From the Editors:
This issue is a rich one that offers, in the best tradition of Arab Studies Journal, the rigor, insight, and transdisciplinarity that our team fosters. In “Confronting a Colonial Rule of Property: The al-Sakhina Case in Mandate Palestine,” Munir Fakher Eldin sheds an innovative light on popular conceptions and strategies of property, land, and sovereignty. His work reshapes our temporal and thematic understandings of land and settler-colonial politics in Palestine by centering how Sakhinites challenged colonial policy as well as interrupting, contesting, and shaping land and law. Chihab El Khachab traces how a family of successful film producers and their narrative formula came to signify a distinct genre of commercial entertainment in “The Sobky Recipe and the Struggle Over ‘The Popular’ in Egypt.” In illuminating struggles between multiple class-cultural formations, entrepreneurial interests and labor conditions, and highbrow and lowbrow music production, Khachab traces and explodes the category “popular.” In “Comic Images and the Art of Witnessing: A Visual Analysis of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza,” Nawal Musleh-Motut reveals how images facilitate readers’ role in bearing witness, through testimonial interactivity, appropriating and using images of trauma, manipulating time and space . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXVII, NO. 1): SPRING 2019 Table of Contents Articles 12. Confronting A Colonial Rule of Property: The al-Sakhina Case in Mandate Palestine Munir Fakher Eldin 34. The Sobky Recipe and the Struggle Over “The Popular” in Egypt Chihab El Khachab 62. Comic Images and the Art of Witnessing: A Visual Analysis of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza Nawal Musleh-Motut 90. No One to See Here: Genres of Neutralization and the Ongoing Nakba Shir Alon 118. Resistance into Incitement: Translation, Legislation, “Early Detection,” and the Palestinian Poet’s Intention Liron Mor Reviews 156. Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East by Peter Wien Reviewed by Jens Hanssen 161. Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq by Sara Pursley Reviewed by Kevin Jones 166. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno Reviewed by Hussein A. H. Omar 171. A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 by Fahad Ahmad Bishara Reviewed by Matthew S. Hopper 176. British-Ottoman Relations, 1661–1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth Century Istanbul by Michael Talbot Reviewed by Pascale Barthe 181. The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race by Neda Maghbouleh Reviewed by Randa Tawil |