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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).
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(Vol. XXIV No. 1): Spring 2016
From The Editors: The Arab world and the broader Middle East offer profound lessons on the inextricability of knowledge and power. In the midst of civil war, foreign intervention, and ongoing occupation, those of us who study the Middle East or call it home confront two realities at once. On the one hand are the conditions of everyday life that range from the constrained to the unbearable. On the other are the increasingly confined possibilities of producing knowledge on these conditions . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
10. The Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission: The Promises of a Human Rights Archive
by Susan Slyomovics
42. The Paper Trail of a Liberation Movement
by Hana Sleiman
68. Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
by Sari Hanafi, Are Knudsen, and Robert Flahive
Special Section: The Arab Left in Egypt and Lebanon
90. New Approaches to Arab Left Histories
by Sune Haugbolle and Manfred Sing
100. A Tale of Two Communists: The Revolutionary Projects of the Lebanese Communists Husayn Muruwwa and Mahdi ‘Amil
by Miriam Younes
120. Arwa Salih’s The Premature: Gendering the History of the Egyptian Left
by Hanan Hammad
146. The Anatomy of a Crisis: On Mahdi ‘Amil’s Naqd al-Fikr al-Yawmi
by Samer Frangie
170. The Leftist, the Liberal, and the Space in Between: Ziad Rahbani and Everyday Ideology
by Sune Haugbolle
194. Lebanon’s al-Akhbar and Radical Press Culture: Toward an Intellectual History of the Contemporary Arab Left
by Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine
Special Section: New Paradigms Factory
228. Inviolable Sheikhs and Radical Subjects: Bahrain’s Cyclical Sovereignty Crisis
by Ala’a Shehabi
254. Sovereignty from Below: State Feminism and Politics of Women against Women in Tunisia
by Imen Yacoubi
Book Reviews
276. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
by Dana Sajdi
reviewed by Sara Scalenghe
281. Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria: 17th to Early 19th Century
by Sabrina Joseph
reviewed by Steve Tamari
286. Leg over Leg, or The Turtle in the Tree, concerning the Fariyaq, What Manner of Creature Might He Be
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
reviewed by Tarek El-Ariss
291. Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur
by Mervat Hatem
reviewed by Alya El Hosseiny
296. Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
reviewed by M. R. Ghanoonparvar
300. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
by Bedross Der Matossian
reviewed by Chris Gratien
305. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
by Alan Mikhail
reviewed by Nora Barakat
310. Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800
by Sara Scalenghe
reviewed by Beverly Tsacoyianis
315. Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut
by Lara Deeb and Mona Harb
reviewed by Ali Hamdan
320. On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
by On Barak
reviewed by Fredrik Meiton
325. Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
by Jessica Barnes
reviewed by Tamer Elshayal
330. Food Security in the Middle East
edited by Zahra Babar and Suzi Mirgani
reviewed by Max Ajl
335. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
by Tarek Masoud
reviewed by Rana B. Khoury
340. Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State
by Justin Gengler
reviewed by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
345. Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience
by Nurhan Abujidi
reviewed by Lisa Taraki
350. Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post–Cold War Order
by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
reviewed by Sara Awartani
Articles
10. The Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission: The Promises of a Human Rights Archive
by Susan Slyomovics
42. The Paper Trail of a Liberation Movement
by Hana Sleiman
68. Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
by Sari Hanafi, Are Knudsen, and Robert Flahive
Special Section: The Arab Left in Egypt and Lebanon
90. New Approaches to Arab Left Histories
by Sune Haugbolle and Manfred Sing
100. A Tale of Two Communists: The Revolutionary Projects of the Lebanese Communists Husayn Muruwwa and Mahdi ‘Amil
by Miriam Younes
120. Arwa Salih’s The Premature: Gendering the History of the Egyptian Left
by Hanan Hammad
146. The Anatomy of a Crisis: On Mahdi ‘Amil’s Naqd al-Fikr al-Yawmi
by Samer Frangie
170. The Leftist, the Liberal, and the Space in Between: Ziad Rahbani and Everyday Ideology
by Sune Haugbolle
194. Lebanon’s al-Akhbar and Radical Press Culture: Toward an Intellectual History of the Contemporary Arab Left
by Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine
Special Section: New Paradigms Factory
228. Inviolable Sheikhs and Radical Subjects: Bahrain’s Cyclical Sovereignty Crisis
by Ala’a Shehabi
254. Sovereignty from Below: State Feminism and Politics of Women against Women in Tunisia
by Imen Yacoubi
Book Reviews
276. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
by Dana Sajdi
reviewed by Sara Scalenghe
281. Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria: 17th to Early 19th Century
by Sabrina Joseph
reviewed by Steve Tamari
286. Leg over Leg, or The Turtle in the Tree, concerning the Fariyaq, What Manner of Creature Might He Be
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
reviewed by Tarek El-Ariss
291. Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur
by Mervat Hatem
reviewed by Alya El Hosseiny
296. Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
reviewed by M. R. Ghanoonparvar
300. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
by Bedross Der Matossian
reviewed by Chris Gratien
305. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
by Alan Mikhail
reviewed by Nora Barakat
310. Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800
by Sara Scalenghe
reviewed by Beverly Tsacoyianis
315. Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut
by Lara Deeb and Mona Harb
reviewed by Ali Hamdan
320. On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
by On Barak
reviewed by Fredrik Meiton
325. Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
by Jessica Barnes
reviewed by Tamer Elshayal
330. Food Security in the Middle East
edited by Zahra Babar and Suzi Mirgani
reviewed by Max Ajl
335. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
by Tarek Masoud
reviewed by Rana B. Khoury
340. Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State
by Justin Gengler
reviewed by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
345. Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience
by Nurhan Abujidi
reviewed by Lisa Taraki
350. Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post–Cold War Order
by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
reviewed by Sara Awartani