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Despite Arab Uprisings, Press Freedom Still Elusive
Perhaps the most disappointing result of the Arab Spring revolutions that erupted in 2011 is how little has changed for local media outlets in the Middle East. With some limited exceptions among the post-revolution countries of Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia, the local press in the Arab world generally suffers from ... Read More »
Global Geopolitics of the Western Sahara: Beyond Dominant Narratives on the Western Sahara Roundtable
[This is one of seven pieces in Jadaliyya's electronic roundtable on the Western Sahara. Moderated by Samia Errazzouki and Allison L. McManus, it features contributions from John P. Entelis, Stephen Zunes, Aboubakr Jamaï, Ali Anouzla, Allison L. McManus, Samia Errazzouki, ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Mark Fathi Massoud, Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan
Mark Fathi Massoud, Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Mark Fathi Massoud (MFM): I wrote this book to investigate the nature of the law and how law is used ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Ayca Cubukcu, The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
Ayça Çubukçu, “The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity,” Humanitarianism and Responsibility, special issue of Journal of Human Rights 12 (2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Ayça Çubukçu (AÇ): This article originated in a piece I wrote for Jadaliyya during ... Read More »
Islamists and Transitional Justice
Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the start, not only for killing ... Read More »
Jadaliyya's Occupation, Intervention, and Law Page Resonates
Since launching in July 2010, the Occupation, Intervention, and Law (O.I.L) page has made rich contributions to the field of studies examining the Middle East, armed conflict, law, and human rights. O.I.L has sought to explore the relationship between, and the debates within, the fields of armed conflict, ... Read More »
الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي
لا لتلك "النكبة: الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي. يعود معنى المساواة لغوياً إلى حتمية وجود طرفين مختلفين تتم المساواة بينهما، بمعنى جعلهما متعادلين. انطلاقاً من هذا المنطق تعمل إسرائيل منذ عقدين على الأقل على الدفع باتجاه التعادل في العلاقة بينها وبين "الآخر" الفلسطيني، وذلك عبر توسيع رقعة ... Read More »
The Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary Issue
[Jadaliyya will be posting excerpts from the Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary issue. What follows is the Editor's Note and Table of Contents from that issue.] Editor’s Note We can scarcely believe that two decades have passed since the publication of the first issue of the Arab Studies Journal. We are ... Read More »
The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. New York: Verso, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In that historical moment after the ... Read More »
Letter from Associated Press to US Department of Justice: Massive and Unprecedented Intrusion
[The following letter was issued by the Associated Press on 13 May 2013 in response to revelations that the Justice Department had seized the personal and professional telephone records of reporters and editors of The Associated Press for the months of April and May 2012.] Attorney General Eric Holder Department of ... Read More »
Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An International Law Conference at Birzeit University
The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement. Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become a huge colonialist and ... Read More »
Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] Today human rights provides a dominant framework for ... Read More »
Ubiquitous Liberalism: Amr Shalakany on Law and Revolution in Egypt
The legal historian Amr Shalakany gave a talk at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies a few days ago about his new book, Izdihār wa-Inhiyār al-Nukhba al-Qānūniyya al-Miṣriyya, 1805-2005 (“The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Legal Elite, 1805-2005″). Shalakany is the Aga Khan ... Read More »
Not in the Revolution's Name: Egypt's New Judicial Authority Bill
Amid the recurrent standoffs between the Egyptian opposition on the one hand and President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails on the other, the opposition is often characterized as incompetent, opportunistic and unwilling to accept the outcome of democracy, in reference to the ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Sixth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 22 April 2013. This is the sixth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 1 March to 15 March 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on the ... Read More »
Thinking Citizenship in a Revolutionary Arab World: The Intransigence of Difference
The ongoing Arab uprisings that began in Tunisia in late 2010 have demonstrated that citizenship in the Arab Middle East is a subject in need of much critical scholarship and intervention. Many scholars, working from an archive of political philosophy that begins with Rousseau's social contract, have assessed the Arab ... Read More »
Irish Lawyers for Human Rights Call for Expulsion of Bahrain Attorney General from International Association of Prosecutors
[The following report was issued by CEARTAS (Irish Lawyers for Human Rights) on 15 April 2013.] Report on Bahrain's Attorney General Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain and his position in the International Association of Prosecutors Executive Summary This report, using evidence widely available, ... Read More »
Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 17 April 2013.] Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya Executive Summary There are many necessary cures to Libya’s pervasive insecurity, but few more urgent than repairing its judicial system. Qadhafi-era victims, distrusting an ... Read More »
