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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. 2): Fall 2016
From The Editors: A wedding party walks the shattered streets of Aleppo. A flash mob dances in a public square in occupied Ramallah. These scenes inspire the imagina-tions of millions as they travel through social media. They are shocking and comforting at once. The Arab world we are accustomed to seeing is one of accumulating catastrophes, multiple wars, occupations, and unprecedented authoritarian and sectarian militarization. By all counts, the conditions of people, as varied as they may be, in places like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Palestine appear to only be getting worse before, and if, they will get any better. These conditions target the very possibility of life. Yet despite these hardships and amidst the varieties of dispossession and injustice we are now witnessing, people continue to live, to create, and to love . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
8. Minority Identities Before and After Iraq: The Making of the Modern Assyrian and Chaldean Appellations
by Yasmeen Hanoosh
42. Thus the Sadness of the Heron: Interpreting Aslan’s Imbaba
by Hazem Ziada
72. Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics, 1952-1966
by Kristi N. Barnwell
Special Section: Love in the Arab World
96. The Trouble of Love in the Arab World: Romance, Marriage, and the Shaping of Intimate Lives
by Corinne Fortier, Aymon Kreill, and Irene Maffi
102. A Different Kind of Love: Compatibility (Insijam) and Marriage in Jordan
by Fida Adely
128. The Price of Love: Valentine’s Day in Egypt and Its Enemies
by Aymon Kreil
148. The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian Television Drama
by Rebecca Joubin
Book Reviews
176. Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
by Nadav Samin
reviewed by Rosie Bsheer
181. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950
by Marwa Elshakry
reviewed by Hilary Falb Kalisman
186. A History of Modern Oman
by Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout
reviewed by Guillemette Crouzet
190. The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
by Michael Herb
reviewed by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
195. The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
by Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh
reviewed by Kareem Rabie
200. Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire: Modernisation and the Path to Palestinian Statehood
by Farid Al-Salim
reviewed by Erik Freas
Review Essay
206. The British Invasion and Occupation of Ottoman Iraq
by Dale Stahl
Articles
8. Minority Identities Before and After Iraq: The Making of the Modern Assyrian and Chaldean Appellations
by Yasmeen Hanoosh
42. Thus the Sadness of the Heron: Interpreting Aslan’s Imbaba
by Hazem Ziada
72. Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics, 1952-1966
by Kristi N. Barnwell
Special Section: Love in the Arab World
96. The Trouble of Love in the Arab World: Romance, Marriage, and the Shaping of Intimate Lives
by Corinne Fortier, Aymon Kreill, and Irene Maffi
102. A Different Kind of Love: Compatibility (Insijam) and Marriage in Jordan
by Fida Adely
128. The Price of Love: Valentine’s Day in Egypt and Its Enemies
by Aymon Kreil
148. The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian Television Drama
by Rebecca Joubin
Book Reviews
176. Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
by Nadav Samin
reviewed by Rosie Bsheer
181. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950
by Marwa Elshakry
reviewed by Hilary Falb Kalisman
186. A History of Modern Oman
by Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout
reviewed by Guillemette Crouzet
190. The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
by Michael Herb
reviewed by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
195. The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
by Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh
reviewed by Kareem Rabie
200. Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire: Modernisation and the Path to Palestinian Statehood
by Farid Al-Salim
reviewed by Erik Freas
Review Essay
206. The British Invasion and Occupation of Ottoman Iraq
by Dale Stahl