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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 the decades that she stored in her densely packed home and studio in Chelsea. The majority of the work from the ...  Read More »

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Constantinople and Smyrna in the Diasporan Armenian and Greek Imaginaries [Part Two]

[Part One of this article can be found here.] Constantinople in Diasporan Armenian Films While artistic production in the Armenian diaspora has been nowhere near as abundant as it had been in Constantinople during the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, generations of diasporan Armenian artists—working in the ...  Read More »

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Constantinople and Smyrna in the Diasporan Armenian and Greek Imaginaries [Part One]

. . . Բայց դուն, տեսի՜լք ընտանի, հիմա ա՜յնչափ հեռացած, Ըսէ՜, իրաւ է որ ա՜լ պիտի երբեք չբացուիս Դիմացն զքեզ փնտռող իմ անսահման կարօտիս . . . ։   Դուն որ եղար, ո՜վ Պոլիս, լոյսն աչքերուս նորաբաց, Ճի՞շդ է, ըսէ՜, որ ա՜լ մենք օտարնե՜ր ենք իրարու Եւ իրաւունք չունի՜մ ես քու հողիդ մէջ թաղուելու. . . ...  Read More »

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Allegory of a Revolution: José Clemente Orozco’s “The Trench”

José Clemente Orozco was the oldest of Los Tres Grandes, the celebrated modernist painters who led Mexico’s twentieth-century muralist movement. Among “The Big Three,” he was also the least politically dogmatic and the most outwardly pessimistic. Whereas Diego Rivera idealized the armed struggle of the Mexican ...  Read More »

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A Tale of Two Movements: Divergent Trends at the World Social Forum-Free Palestine

From 28 November to 1 December 2012, around three thousand people from all over the world gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the World Social Forum-Free Palestine (WSF-FP). Like any mass gathering, this Social Forum served both as a point of contact for activists to network and plan new initiatives, as well as bring ...  Read More »

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New Texts Out Now: Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South

Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, with a preface from Boutros Boutros Ghali. London and New York: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Vijay Prashad (VP): When I finished The Darker Nations, I felt that the last section was not ...  Read More »

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Bosnia's Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism

[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 26 February 2013.] Bosnia's Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism  Overview The Bosniak community is deeply frustrated with the dysfunctional government, flawed constitution and economic stagnation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as ...  Read More »

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Herstory Repeats Itself

There is always a beginning. I reflect my ancestry and hope to do it justice by continuing to survive creatively. The complexity of our post-modern lives has both limited and made limitless our capabilities to reference our past. While many of us are blessed with mobility and migration, we are similarly plagued with ...  Read More »

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Slaying Saints and Torching Texts

When I first journeyed to Bamako to research Sufism in Mali in 2006, my American students generally asked two questions: Where is Mali and what is Sufism? Today, the answer to both of these questions is found daily in the headline news. Cultural heritage in Mali is under attack. But just as the armed conflict there ...  Read More »

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مالي الحرب الماحقة

بدأت فرنسا حملتها في مالي ودس أنفها في شؤون مستعمرتها السابقة متعذرة بمحاربة "القوى الإسلامية المتطرفة" وضرورة وضع حد لسطوتها في مالي. خططت وأرست القواعد والجنود وقررت القصف ومطاردة هذه الجماعات، قتلت إلى حد الآن العشرات من عناصر" أنصار الدين" وقصفت بعض خزانات وقودها، وقال الجيش المالي إنه استعاد ...  Read More »

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On the Margins Media Roundup (January)

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each month's ...  Read More »

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Good Taliban, Bad Taliban: Pakistan’s Double Game and the US War on Terror

The start of 2013 brought a fresh upsurge of US drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, killing between twenty-three and forty-four people. Since 2008, when President George W. Bush ordered increased strikes on “militants” and associated “infrastructure targets” in these areas, ...  Read More »

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Who Failed Rizana Nafeek?

Rizana Nafeek was beheaded on 9 January, less than two days after a final appeal made by Sri Lankan President Rajapakaa. The several clemency appeals made by Sri Lanka, other states, and human rights organizations failed largely due to the disastrous interplay between Saudi’s flawed legal system and Sri Lanka’s ...  Read More »

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Imagining Justice Beyond the ICC

The International Criminal Court’s acquittal of Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo on 18 December did not exactly make headlines in Palestine. Ngudjolo was accused of commanding fighters who raped and hacked to death approximately two hundred people, including children, in a single day in February ...  Read More »

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Orientalist Feminism Rears its Head in India

The brutal rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi by a gang of young men, followed closely by the suicide of a Delhi rape victim who was pressured into marrying her rapist by police, has provoked international criticism of the Indian government and widespread protests across India by a ...  Read More »

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The Naked Bodies of Alia

Just as we started thinking that Alia al-Mahdy’s nude portrait was a thing of the past, new images surfaced on the web. On 20 December 2012, FEMEN—a Ukrainian women’s movement known for its controversial nude protest actions—posted photos of Alia and two FEMEN members posing naked in front of the Egyptian embassy in ...  Read More »

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How Thomas Friedman Distorts Realities in Egypt, Pakistan, and India

