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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 »
Will the Presidential Elections “Cure the Pain” of the Iranian People?
Do not just look at the pictures of Iranians celebrating late into the night in Tehran’s streets. Listen, they are singing Yar-e Dabestani-ye Man [My Grade School Friend]. This old Iranian protest song has become the unofficial anthem of the student movement. Tyranny’s welt on our flesh Has not faded with time The ... Read More »
It Is About the Park: A Struggle for Turkey’s Cities
It is with alarming regularity that I read coverage of the protests and ensuing police brutality that erupted in Gezi Park and Taksim Square, Istanbul that emphatically insists that the confrontations are about “so much more than a park.” Reassuring their readers that the protests are not about something as silly or ... Read More »
Report from Istanbul: Koray Caliskan on Democracy Now
This is an interview conducted with Koray Caliskan on 12 June, addressing the ongoing protests in Istanbul. The interview addresses the violent repression of protests, including the use of tear gas and water canons, as well as the context of the protests, relating to what led to the mobilization and greater ... Read More »
Iran’s Presidential Elections: The Live Embers of a Democratic Opposition Glow
Something significant and electric is taking place in Iran, and consuming many Iranians around the world in advance of the presidential elections that are set to take place on Friday, 14 June 2013. Over the last few days, segments of a broad Iranian democratic opposition have increasingly taken to the streets in ... Read More »
Police Officer Leaks Video Interrogating A Detained Bahraini Youth
[The Bahrain Center for Human Rights published the following report on the forced confession of a young Bahraini on 12 June 2013 and urged the “international community” to put pressure on the government of Bahrain to investigate the rampant use of torture in prison and to free all political prisoners.] The ... Read More »
The Complicated Legacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office, after finishing his second four-year term as Iran’s president, his tenure as the firebrand public face of a country, almost exclusively seen in Western media as a pariah and a threat to world security, will have left a lasting impact on the international stage. Mainly on account ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 11)
[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 »
The Body as a Site of Contest: Sherene Seikaly on the Gendered Exercise of Power and Resistance
How is the body produced as a site of repression and resistence? Sherene Seikaly, Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, as well as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University of Cairo, tackles this question by exploring the ways in which the Egyptian state's production of ... Read More »
Occupy Gezi: A Roundtable Discussion and Podcast
The world’s eyes are currently on Istanbul. As protests spread throughout Turkey, media outlets are scrambling to convey some type of picture of what is taking place to an eager audience that often lacks the proper context and background knowledge to make sense of the events. Meanwhile, commentators continue to offer ... Read More »
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 »
The View from Istiklal
More than a week has passed since activity began in Istanbul’s Gezi Park at Taksim Square. İstiklal Avenue, where I live, has been full of protestors waving or draped in the Turkish flag, carrying political banners, and shouting slogans: “Government Resign” (Hükümet İstifa), “Tayyip Resign” (Tayyip İstifa), “Shoulder ... Read More »
Egypt's Khaled Said: Three Years on, Still No Justice
In a small bedroom in Alexandria adjacent to the sea, the belongings of a young man: new trainers, a computer console and homemade speakers are quietly gathering dust. Three years of dust, to be precise. On 6 June 2010, their owner a twenty-eight-year-old called Khaled Said left his desk to walk to an Internet café ... Read More »
Erdogan in Morocco: The Politics of Reception
A widely mediatized and well-timed state visit can double up both as a political opportunity and as a convenient distraction. Such was the case, or as it seems, for Erdogan’s tour in the Maghreb, starting with a first stop in Morocco, followed by Algeria, and ending with Tunisia. Despite attempts at public relations ... Read More »
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 »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 4)
[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 »
Egypt Sentences Forty-Three NGO Staffers to One-Five Years in Prison
A court in Cairo has sentenced forty-three people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt. Twenty-seven defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received five-year jail sentences. Eleven received one-year suspended sentences, and five received two-year sentences. One ... Read More »
Bouteflika: The Magician and The Smokescreen
