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Jadaliyya's Top 100: Must Reads!

Worried that you might have missed a good article? The Jadaliyya team has put together the Top 100 Articles that are must reads! Enjoy!

 

 
  1. Waiting for Alia
  2. Why Mubarak is Out
  3. Egyptian Elections: Preliminary Results [UPDATED]
  4. Why the Western Media are Getting Egypt Wrong
  5. The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer
  6. How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East
  7. "من المآسي المضاعفة للنزوح:فتيات سوريات للزواج "بثمن بخس
  8. Let's Talk About Sex
  9. Tragic Day for Norway; Shameful Day for Journalism
  10. What is a Virgin?
  11. Egypt's Three Revolutions: The Force of History behind this Popular Uprising
  12. Egypt's Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor
  13. الجيش والاقتصاد في بر مصر
  14. Sexual Harassment Video that Led to Removal of Rula Quawas as Dean at the University of Jordan
  15. The Idiot's Guide to Fighting Dictatorship in Syria While Opposing Military Intervention
  16. US on UN Veto: "Disgusting", "Shameful", "Deplorable", "a Travesty" . . . Really?
  17. The Poetry of Revolt
  18. Unpacking Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Discourse
  19. Jon Stewart's Theater of the Absurd
  20. What is Settler Colonialism?
  21. On Sheep and Infidels
  22. The Marriage of Sexism and Islamophobia; Re-Making the News on Egypt
  23. The Empire of Sexuality: An Interview with Joseph Massad
  24. The Army and the Economy in Egypt
  25. Neither Heroes, Nor Villains: A Conversation with Talal Asad on Egypt After Morsi
  26. Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
  27. Why Egypt's Progressives Win
  28. Letter to a Syrian Friend Who Said: ‘Your Opposition to the US Attack on Syria Means You Support the Asad Regime’
  29. Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism
  30. ما الذي يحدث في مصر الآن؟
  31. "Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?": The Fascinating Arrogance of Power
  32. Chemical Attacks and Military Interventions
  33. Orientalist Feminism Rears its Head in India
  34. Saeeds of Revolution: De-Mythologizing Khaled Saeed
  35. "V for Vendetta": The Other Face of Egypt's Youth Movement
  36. Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions
  37. Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising
  38. Asad Apologists: The Ostrich Syndrome
  39. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's War
  40. Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism, Law, and Neoliberalism (Part One)
  41. UC Berkeley's New Chancellor Endorses the Falsehood: Criticizing Israel is Anti-Semitic
  42. Saudi Women: "I Will Drive Myself Starting June 17"
  43. الثورة المصرية تلفظ أبناءها؟ من كريم عامر إلى علياء المهدي
  44. Why Chuck Hagel Is Irrelevant
  45. جنرالات مصر ورأس المال العابر للحدود
  46. Everywhere is Taksim, Resistance Everywhere
  47. Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”
  48. Open Letter from Alice Walker to Alicia Keys Regarding the Boycott of Israel
  49. Top Ten List: What to Expect From Ahmadinejad’s Visit to Lebanon (+ Arabic Translation)
  50. The Seven Wonders of the Revolution
  51. Month-by-Month Summary of Developments in Syria (Updated)
  52. Essential Viewing: Five Tunisian Films from a Postrevolutionary Perspective
  53. Letter Concerning Removal of Professor Rula Quawas from Her Post as Dean at the University of Jordan
  54. Missing Edward Said
  55. Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us?
  56. Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson
  57. My 50 Minutes with Manaf
  58. Freedom and Justice Party
  59. Lordy, Lordy, I Declare! Big Brother Is in My Underwear
  60. Two Years of Meta-Narratives: How Not to Cover Syria
  61. Timeline: Israel's Latest Escalation in Gaza
  62. Saudi Arabia's Silent Protests
  63. Solidarity and Its Discontents
  64. Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success
  65. Morsi Past the Point of No Return
  66. The Uprisings Will be Gendered
  67. "We Are the Eight Percent": Inside Egypt's Underground Shaabi Music Scene
  68. Solidarity and Intervention in Libya
  69. Woman’s Work: The Twisted Reality of an Italian Freelancer in Syria
  70. What is Sharia?
  71. Sexual Violence in Egypt: Myths and Realities
  72. A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Timeline [Updated]
  73. The Revenge of the Police State
  74. Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011
  75. Gays, Islamists, and The Arab Spring: What Would A Revolutionary Do?
  76. الطاغية إبن الطاغية
  77. NATO's "Conspiracy" against the Libyan Revolution
  78. Statement from the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists on the Massacre in Cairo
  79. War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, Sex Pervs, and Sex Revolutionaries
  80. Alignments of Dissent and Politics of Naming: Assembling Resistance in Turkey
  81. The PhD's Job Crisis
  82. The Case Against the Grand Egyptian Museum
  83. One Night in Hamra
  84. Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Full Series with Response by Brownlee)
  85. New Texts Out Now: Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work
  86. E-Militias of the Muslim Brotherhood: How to Upload Ideology on Facebook
  87. A Critique of Reporting on the Middle East
  88. بانتظار علياء
  89. The Saudi Women Revolution Statement
  90. What If the Egyptian Protesters Were Democrats?
  91. Al-Nour Party
  92. The Revolution Against Neoliberalism
  93. Contours of a New Republic and Signals from the Past: How to Understand Taksim Square
  94. Egypt's ‘Orderly Transition’? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment
  95. Three Powerfully Wrong--and Wrongly Powerful--American Narratives about the Arab Spring
  96. Tribalism in the Arabian Peninsula: It Is a Family Affair
  97. Egypt's Other Revolution: Modernizing the Military-Industrial Complex
  98. The Muslim Brotherhood's Militias in Action: A Firsthand Account
  99. Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution
  100. The Concise Idiot's Guide to the Egyptian Elections