Introduction
This issue coincides with the eighth anniversary of Jadaliyya, and ushers in a new era and concept for JadMag, one that was always part of its raison d’etre. Starting this fall, it will be published as a subscription-based magazine in both hard-copy and electronically. The cultivation of a steady readership will enable the JadMag team to produce a wide-ranging and an even more intellectually stimulating publication.
These magazines will be released twice a year, in addition to a third issue that will be specifically geared toward pedagogy on issues pertaining to the Middle East and North Africa. A fourth issue will be included in all subscriptions, and it can be any of our already published theme issues on JadMag.org. Starting in 2019, each JadMag will feature diverse content and offer unique articles or interviews that will not be found on Jadaliyya at the time of publication. Coupling timely content with the addition of essential readings lists, reviews of new books and scholarly articles, and topical pieces from Jadaliyya’s celebrated archives allows the JadMag project more ambitiously to function as a knowledge producer, a near-comprehensive source of analysis on the region, and a pedagogical resource par excellence.
For example, the article content in this issue ranges from Syrian refugees and alternative media in Morocco to recent protests in Iran and LGBTI freedoms in Turkey. Incisive interviews with Amr Hamzawy and Rabie Nasr provide a deeper dive into the state of Egyptian governance and the future of war-torn Syria. This issue also revisits Sara Pursley’s piece on the “artificial state” narrative, calling for a reexamination of Sykes-Picot and the establishment of Iraq’s borders. Salma Shamel’s article on the role of archives in the modern state and knowledge production along with a roundtable on political Islam after the Arab uprisings, four essential readings lists, and three reviews of recently published books provide excellent resources for educators. Finally, a group of Arabic articles on the Nakba, Muqtada al-Sadr’s political maneuvering in Iraq, a personal account of the US occupation of Iraq, and the normalization of ties with Israel and the BDS movement offer sharp analysis for Arabic speakers and students alike.
This kind of JadMag serves a dual function, overriding the limitations of the topical or geographical JadMags. Firstly, it will allow our team to produce content on a scale that is timely: coming out every six months, it will function as a faithful codex for the most impactful events and analysis in/on the Middle East and North Africa over the course of half a year. Such a format will enable readers to assess broader themes and trends across the region. Secondly, it provides an avenue for Jadaliyya readers to donate to and subsidize the costs of Jadaliyya, while receiving something evocative and useful in return.
JadMags will provide a resource unmatched elsewhere in the field: combining scholarship with passion, advocacy with practicality, and meaning with metrics, it goes beyond the abilities of traditional academic journals to meet the needs of educators, researchers, and students alike. The publication stands to evolve with its readers and their feedback. Subscribe today at www.TadweenPublishing.com or www.JadMag.org.
For more information, go to the bibliography.
This issue coincides with the eighth anniversary of Jadaliyya, and ushers in a new era and concept for JadMag, one that was always part of its raison d’etre. Starting this fall, it will be published as a subscription-based magazine in both hard-copy and electronically. The cultivation of a steady readership will enable the JadMag team to produce a wide-ranging and an even more intellectually stimulating publication.
These magazines will be released twice a year, in addition to a third issue that will be specifically geared toward pedagogy on issues pertaining to the Middle East and North Africa. A fourth issue will be included in all subscriptions, and it can be any of our already published theme issues on JadMag.org. Starting in 2019, each JadMag will feature diverse content and offer unique articles or interviews that will not be found on Jadaliyya at the time of publication. Coupling timely content with the addition of essential readings lists, reviews of new books and scholarly articles, and topical pieces from Jadaliyya’s celebrated archives allows the JadMag project more ambitiously to function as a knowledge producer, a near-comprehensive source of analysis on the region, and a pedagogical resource par excellence.
