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The articles in this issue of the Arab Studies Journal underscore the diversity of political and cultural practices ranging from Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. The contributors analyze and critique how parties, states, and individuals are grappling with neo-liberal policies, global markets, and post-9/11 economic shifts that threaten regime stability, the welfare of different socioeconomic classes, and state cultural politics . . . [read more]
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Articles
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10. Images of Openness, Spaces of Control: The Politics of Tourism Development in Tunisia 
by Waleed Hazbun 

36. The Heir Apparency of Gamal Mubarak
by Jason Brownlee 

57. Worldwide Wigs: Kutluğ Ataman and the Global Art Documentary
by Alisa Lebow 

83. The Western Imposition of Sectarianism on Iraqi Politics
by Reidar Visser 

100. Bridging the Economic Gap: The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class in Jordan
by K. Luisa Gandolfo 


Roundtable

123. On Suicide Bombing
by Talal Asad 

131. What Liberal Democratic Discourse Conceals
by Harry Harootunian 

135. Two Books in One
by Gil Anidjar 


Comment

140. What Is Under a Headscarf? Neo-Islamist vs. Kemalist Conservatism in Turkey 
by Aksu Bora & Koray Çaliskan 


Book Reviews

166. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam
Edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie 
reviewed by Maryam Saifee

169. Siraaj: An Arab Table
by Radwa Ashour 
reviewed by Rana Assem Harouny

173. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
by Lara Deeb 
reviewed by Linda Sayed

177. Local Court, Provincial Society, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Legal Practice and Dispute Resolution in Çankiri And Kastamonu (1652-1744)
by Boğaç Ergene 
reviewed by Reviewed by James E. Baldwin

181. A Pen of Damascus Steel: Political Cartoons of an Arab Master
by Ali Farzat 
reviewed by Nathan Fonder

185. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, or, How Not to Learn from the Past 
Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young 
reviewed by George Tomlinson

189. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
by Charles Hirschkind 
reviewed by Patricia Kubala

193. Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
by Khaled Hroub 
reviewed by Ilan Pappé

196. Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
by Aliza Marcus 
reviewed by Firat Bozcali

200. Desiring Arabs
by Joseph A. Massad 
reviewed by Marnia Lazreg

203. Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalists and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine
by Weldon C Matthews 
reviewed by Charles Anderson

207. Torture and Democracy
by Darius Rejali 
reviewed by Lisa Hajjar

210. Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
Edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar 
reviewed by Mona El-Ghobashy

214. Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
Edited by Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg 
reviewed by Dina Ramadan

218. America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
by Robert Vitalis 
reviewed by Sudhir Chella Rajan

222. Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
by Brian Whitaker 
reviewed by Neville Hoad

225. Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
by Jessica Winegar 
reviewed by Anneka Lenssen
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228. Two Texts From the Banlieue
by Gretchen Head 

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