conversations about the attitude he has adopted to prove himself have not ceased within Egypt's cultural scene.The minister...
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New Texts Out Now: Daniel Neep, Occupying Syria under the French Mandate
Daniel Neep, Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space, and State Formation.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this...
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New Texts Out Now: Thomas Pierret, Religion and State in Syria
Thomas Pierret, Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Thomas Pierret...
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DARS Media Roundup (June 12)
[This is a bi-weekly 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...
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The Complicated Legacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office, after finishing his second four-year term as Iran’s president, his tenure as the firebrand public face of a country, almost exclusively seen in Western media as...
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Tahrir to Taksim: We Demand the Fall of the System (Video)
The following video expresses the Mosireen media collective’s stance of solidarity with the on-going demonstrations around Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and in several other Turkish cities. It begins with...
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Praise for the "Marginal Groups"
All those recently labeled as “Marginal Groups” are legal. Precisely because they routinely come under attack by the state and are forcibly choked in gas despite being legal formations, they know state...
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A Pro-Government Newspaper in Turkey Blasts Jadaliyya for Its Role in the...
[This article, by Elif Ince, was published in the Turkish newspaper Radikalon 13 June. It was written in part as a response to an article published by the pro-government newspaper Yeni Şafak on 10...
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A Crucial Election for Iran's Reform Movement
Today, Iranians cast their vote for the country’s eleventh presidential election. It certainly will not be an easy decision, with a field of candidates that lack any sense of major diversity in their...
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The Spring of Turkey, The Fall of Erdogan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s insistence on demolishing Gezi Park and building a shopping mall on it was only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the causes behind the...
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