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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Sep 17-23)
Sep 24 2012
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.
- "Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?": The Fascinating Arrogance of Power
- Whose Innocence?: Thoughts on Copts, Muslims, and a World Gone (Temporally) Mad
- “From the American People”: Sketches of the US National Security State in Palestine
- Sabra and Shatila . . . Thirty Years Later
- الطاغية إبن الطاغية
- انتفاضة الدفاع عن الرسول بين لوع جماعة الإخوان ومقاومة الاستعمار
- Statehood Bid One Year Later: No State, No Bid, No Freedom
- Demolishing Palestine
- Of Stupid Men and Smart Machines
- Democracy Now! Interview with Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam & the Arab Awakening"
- Top 50 Most Read Articles on Jadaliyya: September 2011-2012
- Jadaliyya Celebrates Its Two-Year Anniversary
- Statehood Bid One Year Later: No State, No Bid, No Freedom
- الكنيسة والنهضة: عفا الله عمّا سلف
- Egyptian Workers and the Revolution: An Interview with Kamal Abu-Eita
- Labor Strikes in Egypt; Iran Tribunal in London
- Ghazi Gheblawi on Social Media and the Libyan Uprising
- "من المآسي المضاعفة للنزوح:فتيات سوريات للزواج "بثمن بخس
- Radical or Reactionary: Islamic Resistance in Apartheid South Africa and Lessons for Interpreting the Arab Spring
- Maghreb Media Roundup (September 20)
- Syria Media Roundup (September 20)
- What a Seven Day Teachers' Strike Can Accomplish: Key Contract Issues
- Call for Applicants: Training Module on Building Knowledge in Media Policy for Arab Countries (Cairo, 27 Nov. - 6 Dec., 2012)
- The Last Friday Film Review: DC Premiere at DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
- في الذكرى الثلاثين لمجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا: السينما الوثائقية والمجزرة
- New Texts Out Now: Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
- Demolishing Palestine
- Djamila Bouhired: A Profile From the Archives
- On the Arab Uprisings, Canada Sticks Its Head in the Sand
- NYC Event: Translating the Maghreb after the Arab Spring (NYC, 23 September 2012)
- Open Letter Regarding the Detention of Zakaria Zubeidi
- Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (September 18)
- “From the American People”: Sketches of the US National Security State in Palestine
- جميلة بوحيرد
- Sabra and Shatila . . . Thirty Years Later
- Materialist Analysis in the Service of a Nationalist Thesis: Response to Interview with Tariq Tell on the Hirak Siyasi in Jordan
- A Rejoinder to the Response of Lama Abu Odeh: On Jordan, the Hashemite Regime, and the Current Mobilizations
- Notes on Inequalities in Autism Activism and Care in Morocco
- Egypt Media Roundup (September 17)
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Syrian Population Regression
Population: ~ 22.5 Million
2011: 5,800+ (killed)
2012: 60,000+ (killed) and 500,000+ (external refugees)
2013: 70,000+ (killed) and 1,000,000+ (external refugees)
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Population: 22,517,750
GDP: $107.4 billion
Unemployment: 8.3%; Youth Employment (ages 15-24): 19.1%
Internet Users: 4.469 million
Exchange Rate: ~ 98.00 Syrian pounds per US dollar
GDP Growth Rate: 3.2%
Military Expenditures: 5.9% of GDP (World Rank: 10)
Health Expenditures: 2.9% of GDP (World Rank: 180)
Population Growth Rate: 0.913%
Age Structure: 0-14 years: 35.2%; 15-64 years: 61%; 65 years and over: 3.8%
Literacy: 79.6%
Religious Demographics: Sunni Muslim 74%; other Muslim (includes Alawite, Druze) 16%; Christian (various denominations) 10%
Ethnic Demographics: Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
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