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الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي
لا لتلك "النكبة: الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي. يعود معنى المساواة لغوياً إلى حتمية وجود طرفين مختلفين تتم المساواة بينهما، بمعنى جعلهما متعادلين. انطلاقاً من هذا المنطق تعمل إسرائيل منذ عقدين على الأقل على الدفع باتجاه التعادل في العلاقة بينها وبين "الآخر" الفلسطيني، وذلك عبر توسيع رقعة ... Read More »
The Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary Issue
[Jadaliyya will be posting excerpts from the Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary issue. What follows is the Editor's Note and Table of Contents from that issue.] Editor’s Note We can scarcely believe that two decades have passed since the publication of the first issue of the Arab Studies Journal. We are ... Read More »
The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. New York: Verso, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In that historical moment after the ... Read More »
Letter from Associated Press to US Department of Justice: Massive and Unprecedented Intrusion
[The following letter was issued by the Associated Press on 13 May 2013 in response to revelations that the Justice Department had seized the personal and professional telephone records of reporters and editors of The Associated Press for the months of April and May 2012.] Attorney General Eric Holder Department of ... Read More »
Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An International Law Conference at Birzeit University
The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement. Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become a huge colonialist and ... Read More »
Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] Today human rights provides a dominant framework for ... Read More »
Ubiquitous Liberalism: Amr Shalakany on Law and Revolution in Egypt
The legal historian Amr Shalakany gave a talk at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies a few days ago about his new book, Izdihār wa-Inhiyār al-Nukhba al-Qānūniyya al-Miṣriyya, 1805-2005 (“The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Legal Elite, 1805-2005″). Shalakany is the Aga Khan ... Read More »
Not in the Revolution's Name: Egypt's New Judicial Authority Bill
Amid the recurrent standoffs between the Egyptian opposition on the one hand and President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails on the other, the opposition is often characterized as incompetent, opportunistic and unwilling to accept the outcome of democracy, in reference to the ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Sixth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 22 April 2013. This is the sixth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 1 March to 15 March 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on the ... Read More »
Thinking Citizenship in a Revolutionary Arab World: The Intransigence of Difference
The ongoing Arab uprisings that began in Tunisia in late 2010 have demonstrated that citizenship in the Arab Middle East is a subject in need of much critical scholarship and intervention. Many scholars, working from an archive of political philosophy that begins with Rousseau's social contract, have assessed the Arab ... Read More »
Irish Lawyers for Human Rights Call for Expulsion of Bahrain Attorney General from International Association of Prosecutors
[The following report was issued by CEARTAS (Irish Lawyers for Human Rights) on 15 April 2013.] Report on Bahrain's Attorney General Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain and his position in the International Association of Prosecutors Executive Summary This report, using evidence widely available, ... Read More »
Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 17 April 2013.] Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya Executive Summary There are many necessary cures to Libya’s pervasive insecurity, but few more urgent than repairing its judicial system. Qadhafi-era victims, distrusting an ... Read More »
Open Letter to Bahraini Parliament Regarding Potential Reform to Law of Associations
[The following letter was issued by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders on 8 April 2013.] Excellencies, Dear members of Parliament, The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World ... Read More »
Unfair Bahrain Trial Sentences Sixteen Minors to Fifteen Years in Prison
[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 29 March 2013.] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern over the detention and sentencing of 16 Bahraini citizens to 15 years imprisonment without clear evidence of the charges brought against them. The authorities ... Read More »
Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 4 March 2013.] Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen Summary I want the world to know that here they are executing [juvenile offenders]. No one cares or checks these juvenile cases.… If you ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Fifth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 9 March 2013. This is the fifth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 15 February to 1 March 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on ... Read More »
Trial Observation Report: The United Arab Emirates 94
[The following report was issued by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 25 March 2013.] Trial Observation Report: "The United Arab Emirates 94" Executive Summary The first two hearings in the trial of ninety-four intellectuals, activists, and human rights defenders, took place before the ... Read More »
Samera Esmeir in Coversation with Adalah's Suhad Bishara, Marking Land Day in Palestine; and Lina Attalah on the Future of Egypt Independent Newspaper
30 March marks Land Day in Palestine. On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Professor Samera Esmeir speaks with Suhad Bishara, Director of the Land and Planning Rights Unit of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, about Israel's contemporary land policies. Egypt ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Fourth Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 9 March 2013. This is the fourth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 1 February to 15 February 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye ... Read More »
Yemeni Detainee Tortured in Saudi Prison after Extradition by Qatar
[The following is an appeal that Al Karama issued on 14 March 2013 detailing the detention and torture of Yemeni detainee Iwad Al Hayki and calling on the international community and Saudi authorities to look into his case.] Iwad Al Hayki, a thirty-three-year-old Yemeni national has been imprisoned in Al Qasim ... Read More »
The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis
[The following report was issued by the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance on 26 February 2013.] The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis Executive Summary In response to the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia is in the process of developing a new constitution. The ... Read More »
Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Third Report
[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 28 February 2013. This is the third in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 15 January to 1 February 2013. Click here to access the previous ... Read More »
Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims
[The following press release and report were issued by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsability (CLEAR) project of CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).] New ... Read More »
Petition: Stop the "Green Building" Draft Law in Lebanon
For the past six months, the Lebanese government has been stalling in implementing the salary adjustment and wage scale for public employees it had approved in September 2012. The last few weeks have seen an increase in workers’ unions' organized strikes across Lebanese cities demanding the immediate application of ... Read More »
On The Barring of International Observers from Trial Against UAE Activists
[The following statement was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 3 March 2013.] Ninety-four peaceful activists are due to be brought before the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi tomorrow morning, Monday, 4 March 2013, on state security offences. Limited access to lawyers, withholding of evidence and details ... Read More »
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 »
Global Ban on CS Gas is Needed
To mark the second anniversary of the February 14 Bahraini uprising, Pr. Damian McCormack, Pr. David Grayson and Tara O'Grady call for a ban on CS gas. CS gas, 2-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, is a chemical weapon which is banned in warfare by the OPCW (Organisation for Prevention of Chemical Weapons) under ... Read More »
O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 26)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to ... Read More »
The Disappearing Frontiers of US Homeland Security: Mapping the Transit of Security across the US and Israel
In the wake of the 1995 Israeli bombing of the UN refugee camp at Qana in Lebanon, a videotape of the massacre was distributed across global media. The African American poet June Jordan, who had participated in US-based Palestine solidarity movements and would visit Lebanon in 1996, thought that the video would be a ... Read More »
قضاة مصر: قدرة تحرك هائلة في خدمة أي وظيفة قضائية؟
حراك جديد لقضاة مصر في غضون أقل من سبع سنوات. ففي خطوة أصبحت جزءاً مألوفاً من المشهد السياسي المصري في العقود الأخيرة، اندفع عدد كبير من القضاة انطلاقاً من ناديهم المركزي ومن أنديتهم الفرعية وأيضاً من الجمعيات العمومية للمحاكم للتعبير عن اعتراضهم الشديد على مقررات الرئيس المصري محمد مرسي، وبشكل خاص ازاء اعلانه ... Read More »
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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Syria Map and Stats
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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