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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 »
إطلال المشتاق أو غريب على الخليج
1 يتسلل التاريخ إلى الجغرافيا المنبسطة على الشاشة الصغيرة أمامي على متن الطائرة التي أسرَتْ بي من برلين إلى أبو ظبي. أو لعلي أنا الذي أبلّل الخارطة الضوئية بأرقي وكوابيسي، فيستيقظ التاريخ ويهتف بالأحمر القاني، مذكّراً بجبروته. فهذه الأسماء، ذات الرنين الموسيقيّ، مثل «ماردين»، التي تقع اليوم في تركيا، تحيلني إلى ... Read More »
Healing Iraqis: The Challenges of Providing Mental Health Care in Iraq
[The following report was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 30 April 2013.] Healing Iraqis: The Challenges of Providing Mental Health Care in Iraq Introduction Mental health disorders and emotional distress are as debilitating and agonizing as physical health problems. According to The World ... Read More »
Gulf Center for Human Rights Condemns Assassination of Jalal Thyab Al-Jawhar
[The following statement was issued by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights on 29 April 2013.] With utmost sorrow and grief, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) received the news of the assassination of human rights defender Jalal Thyab Al-Jawhar, President of the Liberty Supporters Association. On 27 April ... Read More »
First as Shadow, Then as Farce: An Evening with Medieval Puppeteer Ibn Daniyal at CUNY in New York
The thirteenth-century occulist Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, said to have occasionally blinded his patients, is remembered both for his tragic optometry and for his comedic shadow puppet plays. A refugee from Mosul, Ibn Daniyal once entertained Sultans and urchins alike in the streets and salons of medieval Cairo. Perhaps he ... Read More »
March Madness: Theirs and Ours
March Madness: Theirs and Ours [The following Month in Review on Washington's Wars and Occupations was written by Michael Reagan and published on 31 March 2013 in War Times.] It's March and despite what you read on the sports pages, the real madness in the country isn't on the basketball ... Read More »
The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment
[The following report was issued by the The Constitution Project on 16 April 2013.] The Report of the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment Statement of the Task Force This report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment is the result of almost two years ... Read More »
العقاب الجنسي في الفولكلور
لقَدْ عَزا الإنسانُ مُنْذُ القِدَمِ أسْبابَ الإصابةَ بالعللِ والأَمْراضِ والأزماتِ والنَّكَبات الشخصية إلى تَعَدّي الحُدُود الأخلاقية. فَحِينَ يُصابُ أحدٌ بآفة مَرَضيةٍ ما، أوْ يضطربُ سلوكُه أوْ نشاطُهُ أوْ يتعرّض لأية مِحْنَة مِنْ مِحَنِ الحياة يَتمّ تشخيص أوْ تعليل ما حَدَثَ على أنّه جَزاءٌ وفاقٌ لفعلٍ لا ... Read More »
On Iraq War Revisionism: Kanan Makiya and the Arab Revolutions
Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq by those responsible for waging it has taken largely unapologetic form. Donald Rumsfeld tweeted about the “long, difficult work of liberating 25 mil Iraqis,” and that those who “played a role in history deserve our respect and ... Read More »
Costs of War
[The following project was created by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Shown here is a selection of the project's content. Click here to access the website in full.] Costs of War 330,000 Killed by Violence, $4 Trillion Spent and Obligated The wars begun in 2001 have been ... Read More »
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 »
إحتلال بغداد: ملف خاص
في اليوم التاسع من شهر نيسان عام ٢٠٠٣ أسقط جنود الاحتلال الأمريكي تمثال صدّام حسين في ساحة الفردوس أمام عدسات الإعلام العالمي. وأصبحت تلك اللحظة، رسمياً، نهاية نظام البعث في العراق وبداية عهد الاحتلال الأمريكي. ولعل العقد الذي مر به العراقيون منذ تلك اللحظة هو الأكثر تعقيداً وعنفاً في تاريخهم الحديث. ... Read More »
بربري في روما
"لقد حرّرتُ الملايين من البربريّة." جورج بوش، الغارديان، ١٥ حزيران، ٢٠٠٨ ١ “هل ستذهب إلى بلدك هذه الإجازة؟“ سألتني إحدى زميلاتي قبل سنوات في المصعد قبل العطلة الربيعيّة. وكانت الحرب الأهلية في بغداد أيامها في أكثر مراحلها دموّية. إنه سؤال مشروع، بالطبع، لكن عندما يكون المرء من بغداد، فإن صياغة جواب ... Read More »
طعم الحريّة والخيبة
مشاعر غامضة انتابتني وانا أستمع لأحدى الإذاعات الدولية وهي تقوم باعادة بث لمقاطع من نشرات أخبار كانت قد بثتها قبل عشر سنوات بالضبط، كجزء من متابعتها لمسار تقدم الجيش الاميركي في احتلال العراق، والذي انتهى بسقوط نظام صدام حسين. هذه المقاطع من نشرات الأخبار التي أتذكر جيداً أنني استمعت الى بعضها، أعادتني إلى ... Read More »
الشوارع تبكي
تتلصص ذاكرتي، البطيئة في النمو، على آذان من سطور الماضي المحمل بأتربة الطفولة، الذي تحول لطين هو الآخر بسبب " طاسات " الماء المنسكبة كل يوم خلف ظهر أحلامي. لفرط خوف والدتي على أحلام بناتها. ها أنا أسير ببطء شديد، أحاول تهدئة بعض الحروف المدونة قرب الارض التي ألتهمها سغب الارصفة. أحاول التمسك بنملة، لأبرحها ... Read More »
كتب: علي عبد الأمير عجام: حنين بغدادي
["كتب" هي سلسلة على صفحات "جدلية" نستضيف فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب] علي عبد الأمير عجام، "حنين بغدادي" دار الأديب، عمان، ٢٠١٣. جدلية: كيف تبلورت فكرة الكتاب وما الذي قادك نحو الموضوع؟ علي عبد الأمير عجام: حين عدت الى بغداد في نيسان ... Read More »
