Issues
For a complete list of articles until 2007, download the ASJ Articles Index (PDF, 187 KB).
For a list of book reviews, download the ASJ Book Reviews Index (PDF, 200 KB).
Spring 2011
(Vol. XIX No. 1)The revolutions, uprisings, demonstrations and protests have unfolded in ways both exultant and heartbreaking across North Africa and the Middle East in the last several months. As individuals, communities, citizenries, and populations, tired of decades of a manipulation of history, a usurpation of resources, and a corruption of rulership, finally said “enough!... [read more]
Table of Contents
Articles
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Culture as History and Landscape: Hizballah’s Efforts to Shape an Islamic Milieu in Lebanon
by Mona Harb and Lara Deeb
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Fellahin, Fida'iyyin, Laji'in: Palestinian Camp Refugees in Lebanon as Autochthons
by Nadia Latif
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Pomp and Circumstance: Royal Symbolism and the ‘Id al-Kabir Sacrifice in Morocco
by Stacy Holden
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Finitude and the Authorship of Fiction: Muhammad ‘Awfi’s Preface to his Chronicle, Lubab al-Albab (The Piths of Intellects)
by Prashant Keshavmurthy
Book Reviews
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Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion
Edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler
reviewed by Paul Amar -
Redeploying the State: Corporatism, Neoliberalism, and Coalition Politics
by Hishaam D. Aidi
reviewed by Agnieszka Paczynska -
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa
by Richard C. Keller
reviewed by Lawrence W. McMahon -
Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900
by Julia A. Clancy-Smith
reviewed by Omar Cheta -
The World of Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–91): Life, Networks, and Writings
by Stefan Reichmuth
reviewed by Dahlia E. M. Gubara -
Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
reviewed by Stephen Sheehi -
Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China
by Jay Dautcher
reviewed by Kelly Hammond -
Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
by Samia Mehrez
reviewed by Elliott Colla -
Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict
by Photographs by Ziad Antar, text by Rasha Salti
reviewed by Sarah A. Rogers -
Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World
by Waleed Hazbun
reviewed by Adel Ait-Ghezala -
Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story
by Ahmed Mansour
reviewed by Dahr Jamil -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by Erez Manela
reviewed by Maggie Clinton -
The Claims of Culture at Empire’s End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
by Jennifer M. Dueck
reviewed by Samuel Dolbee -
For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
by Hanan Kholoussy
reviewed by Omnia El Shakry
