***Arab Studies Journal Announces Fall 2019 Issue: Editor’s Note and Table of Contents***

Arab Studies Journal
Vol. XVII, No. 2
Fall 2019

Editor's Note:

We are proud to feature another collection of insightful articles that are theoretically rich and empirically 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 a 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 used hunger to dispossess Palestinians in “The Hunger Economy, The Military Government in the Galilee, Ramle, and Lydda, 1948–1949.” In the Galilee, the army confiscated Palestinian lands and turned Palestinians into internal refugees. The Custodian took charge of land and mobile property in Ramle and Lydda. The ministry, in the meantime, transferred one thousand Palestinian workers from the Lower Galilee in the north to Ramle and Lydda in the central plain. Nuriely shows how the Military Government’s first year initiated a hunger economy to realize accumulation through dispossession. Iman Hamam traces two graphic novels’ depictions of the passageways, tunnels, and sewers that constitute Cairo’s underground spaces in “Over the Top and Underground: Graphic Visualizations of Space in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro and Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia.” She shows how these graphic representations teach us new lessons about neoliberalism in Egypt, while simultaneously subverting communication, transportation, and sewer networks to unsettle the spatial order. Nova Robinson critically engages graphic narratives of the Lebanese Civil War and highlights the politics of memory and reconciliation in the US classroom. In “Jerry Cans and Shrapnel Collections: Using Graphic Memoirs to Teach About the Lebanese Civil War,” Robinson provides scholars and teachers innovative pedagogical tools to improve visual literacy, nourish critical thinking, and add personal dimensions to courses on the history of the Middle East broadly, and Lebanon specifically. We are proud as always to feature a robust review section.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Articles

8. Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Lana Tatour

40. Dispossession and Hybridity: The Neoliberal Moroccan City in Mohammed Achaari’s Literary Enterprise
Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

64. The Hunger Economy: The Military Government in the Galilee, Ramle, and Lydda, 1948–1949
Benny Nuriely
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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 Francis 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