FROM THE EDITORS
This issue offers historical, conceptual, and comparative insights on how techniques of inclusion and exclusion shape possibilities for belonging, collective life, political solidarity, and social contestation. Rim Naguib examines the deportation of socialists, communists, and syndicalists from interwar Egypt. British authorities legitimized the deportation of leftist resident foreigners or “local subjects of foreign extraction.” Naguib argues these ideological-ethnic deportations were central to the colonial rule of difference and its legacies for the postcolonial Egyptian state. Rana AlMutawa’s urban ethnography of Emiratis in Dubai explores how “glitzy” places such as shopping malls and newly-built developments become sites of belonging. Challenging scholarly portrayals of Dubai’s “glitzy” development projects as alienating, inauthentic, or touristic, AlMutawa reveals how her interlocutors experience these spaces in personal and intimate ways while negotiating, upholding, and challenging social norms. . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXVIII, NO. 2): FALL 2020 Table of Contents ARTICLES 6. The Ideological Deportation of Foreigners and “Local Subjects of Foreign Extraction” in Interwar Egypt By Rim Naguib 44. “Glitzy” Malls and Coffee Shops: Everyday Places of Belonging and Social Contestation in Dubai By Rana AlMutawa 76. On the State’s Education Apparatus: Zionization and Minoritarianism of Druze Consciousness in Israel By Yusri Khaizran 108. Displacing Queer Refugee Epistemologies: Dreams of Trespass, Queer Kinship, and the Politics of Miseration By Sima Shakhsari REVIEWS 134. War over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel's Militaristic Nationalism by Uri Ben-Eliezer Reviewed by Joel Beinin 139. Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945–1967 by Nathan J. Citino Reviewed by Craig Daigle 144. Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran by Katayoun Shafiee Reviewed by Natasha Pesaran 148. Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation by Fredrik Meiton Reviewed by Zachary Davis Cuyler 153. Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California by Sarah M. A. Gualtieri Reviewed by Stacy Fahrenthold 158. Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen by Nathalie Peutz Reviewed by Victoria Hightower |