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Suspend US Military Aid to Egypt: An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
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[The following is an open letter, signed by scholars of Egypt and the Middle East, calling on US President Barack Obama to support civilian, democratic rule in Egypt by suspending military aid to the country.] An Open Letter to President Barack Obama 18 April 2016 Dear President Obama, As scholars of Egypt and the Middle East, we the undersigned would like to urge you, on Tax Day, to support civilian, democratic rule in Egypt by suspending military aid to the country. For more than thirty years, the US government has spent billions of dollars to help build and sustain a system of rule that does not serve the interests of the Egyptian people. The core of that regime ...
Keep Reading »Baghdad through Latif al-Ani's Lens
![[View of Rasheed Street with the Mijan Mosque (circa 1350) and the cylindrical white Burj Abboud by architects Abdullah Ihsan Kamil and Rifat Chadirji (1955), 1960s. Photo by Latif el-Ani/Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation.]](/web/20160419061838im_/http://www.jadaliyya.com/content_images/3/sm_LatifalAni_coverpic.jpg "[View of Rasheed Street with the Mijan Mosque (circa 1350) and the cylindrical white Burj Abboud by architects Abdullah Ihsan Kamil and Rifat Chadirji (1955), 1960s. Photo by Latif el-Ani/Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation.]")
Latif al-Ani, born in 1932 in Baghdad, was a member of the photography unit at the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) between 1954 and 1960. His photographs were frequently published in the IPC publication Ahl el-Naft (People of Oil). In 1960 he went on to found the photography department at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and to head the official Iraqi News Agency. He photographed throughout Iraq until the mid-1970s when political considerations curtailed his work. This selection of Latif al-Ani's photographs of Baghdad in the 1950s and 60s was chosen from the collection held at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. A much larger collection of his work was lost during ...
Keep Reading »Exit ISIS, Stage Left: Fighting for Laughs in Mosul and Beyond
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The State of Myth has lowered its curtains. The state-sponsored Iraqi television series, which introduced itself to the world with a musical trailer featuring the marriage of the devil to an Israeli bride whose offspring hatched in the form of a miniature Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, took audiences by storm when it launched its first episode in the fall of 2014. Its theme song went viral. Actors received death threats. In the communicative battle to counter the message of the Islamic State, few efforts went so far as Dawlat al-Khurafa.[i] Measuring the efficacy of cultural production, though, is an imperfect task. More difficult still is determining which types of ...
Keep Reading »A Belgian Bombing in Istanbul: How Small States Manage Terrorist Moments
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A century and a decade ago, an Istanbul court sentenced a Belgian named Edouard Joris to death for his part in a bomb attack on the Ottoman sultan. Joris was involved with two of the terrorisms of the turn of the century: anarchism and Armenian nationalism. The young man had moved from Antwerp to Istanbul in 1901. He found a job at the Singer sewing machine factory and struck up a friendship with the man at the next workbench, an Armenian. Joris accompanied this friend to meetings of the activist cell planning the attack and facilitated their preparations in various ways. Crucially, he placed an order for a custom-made carriage, fashioned with a cavity large enough to ...
Keep Reading »Palestine: Human Rights and Humans Wronged
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Two of Palestine’s leading human rights defenders will discuss conditions on the ground, the status of human rights and their violations, and the future facing Palestinians. April 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Busboys & Poets – 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW Washington, DC United States Join us to hear from two of Palestine’s leading human rights defenders who will discuss conditions on the ground, the status of human rights and their violations, and the future facing Palestinians. IPS’s Middle East expertPhyllis Bennis will moderate the conversation with Raji Sourani, founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human ...
Keep Reading »إطلاق العدد 3.1 من مجلة الوضع
بعد مرور سنة على إطلاق مجلة “الوضع” الصوتية، وتماماً قبل أن نجري تعديلاً رئيسياً على منبرنا الإلكتروني، يسرّنا أن نعلن تقديم دفعة جديدة من المقابلات في عددنا الأضخم حتى الآن. سيُذْكَر هذا العدد على أنه العدد الذي يضمّ أكبر عدد من المقابلات باللغة العربية حتى الآن. وهذه ليست مصادفة عشوائية، بل بالأحرى شهادة على التزامنا بتأصيل الموضوعات التي نناقشها في دينامية إقليمية وتعقيدات محلية.ويسعدنا أن نعلن مع منظمات شريكة إطلاق العدد 3. 1 من مجلة الوضع الصوتية (شاهد النسخة العربية هنا)، عددنا الأكثر طموحاً حتى الآن. إن هذا العدد الضخم والعميق يقدم لمستمعينا ذوي الأذواق المختلفة مقابلات ومحادثات موسعة حول موضوعات كثيرة ومسائل متنوعة وواسعة النطاق بما فيه الأحداث الحالية ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ramy Aly, Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity
Ramy Aly, Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity. London, Pluto Press, 2015. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Ramy Aly (RA): My motivations were both personal and political, but at the outset the personal was more compelling. I was born and raised in London to Egyptian immigrant parents. It is a beautifully complex city that I love, but all too often I was made to feel that being brought into this world in Hammersmith Hospital in 1977 was some kind of cosmological mistake that I should spend my life correcting. In 2003 I went to live in Dubai very briefly; it was my first attempt to “return” to an Arab world that I had never ...
