From the Editors:
This issue provides a diverse and critical foray into history, intellectual production, and institutional organization. Arab Studies Journal is privileged to feature two empirically grounded and historiographically challenging articles. Chloe Kattar offers a rare look at the development of Christian conservative thought in the context of the lead up to and first half of Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war. Rather than featuring decades-old ideological differences about the organization of political power in Lebanon, Kattar reveals wartime intellectual production to have included new ideas that responded to the realities of the war and exigencies of its international context. She focuses in particular on one of the primary idealogues of (first) the Kata’ib Party and (then) the Lebanese Forces, tracing the intellectual itinerary of Antoine Najim as a key site of a broader reconfiguration of Christian conservative thought. Noureddine Jebnoun tracks the introduction of foreign recruits into coercive apparatuses of the Trucial States and the various transformations in their composition and role through the establishment and development of the United Arab Emirates. Utilizing a range of archival . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXX, NO. 1): Spring 2022 Table of Contents ARTICLES “Are We the Last Byzantium?”: The Evolution of Antoine Najim’s Thought and the Radicalization of Christian Conservatism in Wartime Lebanon (1952–1982) Chloe Kattar Outsourcing Violence: Para-Institutional Coercive Actors in the United Arab Emirates’ Regional Activism Noureddine Jebnoun REVIEWS Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power by Jessica Gerschultz Reviewed by Natasha Marie Llorens Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie, 1882–1962 by Augustin Jomier Reviewed by Benjamin Claude Brower L’Algérie des oulémas: une histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (1931–1991) by Charlotte Courreye Reviewed by Sara Rahnama How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey by Caterina Scaramelli Reviewed by Ekin Kurtiç Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict by Walter L. Hixson Reviewed by Lawrence Davidson |