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(Vol. XX No. 1): Spring 2012

From The Editors:

This issue marks the passage of twenty years since the founding of Arab Studies Journal. In 1992, our editors prepared the first issue for publication at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Eight years later, in 2000, the journal became a fully peer-reviewed publication. By 2002, ASJ was operating its book review section out ... [read more]


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Articles

12. Taking the Place of Martyrs: Afghans and Arabs under the Banner of Islam
by Darryl Li 

40. Of Angels and Men: Sayyid Fadl b. 'Alawi and Two Moments of Sovereignty
by Wilson Chacko Jacob 

74. Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt
by Gilbert Achcar 

104. Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb
by Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman 


Book Reviews

136. Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II
by Sarah D. Shields 
reviewed by Michelle U. Campos


142. Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo
by Mara Naaman 
reviewed by Samah Selim


147. Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States
by Adam Hanieh 
reviewed by Omar S. Dahi


152. Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past
by Salim Tamari 
reviewed by Shay Hazkani


157. Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria
by Osama W. Abi-Mershed 
reviewed by Benjamin C. Brower


162. Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
by Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski 
reviewed by Gilbert Achcar


167. In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon
by Max Weiss 
reviewed by Ziad Abu-Rish


172. Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace
by Arang Keshavarzian 
reviewed by Firat Bozçali


178. Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East
by Mark Allen Peterson 
reviewed by Shane Minkin


183. In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
by Mandana Limbert 
reviewed by Jatin Dua


188. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
by Rochelle Davis 
reviewed by Isabelle Humphries


193. From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers, and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
by Paul Sedra 
reviewed by Ellen Fleischmann


199. Transforming Damascus: Space and Modernity in an Islamic City
by Leila Hudson 
reviewed by Benjamin Thomas White


204. Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs
by Talinn Grigor 
reviewed by Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam


209. Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arabic Science
by Hans Belting 
reviewed by Jeannie Miller


214. Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity
by Miriyam Aouragh 
reviewed by Jillian C. York


218. Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
by Wilson Chacko Jacob 
reviewed by Murat Cihan Yildiz


223. Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
by Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel 
reviewed by John Chalcraft


227. The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
by Ilan Pappe 
reviewed by Ryvka Barnard


231. The Copts of Egypt: The Challenges of Modernisation and Identity
by Vivian Ibrahim 
reviewed by Paul Sedra



Review Essays

236. The Invisible State
by Aaron Jakes 

246. Ottoman Environmental History: A New Area of Middle East Studies
by Chris Gratien 

255. Edward Said’s Legacy
by Anthony Alessandrini

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