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(Vol. XV No. 1): Spring 2007

From The Editors:

Various forms of violence and brutality became increasingly entrenched across the Middle East this past year. In July and August of 2006, Israel's calculated devastation of Lebanon's infrastructure coupled with its wanton disregard for human life gave rise to historic levels of environmental, economic, and social damage. The ensuing political fallout brought the Lebanese government to the brink of national crisis. In Palestine, democratically elected Hamas parliamentarians sit in Israeli prisons as the Palestinian people suffer continued economic strangulation and experience unprecedented internecine strife . . . [read more]
Table of Contents

Articles

8. Rethinking Ottoman Frontier Policies: Marriage and Citizenship in the Province of Iraq
by Karen M. Kern 

30. Pious Stardom: Cinema and the Islamic Revival in Egypt
by Karim Tartoussieh 

44. Re-Remembering the Dead: A Genealogy of a Martyrs Memorial in South Lebanon
by Lucia Volk 

70. Palestine on Display: The Palestinian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924
by Nicholas E. Roberts 


Book Reviews

100. One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
by Ali Abunimeh 
reviewed by Issa Mikel

104. Academic Freedom After September 11
Edited by Beshara Doumani 
reviewed by Marwan Daoud Hanania

110. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
by Mark Mazower 
reviewed by Isa Blumi

114. Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict
by Muhsin al-Musawi 
reviewed by Ferial J. Ghazoul

118. Nights of Musk: Stories from Old Nubia
by Haggag Hassan Oddoul 
reviewed by Noha Radwan

121. 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the War on Terror
by Milan Rai 
reviewed by Zachary Wales

125. Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Syria
by Jonathan H. Shannon 
reviewed by Patricia Kubala

129. Transitions in Consumption and Domestic Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses in Motion
Edited by Relli Shechter 
reviewed by Z. Pamela Karimi

133. Mubarak al-Sabah: Founder of Modern Kuwait, 1896-1915
by B. J. Slot 
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti

138. Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace
Edited by Michael Sorkin 
reviewed by Gabriel Ash

143. A Modern History of Lebanon
Edited by Fawwaz Traboulsi 
reviewed by Sune Haugbolle

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