Tadween Roundup: News and Analysis in Publishing and Academia from the Arab...
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View ArticleImplications of Morocco's Bifurcated Educational System
In Morocco, policymakers have recently implemented several groundbreaking initiatives aiming to create educational programs to empower rural women. Despite progress in this realm, there are still...
View ArticleToward an Ethic of Legitimate Dissent: Academic Boycott at the American...
At its 2013 annual conference, the American Studies Association (ASA) considered a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. Several professors proposed the resolution to the ASA’s Academic...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (December 2)
[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 ArticleTel Aviv-Jaffa’s “City for All” – Is There Emancipatory Potential in Israeli...
Max Ajl: Start by telling us a little about the Ir LeKulanu campaign.Matan Kaminer: Ir LeKulanu, “city for all of us” in Hebrew, is a municipal political party in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. It was founded six...
View ArticleO.I.L. Monthly Edition (November 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 ArticleTurkey Media Roundup (December 3)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View ArticleSonbol in Sinai: A Narrative of Territorialization
In 1987 Egyptian public television aired the soap opera Sonbol Ba‘d al-Milyon (Sonbol After the Million), a burlesque soap opera of sorts starring the comedian Mohamed Sobhy. It came as a sequel to a...
View Articleهل تحتاج الثورة إلى قانون للتظاهر؟
لم يسبق في تاريخ الثورات أن احتاجت ثورة إلى قانون للتظاهر¡ ناهيك عن كون هذا القانون يتطلب ترخيصاً للتظاهر من وزارة داخلية النظام القديم عينه الذي قامت الثورة من أجل إزالته. وهذا ما حصل في مصر الأسبوع...
View Article20 Years of Talks: Keeping Palestine Occupied
Twenty years ago, the PLO Central Council approved the Oslo Accord with the Israeli government. Israeli-Palestinian talks were slated to conclude within 5 years, yet two decades on Israel's occupation...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 3)
[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 ArticleTwenty Years of Talks: Keeping Palestine Occupied
Twenty years ago, the PLO Central Committee approved the Oslo Accord with the Israeli government. Israeli-Palestinian talks were slated to conclude within five years, yet two decades on Israel's...
View ArticleNew Texts Out Now: Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese, The Radicals’ City: Urban...
Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese, The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?Sara Fregonese (SF): The book is...
View ArticleDevastation Is Upon Us
They say that before you drown a calm fills you. A subtle euphoria loosens your last grip on life.Today, two futures lie ahead of us: one known and one unknown.Today, twenty-seven people sit in jail....
View Articleالقراءة المبكرة
هنري ميلر لم أبدأ بإعادة قراءة كتب معيّنة إلا في السنوات القليلة الماضية. أستطيع أن أتذكّر بدقّة الكتب الأولى التي أفردتُها من أجل إعادة القراءة: ولادة المأساة، الزوج الأبدي، أليسفي بلاد العجائب،الطقوس...
View ArticleAugmented Airspace: A Project by Dia Hamed and Lot Amoros
Augmented AirspaceA project by Dia Hamed and Lot Amoros2nd D-CAF Festival, downtown Cairo, EgyptApril 2013 Downtown residents encountered a drone for the first time in April when Egyptian artist Dia...
View ArticleOutlawing The January 25 Revolution (VIDEO)
This new video from the Mosireen collective discusses and condemns the inclusion of military trials for civilians in Egypt’s draft constitution, due to be put to a referendum in January 2014. The video...
View ArticleJadaliyya Monthly Edition (November 2013)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of November 2013. It also includes the most recent roundups, editors picks, videos and most read articles. Progressively,...
View ArticleBeirut Art Center's Exposure 2013
Exposure 2013November 2013 - January 2014Beirut Art Center, Beirut Exposure is Beirut Art Center's annual exhibition dedicated to emerging artists in and from Lebanon. In its fifth edition, a selection...
View ArticleThe Whispers of WhatsApp: Beyond Facebook and Twitter in the Middle East
Like many in Beirut this summer, I found out about one of the recent bombings from a WhatsApp message on my mobile phone. I received a single word text from a friend: infijar (explosion). A second...
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