The President of the Popular Algerian Republic left the country on 27 April 2013 to be hospitalized in Paris at Val-de-Grâce, following a non-fatal stroke. Since then, Bouteflika’s absence has provoked an increasing anxiety. The French press has reported on the worsening of his health, which was subsequently printed ... Read More »
Roundtable Introduction: Beyond Dominant Narratives on the Western Sahara
In the past few decades, both media and academic scholarship have marginalized the Western Saharan conflict, rendering it largely insignificant within regional and global political imaginations. Beginning as a post-colonial dispute between regional powers in the 1970s, the conflict developed and was exacerbated as ... 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 »
The Cost of Authoritarianism: 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 »
Everywhere is Taksim, Resistance Everywhere
Taking a page out of the playbook of dictators from Damascus to Algiers, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has thus far refused any serious engagement with the thousands protesting the destruction of Gezi Park in Istanbul. His supporters have attempted to paint the protests—currently in their fifth day, and ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 29)
[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 »
Bouteflika : Le mage et l'écran de fumée
Le Président de la République populaire algérienne a quitté le pays le 27 avril 2013 pour être hospitalisé au Val-de-Grâce, à Paris, officiellement à la suite d'un accident vasculaire cérébral sans gravité. Depuis cette date, l'absence du Président fait jaser, et soulève même de plus en plus d'inquiétudes depuis que ... Read More »
Joint Appeal to UN Protesting Torture of Detained Rights Defenders in Bahrain
[The following appeal was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Gulf Center for Human Rights on 22 May 2013.] UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 21)
[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 »
إعادة الحساب الدائمة: إساءة فهم سوريا بعد سنتين
[ننشر هنا الترجمة العربية لمقالة بسام حداد التي نشرت على "جدلية" باللغة الإنجليزية في 18 آذار الماضي. وقد أنجز الترجمة مازن حكيم] يا ليتني حصلت على دولار في كل مرة كتب أحدهم فيها عن "نهاية اللعبة" في سوريا خلال الأشهر الثمانية عشر الماضية... بعد حوالي سنتين من انطلاقة ... Read More »
إعجام
“عدت إلى البيت لأجد جدّتي جالسة وصينية الشاي أمامها كالعادة، لكنَّها كانت تبكي بحرقة. سألتها مستفسراً: ـ شْبيكي؟ ـ تعال وشوف. طلع هسّه ناطق من وزارة الداخلية وقال "على المواطنين التبرُّع بأعينهم دعماً للمجهود الحربيّ"، وقال همّينه إِنّو المدارس رَحْيسَوَّوها مراكز يجمعون بِيها عيون الناس والكِلّ لازم ... Read More »
Injuries, Arrests and House Raids: The Case of a Bahraini Family
[The following report was originally published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 17 May 2013.] Injuries, Arrests and House Raids: Case of a Bahraini Family The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern at the continuing police of the Bahraini authorities in violating the rights of children, ... Read More »
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Egypt Elections Watch Update
A Jadaliyya and Ahram Online Initiative
As part of the Egypt Elections Watch (EEW), Jadaliyya and Ahram Online, with the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown University) and the Middle East Studies Program (George Mason University) as co-sponsors, will produce articles/posts/profiles on a weekly basis, covering organizations, political parties, coalitions, relevant laws and procedures, and profiles of key individuals related to the Egyptian elections. This is in addition to news updates summarizing major developments surrounding the lead-up to the election, such as emerging or shifting alliances, new political positions, and candidacy announcements. If you have questions, comments, contributions, and/or an eye-witness account, please email us at: eew@jadaliyya.com. For a listing of EEW’s team members please click here.
Coalitions
Democratic Alliance for Egypt
Egyptian Bloc
Islamist Bloc (Alliance for Egypt)
Revolution Continues Alliance
Parties
Al-Adl Party
Egyptian Current Party
Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Egyptian Tahrir Party
Democratic Workers’ Party
Free Egyptians Party
Freedom and Justice Party
Ghad Al-Thawra Party (Hizb Ghad Al-Thawra)
Al-Karama Party
National Progressive Unionist (Tagammu) Party
National Democratic Party Offshoots
Al-Nour Party
Reform and Development Party-Misruna
Socialist Popular Alliance Party
Al-Wafd Party
Al-Wasat Party
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Egypt Map and Stats
Population 82,079,636
GDP $497.8 billion
Unemployment 9%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 24.8%
Internet Users 20.136 million (2009)
Exchange Rate 5.6124 Egyptian pounds per US dollar
GDP Growth Rate 5.1%
Military Expenditures 3.4% of GDP (World Rank: 35)
Health Expenditures 6.4% of GDP (World Rank: 94)
Population Growth Rate 1.96%
Age Structure 0-14 years: 32.7%; 15-64 years: 62.8%; 65 years and over: 4.5%
Literacy 71.4%
Religious Demographics Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%; Coptic 9%; other Christian 1%
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