Interview mit Ahmed Maher
„Die nächste Revolution kommt bestimmt“
Ahmed Maher ist für viele ein Held des ägyptischen Volksaufstandes. Doch Armee und Islamisten haben seine Protestbewegung 6. April vorerst außer Gefecht gesetzt. Im Interview mit Markus Symank erklärt der Aktivist, warum die Revolution dennoch nicht am Ende ist.
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 9/2013:
[Labournet:]
Gemeinsame Erklärung
We Stand Behind the Syrian People’s Revolution – No to Foreign Intervention von
am 31. August 2013 publiziert, hier bei al-manshour – eine gemeinsame Erklärung unterschiedlich starker Gruppierungen aus diversen arabischen Ländern, die meist eher trotzkistisch orientiert sind.
http://www.al-manshour.org/en/statement-by-rev-socialists-marxists-on-us-attack-on-syria
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Sara Binay
„Where are they going?“: Jokes as Indicators of Social and Political Change
Jokes can be considered as one kind of narrative that can be used to express disobedience and subversion. However, the timing and context of when a joke is told can be more important for success than its subversive content or narrative form.1 In spite of the efforts by the International Society of Humor Studies and its associated scholars to establish humour as a field of research,2 jokes are still underestimated in the so-called serious research fields, although they can offer many insights into the state of a particular society. This study provides some general reflections and definitions about jokes and how to analyse them, before formulating some theses about political jokes, especially in the context of oppressed societies on the eve of major political change.
Nader Srage
The Protest Discourse: The Example of „Irhal“ (Go/Get Out/Leave)
This article tackles the phenomenon of the „clause equivalent“,1 a one-word statement that functions as a word and formulates a highly significant, semantically condensed verbal clause. Our case study of the clause equivalent „Irhal“, meaning go/get out/leave, reflects in its single unit and tenor the passion of rebellious youth calling for change.
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http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/2-2013/prochazka_freedom
Orient-Institut Studies 2 (2013)
Stephan Procházka
The Voice of Freedom: Remarks on the Language of Songs from the Egyptian Revolution 2011
As in many revolutions, music and songs played a crucial role in the events that took place on Tahrir Square during the so-called 25 January Revolution. Alongside slogans that were shouted or presented on banners, cartons, buttons and the like, songs constituted an integral part of what happened on the Square during the 18 days of the uprising.
http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/2-2013/dallaji_rap
Ines Dallaji
Tunisian Rap Music and the Arab Spring:
Revolutionary Anthems and Post-Revolutionary Tendencies
After the emergence of the so-called Arab spring in 2011, Tunisian rap music became a subject of great interest to the public and the media. This was due above all to El Général, a young rap artist from the Tunisian city of Sfax, and the success of his song Ṛayīs li-Blād (Head of State).1
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
Rap, an Art of the Revolution or a Revolution in Art?
Ever since it has become common to speak of the „Arab Spring“, it is easy to see the extent to which certain cultural practices that are particular to youth have turned into an „obligatory figure of speech“ in media reports and even among social scientists, as testified in Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region.
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Perché le primaverenon cambiano il mondo
Dall’Egitto agli „indignati“ da Istanbul a Rio il conflitto non si trasforma in politica. Al desiderio di rivolta si accompagna quello di obbedienza a populismi o poteri anonimi
di ROBERTO ESPOSITO
via Perché le primavere non cambiano il mondo – Mondo – Le idee di Repubblica – Repubblica.it
Les pays du «printemps arabe» en pleine zone de turbulences
par Acil Tabbara De L’afp
Bain de sang en Egypte, guerre civile en Syrie, impasse politique en Tunisie: le Printemps arabe a cédé la place à une violence qui risque de s’intensifier faute de maturité de nouvelles classes dirigeantes, redoutent des experts.
„Les pays arabes entrent dans une période de turbulences et de changements, qui devrait probablement voir encore plus de violence intérieure, de polarisation et de compétition régionale“, estime Emile Hokayem, de l’Institut international d’études stratégiques. En Egypte, près de 900 personnes, en grande majorité des manifestants soutenant le président destitué Mohamed Morsi, ont été tuées en six jours et les violences ont connu une nouvelle escalade lundi avec un attentat contre la police dans la péninsule instable du Sinaï. La crise a déjà balayé quasiment tous les acquis du soulèvement contre Hosni Moubarak en 2011, „surtout le multipartisme avec l’entrée des islamistes en politique et les premières élections démocratiques“, souligne Sophie Pommier, maître de conférences à Sciences Po. „L’Egypte va dans le mur. Les acteurs sont incapables de compromis politique“, estime cette spécialiste de l’Egypte. Le chef de l’armée et nouvel homme fort de l’Egypte, le général Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, a ainsi martelé dimanche que son pays ne plierait pas devant les „terroristes“, et le guide suprême des Frères musulmans Mohammad Badie vient d’être arrêté. „Si la confrérie (des frères musulmans) est dissoute, on franchit une ligne rouge“, affirme Mme Pommier.
