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    Spring 2016
    Vol. XXIV No. 1
In This Issue
Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
by Tarek Masoud
reviewed by Rana B. Khoury
Leg over Leg, or The Turtle in the Tree, concerning the Fariyaq, What Manner of Creature Might He Be
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
reviewed by Tarek El-Ariss

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From The Editor- Spring 2016

The Arab world and the broader Middle East offer profound lessons on the inextricability of knowledge and power. In the midst of civil war, foreign intervention, and ongoing occupation, those of us who study the Middle East or call it home confront two realities at once. On the one hand are the conditions of everyday life that range from the constrained to the unbearable. On the other are the increasingly confined possibilities of producing knowledge on these conditions. . . .

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