The Arab Studies Journal

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Spring 2009

(Vol. XVII No. 1)

From The Editors:

This latest issue of the Arab Studies Journal features scholarship that illustrates the complex processes by which various societies in the Middle East have both grappled with, and sought to control, different forms of Western or international encroachment and contact. Ranging from missionary education projects for women and depictions of male Bedouin in British travel journals, to the... [read more]

Table of Contents

Articles

9. Hydropolitics, Economy, and the Aswan High Dam in Mid-Century Egypt
   by Ahmad Shokr
   
32. Mothers of Martyrs and Suicide Bombers: The Gender of Ethical Discourse in the Second Palestinian Intifada
    by Lori A. Allen
    
62. "Under an American Roof": The Beginnings of the American Junior College for Women in Beirut
    by Ellen L. Fleischmann
    
85. Desert Saints or Lions Without Teeth? British Portrayals of Bedouin Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century Arabian Peninsula
    by Jeffery Dyer
    

In Memoriam: Mahmoud Darwish

98. Guest Editorial: Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
    by Sinan Antoon
    
100. The Poet is Dead: Elias Khoury Remembers His Friend Mahmoud Darwish
     by Elias Khoury
     
110. On Decolonization
     by Jeffrey Sacks
     

Book Reviews

135. So Far From Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants to Modern Mexico
     by Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
     reviewed by Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos
139. French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism
     by Peter J. Bloom
     reviewed by Joshua Schreier
143. The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe: Academic and Religious freedom in the 21st Century
     edited by Willem B. Drees and Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld
     reviewed by Simon Jackson
147. Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror,"
     edited by Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufic Haddad
     reviewed by Hazem Jamjoum
150. Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt
     by Richard Jacquemond, translated by David Tresilian
     reviewed by Yasmine Ramadan
154. Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects
     edited by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber
     reviewed by Amy Aisen Elouafi
158. Overcoming Zionism: Creating A Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
     by Joel Kovel
     reviewed by Ryvka Bar Zohar
161. Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria
     by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith
     reviewed by Nora Barakat
165. Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice
     by Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi
     reviewed by Samar Al-Bulushi
169. The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
     by Omnia El Shakry
     reviewed by Lisa Pollard
173. Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus: ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731
     by Elizabeth Sirriyeh
     reviewed by Steve Tamari

Review Essay

177. Acting and Playing: Performance in the Modern Middle East
     by Carmen M. K. Gitre