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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 18)

[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 ...  Read More »

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Gulf 2013: The Constant and the Changing

[The following is the executive summary of the new publication Gulf 2013: The Constant and the Changing published by the Gulf Centre for Development Policies. For the Arabic version, click here.] Executive Summary This work focuses on developments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) over the past two years. It ...  Read More »

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Month-by-Month Summary of Developments in Syria (Updated)

[The following monthly summaries on developments in Syria were compiled and published by the International Crisis Group (ICG). Jadaliyya Reports will update this post each month as subsequent monthly summaries are issued.]  April 2013  Opposition further consolidated foothold in south with seizure of ...  Read More »

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Questioning Sectarianism in Bahrain and Beyond: An Interview with Justin Gengler

In popular accounts of politics in the Arabian Peninsula in this post-Arab uprisings era, "sectarianism" has been an omnipresent signifier for conflict and unrest. The term commonly acts – implicitly, because it is never qualified or defined – as both a description of political contestation and, ...  Read More »

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معادلة العنف: عن قتلة ضياء الخالدي

في سياق تمثيل الواقع روائياً تطالعنا مقولة، نرى أنها تمتلك قدراً وافراً من الموضوعية، مفادها: أن على الروايات التي تريد تمثيل وقائع معينة التحرر من ضغوط تلك الوقائع وامتداداتها الزمانية؛ لكي يكون النظر إليها أوسع وأشمل، ومن ثم يكون العمل أنجح وأعمق أثراً.   وفقاً لتلك المقولة نرى أن رواية “قتلة” لضياء الخالدي، ...  Read More »

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The Alawite Dilemma in Homs

Syria's Alawites are often portrayed as a monolithic religious community which has unconditionally and unwavering supported the Syrian regime through the crisis which has shaken the country since March 2011. However, very little attention has been paid to the community’s diversity and to reasons for its support of the ...  Read More »

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There Can Only Be One: Tamam Salam and Lebanese Politics

On Saturday 6 April 2013, the Lebanese Parliament overwhelmingly nominated Tamam Saeb Salim Salam to become the new Prime Minister. That the premiership in Lebanon should return to Beirut is not strange in and of itself. However, the return of the premiership to the Mseitbeh residence of the Salams—an old notable ...  Read More »

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تمام سلام رئيساً للحكومة اللبنانية: شركة غير تنافسية

أن تعود رئاسة مجلس الوزراء إلى بيروت ليس بالأمر المستغرب. أما أن تعود إلى "دار المصيطبة"، دار آل سلام، التي كانت محوراً للسياسة اللبنانية منذ ما قبل الاستقلال العام ١٩٤٣، فهذا ما يطرح العديد من الأبعاد التي ربما تكون فقدت معانيها التقليدية ويساهم في المقابل بتقديم تفسيرات جديدة حول واقع السياسة اللبنانية وما ...  Read More »

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The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Israeli Relations: An Interview with Professor Cihan Tugal

In his Nowruz message on 21 March, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, declared a ceasefire and called on armed militants to withdraw from Turkish territory. He said, “Today we are waking up to a new Middle East, a new Turkey, and a new future” and added, “The Middle East and ...  Read More »

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Petition to Release 79-Year-Old Kurdish Prisoner

[The following article was issued by Alliance for Kurdish Rights on 18 March 2013.]  A petition has been launched to call for the release of Elfo Ülper, a seventy-nine year old Kurdish mother who has been imprisoned in an M-Type Prison for eight years and suffers from high blood tension and ...  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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A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq

[The following report was issued by the International Center for Transitional Justice on 4 March 2013.] A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq Executive Summary The dramatic collapse of regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has raised many important policy and justice questions. One key ...  Read More »

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Lebanon's Sect Addiction

Lebanese MPs outraged secularists and campaigners opposed to sectarian politics this past week by provisionally approving a voting law that would make it so citizens could only vote for candidates of their own sect. The so-called Orthodox Gathering draft law still needs to pass a parliamentary vote—but activists and ...  Read More »

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Highly Unorthodox: The Week Lebanon Went Secular (And Ended Up More Sectarian Than Ever…)

When some future historian writes a chronicle of twenty-first-century Lebanon, she will likely devote a bemused footnote to the odd events of February 2013, when the country’s leaders saw fit to tear down a pillar of the confessional regime one week, only to erect another one a week later. On 11 ...  Read More »

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Civil Marriage Fatwas, the Lebanese State, and Renegade Bacteria

For some philosophers, the condition of being contemporary is to actually be anachronistic to and critical of the present, to see its darkness, and to avoid being absorbed by the vortex of neo-liberal capitalism, not to mention by the devastating logics of Lebanese political discourse. When the Sunni Mufti of Lebanon, ...  Read More »

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Will Civil Marriage End Lebanon’s Confessional System?