Iraq: Ten Years Later
“The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence(2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows.” It may indeed be self-evident that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, as the former Federal Reserve chairman says, ... Read More »
Announcing The New Issue of Middle East Report Spring 2013
IRAQ TEN YEARS LATER With few exceptions, the rush of reflections on the decennial marker of the US-led invasion of Iraq ignored the fact that the war happened mostly for Iraqis. Already devastated by 20 years of war, sanctions and dictatorship, Iraq suffered another decade of foreign occupation, civil strife and ... Read More »
Remembering A Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography
A widespread narrative has maintained that Israel rescued Jews from the Arab/Muslim lands, brought them from the Diaspora to the Promised Land, thus ending a millennial Babylonian Exile. Could it be, I have asked, that this engineered In-gathering of the Exiles itself engendered new exiles that resulted in a series of ... Read More »
March Culture
In Jadaliyya's monthly culture bouquet Ella Shohat re-members Baghdad elsewhere, Sinan Antoon translates poems by Iraqi poets Saadi Youssef and Salah Faik, Samia Halaby writes on Abed Abdi and liberation art, and John Halaka contributes to the series Visuals in 1500. Ella Habiba Shohat, "Remembering A Baghdad ... Read More »
Media Mea Culpas and The Iraq War: Co-Editor Sinan Antoon and Others on AJE (Video)
Looking back over the ten years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, what was the role of the US media in the war on Iraq and how has it portrayed that role since? The following segment from Al Jazeera's "Listening Post" features a number of commentators and analysts, including Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon. ... Read More »
Salah Faik: On the Tenth Anniversary of Murdering my Country
POEMS Salah Faik On the Tenth Anniversary of Murdering my Country My country disappeared without a funeral Because it shunned the beauty of palm trees It avoided its marshes Thought that mountains were secrets They looted the tablets of the first kingdom with gigantic ships Now they are ... Read More »
Saadi Youssef: Genesis 34
[Today, 31 March, is the anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi Communist Party in 1934. This poem, "Genesis 34," by Saadi Youssef, was written to commemorate the event.] Saadi Youssef Genesis 34 Before we came to the bases you were a base before God and classes You were breaking rocks between ... Read More »
Sinan Antoon on Iraq Ten Years After US Invasion: Panel Interview on DW
Ten Years ago, the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq while justifying such an act on shifting, conflicting, and false pretenses of combating terrorism, containing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and democracy promotion. Subsequent to that invasion, the United States proceeded ... Read More »
مات عمو صباح
"مات عمو صباح"، قالتها أمي بتردد وهي تسبقها بكلمات تمهد لها. " أعرف أن هذا سيحزنك" قالت بهدوء وهي تحادثني اليوم على الهاتف من حيث لا تزال في الشرق الأوسط، وهي تطمئن علي في عاصمة الثلج والإسمنت. لن يمر وقت طويل حتى أودع كل من أناديهم بلقب "عمو"، وهو ما ننادي به من نحترمهم ونحبهم كآبائنا. ... Read More »
Iraqi Tragedy; More than 10 Years in the Making: An Interview with Jadaliyya's Editor Sinan Antoon
19 March marked the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. Ten years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what has changed for the country and its people? To understand the legacy of the war and occupation of Iraq, Vomena's Shahram Aghamir spoke Iraqi poet, novelist and scholar, Professor Sinan ... Read More »
Event -- Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years (29 March, Haverford College)
Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years 2013 Mellon Symposium Friday, 29 March 2013 Haverford College Convened by Zainab Saleh, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College This interdisciplinary symposium will be held on the 10th anniversary of the US-led ... Read More »
The Forgotten Protagonists: The Invasion and the Historian
During the past week Americans, Europeans, and Middle Easterners were reminded of Iraq. A stream of photos, articles, essays, and analyses has tried to make sense of the situation in Iraq during the last decade. One group, however, does not need to be reminded of the gravity of the situation—the many Iraqis, men and ... Read More »
Rise Up: Iraq
The street that your question describes as “quiet” is actually silent only as a result of repression, especially after the protests of February 2011 when the authorities revealed their violence openly—using the army to clamp down on nonviolent protests and firing live ammunition at peaceful protestors. — Falah ... 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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