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. XXXII, NO.2): Fall 2024 Table of Contents ESSAYS One Year Into the Genocide, edited by Nour Joudah The Dis-invention of Gaza Zena Agha Opacity in Gaza: Intimate Relations as Resistance Hadeel Assali Educational Malpractice and the Palestinian Struggle: The Academic and Moral Obligation to Confront the Erasure of a People Amanda Najib ARTICLES The Making and Unmaking of State Intermediaries: Modern Iraq’s Jewish Medical Community Sara Farhan REVIEWS Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948 By Nadim Bawalsa Reviewed by Reem Bailony Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By Jessica Barnes Reviewed by Paul Kohlbry Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman By Alice Wilson Reviewed by Laura Frances Goffman |