For example, the article content in this issue ranges from Syrian refugees and alternative media in Morocco to recent protests in Iran and LGBTI freedoms in Turkey. Incisive interviews with Amr Hamzawy and Rabie Nasr provide a deeper dive into the state of Egyptian governance and the future of war-torn Syria. This issue also revisits Sara Pursley’s piece on the “artificial state” narrative, calling for a reexamination of Sykes-Picot and the establishment of Iraq’s borders. Salma Shamel’s article on the role of archives in the modern state and knowledge production along with a roundtable on political Islam after the Arab uprisings, four essential readings lists, and three reviews of recently published books provide excellent resources for educators. Finally, a group of Arabic articles on the Nakba, Muqtada al-Sadr’s political maneuvering in Iraq, a personal account of the US occupation of Iraq, and the normalization of ties with Israel and the BDS movement offer sharp analysis for Arabic speakers and students alike.
This kind of JadMag serves a dual function, overriding the limitations of the topical or geographical JadMags. Firstly, it will allow our team to produce content on a scale that is timely: coming out every six months, it will function as a faithful codex for the most impactful events and analysis in/on the Middle East and North Africa over the course of half a year. Such a format will enable readers to assess broader themes and trends across the region. Secondly, it provides an avenue for Jadaliyya readers to donate to and subsidize the costs of Jadaliyya, while receiving something evocative and useful in return.
JadMags will provide a resource unmatched elsewhere in the field: combining scholarship with passion, advocacy with practicality, and meaning with metrics, it goes beyond the abilities of traditional academic journals to meet the needs of educators, researchers, and students alike. The publication stands to evolve with its readers and their feedback. Subscribe today at www.TadweenPublishing.com or www.JadMag.org.
For more information, go to the bibliography.
Table of Contents
I N T R O D U C T I O N | 6
A R T I C L E S
Return to Syria: A Proposal from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon| 9
David L. Suber and Roshan De Stone
No Love Lost and Love Gained: On the Morocco-Iran Rift | 13
Samia Errazouki
Understanding Religion in (New) Turkey | 6
Sinem Adar
How the United States and Israel Praise Each Other as National Security Exemplars to Validate Their Own Actions | 21
Hedi Viterbo
Tunisia and the International Community since 2011: Rentierism, Patronage, and Moral Hazard | 25
Riccardo Fabiani
The Detention of Palestinian Children and Its Impact on Their Education and Development | 31
Leo Wiggen-Bush
Education Controversy in Wartime Syria| 37
Motaz al-Hinawy and Basileus Zeno
The Life Span of Alternative Media: Cases of Lakome and Mamfakinch in Morocco | 47
Fadma Aït Mous and Driss Ksikes
Workers and Officers in Egypt: The Other Failed Revolution | 55
Zeinab Abul-Magd
Misreading Qazvin in Washington: On the Protests in Iran | 63
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
A Critical Forum About LGBTI+ Prohibitions in Turkey | 67
Introduction | 67
Elif Sarı
What Exactly Does Public Security Secure? | 67
Evren Savcı
Homophobia and Transphobia: State-Sanctioned Rights and Freedoms? | 69
Sinan Göknur
The LGBTI and the Rhetoric of Repression| 70
Mehmet Sinan Birdal
Resisting Against the State of Emergency with Love | 71
Demhat Aksoy
“Foreign Powers,” Colonialism, and Homophobia | 72
Elif Sarı
Who Told You History is an Open Buffet? On Facts, Fiction and Absence in the Archives | 75
Salma Shamel
Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings | 84
Critical Currents in Islam Page Editors
Essential Readings on Political Islam | 91
Peter Mandaville
Essential Readings: Migration and the Gulf | 93
Pardis Mahdavi and MESPI
Essential Readings: The Arab State | 96
Lisa Anderson and MESPI
Reading Postrevolutionary Iran | 98
Arang Keshavarzian
A R A B I C
103 | وجه آخر للنكبة
ياسر عاشور
105 | شجرة الهشاشة العراقية: من “المهدي” إلى التضحية بـماركس
صفاء خلف
109 | كريستال
منال الشيخ
111| بين مكافحة التطبيع العربية، والـ«بي دي إس» العالمية
Sharif S. Elmusa
R E V I E W S
Sara R. Farris, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism - A Review | 117
Catherine Rottenberg
Forced Dispersion: A Demographic Report on Human Status in Syria (New Texts Out Now) | 120
Rabie Nasr
Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (New Texts Out Now) | 124
An Interview with Amr Hamzawy: Reflections on the Future of Democracy
in Egypt and Beyond | 128
Sumaya Almajdoub
Research on Syria and What Syrians Want: A Conversation with Rabie Nasr | 133
Bassam Haddad
F R O M T H E A R C H I V E S
“Lines Drawn on an Empty Map”: Iraq’s Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State | 141
Sara Pursley
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R S | 153
M O R E F R O M T A D W E E N | 157
I N T R O D U C T I O N | 6
A R T I C L E S
Return to Syria: A Proposal from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon| 9
David L. Suber and Roshan De Stone
No Love Lost and Love Gained: On the Morocco-Iran Rift | 13
Samia Errazouki
Understanding Religion in (New) Turkey | 6
Sinem Adar
How the United States and Israel Praise Each Other as National Security Exemplars to Validate Their Own Actions | 21
Hedi Viterbo
Tunisia and the International Community since 2011: Rentierism, Patronage, and Moral Hazard | 25
Riccardo Fabiani
The Detention of Palestinian Children and Its Impact on Their Education and Development | 31
Leo Wiggen-Bush
Education Controversy in Wartime Syria| 37
Motaz al-Hinawy and Basileus Zeno
The Life Span of Alternative Media: Cases of Lakome and Mamfakinch in Morocco | 47
Fadma Aït Mous and Driss Ksikes
Workers and Officers in Egypt: The Other Failed Revolution | 55
Zeinab Abul-Magd
Misreading Qazvin in Washington: On the Protests in Iran | 63
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
A Critical Forum About LGBTI+ Prohibitions in Turkey | 67
Introduction | 67
Elif Sarı
What Exactly Does Public Security Secure? | 67
Evren Savcı
Homophobia and Transphobia: State-Sanctioned Rights and Freedoms? | 69
Sinan Göknur
The LGBTI and the Rhetoric of Repression| 70
Mehmet Sinan Birdal
Resisting Against the State of Emergency with Love | 71
Demhat Aksoy
“Foreign Powers,” Colonialism, and Homophobia | 72
Elif Sarı
Who Told You History is an Open Buffet? On Facts, Fiction and Absence in the Archives | 75
Salma Shamel
Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings | 84
Critical Currents in Islam Page Editors
Essential Readings on Political Islam | 91
Peter Mandaville
Essential Readings: Migration and the Gulf | 93
Pardis Mahdavi and MESPI
Essential Readings: The Arab State | 96
Lisa Anderson and MESPI
Reading Postrevolutionary Iran | 98
Arang Keshavarzian
A R A B I C
103 | وجه آخر للنكبة
ياسر عاشور
105 | شجرة الهشاشة العراقية: من “المهدي” إلى التضحية بـماركس
صفاء خلف
109 | كريستال
منال الشيخ
111| بين مكافحة التطبيع العربية، والـ«بي دي إس» العالمية
Sharif S. Elmusa
R E V I E W S
Sara R. Farris, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism - A Review | 117
Catherine Rottenberg
Forced Dispersion: A Demographic Report on Human Status in Syria (New Texts Out Now) | 120
Rabie Nasr
Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (New Texts Out Now) | 124
An Interview with Amr Hamzawy: Reflections on the Future of Democracy
in Egypt and Beyond | 128
Sumaya Almajdoub
Research on Syria and What Syrians Want: A Conversation with Rabie Nasr | 133
Bassam Haddad
F R O M T H E A R C H I V E S
“Lines Drawn on an Empty Map”: Iraq’s Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State | 141
Sara Pursley
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R S | 153
M O R E F R O M T A D W E E N | 157