Open Letter to Bahraini Parliament Regarding Potential Reform to Law of Associations
[The following letter was issued by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders on 8 April 2013.] Excellencies, Dear members of Parliament, The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World ... Read More »
Unfair Bahrain Trial Sentences Sixteen Minors to Fifteen Years in Prison
[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 29 March 2013.] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern over the detention and sentencing of 16 Bahraini citizens to 15 years imprisonment without clear evidence of the charges brought against them. The authorities ... Read More »
Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 4 March 2013.] Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen Summary I want the world to know that here they are executing [juvenile offenders]. No one cares or checks these juvenile cases.… If you ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Fifth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 9 March 2013. This is the fifth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 15 February to 1 March 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on ... Read More »
Trial Observation Report: The United Arab Emirates 94
[The following report was issued by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 25 March 2013.] Trial Observation Report: "The United Arab Emirates 94" Executive Summary The first two hearings in the trial of ninety-four intellectuals, activists, and human rights defenders, took place before the ... Read More »
Samera Esmeir in Coversation with Adalah's Suhad Bishara, Marking Land Day in Palestine; and Lina Attalah on the Future of Egypt Independent Newspaper
30 March marks Land Day in Palestine. On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Professor Samera Esmeir speaks with Suhad Bishara, Director of the Land and Planning Rights Unit of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, about Israel's contemporary land policies. Egypt ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Fourth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 9 March 2013. This is the fourth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 1 February to 15 February 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye ... Read More »
Yemeni Detainee Tortured in Saudi Prison after Extradition by Qatar
[The following is an appeal that Al Karama issued on 14 March 2013 detailing the detention and torture of Yemeni detainee Iwad Al Hayki and calling on the international community and Saudi authorities to look into his case.] Iwad Al Hayki, a thirty-three-year-old Yemeni national has been imprisoned in Al Qasim ... Read More »
The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis
[The following report was issued by the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance on 26 February 2013.] The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis Executive Summary In response to the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia is in the process of developing a new constitution. The ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Third Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 28 February 2013. This is the third in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 15 January to 1 February 2013. Click here to access the previous ... Read More »
Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims
[The following press release and report were issued by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsability (CLEAR) project of CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).] New ... Read More »
Petition: Stop the "Green Building" Draft Law in Lebanon
For the past six months, the Lebanese government has been stalling in implementing the salary adjustment and wage scale for public employees it had approved in September 2012. The last few weeks have seen an increase in workers’ unions' organized strikes across Lebanese cities demanding the immediate application of ... Read More »
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Jadaliyya’s Maghreb Page will deliver exclusive coverage on Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and the Western Sahara. As the role of the Greater Maghreb has been pivotal in the regional movements, it is imperative that coverage remains consistent and relevant. Jadaliyya will offer incisive analysis--in Arabic, French, and English--through an academic and critical perspective.
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Maghreb Map and Stats
Algeria:
Population 34,994,937
GDP $251.1 billion
Unemployment 10%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 24.3%
Military Expenditures 3.3% of GDP (World Rank: 37)
Health Expenditures 5.8% of GDP (World Rank 114)
Libya:
Population 6,597,960
GDP $90.57 billion
Unemployment 30%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): n/a
Military Expenditures 3.9% of GDP (World Rank: 26)
Health Expenditures 6.6% of GDP (World Rank: 89)
Mauritania:
Population 3,359,185
GDP $7.242 billion
Unemployment 30% (2008); Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 67%
Military Expenditures 5.5% of GDP (World Rank: 12)
Health Expenditures 5.7% of GDP (World Rank: 121)
Morocco:
Population 32,309,239
GDP $163 billion
Unemployment 9.2%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 21.9%
Military Expenditures 5% of GDP (World Rank: 16)
Health Expenditures 5.5% of GDP (World Rank: 128)
Tunisia:
Population 10,629,186
GDP $100 billion
Unemployment 13%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 30.7%
Military Expenditures 1.4% of GDP (World Rank: 109)
Health Expenditures 6.2% of GDP (World Rank: 100)
Western Sahara:
Population 522,928
GDP $906.5 million
Unemployment n/a; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): n/a
Military Expenditures n/a
Health Expenditures n/a
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