From the Editors:
This issue provides rich and empirically grounded explorations of culture, history, and resistance. Arab Studies Journal is privileged to feature Pelle Valentin Olsen’s groundbreaking interrogation of the establishment of the film industry in Iraq. By identifying and analyzing the transnational and transregional circulation of capital, performers, and film technicians, Olsen offers invigorating and new geographies that greatly expand our understandings of Iraqi cultural politics, cinema in Iraq, and their contribution to filmmaking in the Global South. We are also honored to publish a special section on the Maghrib that rethinks the territorial, cultural, and human geographies of the region. Brahim El Guabli, this special section’s editor, introduces the articles by asking, “Where Is the Maghrib?” He identifies the stakes of posing this question and engaging it critically. El Guabli provides a powerful survey of where the scholarship stands today, how the articles contained in the special section intervene in those conversations, and the importance of taking seriously the ways in which Amazigh peoples, cultures, and language are and are not engaged in such endeavors. . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXIX, NO. 2): Fall 2021 Table of Contents ARTICLE Al-Qahira-Baghdad: The Transnational and Transregional History of Iraq’s Early Cinema Industry Pelle Valentin Olsen SPECIAL SECTION: THE MAGHRIB Introduction to Special Section: Where is the Maghrib? Brahim El Guabli The Liminal Intellectual: A Contrapuntal Reading of Abdellatif Laâbi’s Un Autre Maroc Sonja Hegasy The Maghrib in Spain: An Outer-Inner Space Carlos Cañete and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla “Collecting Bosoms”: Sex, Race, and Masculinity at the Pan-African Festival of Algiers, 1969 Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik ESSAYS: ON PALESTINE Introduction: The Fourth Gaza War and the Unity Intifada of 2021 Charles Anderson Permission to Narrate 2.0 Marwa Fatafta The Unity Intifada: Assessments and Predictions Dana El Kurd The Green Line Never Existed Diana Buttu Equality vs. Freedom: Continuity and Change in the Demands of ‘48 Palestinians Maha Nassar A Global People Esmat Elhalaby REVIEWS Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism by Aaron G. Jakes Reviewed by Rebecca E. Karl Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili Reviewed by Helga Tawil-Souri Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey by Begüm Adalet Reviewed by Koca Mehmet Kentel Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Reviewed by Moné Makkawi Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey by Ayşe Parla Reviewed by Timothy Y. Loh The Ottoman “Wild West”: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by Nikolay Antov Reviewed by Sanja Kadrić The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives by Harry Harootunian Reviewed by Matthew Ghazarian Egypt 1919:The Revolution in Literature and Film by Dina Heshmat Reviewed by Olga Verlato The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq by Kevin M. Jones Reviewed by Levi Thompson |