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في نقد ما يسمى بالنموذج الليبي الناجح
بعد اكتمال انهيار نظام القذّافي ودخول الثوار العاصمة الليبيّة طرابلس ارتفعت بعض الأصوات المتفرّقة، والقليلة، في الوسط السوري مطالبةً بالاقتداء بالنموذج الليبي ومعتبرة اﻻتجاه نحو التسلّح وطلب التدخّل العسكري الخارجي هو الطريق الأفضل "لإسقاط النظام" في سوريا. تتميّز هذه الأصوات، الهامشية وغير الممثلة للرأي ... Read More »
العلماء والسلطة: سوريا نموذجاً
علاقة علماء الدين بالسلطة في التاريخ الإسلامي علاقة معقدة، وإن كانت تميل في أغلب الأحيان، خاصة بعد القرن الخامس هجري/الحادي عشر ميلادي، إلى التواطؤ والاستزلام. فالعلماء السنة بشكل خاص فقدوا القليل الذي تبقى لهم من الاستقلالية التشريعية والوظيفية والمالية مع مجيء السلاجقة الترك من سهوب آسيا الوسطى وانتشارهم في ... Read More »
Statement by Syria's Lawyers Committee for Freedom
[The following statement was issued by Syria's Lawyers Committee for Freedom on August 31, 2011.] Today Adnan Mohammad Bakkor, the district attorney in Hama governorate, announced his resignation. He mentioned these reasons: Killing of 72 prisoners in The Central Prison of Hama of, they ware peaceful ... Read More »
Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Revolution: Syria, Yemen, and Visions of Democracy (Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi)
Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat (AS&AK): The Syrian people have been resisting for months now and keep coming out on the streets despite escalating repression. How would you characterize the uprising in Syria and where do you think it is heading? Fawwaz Traboulsi (FT): People I’ve talked to in Syria tell me ... Read More »
Syrian Local Coordinating Committees on Taking Up Arms and Foreign Intervention
[The following statement was issued by the Local Coordinating Committees in Syria on Monday August 29, 2011, on their Facebook page.] Statement to the Syrian People: In an unprecedented move over the past several days, Syrians in Syria and abroad have been calling for Syrians to take up arms, or for international ... Read More »
For Syria, What is "Left?" (Part 1)
It is a concrete rationale that fuels opposition to Israel’s apartheid regime and the United States’ duplicitous and violent policies in the Middle East. It is a concrete rationale that imbues the condemnation of and struggle against authoritarian rule in the Arab world. It is a concrete rationale that inspires and ... Read More »
The Opposite of Silence
[This is the twelfth and last installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] There is always a certain acclimation period needed when moving from east to west or west to east, a few days to re-situate yourself. It disguises itself as jet lag, but it is more of a ... Read More »
الظاهر بيبرس وإبنه بركة خان
في قلب دمشق القديمة ضريح حجري مهيب لايبعد عن الجامع الأموي أكثر من ثلاث مئة متر. هذا الضريح يحوي مدفنين: واحد للسلطان المملوكي الظاهر بيبرس الصالحي والآخر لابنه السلطان بركة خان. وهو جزء من مبنى محدث وإن كانت أصوله أيوبية يعرفه جيداً الدمشقيون القدامى والمؤرخون الباحثون، ألا وهو المدرسة الظاهرية التي تحمل اسم ... Read More »
Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission to Syria Pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution S-16/1
[Below is the latest from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Syria.] Advanced Unedited Version Report of the Fact-Findng Mission on Syria pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-16/1 I. Introduction A. Background 1. Mandate 1. The Fact-Finding Mission for Syria (“Mission”) was established pursuant ... Read More »
The Makers of the Revolution
All it takes is three or four fida’iyyin [persons ready to sacrifice for a cause] in every mosque chanting slogans after the end of prayer. It also depends on many factors. For example, in the coastal city of Banyas, the residents are all very familiar with each other, and it is easy to distinguish “strangers” or ... Read More »
تيمورلنك في سورية
غزا تيمورلنك سورية عام 1400. كان ذلك جزءاً مما عرف بحملة السنوات السبع التي قادها هذا الفاتح الدموي العجوز (ولد عام 1336) ضد كلٍ من المماليك والعثمانيين بعد قضائه على التغلقيين في الهند. وقد شجع تيمورلنك على هذه الحملة وفاة السلطان برقوق المملوكي في مصر، فسار وجيشه اللجب من سمرقند عام 1399 وفتح أرمينيا ... Read More »
I'm Sorry
[This is the eleventh installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] The hours before leaving are always the worst. It is the curse of al-mahjar, the diaspora, no matter how long you have lived away from home, a part of you is uprooted every time you leave. On ... Read More »
The Syrian "Common": The Uprising of the Working Society
The ongoing Syrian uprising has paradoxical effects on Syrian society. On the one hand, it is an unparalleled opportunity for political education and for gaining a better understanding of the country’s affairs in general. On the other, it raises the human cost of the political transformation that an increasing ... Read More »
"The United States Is Not Qualified to Intervene on Behalf of Democracy in the Region": Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor
This interview was conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Bassam Haddad, on the role of the United States in Syria. After five months of continuous suppression of protests in Syria, resulting in nearly 2000 deaths and more than 15,000 arrests, the Syrian regime is facing growing regional and international pressures to ... Read More »
Syria's Torment
There are two political-intellectual prisms through which the recurrent conflagrations of the modern Middle East are conventionally seen. One casts the region’s stubborn ills as internally caused -- by the outsize role of religion in public life, the persistence of primordial identities like sect and tribe, and the ... Read More »
