A New Oppositional Politics: The Campaign Participants in Iran’s 2013...
Iranian politics took all of us by surprise again. While the election of Hassan Rowhani as the new president of Iran marks an important turning point in the factional rivalries and elite conflict in...
View ArticleAl-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi, editors.Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5, 2007 Bombing of Baghdad's "Street of Booksellers."Oakland: PM Press, 2012 You can...
View Articleجسد المرأة الغواية ومحنة الإنسان - الجزء الأول
مقدمة: العولمة وعرش الجسديتزامن نظام العولمة مع حضور طاغِ لجسد المرأة في الإعلام والإعلان. حضور يشتد يوماً بعد يوم، إن لجهة الكم أم النوع حيث يزداد هذا الجسد، في المرئي والمقروء، عرياً وأوضاعه غواية أو...
View ArticleGezi, the Kurds, and Our Kids
Those who wanted to march towards the Democratic Solution Tent were intercepted by gas bombs and water cannons. Yet you didn’t see them, although there were kids present in that march. You didn’t see...
View Articleفي الذكرى المئوية للمؤتمر العربي الأول : تساؤلات حول التاريخ والذاكرة والمستقبل
يميزالفيلسوف الفرنسي بول ريكور بين ثلاثة أنواع من الأحداث التاريخية : أولاً: حدث ذو معنى في ”حده الأدنى“، أي حدث عادي واضح المعالم ولكن دون أي تأثير على مجرى التاريخ ولا في تشكيل الهوية الجماعية....
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (June 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 roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (June 24)
[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 ArticleCovering Gezi: Reflecting on Photographing Daily Life during Extraordinary...
[Text by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, photos courtesy of Nar Photos.]After a few days, we asked one of our friends to go buy us some gas masks. He called and said there had been a run on them, and prices were...
View ArticleSexual Torture is Systematic: from Mubarak and SCAF to the Muslim Brotherhood...
This video from the Mosireen media collective is entitled "Sexual Torture is Systematic: from Mubarak and SCAF to the Muslim Brotherhood.” It brings together the testimonies of Egyptians who have...
View ArticleMOOCs Stir Controversy over Shifting Course of Higher Education
While online education has existed for a while, teaching classes online is taking the world of higher education by storm due in part to the rise of MOOCs. MOOCs (massive open online course) are courses...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 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...
View ArticleHydropolitics and the Hajj: An Ottoman Pre-History of Saudi Geological...
In Ottoman History Podcast Episode 101, Chris Gratien interviews Michael Christopher Low to discuss his current research on the history of water infrastructure, disease, and the ecological...
View ArticleNo British Petroleum Gas Project without Our Consent (Video)
The Mosireen media collective has completed a new video entitled “Idku: No BP Gas Project Without Our Consent”. It deals with the response of Egyptians from the fishing town of Idku to plans by...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, Arab...
Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, editors, Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging.Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011.Jadaliyya (J): What made you...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat, Between the Middle East...
Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat, editors, Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you put...
View ArticleDon't Tell Them You're Studying Islam
[The following article was published in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University on Tadween Publishing's blog. It was originally published by CCAS here. For...
View Articleالحوار الوطني في البحرين: جهات تتفلّت من التسوية وتعرقلها
بعد أكثر من أربعة أشهر على بدء جلسات الحوار الوطني، لم يتمكن طرفاه الرئيسيان من الاتفاق على المواضيع التي يرغبان في الحوار حولها. فتم تخصيص الجلسة رقم 22 يوم 12 حزيران / يونيو لمتابعة النقاش حول...
View ArticleLe Mouvement du droit à la ville et l’été turc
Au moment même où j’écris, Istanbul est assiégé. Toute la puissance des forces de police d’Istanbul - la plus importante police municipale d’Europe - est en train de s’abattre sur les occupants...
View ArticleDARS Media Roundup (June 26)
[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...
View Articleالمسلسلات التركية وفقاعة الاختراق والتأثير في الوطن العربي
جذبت المسلسلات التركية اهتمام الباحثين والصحفيين ورجال الدين في العالم العربي، نظراً لشغف المشاهد العربي بكل ما يخصها من تفاصيل. في آب 2008 تابع حوالي 85 مليون عربي الحلقة الأخيرة من المسلسل التركي...
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