In tying the matrimonial knot last week, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish sliced through a cultural, legal, sectarian knot of Gordian proportions. The pair became the first couple in history to be wed in a civil marriage on Lebanese soil. Until last week, Lebanese citizens (or, only those who can afford it) have ...  Read More »

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Tipping Towards Iraq's Squares: An Interview with Falah Alwan

The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave of mass anti-government protests mostly centered around the provinces al-Anbar, Niniweh, and Salah al-Deen, shaking Iraq since 21 December 2012. ...  Read More »

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Turkey's Kurdish Impasse

[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 30 November 2012.] Turkey's Kurdish Impasse: The View from Diyarbakır Executive Summary As Turkey’s biggest Kurdish-majority city and province, Diyarbakır is critical to any examination of the country’s Kurdish problem and of the insurgent PKK ...  Read More »

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United Nations Periodic Update on Syria

[The following report was issued by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic of the United Nations on 20 December 2012.] Introduction  The unrelenting violence in Syria has resulted in thousands of deaths; untold thousands of wounded, detained, and ...  Read More »

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Call for Papers -- Sectarianism in the Contemporary Middle East: Religious and Political Discourses (London, 13 April 2013)

Sectarianism in the Contemporary Middle East: Religious and Political Discourses 13 April 2013 Al-Khoei Foundation, London The Centre for Academic Shi'a Studies is pleased to announce its third annual conference titled "Sectarianism in the Contemporary Middle East: Religious and Political Discourses," ...  Read More »

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Mosques Under Construction Re-Demolished by Authorities in Bahrain

[The following report was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 9 December 2012.] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern over the continued attacks on religious freedom represented in the re-demolishing of Shia mosques, which have been under construction since they were initially attacked ...  Read More »

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The Scared Islamists And Their Frightened Majority

To those unfamiliar with the “civil”/religious debate in Egypt, the term “civil” was recently dubbed to mark an assembly of disparate, sometimes conflicting, ideologies and positions that stand for the creation of what has come to be known as a “civil state.” This “civil state” is in turn commonly imagined as ...  Read More »

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The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (II), Islam, the Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 19 October 2012.]  The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (II), Islam, the Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency Executive Summary Armed conflict in the North Caucasus is the most violent in Europe today. Insurgents seeking a regional ...  Read More »

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The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya

[The following report was issued by the Carnegie Endowment in September 2012.]  The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya Summary  Despite successful parliamentary elections in early July, localized clashes over identity, power, and resources persist in Libya, straining the capacity of the weak ...  Read More »

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Divided We Stand: Libya's Enduring Conflicts

[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 14 September 2012.]  Divided We Stand: Libya's Enduring Conflicts  Executive Summary  The 11 September killing of the U.S. ambassador and three of his colleagues is a stark reminder of Libya’s security challenges. It also should serve ...  Read More »

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انتفاضة الدفاع عن الرسول بين لوع جماعة الإخوان ومقاومة الاستعمار

 لا يسع من يتابع تطورات الأحداث المترتبة على الفيلم المسيء للرسول في مصر والعالم العربي إلا أن يشعر بحسرة شديدة على ما آلت إليه أحوالنا، بعدما كشفته عبثية الأحداث من تدني مستوى الوعي المهيمن في البلاد ومحدودية قدرات القائمين على الأمور فيها. وقد استفاض الكثير من الزملاء في تحليل ردود الأفعال على هذا الحدث بالفعل. ...  Read More »

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السلطة الساعية إلى انتزاع الطائفة من جبلها إلى عنفها

حتى هذه اللحظة، لا يزال ولاء الطائفة العلوية، الأكثر التباساً بين المواضيع المطروحة في الثورة السورية. الطائفة التي لم يعطها التاريخ حقها من الدراسة والبحث، لا يفهم كثيرون أسباب ولائها المطلق. والبعض يشطح بخياله بعيداً ليحمّل الموضوع أكثر مما يحتمل. هل الاضطهاد الذي تعرضت له الطائفة عبر تاريخها على يد السلاجقة ...  Read More »

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The Balkanisation of Syria: Myth or Reality?

In recent weeks, as the number of casualties in the Syrian civil war has been soaring exponentially, so have comparisons of the situation in the country with the wars that ravaged and, ultimately, resulted in the break up of the Yugoslav federation into several smaller and purportedly ethnically more homogeneous ...  Read More »

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فنر الحداد: الطائفية في العراق

[ "كتب" هي سلسلة جديدة على صفحات "جدلية" نستضيف فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفق به فصلاً من الكتاب. الحلقة الثانية في السلسة هي حوار مع الباحث العراقي فنر الحداد] الطائفية في العراق   فنر الحداد (نيويورك، دار نشر جامعة كولومبيا، ٢٠١١)   - كيف تبلورت ...  Read More »

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زوبعة "النمر" لم تكن في فنجان

على الرغم من مرور أكثر من ثلاثة أسابيع على اعتقال الشيخ نمر النمر إلا أن الشارع  لم يهدأ وأصوات المتظاهرين لازالت تدوي في الارجاء، ولازالت المدرعات وقوات الأمن تلاحق الشباب وتقنص وتترصد في نواحي عدة في قرى وبلدات محافظة القطيف. أرض القطيف اهتزت بهتافات الآلاف من الغاضبين في تشييع الشهداء الأبرياء الذين سقطوا ...  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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