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Egyptian Parliamentary Protests in Pictures

by Hossam El-Hamalawy

Thousands marched on the Egyptian parliament Monday, denouncing the army's crackdown on revolutionaries in front of the Ministry of Defense in Abbassiya. A week long sit-in conducted largely by Salafis and leftists was subject to repeated attacks by armed thugs, and was finally suspended by force on Friday, with ... Read More »

Outside Looking In

by Mona Damluji

City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982. The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 22 February – 5 May 2012. City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982 is an exhibit of design work produced by world-famous architects and firms for the booming Iraqi capital during the mid-twentieth century. Beginning from the ... Read More »

Visualizing Revolution: The Politics of Paint in Tahrir

by Ebony Coletu

On 2 April, the Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo hosted “Visualizing Revolution: The Epic Murals of Tahrir.” Three artists, Alaa Awad, Ammar Abo Bakr, and Hanaa El Degham, spoke about their work along with journalist and collaborator ... Read More »

The Seven Wonders of the Revolution

by Soraya Morayef

Around the corner from Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt’s eighteen-day uprising, Mohamed Mahmud Street bears the scars of a turbulent political year in Egypt. The once-bustling street off of Tahrir Square has seen its share of violent battlefields--beginning with 28 January 2011 and ending with the February 2012 ... Read More »

An Emerging Memorial Space? In Praise of Mohammed Mahmud Street

by Mona Abaza

Mohammed Mahmud Street, also known as sharei’ uyuun al-hurriyyah (the street of the eyes of freedom), is becoming an iconic space. The street has been recently discovered by numerous photographers and passersby, not only for its mesmerizing graffiti but also for the curiosity it has raised; for the ... Read More »

Bedoon Rights: An Online Reference on Statelessness in Kuwait

by Jadaliyya Reports

Bedoon Rights is a network founded by stateless Kuwaiti advocate Mona Kareem putting together contributions by a number of stateless volunteers mostly based in Kuwait. The network is the only online reference in English devoted for the case of statelessness in Kuwai. It provides relevant official ... Read More »

Pictures from a Camera

by Rheim Alkadhi

Here in this region, amid the initial, proven, lasting fervor that sends our bodies into perpetual (welcome) disturbance; from these variously perplexing, disappointing, exhilarating, terrible, or inspired moments—from these moments on, we see ourselves on display, and we shed our museums of ... Read More »

Anniversary of a Revolution in Mansoura

by Eric Knecht

January 25th in Mansoura, though replete with its own unique set of revolutionary characters, had all the trappings of protests against the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) in Egypt, and in some ways, was a decent portrayal of the year in activism: the requisite frustration with military rule, surprisingly ... Read More »

A Postcard from Tunis: One Year Later

by William Granara

Tunis - Saturday, 14 January 2012. This morning I woke up at 8:00 in the Majestic Hotel on Avenue de Paris just off Avenue Bourguiba in the center of Tunis. It was quiet from the time I awoke until the time I left the hotel after breakfast at 10:30. I thought how unusual it was, given that today is the first ... Read More »

"No Room for Palestinian Artist": An Interview with Larissa Sansour

by VOMENA

The following three photos are part of The Nation Estate project by Larissa Sansour. The Project "is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011" (Sansour). Her ... Read More »

Far Outside Cairo: A Graffiti Campaign to Denounce the SCAF

by Eric Knecht

This week a group of students from Mansoura, a city two hours north of Cairo in the Daqahliyya governorate, decided they wanted to respond to recent military brutality against demonstrators in the capital. Over the past week, and independent of any political movement or organization, the group launched ... Read More »

An Interview With Paul Sedra: Another Victim of the Egyptian Junta - I'Institut d'Egypte

by Malihe Razazan

One Egyptian news paper wrote “Many Egyptians pass this building every day on their way to work and they take great pride in it. And on Saturday, December 17th that very special building, The Institut d'Égypte became the latest causality of the ongoing military attack on the revolutionary protesters. Malihe ... Read More »

Funeral March for a New Egyptian Martyr, Emad Effat

by Ahram Online

Thousands laid to rest Emad Effat, the Azhar cleric who survived the battle of the camel in February but was killed when military police attacked a peaceful protest at the cabinet; mourners chanted against SCAF. Photos by Mai ... Read More »

