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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).
(Vol. XXV, No. 1): Spring 2017
From The Editors: Since the November 2016 elections, the dying gasps of US exceptionalism has meant the intensification of attacks on the lives and movement of people from the Arab world. The travel ban constitutes a US policy to sanction the very people that previous administrations as well as the current one have bombed. As borders close, the number of refugees fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq increases. In this tautology, the new US administration has resoundingly adopted policies of blaming the victims of decades of US war and hegemony. Within this constellation, the production of knowledge as well as higher education more broadly are more crucial than ever . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles 8. Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels by Ghenwa Hayek 30. Arab Students, American Jewish Insecurities, and the End of Pro-Arab Politics in Mainstream America, 1952-1973 by Geoffrey P. Levin Special Section: The State in Lebanon 60. Section Introduction: In Search of the Lebanese State by Jamil Mouawad and Hannes Baumann 66. Wayn al-Dawla?: Locating the Lebanese State in Social Theory by Jamil Mouawad and Hannes Baumann 92. The Gemmayzeh Incident of 1949: Conflict over Physical and Symbolic Space in Beirut by Dylan Baun 124. On Deference and Benevolence: The Politics of Parking in Beirut by Samar Kanafani Special Section Book Reviews: The State in Lebanon 150. The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea, 1840–1920 by Carol Hakim reviewed by Joan Chaker 155. Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa by Andrew Arsan reviewed by Reem Bailony 160. Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon by Melani Cammett reviewed by Paul Kingston 165. The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists by Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab reviewed by Linda Sayed 170. The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon by Bassel F. Salloukh, Rabie Barakat, Jinan S. Al-Habbal, Lara W. Khattab, and Shoghig Mikaelian reviewed by Maya Mikdashi 175. Spheres of Intervention: US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976 by James R. Stocker reviewed by Jeffrey G. Karam 179. Yusif Beidas: Imbaraturiyyat Intra wa-Hitan al-Mal fi Lubnan [Yusif Beidas: The Intra Empire and Money Sharks in Lebanon by Kamal Dib reviewed by Hicham Safieddine Book Reviews 184. Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture by Farzin Vejdani reviewed by Reviewed by Rustin Zarkar 189. Iranian Film and Persian Fiction by M. R. Ghanoonparvar reviewed by Samad Alavi 194. In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt by Michael Allan reviewed by Elizabeth M. Holt Review Essay 198. Between the World and Algeria: International Histories of the Algerian War of Independence by Arthur Asseraf |