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Spring 2010
(Vol. XVIII No. 1)[read more]
Table of Contents
Theme: Visual Arts and Art Practices in the Middle EastTheme Articles
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Authenticity and Its Modernist Discontents: The Colonial Encounter
and African and Middle Eastern Art History
by Prita Meier
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Daoud Corm, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and the Origins of
Lebanese Modern Art
by Sarah Rogers
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Egyptian Surrealism and “Degenerate Art” in 1939
by Don LaCoss
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On Being “the Other” in Post-Civil War Lebanon: Aid and the
Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production
by Hanan Toukan
Articles
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Hashemitism, Jordanian National Identity, and the Abu
Odeh Episode
by Stefanie Nanes
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Ottoman Reform, Islam, and Palestine’s Peasantry
by Erik Eliav Freas
Conversations
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A Constant State of Urgency
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Street Talk: On Infrastructure and Pleasures
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Six-Shooters and Nationalist Stamps: A Conversation Between Naeem Mohaiemen and Haig Aivazian
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When Global Art Meanders on a Magic Carpet: A Conversation on Tehran's Roaming Biennial
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To Participate or Follow? (Views on the Current Situation of the Istanbul Art Scene)
Interview
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Interview with Wafaa Bilal
Theme Reviews
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Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present
by Kamal Boullata
reviewed by Rhonda A. Saad -
Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War
by Zeina Maasri
reviewed by Sune Haugbolle -
Tarjama/Translation. ArteEast Exhibition at the Queens Museum
of Art, New York. 10 May – 27 September 2009
reviewed by Clare Davies -
Iran Inside Out. Group Show, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City.
26 June – 5 September 2009
reviewed by Kamran Rastegar -
What Keeps Mankind Alive?. 11th International Art Exhibition,
Istanbul Biennial. 12 September – 8 November 2009
reviewed by Nermin Saybasili -
Making Worlds // Hacer Mundos // Fare Mundi. 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. 7 June – 22 November 2009
reviewed by Nada Shabout
Book Reviews
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The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq
by Orit Bashkin
reviewed by Haytham Bahoora -
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
by Elliott Colla
reviewed by Yasmine Ramadan -
Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
by Christopher M. Davidson
reviewed by Arang Keshavarzian -
The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
by Michael Ezekiel Gasper
reviewed by Aaron Jakes -
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
by M. Sükrü Hanioğlu
reviewed by Cenk Palaz -
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman
reviewed by Hala Khamis Nassar -
Poets for Palestine
by Remi Kanazi, ed.
reviewed by Ahmad Diab -
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
by Mahmood Mamdani
reviewed by Caitlyn Bolton -
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
by Oliver Roy
reviewed by Matthew Berkman -
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
by Eyal Weizman
reviewed by On Barak -
Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the
Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict
by Mark Zeitoun
reviewed by Nicholas Rowe
