Issues
For a complete list of articles until 2007, download the ASJ Articles Index (PDF, 187 KB). For a list of book reviews, download the ASJ Book Reviews Index (PDF, 200 KB).
For a complete list of articles until 2007, download the ASJ Articles Index (PDF, 187 KB). For a list of book reviews, download the ASJ Book Reviews Index (PDF, 200 KB).
(Vol. XXI No. 1): Spring 2013
From The Editors:
We can scarcely believe that two decades have passed since the publication of the first issue of the Arab Studies Journal. We are proud and humbled to have published groundbreaking work by scholars at the onset of their careers as well as at the pinnacle. During the last twenty years, the Journal has taken part in extraordinary... [read more]
From The Editors:
We can scarcely believe that two decades have passed since the publication of the first issue of the Arab Studies Journal. We are proud and humbled to have published groundbreaking work by scholars at the onset of their careers as well as at the pinnacle. During the last twenty years, the Journal has taken part in extraordinary... [read more]
79. Table of Contents
Twentieth Anniversary Issue
Articles
14. Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine
by Joel Beinin
48. On Iraqi Nationality: Law, Citizenship, and Exclusion
by Zainab Saleh
79. Dangerous Weddings: Palestinian Poetry Festivals During Israel’s First Military Rule
by Khaled Furani
101. Responsible Mothers, Anxious Women: Contraception and Neoliberalism in Morocco
by Cortney Hughes Rinker
Special Section: Arab Migrations and Diasporas
126. Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas
by Louise Cainkar
166. Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations
by Simon Jackson
191. Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon
by Wendy Pearlman
Book Reviews
216. Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
by Samera Esmeir
reviewed by Ilana Feldman
221. Picturing Algeria
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
reviewed by Muriam Haleh Davis
226. A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
by Trita Parsi
reviewed by Bitta Mostofi
231. A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
by Nancy Y. Reynolds
reviewed by Sarah El-Kazaz
236. Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon: New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘Amiyya
by Noha M. Radwan
reviewed by Christopher Stone
241. Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
by Eve M. Troutt Powell
reviewed by Soha El Achi
245. From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule
by Abigail Jacobson
reviewed by Mustafa Aksakal
249. Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, New Edition
by Ella Shohat
reviewed by Nick Denes
254. Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
by Fida J. Adely
reviewed by Bruce Burnside
259. Global Palestine
by John Collins
reviewed by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
263. The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
by Eyal Weizman
reviewed by Lisa Hajjar
Review Essays
270. Situating Salafism: Between the Local, the National, and the Global
by Michael Farquhar
279. Street Life: Rebels, Rulers, and the Right to the City
by Deen Sharp
Twentieth Anniversary Issue
Articles
14. Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine
by Joel Beinin
48. On Iraqi Nationality: Law, Citizenship, and Exclusion
by Zainab Saleh
79. Dangerous Weddings: Palestinian Poetry Festivals During Israel’s First Military Rule
by Khaled Furani
101. Responsible Mothers, Anxious Women: Contraception and Neoliberalism in Morocco
by Cortney Hughes Rinker
Special Section: Arab Migrations and Diasporas
126. Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas
by Louise Cainkar
166. Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations
by Simon Jackson
191. Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon
by Wendy Pearlman
Book Reviews
216. Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
by Samera Esmeir
reviewed by Ilana Feldman
221. Picturing Algeria
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
reviewed by Muriam Haleh Davis
226. A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
by Trita Parsi
reviewed by Bitta Mostofi
231. A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
by Nancy Y. Reynolds
reviewed by Sarah El-Kazaz
236. Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon: New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘Amiyya
by Noha M. Radwan
reviewed by Christopher Stone
241. Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
by Eve M. Troutt Powell
reviewed by Soha El Achi
245. From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule
by Abigail Jacobson
reviewed by Mustafa Aksakal
249. Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, New Edition
by Ella Shohat
reviewed by Nick Denes
254. Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
by Fida J. Adely
reviewed by Bruce Burnside
259. Global Palestine
by John Collins
reviewed by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
263. The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
by Eyal Weizman
reviewed by Lisa Hajjar
Review Essays
270. Situating Salafism: Between the Local, the National, and the Global
by Michael Farquhar
279. Street Life: Rebels, Rulers, and the Right to the City
by Deen Sharp