In a recent New York Times op-ed, liberal icon Thomas Friedman asks if Egypt— currently in the midst of  street demonstrations, violent repression, and a referendum all surrounding a controversial constitution—will develop into a secular, democratic, modern state—in his words, "the next India"—or ...  Read More »

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Batal: Fighting for Truth, Justice and the Armenian Way

When I first moved to Beirut to start my doctoral research, I would spend hours at the apartment of my mother’s family in the neighborhood of Zarif. Sometimes I would bring work with me and sit on the chair reading as clouds of smoke from my aunts’ cigarettes and nargila varied in intensity around me. My attention ...  Read More »

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"قراءة نقدية في مفهوم ''أوروبا المسيحية

لدى تناول موضوع أوروبا وفهمها لذاتها وبخاصةٍ لدى تناول قيمها، يبقى الحديث عن أوروبا "المسيحية" شائعًا وبشكل واسعٍ، وكما يبدو على نحوٍ متزايدٍ، أو تتم الإشارة على الأقل إلى جذورها المسيحية ويجري الإصرار على الطابع المسيحي الناتج عن ذلك. بيد أنَّ الاستقامة السياسية تقتضي حظر استخدام كلمة "مسيحي" في ...  Read More »

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New Texts Out Now: Jens Hanssen, Kafka and Arabs

Jens Hanssen, “Kafka and Arabs.” Critical Inquiry (Autumn 2012).            Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Jens Hanssen (JH): I have been carrying a dog-eared photocopy of Kafka’s three-page animal story “Schakale und Araber” in my ...  Read More »

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Anti-Apartheid: An Interview with Ronnie Kasrils

Ronnie Kasrils is a South African author and activist. He was Minister of Intelligence Services from 2004 to 2008, and member of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1987 to 2007. He was a founding member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and lived in exile in London, Luanda, Maputo, Swaziland, Botswana ...  Read More »

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Adorning Afghan Walls

After Tunisia and Egypt, it was Afghanistan’s turn to be covered in the bold and beautiful colors of graffiti. It all became possible because of one young woman’s unflinching determination. She stood up and vowed to help her country; she is Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artist. Her cry for freedom is an example ...  Read More »

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InCABI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement

[The following statement was issued by the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on 24 August 2012.]    We, a group of academics, activists, and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international ...  Read More »

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South African Government Discourages Citizens from Traveling to Israel

[The following report was issued by BDS South Africa on 11 August 2012.]  South Africa's Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation has unequivocally communicated the South African government's position on "boycott-busting" trips to Israel (which the Israeli lobby has attempted to take ...  Read More »

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Exile and Memory in Contemporary Western Armenian Literature

A thick stack of black and white photographs flutters to the floor. A man stands over the jumbled pile and, looking past bent corners and nibbled edges, sees dozens of faces staring up at him. These faces are vaguely familiar—an old neighbor, a distant cousin, an aunt who used to spend summers with him. Some photos ...  Read More »

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Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Era: Critique of an Emerging Phenomenon

In a clip that is quite telling of how far relations between digital-savvy youth and power structures have come; the botched, now incarcerated, heir to Egypt’s throne, Gamal Mubarak, was asked a question on his view regarding the youth of Facebook. The young Mubarak dismissed the question mockingly by asking another ...  Read More »

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القرآن ـ جزء من أوروبا؟

 [نشر المقال في صحيفة فرانكفورتا الجماينة Frankfurter Allgemeine بتاريخ 16 ابريل 2012 وهي من أهم الصحف الألمانية وأكثرها توزيعا وتأثيرا. ترجم المقال كل من حامد فضل الله وعصام حداد.] إنها لمجازفة المطالبة بجعل القرآن الكريم مقبولا وواضحا كجزء من الثقافة الغربية إذ لا يوجد موضوع آخر يلهب العلاقة التي ...  Read More »

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Israeli Arms Sales to Rwandan Genocidaires Should Not Be Surprising

A 24 June 2012 article in Maariv brought to light some new information about arms shipments from Israel to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Most of the basics about these transactions have been publicly available since 1999 when Brian Wood and Johan Peleman published The Arms Fixers. They reported, “Seven large ...  Read More »

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خلّصونا من المخلّصين

 ["خلّصونا من المخلّصين: عن أوربا واليونانيين" لسلاڤو جيجاك نشرت في “لندن ريڤيو أوف بوكس” في ٢٥ آيار، ٢٠١٢. ترجمة سنان أنطون] تخيل مشهداً من فلم سوداوي يصور مجتمعنا في المستقبل القريب. دوريات حرّاس بزي موحد في شوارع شبه مقفرة تبحث في الليل عن المهاجرين والمجرمين والمشردين. يهجمون بوحشية ضد من ...  Read More »

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On Legal Advocacy and Legitimation of Control

When he was imprisoned, Nelson Mandela utilized his background as a lawyer to begin filing suits on behalf of other prisoners to improve their situation. Some prisoners objected: they viewed Mandela’s action as cooperating with the regime and legitimizing its control over the prisoners. Mandela rejected these claims, ...  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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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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