From the Editors:
We are proud to feature another collection of insightful articles that are theoretically rich and empirical grounded. In “Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel,” Lana Tatour draws on new archival findings of the 1948–52 period as Israel established its constitutional cornerstones. She situates Israel’s citizenship regime in wider process of settler indigenization and native de- indigenization. Tatour shows how citizenship regimes are crucial to the colonization, dispossession, and domination of indigenous peoples. In this light, citizenship is not some failed unresolved promise, but a key mechanism for ethnic cleansing. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed traces literary portrayals of the degradation of urban life in Morocco during the era of economic liberalization. His “Dispossession and Hybridity: The Neoliberal Moroccan City in Mohammed Achaari’s Literary Enterprise” reveals the Moroccan city in Mohammed Achaari’s novel, Al-Qaws wa-l-Farasha. He unravels the city as a scene of modern hybrid assemblages that bring the environmental, financial, and technological into violent association. Benny Nuriely makes use of new archival terrain to reveal how the Custodian of Absentee Property, the Ministry of Minority Affairs, and the Israeli Army . . . [read more] |
(VOL. XXVII, NO. 2): FALL 2019 Table of Contents Articles 8. Citizenship as Domination: Settled Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel Lana Tatour 40. Dispossession and Hybridity: The Neoliberal Moroccan City In Mohammad Achaari's Literary Enterprise Mohammad Wajdi Ben Hammed 64. The Hunger Economy: The Military Government In Galilee, Ramle, and Lydda, 1948-1949 Benny Nuriely 86. Over the Top and Underground: Graphic Visualizations of Space in Magdy El Shafee's Metro and Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia Iman Hamam 114. Jerry Cans and Shrapnel Collections: Using Graphic Memoirs to Teach about the Lebanese Civil War Nova Robinson Reviews 146. A History of Algeria by James McDougall Reviewed by Austin R. Cooper 151. The Holocaust and North Africa by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein Reviewed by Chris Silver 156. Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco by Jessica M. Marglin Reviewed by Noam Sienna 160. The Palestinian Novel from 1948 to the Present by Bashir Abu-Manneh Reviewed by Nora Parr 164. The Prose Works of Gha’ib Tu’ma Farman: The City and the Beast by Hilla Peled-Shapira Reviewed by Levi Thompson Review Essay 170. Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle East and North Africa by Laura Frances Goffman Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Omar Dewachi In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt by Khaled Fahmy Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis by Richard C. Parks |