From the Editors:
This issue presents significant interventions in our understanding of relationships between heritage and technology. In our articles section, we are proud to feature Nicholas Mangialardi’s exploration of how Egyptian effendiyya framed Egyptian music as an endangered national heritage. Mangialardi reveals how effendiyya maintained their status as arbiters of Egyptian modernity through their efforts to “preserve” this national heritage. Omer Shah contributes an original interrogation of the technopolitical institution-building that undergirds the much-touted Saudi development program known as Vision 2030. Shah's article is an ethnographic encounter with Hijazi technologists seeking to remake Mecca and the hajj through smart technologies of pilgrim management. Our reviews section features careful analyses of cutting-edge multidisciplinary works on revolution, energy, and the city. We send this issue to print during the Israeli military’s ongoing siege, bombardment, and ground invasion against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, killing over 15,000 Palestinians, injuring over 35,000 Palestinians, and displacing over 1.6 million of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza... [read more] |
(VOL. XXXI, NO. 1-2): Fall 2023 Table of Contents ARTICLES Excavating Musical Heritage in Modern Egypt By Nicholas Mangialardi From Mecca to the World: Experimental Technopolitics and Islam in the Post-Oil Holy City By Omer Shah REVIEWS Bread and Freedom:Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation By Mona El-Ghobashy Reviewed by Killian Clarke Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil By Andrea Wright Reviewed by Rohan Advani When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946–63 By Matthieu Rey Reviewed by Samir Saad As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark By Avner Wishnitzer Reviewed by Ceyda Karamursel |