From the Editors:
We are proud to feature a collection of pieces that innovate new methodological approaches, confront the relationship between knowledge and power, and speak to the urgent concerns of the present, infrastructure, ecology, migration, and war. In “Epicures and Experts: The Drinking Water Controversy in British Colonial Cairo,” Shehab Ismail explores taste, class, and the environment. When in 1905 the Cairo Water Company altered its source of intake to deep wells instead of the Nile, it pitted experts, officials, and the urban poor in a battle over knowledge, medical traditions, and water practices. In tracing the five year struggle in which the palate became a battleground, Ismail reveals how taste, as a mode of embodied knowledge became a site of confrontation between heterogenous epistemic persuasions . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXVI, NO. 2): FALL 2018 Table of Contents Articles 8. Epicures and Experts: The Drinking Water Controversy in British Colonial Cairo Shehab Ismail 44. From Mandate Borders to the Diaspora: Rashaya's Transnational Suffering and the Making of Lebanon in 1925 Reem Bailony 74. De-Exceptionalizing the Field: Anthropological Reflections on Migration, Labor, and Identity in Dubai Neha Vora and Ahmed Kanna 102. The Ecology of Migration: Remittances in World War I Mount Lebanon Graham Auman Pitts 130. Writing Shame in Asad’s Syria Judith Naeff Reviews 150. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State by Shira Robinson Reviewed by Maha Nassar 155. Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East by Adam Hanieh Reviewed by Benoit Challand 160. Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State by David B. Roberts Reviewed by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell 164. The Ottoman Scramble for Africa by Mostafa Minawi Reviewed by David Gutman 169. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation by Zeina G. Halabi Reviewed by Alexa Firat 174. The World in A Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition by Elias Muhanna Reviewed by Matthew L. Keegan Review Essays 180. Empire and Capitalism in the Western Indian Ocean by Hollian Wint Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire by Matthew S. Hopper Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea by Johan Mathew Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean by Thomas F. McDow |