Egyptian Elections Beyond Cairo: Mansoura's Electoral Politics

by Eric Knecht, Nicholas Hilgeman and Mohamed Ezz

The city of Mansoura is scheduled to vote on 3 January 2012 in the final round of Egypt’s lower house parliamentary elections. Below is a primer on the city’s upcoming contest by way of a photo essay (for more on election rules and dates, click here). Read More »

A Romanticized Oriental Wedding in Marrakech

by Dorothée Kellou

Dikra and Sofian are both children of North African immigrants to France. Sofian grew up in a culturally mixed family. His father is Algerian and came to France in his late twenties to pursue his doctoral studies in Paris. There, he met Sofian's mother, a French woman of Spanish descent (Her family had fled the ... Read More »

Does Guilt Matter?

by Fawwaz Traboulsi فواز طرابلسي

This contribution shall deal with a number of topics having in common an emotion, a biblical story, and a painter. Its challenging title is not meant to exhaust the issue but rather to raise questions about the place individual and social “guilt” hold in a set of symbolic or real cases. For this purpose, I have chosen ... Read More »

Aesthetic Uprisings

by Anthony Alessandrini

Signs of the Times: The Popular Literature of Tahrir: Protest Signs, Graffiti & Street Art. Curated by Rayya El Zein and Alex Ortiz. Special Issue of Shahadat, April 2011. Full issue available here. In the heady days that followed the January 25 demonstrations in Egypt, the air seemed to crackle with ... Read More »

Yemen's Popular Uprising in Photos

by Stephen Day

“Thanks, Tunisia! Congratulations Egypt! You are the trailblazers of freedom.” The day after Tunisia’s leader fled his country on January 14, a group of Yemeni students at Sanaa University and members of Women Journalists Without Chains, led by Tawakul Karman, marched toward the Tunisian Embassy to show ... Read More »

The Fabric of Democracy

by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

When disturbed, they usually escape by running and rarely take to flight. (The Common Peacock) In Rogues, his 2003 volume on rogue states,[1] Jacques Derrida looked to Plato's Republic in order to assess the Grecian syntagma of democracy as ‘democracy to come.’ Passages from the Republic referring to ... Read More »

Iranians In Solidarity with Egyptians and Tunisians Need Your Support, Now

by Leili Kashani

While celebrating the exhilarating achievements of the popular democratic uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, I have also been consumed with a restless hope and deepening concern for Iranians with parallel dreams of realizing a free and democratic society. Iranian pro-democracy activists and opposition figures Mir Hossein ... Read More »

Urban Scars, An Unfinished Essay: Jaffa/Tel Aviv

by Yair Wallach

Urban scars, cutting deep into the flesh of the city. Lines of division that linger through the civic body, long after their political and social meaning was lost. Areas of inexplicable void within a thriving city. Areas that are constantly on the drawing tables of architects and city planners, who seek to redeem the ... Read More »

Mardomi-Nejad VS. The Greens: Iran's Political Struggle Captured in Election Posters

by Arang Keshavarzian and Greta Scharnweber

Iran’s hotly contested 2009 presidential elections and its tumultuous aftermath have been a source for numerous op-eds, policy speeches, and activist events from Tehran to New York and everywhere in between--to this day. The mass protests and violence that followed the announcement of Ahmadinejad’ s victory overtook ... Read More »

Slogans and Posters of the 2010 Jordanian Parliamentary Elections

by Ziad Abu-Rish and Lena Ghannam

In November 2009, King Abdullah II of Jordan dissolved the Jordanian Parliament (elected in 2007) and called for early elections to be held on November 9th, 2010. These new elections feature various amendments to the previous set of laws governing elections. However, several opposition groups, including the Islamic ... Read More »

Reporting From Guantanamo: The Prison Tour (Photos)

by Lisa Hajjar

Twenty-five journalists flew on a chartered plane down to Guantánamo Bay on October 22, 2010, to report on the case of Omar Khadr, the Canadian 24-year-old who has been in US custody for one-third of his life. We would have been on the island (Cuba) a week earlier but for a sudden change of plan—again. The ... Read More »

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