Keep Reading »Art as Interruption: On 'Homeland,' Revolutionary Utterances, Surveillance - A STATUS/الوضع Conversation with Heba Y. Amin
In this interview with STATUS/الوضع host Adel Iskander, artist Heba Y. Amin discusses and reflects on her most jarring works, which include hacking the set of televions series Homeland with subversive graffiti, a videographic documentation of long-lost online audio messages from the Egyptian revolution (Speak2Tweet), and how birds relate to surveillance, the Bible, and the British takeover of Jerusalem. Heba Y. Amin is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and currently, visiting assistant professor at the American University in Cairo. She received her MFA at the University of Minnesota and is a DAAD grant recipient, a Rhizome Commissions grant winner and a ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (April 11)
![[Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi welcomes Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz upon his arrival at the Cairo International Airport on 7 April, 2016. Photo from the Official Facebook Page of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.]](/web/20160419061838im_/http://www.jadaliyya.com/content_images/3/sm_Sisi+Salman.jpg "[Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi welcomes Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz upon his arrival at the Cairo International Airport on 7 April, 2016. Photo from the Official Facebook Page of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.]")
[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 send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] Political Rights Arrest warrant issued against Khaled al-Balshy for insulting Interior Ministry An arrest warrant was issued against Journalists Syndicate board member and chief editor of Al-Bedaiah newspaper Khaled al-Balshy on charges of insulting the Interior Ministry and the police, as well as inciting protests and conspiring to overthrow the ...
Keep Reading »مروان البرغوثي: نحو توليد نخبة سياسية فلسطينية جديدة
التاريخ محكوم بالسير قُدماً، ومن الخطأ القاتل الوقوف عكس اتجاه سير التاريخ. ومقاومة الشعوب للاستعمار والظلم والقهر والاحتلال والعبودية والاستغلال والاعتداء على الكرامة الإنسانية، عناصر كلها تتفق مع هذا المسار الطبيعي، وبالتالي فإن علاقة الشعب المُستَعمَر والمقهور بالاستعمار الكولونيالي، هي علاقة رفض ومقاومة ومقاطعة بمختلف الوسائل والسبل، وليست علاقة تعايش أو مهادنة. لقد جاءت الهبّة الشعبية الحالية، كما انتفاضة الأقصى في سنة 2000، كانعكاس للتناقض المحتدم بين المُستعمِر والمُستعمَر، وكردٍّ صريح على فشل خيار المفاوضات، فاتحة المجال أمام تصويب المسار وتوضيح الرؤية. ومن المؤسف أن هذه الهبّة المتواصلة منذ خمسة أشهر من دون أي إشارات إلى توقفها، لم تجد بعد، محلياً ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Media Roundup (April 8)
![[View on Al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem Old City: Image from www.shutterstock.com]](/web/20160419061838im_/http://www.jadaliyya.com/content_images/3/sm_shutterstock_145980179.jpg "[View on Al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem Old City: Image from www.shutterstock.com]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Palestine and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Palestine Page Co-Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each roundup to Palestine@jadaliyya.com.] The Occupation Forces Israeli Forces Raid, Destroy Property at al-Quds University Israeli forces stormed al-Quds University for two hours after locking up campus security guards, breaking their walkie-talkies, and destroyed school rooms and materials. Israeli Forces Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers, Level Lands in Gaza Strip Three Israeli bulldozers leveled land ...
Keep Reading »صدور العدد 106 من مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية
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صدور العدد 106 (ربيع 2016) من "مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية" صدر العدد 106 (ربيع 2016) من "مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية"، وقد خص مروان البرغوثي، عضو اللجنة المركزية لحركة "فتح" وعضو المجلس التشريعي - الأسير في سجن هداريم في زنزانة رقم 11، المجلة بمقالة يتناول فيها رأيه بمآلات المشروع الوطني الفلسطيني، ويدعو إلى استعادة مشروع التحرر الوطني، وتوليد نخبة سياسية جديدة. نقاش الأزمة السياسية الفلسطينية التي تصدى لها البرغوثي في باب مداخل، يتصادى مع مقالة في الباب نفسه لرائف زريق (قراءة في الراهن الإسرائيلي) يشرِّح فيها التحولات العميقة في المجالات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والسياسة الاقتصادية في إسرائيل، ويرصد تأثير تلك التحولات الجذرية في جميع ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (April 18)
[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 send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] Political Rights Update: Interior Ministry issues warning not to join Friday protests against Egypt-Saudi island transfer The Interior Ministry has issued a warning not to join ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Media Roundup (April 17)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Palestine and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Palestine Page Co-Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each roundup to Palestine@jadaliyya.com.] The Occupation Forces Palestinians Protest Surge in Home Demolitions by Israeli Army On Thursday alone, over 50 Palestinian buildings were destroyed by the Israeli army, displacing over hundred and ...
