From the Editors:
We are proud to feature a diverse array of disciplines and approaches in this issue. In “The Nahda in Parliament: Taha Husayn’s Career Building Knowledge Production Institutions, 1922-1952” Hussam R. Ahmed traces the bureaucratic and institutional force of one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. He reveals new ways to think about the ties between intellectual work, knowledge production, pedagogy, and the Egyptian state. In “‘Jerusalem, We Have a Problem’: Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy and the Impetus of Dystopic Imagination,” Gil Hochberg offers a reading of both the colonial legacies of the sci-fi genre and the potential for its radical upending. Hochberg ponders the question of Palestine in a futuristic post-factual and post-national time of becoming . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXVI, NO. 1): SPRING 2018 Table of Contents Articles 8. The Nahda in Parliament: Taha Husayn’s Career Building Knowledge Production Institutions, 1922-1952 Hussam R. Ahmed 34. “Jerusalem, We Have a Problem”: Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy and the Impetus of Dystopic Imagination Gil Z. Hochberg 58. “A Fever for an Education”: Pedagogical Thought and Social Transformation in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, 1861-1914 Susanna Ferguson 84. Infrastructure Crises in Beirut and the Struggle to (Not) Reform the Lebanese State Éric Verdeil 114. If We All Leave, Who Will Cut the String: Exiled Intellectuals in Ghada al-Samman’s Thought Louis Yako Reviews 140. Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks Reviewed by Hend F. Alawadhi 145. Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century, by Wael Abu-‘Uksa Reviewed by Susanna Ferguson 150.Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library, the Ashrafiyya Library Catalogue, by Konrad Kirschler Reviewed by Steve Tamari 155. Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power, by Joanne Randa Nucho Reviewed by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins 160. Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life, by Farah Al-Nakib Reviewed by Arbella Bet-Shlimon 165. Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin, by Berna Turam Reviewed by Hilal Alkan 170. Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948–2012, by Thomas Philip Abowd Reviewed by Marwan D. Hanania 174. Britain’s Hegemony in Palestine and the Middle East, 1917–56: Changing Strategic Imperatives, by Michael J. Cohen Reviewed by Simon Davis Review Essays 180. New Perspectives on Communal Memory, Intergenerational Identity, and the Algerian War in Contemporary France by Chris Rominger From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-noir and Harki Communities by Claire Eldridge Hériter 1962: Harkis et immigrés algériens à l’épreuve des appartenances nationales by Giulia Fabbiano 188. Resisting the Slow Violence of the North African and West Asian University by Corinna Mullin The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education by Henry A. Giroux Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without by Ramón Grosfoguel, Roberto D. Hernández, and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez |