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(Vol. XII No. 2/Vol. XIII No. 1): Fall 2004/Spring 2005
From The Editors: Over the last year and half, bodies in the Middle East-Arab bodies-have been on display the world over in rather unprecedented ways. The images of the torture and humiliation suffered at Abu Ghraib, not to mention those reports unescorted by photos, foregrounded not only cultural constructions of the body and the power (and hegemony) of the visual image, but the different ways that the body has increasingly become a repository for historical, psycho-sexual, and political ends. Familiarity with the specific contexts made the reports even more horrific . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
10. The Deaf in Ottoman Syria, 16th - 18th Centuries
by Sara Scalenghe
26. Blinding Ignorance: Medical Science, Diseased Eyes, and Religious Practice in Egypt
by Sherine F. Hamdy
46. Attempts at Liberation: Body Materialization and Community Building Among Palestinian Political Captives
by Esmail al-Nashif
80. "I Am a Whore But I Will Be a Good Mother": On the Production and Consumption of the Female Body in Egypt
by Lucie Ryzova
124. Dancing the Hootchy Kootchy: The Belly Dancer as Embodiment of Socio-Cultural Tensions
by Amira Jarmakani
140. Biology and "Created Nature": Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature from Modern Turkey and the West
by Taner Edis
159. The Politics of Bellydancing in Cairo
by Shannon Arvizu
Book Reviews
188. On Imitation and the Art of Kidnapping: Yigal Nizri's "Tiger"
by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
revied by Gregory D. Johnson
194. They Die Strangers: A Novella and Stories from Yemen
by Muhammad Abdul-Wali
reviewed by Gregory D. Johnson
197. Modern Arab Historiography: Historical Discourse and the Nation-State
by Youssef Chouieri
reviewed by Elizabeth Bishop
201. From Arab Nationalism to OPEC" Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations
by Nathan J. Citino
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti
205. The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948
by Ellen Fleischmann
reviewed by Noah Haiduc-Dale
208. The Polymath
by Bensalem Himmich
reviewed by Gretchen Head
211. Tormented Births: Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East
by Isam Al-Khafaji
reviewed by Simon Jackson
215. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
by Heath Lowry
reviewed by James E. Baldwin
219. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
by Nur Masalha
reviewed by Samuel Jacob Kuruvilla
223. The Bullet Collection
by Patricia Sarrafian Ward
reviewed by Amira Pierce
Review Essays
226. Toward a New Approach to Ottoman Historiography
reviewed by Isa Blumi
232. Beyond the Saudi "Enigma"
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti
238. Imagining Lebanese Nationalism
reviewed by Max David Weiss
Film Review
244. Unruly Subjects: Middle Eastern Women in Two Documentary Films
reviewed by Robert Avila
Articles
10. The Deaf in Ottoman Syria, 16th - 18th Centuries
by Sara Scalenghe
26. Blinding Ignorance: Medical Science, Diseased Eyes, and Religious Practice in Egypt
by Sherine F. Hamdy
46. Attempts at Liberation: Body Materialization and Community Building Among Palestinian Political Captives
by Esmail al-Nashif
80. "I Am a Whore But I Will Be a Good Mother": On the Production and Consumption of the Female Body in Egypt
by Lucie Ryzova
124. Dancing the Hootchy Kootchy: The Belly Dancer as Embodiment of Socio-Cultural Tensions
by Amira Jarmakani
140. Biology and "Created Nature": Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature from Modern Turkey and the West
by Taner Edis
159. The Politics of Bellydancing in Cairo
by Shannon Arvizu
Book Reviews
188. On Imitation and the Art of Kidnapping: Yigal Nizri's "Tiger"
by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
revied by Gregory D. Johnson
194. They Die Strangers: A Novella and Stories from Yemen
by Muhammad Abdul-Wali
reviewed by Gregory D. Johnson
197. Modern Arab Historiography: Historical Discourse and the Nation-State
by Youssef Chouieri
reviewed by Elizabeth Bishop
201. From Arab Nationalism to OPEC" Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations
by Nathan J. Citino
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti
205. The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948
by Ellen Fleischmann
reviewed by Noah Haiduc-Dale
208. The Polymath
by Bensalem Himmich
reviewed by Gretchen Head
211. Tormented Births: Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East
by Isam Al-Khafaji
reviewed by Simon Jackson
215. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
by Heath Lowry
reviewed by James E. Baldwin
219. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
by Nur Masalha
reviewed by Samuel Jacob Kuruvilla
223. The Bullet Collection
by Patricia Sarrafian Ward
reviewed by Amira Pierce
Review Essays
226. Toward a New Approach to Ottoman Historiography
reviewed by Isa Blumi
232. Beyond the Saudi "Enigma"
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti
238. Imagining Lebanese Nationalism
reviewed by Max David Weiss
Film Review
244. Unruly Subjects: Middle Eastern Women in Two Documentary Films
reviewed by Robert Avila