Keep Reading »Quick Thoughts: Maria Fantappie on Syria’s Kurds
[The Syrian Kurds are playing an increasingly prominent role in that country’s conflict, and in recent years Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces have seized effective control of most territories in northern Syria with substantial Kurdish populations. In March 2016, shortly after the PYD was excluded from participation in diplomatic talks hosted by the United Nations in Geneva, the Syrian Kurdish party proclaimed that the self-administered territories it had previously established would henceforth ...
Keep Reading »Burying the Panama Papers: An Interview with Tunisian Journalist Sana Sbouai
On Sunday, 3 April 2016, in an unprecedented coordinated action, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners began releasing explosive news stories about offshore taxheaven based on information housed in 11.5 million pages of documents leaked by an anonymous source to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Known now as the Panama Papers, the stories that grew out of the leak are the result of the biggest journalists collaboration in history. The ...
Keep Reading »Syria Media Roundup (April 13)
[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 send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Inside Syria Currency crash adds to Syrians’ woes The crash in the Syrian pound’s value against foreign currencies has resulted in higher food prices and increased demand for ...
Keep Reading »موت الإنترنت: عن الشبكة التي يجب علينا إنقاذها
قبل سبعة أشهر، جلست إلى الطاولة الصغيرة في المطبخ، في شقتي المصممة على طراز الستينيّات، في الطابق الأخير لبنايةٍ في حي نابض بالحياة وسط طهران. وفعلت شيئًا فعلته آلاف المرّات سابقًا. فتحت اللابتوب ونشرت شيئًا في مدوّنتي الجديدة. لكن مع ذلك، كانت هذه التدوينة الأولى منذ ست سنوات، وكادت أن تحطَّمَ قلبي. قبل بضعة أسابيع، كنت قد نلت العفو وتحررت فجأةً من سجن إيفِن شمال طهران. كنت أتوقعُ أن أقضي جُلّ حياتي في تلك الزنازين. في نوفمبر 2008 تم الحكم علي بعشرين عامًا في السجن، غالبًا، لأشياء كتبتها على ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 13)
[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 or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week. Regional and International Relations Dubai to build tallest tower, beating its own record Dubai’s upcoming plans to out-Burj the Burj Khalifa rake up a ...
Keep Reading »The Caliphate Beyond ISIS: An Interview with Salman Sayyid (Part Two)
Contemporary discussions about the concept of the caliphate almost invariably turn to its application at the hands of the Islamic State. Challenging this trend in his recent book, Recalling the Caliphate, Salman Sayyid examines the historical conception of the caliphate and its meaning for Muslim polities. In this second part of the interview with Sayyid, he identifies the prevailing divisions across Islamic societies that have manifested in recent political contestations and offers a far more nuanced ...
Keep Reading »Last Week on Jadaliyya (April 4-10)
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 Week on Jadaliyya" series. من يملك دولة أرامكو؟ Publications: An Excerpt From the Book “Occupied Pleasures” Hollow Words: Egypt, Italy, and Justice for Giulio Muslims and the Challenge of Historiography: An Interview with Salman Sayyid (Part One) ...
Keep Reading »Turkey Media Roundup (April 5)
[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 send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] English Erdogan's US Visit Erdoğan's Uncomfortable US Visit Semih İdiz writes of the US' displeasure over anti-democratic developments in Turkey, mainly the oppression of freedom ...
Keep Reading »توقيعه على الأشياء كلها في نسختها العربية
صدرت الترجمة العربية لرواية الكاتبة الأميركية إليزابيث جلبرت "توقيعه على الأشياء كلها" في طبعتين عن كلٍّ من "منشورات الجمل" و"دار طوى" للنشر والتوزيع، والرواية تقع في 450 صفحة من القطع المتوسط، وقد ترجمها إلى العربية أسامة إسبر. بدأت إليزابيث جلبرت رحلتها الأدبية بكتابين مشهورين: المجموعة القصصية التي تحمل عنوان “الحجاج”، والتي وصلت إلى القائمة النهائية لجائزة بين\همنغواي، ورواية “رجال قساة”، التي نوّهت بها النيويورك تايمز. نشرت بعد هذين الكتابين ثلاثة كتب غير ...
Keep Reading »Photography Media Roundup (7 April)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on photography in and of the region and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Photography Page Editor or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each month’s roundup to photos@jadaliyya.com.] Announcements Exhibition: If I Leave Where Will I Go? East Wing presents Leila Alaoui, Tanya Habjouqa and Omar Imam. Runs 10 March- 7 April in ...
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