Jadaliyya - #Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series — Know Your Rights: The Assault on Campus Activism (7 December)
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Jadaliyya - #Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series — Know Your Rights: The Assault on Campus Activism (7 December)
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A Lyrical Cruise in Tunis
Urban scholars spend at least a decade thinking about the cities they research from the time they identify a research problem to the time they publish their manuscript. But we rarely find published those initial thoughts that are as much about misunderstanding as about comprehending the cities we turn into research projects. This essay is based on field notes from my first summer of pre-dissertation fieldwork in Tunisia, May to July 2014. I use pseudonyms to protect the identity of my interlocutors. The current version is loyal to my mis/understandings of Tunis then. I have not added new information to the body of the text though I continue to live in and research the city.
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Raouf Farrah, sur le contrôle du Sahara
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The Jadaliyya Iran Page encourages studied critique, self-reflection, and a capacity for imagination in a collective effort to give shape to new language concerning Iran—its peoples, its histories, and its possible futures.
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Sombre pronostic sur l’évolution à attendre suite à l’explosion de Beyrouth par Mona Harb, une chercheuse spécialiste des politiques urbaines et mouvements de protestation de la jeunesse au Liban
Jadaliyya - Quick Thoughts : Mona Harb on the Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
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I believe geopolitical and domestic interests are likely to coincide at the expense of opposition groups. Sectarian politics have repeatedly demonstrated their success at self-reproduction through strategies and tactics carefully honed over decades, most often with the support of international powers that seek to advance their own agendas. Though there are serious attempts at organizing effectively and consolidating a common vision and program, protestors are not yet ready to impose their agenda.
If early elections were to happen, the current parliament, dominated by the oligarchs, will call for them to be conducted according to a gerrymandered election law similar to that of 2018. This would make it impossible for opposition groups to win a significant number of seats—if any at all. The political class will thus re-elect itself and reclaim its legitimacy. As during the past three decades, international actors will provide aid, yet again, nurturing their corruption. If this pessimistic scenario were to occur, the challenge will be for organized groups not to lose hope, and to continue organizing and consolidating, as the process of political change in Lebanon is a long and arduous journey that is in its early stages.
Campagne internationale : justice pour Adama
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