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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 »
Nakba 2013: The Palestinian Youth Movement Commemorates 65 Years of Al Nakba (Introduction)
The fifteenth of May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth commemoration of the day the oppressive Zionist state came into being. It also marks sixty-five years from the beginning of our collective fragmentation and simultaneous resistance. This current period that we are living also marks a significant shift in ... Read More »
The Brothers, the Revolution, and the Right to Protest
A new political order always arrives with a package of legislation establishing its political and socioeconomic orientations as law. In its broad sense, a revolution effects a “fundamental change” in the political and economic order, with the support of the majority of the people.[1] Egypt experienced this shortly ... Read More »
Human Rights Activist Waleed Al-Shehhi Arrested in UAE
[The following report was originally published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 13 May 2013.] On 11 May 2013, human rights defender and online activist Waleed Al-Shehhi was arrested by the State security apparatus in Ajman. Waleed Al-Shehhi has been active in defending the 94 detained human rights defenders and ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 14)
[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 »
Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Today, as violence intensifies in Syria, external powers, including the United States, are openly debating direct intervention. Such intervention is justified as serving multiple goals at once: it is a means of securing chemical weapons caches; a mechanism to protect the civilian population; and a necessary measure to ... Read More »
الثــأر والثــورة .. لماذا يثور الشمال ولا يفعلها الجنوب؟
"بعد بني سويف مفيش رجالة" عبارة كتبت على القطار المتوجه من القاهرة إلى الصعيد في الأيام الأولى من ثورة 25 يناير للمزايدة على رجولة أبناء صعيد مصر (الوجه القبلي) الذين لا يزالون يُتهمون بأنهم لم يشاركوا في الثورة كما فعل أهل الوجه البحري. وهو أمر متكرر على لسان بعض الثوار والنشطاء، وبالأخص الذين يداومون على ... Read More »
Widespread Middle East Fears that Syrian Violence Will Spread
[The following report was issued by the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project on 1 May 2013.] Widespread Middle East Fears that Syrian Violence Will Spread As concern mounts about the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons against its own people, publics in the Middle East – especially the ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Monthly Edition (April 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Arabian Peninsula. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Arabian Peninsula-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical ... Read More »
Beyond the Banality of Evil: The Challenge of Professional Photography in Syria
“You gave me mud and I turned it into gold.” - Charles Baudelaire This year, photographs on Syria have swept the Pulitzer prize. Five Associated Press (AP) photographers, Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen have been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in breaking ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Charles Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East
Charles Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Charles Tripp (CT): The origins of the book lay initially in my feeling that a great deal of space had been devoted to the ... Read More »
قراءة في الحراك السياسي في الجولان المحتل
البعد الثقافي-المثالي للثورة: قراءة في الحراك السياسي في الجولان المحتل مادة اثنوغرافية تمهيدية: "إذا كانت رجولتك مشروطة بغشاء بكارتي فهي حتما معدومة بزواله (الجولان المباع/المحتل 24-8-2012)"، هكذا رفعت الناشطات يافطة في تجمع أسبوعي تضامني في مجدل شمس، لنصرة الثورة السورية. انتشرت الصورة على ... 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 »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 30)
[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 »
قراءة في أحوال الصورة بعد ثورة يناير
فيسبوك وأفلام ومقاطع فيديو: قراءة في أحوال الصورة بعد ثورة يناير لهيلاري كلينتون أن تصف ثورة مصر بأنها "انتفاضة" أو مجرد انتقال من نظام سياسي إلى آخر أكثر ديموقراطية، ولجون كيري أن يسعى للقضاء عليها من خلال دعم فاشية دينية فاسدة، يسهل لأمريكا التحكم فيها. وللاسلاميين أن يعتبروها هدية سقطت عليهم من السماء. ... Read More »
مَن يُحاسِب؟ ومَن يُحاسِب مَن؟
لأول مرة في تاريخ العالم العربي الحديث نجحت انتفاضات شعبية سلمية في إطلاق مسارات أفضت إلى تنحي أربعة رؤساء دولة عن الحكم. ولأول مرة في التاريخ ذاته، أحيل هؤلاء الرؤساء إلى المحاكمة، وجاهياً أو غيابياً، بتهم تتعلق بالأمر بالقتل والتعذيب والفساد ونهب الأموال العامة. والآن تلوح مؤشرات إلى أن هذه المكاسب ... Read More »
Stained Glass Transparency: Bahrain's Latest Obfuscation of International Human Rights Accountability
[Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued a report written by Andrea Gittleman, JD and Alex Lee on 25 April 2013 in response to the Bahraini regime canceling the planned visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.] Bahrain has again indefinitely postponed a visit by the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, ... Read More »
Contested Citizenship in Egypt
Clashes over the Khusus killings in Egypt are the most recent of a long list of tragic sectarian episodes since 2011. Paul Sedra is right that “the impulse to lay the blame for this sectarianism at the feet of the Muslim Brotherhood is strong and…not without justification.” It is small wonder that the ... Read More »
Another Al Islah Member Disappeared as the “UAE94” Trial Continues
[The following report on the disappearance of Emirati Al Islah movement member Abdulwahed Al Shuhi appeared on Al Karama website on 22 April 2013.] On 26 March 2013—the day of the fifth hearing of the “UAE94”—Abdulwahed Al Shuhi, a member of the Al Islah movement, was arrested at his office in Dubai by police ... Read More »
Bahrain Tells UN Torture Expert to Postpone Visit—Again
[The following post was written by Fahad Desmukh for Bahrain Watch on 23 April 2013.] For the second consecutive time, the Bahraini government has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to delay his planned visit to Bahrain. A statement on the state-run news agency yesterday said that Bahrain’s Minister for Human ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 23)
[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 »
Bahrain: Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality
[The following report was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 8 April 2013.] Bahrain: Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality Introduction On 16 March 2011, approximately half an hour after the attack on the Pearl Square, the military and security forces besieged the ... Read More »
الأم شجاعة": خطاب أسماء الأسد في عيد الأم"
تسجيل "بروحك تحمي الياسمين"، بدقائقه الأربع عشرة، خلاصة أخرى لفترة حكم الأسد الثاني، وارث الكرسي والذعر. لم يسهُ المخرج الذي تعمد البطء في التصوير، إذ اختيرت الموسيقى الكلاسيكية، الهوليودية الاستخدام في سائر المشاهد، مثلما كانت سمفونيات ماهلر في تأبين الأسد الأول تخفي ضحالة الكلمات المتبادلة بين ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Adel Iskandar and Bassam Haddad, Mediating the Arab Uprisings
Adel Iskandar and Bassam Haddad, editors, Mediating the Arab Uprisings. Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Adel Iskandar and Bassam Haddad (AI & BH): The idea for this book grew out of the splendid contributions to Jadaliyya from a number of authors who ... Read More »
The United Nations and Authoritarianism's Renewal in Yemen
The United Nations' stewardship in post-conflict and transitional political environments appears increasingly ineffective in the face of spreading violence in Syria, the intensification of Bahraini regime repression, and the growing popular discontent with Morsi's authoritarian measures in Egypt. In an apparent bid to ... Read More »
Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 16)
[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 »
التحول الديمقراطي والمصير المجهول لمصر
أفرز الربيع العربي أوضاعاً لم يسبق أن واجهتها الدول العربية. من انتهاء حكم مبارك ووضعه في السجن ومقتل العقيد القذافي وخروج لعلي عبد الله صالح على غير ما أراد والآن سوريا تواجه الخطر الأكبر فمن مطلب التحول الديمقراطي، ربما تتجه نحو التقسيم بعد الحرب الأهلية الدامية. لقد أصبح من الشائع الحديث عن التحولات ... Read More »
Open Letter to Formula One Racers on Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain
[The following letter was issued by the undersigned group of human rights organizations on 10 April 2013.] Dear driver: In light of your participation in the upcoming Formula One race in Bahrain, we are writing to bring your attention to the ongoing human rights abuses and the more than one dozen prisoners ... Read More »
Imperialist Liberalism and the Egyptian Revolution
In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how it deals with the January 25 Revolution. By “imperialist liberalism,” I mean that loose US-European academic tradition, whose defense of liberalism, especially of representative democracy and ... Read More »
Statement from Sami Issawi: Palestinian Prisoner On Hunger Strike for Over 240 Days
[The following statement was issued in late March by Samer Issawi. It was posted on his Facebook page by his lawyer Fawwaz Shloudy and translated into English by Shahd Abusalam.] Regarding the Israeli Occupation offer to deport me to Gaza, I affirm that Gaza is undeniable part of my homeland and its people are my ... 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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