Emergency, Governmentality, and the Arab Spring
With states of emergency proving salient to the unfolding of the “Arab Spring” and continuing to permeate the political landscape—through opposition to long-standing emergencies as well as proclamations of new ones—it is worth reflecting on the genesis and underlying essence of emergency law. The ostensible ... Read More »
The Namesake
[This is the tenth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] My name is not Amal Hanano. Before you even think Amina Abdallah, I assure you I am a real person, a Syrian-American from Aleppo who was physically in the city this summer, writing under a pseudonym. ... Read More »
The Space Between: March 14, March 8 and a Politics of Dissent
This week a pro-Syrian protest was staged at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. A group of about fifty people gathered to express their solidarity with the Syrian people against the atrocities currently being committed by the Asad regime. As reported in Jadaliyya and elsewhere, this pro-Syrian protest was met ... Read More »
Fear of Arrest
The author of the following text is anonymous. But his deeds have rocked the foundations of our world in Syria. He is one and he is everyone. I don't know his whereabouts. He is probably already dead or in prison. Or maybe he is still roaming the streets of cities and towns in Syria trying in all earnestness to get ... Read More »
One Night in Hamra
[The following is an eye-witness account of the violent dispersion of an anti-regime protest that took place this past Tuesday outside the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. The author of the report-back has chosen to remain anonymous.] Last Tuesday evening at around 8 o’clock, a group of people gathered at the Syrian Embassy ... Read More »
The "State of Emergency" is Not a Law . . . It is a Structure and a Regime
The elimination of the Emergency Law and martial law in Syria has long been one of the basic pillars of the demands put forward by opposition forces, intellectuals, and human rights activists. This law has been frequently characterized as poisoning public life as well as being the root cause of the gross human rights ... Read More »
Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor on the UN Security Council and Syria
This is a brief interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on the UN Security Council and Syria, and the pressure that might be placed on the Syrian regime to halt its crackdowns on protesters. The interview comes after the Syrian regime entered and besieged the northern city of Hama, resulting in more ... Read More »
Culture XVI
This is our sixteenth weekly section. We have five posts; Amal Hanano continues her diary from Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates a poem by the great Syrian poet Saniyya Salih. Youssef Rakha examines the cultural discourse in Egypt. Nezar Andary reviews May Odeh's Diaries. Sinan Antoon translates a text by Ahmad ... Read More »
It's Not Him, It's Them
[This is the ninth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here] On the quietest Friday, a few weeks ago, I convinced my parents to honor a family tradition and go out for lunch. The narrow, cobblestoned streets were still and empty, as was the courtyard of one of my ... Read More »
صبحي حديدي: حلقة الأسد الأمنية، حتمية التفكك… بعد اختبار النار
يواصل أناس من أمثال العميد ماهر الأسد (شقيق بشار الأسد، والقائد الفعلي للحرس الجمهوري)، والعميد ذي الهمة شاليش (ابن عمّة الأسد، ورئيس حرسه الشخصي، والمشرف الفعلي على جهاز أمن الرئاسة)، والعميد حافظ مخلوف (ابن خالة الأسد، والضابط الأبرز في الفرع 251 والأقوى نفوذاً في جهاز المخابرات العامة بأسره)، واللواء علي مملوك ... Read More »
The Syrian Regime's Escalation of Violence: Links to Media Reports
According to Syrian protesters and activists, as well as regional and international media, today--Sunday July 31, 2011--is thus far the bloodiest and deadliest day of the more than four-month-old Syrian uprising. Numerous accounts and reports have described what can only be considered a dramatic escalation in the ... Read More »
The Syrian Regime's Slow-motion Suicide
[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on Syrian popular protest and the direction of the Syrian regime.] The Syrian Regime’s Slow-motion Suicide Executive Summary Desperate to survive at all costs, Syria’s regime appears to be digging its grave. It did not have to be so. The protest ... Read More »
The Syrian People Will Determine the Fate of Syria: An Interview with Burhan Ghalyoun
[This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ibtisam Azem and first published in Arabic by Qantara. It was translated into English by Ziad Abu-Rish and Khuloud.] In the following conversation with Ibtisam Azem, a prominent Syrian opposition figure and Professor of Political Sociology at the Sorbonne, ... Read More »
The Corrections
[This is the eighth part of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here] By coincidence, I was reading Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections while in Aleppo, although it may not have been pure coincidence, as sometimes books seem to possess magically perfect timing. (Last year’s ... Read More »
Now, This is not Damascus Anymore
[This is the first part of a series of vignettes. It was published in Arabic in al-Hayat, July 18, 2011 and was translated by Suneela Mubayi] April 10, 2011 This is Damascus. The phrase that we were used to hearing as children on the radio. All Syrians recognize the tone of this phrase: of course, this is ... 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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