From the Editors:
In this issue, we are proud to feature a series of groundbreaking interventions. Ifdal Elsaket explores anti-Blackness in Egypt through the genre of “jungle films.” She lays bare the racial and imperial fantasies that informed these films’ popularity. Elsaket exposes a process of racialization through which Egyptians positioned themselves as superior and modern, at a time when Egypt’s claims to Sudan took on a greater urgency and Blackness marked otherness. This deeply ingrained vision of Africa as a place of inferiority would continue to inflect film and visual culture long after decolonization. . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXV, NO. 2): Fall 2017 Table of Contents Articles 8. Jungle Films in Egypt: Race, Anti-Blackness, and Empire Ifdal Iskalat 34. Trapped Escape: Young Palestinian Women and the Israeli National-Civic Service Suhad Daher-Nashif 60. Spiritual Capital and the Copy: Painting, Photography, and the Production of the Image in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Nisa Ari 100. The Inequality Puzzle in Egypt: What Do We Really Know? Tamer El Gindi 144. Arab Self-Criticism after 1967 Revisited: The Normative Turn in Marxist Thought and Its Heuristic Fallacies Manfred Sing Reviews 192. Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda Edited by Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss Reviewed by Nader Atassi 197. Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different Anthony C. Alessandrini Reviewed by Sophia Azeb 202. The Arab City: Architecture and Representation Edited by Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi Reviewed by Deen Sharp 207. Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East Edited by Nelida Fuccaro Reviewed by Nicholas Simcik Arese 212. Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory, and Power Edited by Elia Zureik, David Lyon and Yasmeen Abu-Laban Reviewed by Charles Anderson 217. Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates Michael Quentin Morton Reviewed by Kristi N. Barnwell 221. A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic Stefan Winter Reviewed by Charles Wilkins Review Essays 226. The Kurds of Syria by Sean Lee Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War by Michael M. Gunter The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East by Harriet Allsopp La question kurde: Passé et présent by Jordi Tejel Gorgas 238. Excavating Origins, Assessing Development: The Evolution of Middle East Studies and Its Scholars by Laurie A. Brand Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East by Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States by Zachary Lockman |