The Arab Studies Journal

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).

Fall 2007 / Spring 2008

(Vol. XV No. 2 / Vol. XVI No. 1)

From The Editors:

The articles in this issue of the Arab Studies Journal underscore the diversity of political and cultural practices ranging from Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. The contributors analyze and critique how parties, states, and individuals are grappling with neo-liberal policies, global markets, and post-9/11 economic shifts that threaten regime stability, the welfare of differen... [read more]

Table of Contents

Articles

10. Images of Openness, Spaces of Control: The Politics of Tourism Development in Tunisia
    by Waleed Hazbun
    
36. The Heir Apparency of Gamal Mubarak
    by Jason Brownlee
    
57. Worldwide Wigs: Kutluğ Ataman and the Global Art Documentary
    by Alisa Lebow
    
83. The Western Imposition of Sectarianism on Iraqi Politics
    by Reidar Visser
    
100. Bridging the Economic Gap: The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class in Jordan
     by K. Luisa Gandolfo
     

Roundtable

123. On Suicide Bombing
     by Talal Asad
     
131. What Liberal Democratic Discourse Conceals
     by Harry Harootunian
     
135. Two Books in One
     by Gil Anidjar
     

Comment

140. What Is Under a Headscarf? Neo-Islamist vs. Kemalist Conservatism in Turkey
     by Aksu Bora & Koray Çaliskan
     

Book Reviews

166. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam
     Edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie
     reviewed by Maryam Saifee
169. Siraaj: An Arab Table
     by Radwa Ashour
     reviewed by Rana Assem Harouny
173. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
     by Lara Deeb
     reviewed by Linda Sayed
177. Local Court, Provincial Society, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Legal Practice and Dispute Resolution in Çankiri And Kastamonu (1652-1744)
     by Boğaç Ergene
     reviewed by Reviewed by James E. Baldwin
181. A Pen of Damascus Steel: Political Cartoons of an Arab Master
     by Ali Farzat
     reviewed by Nathan Fonder
185. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, or, How Not to Learn from the Past
     Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young
     reviewed by George Tomlinson
189. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
     by Charles Hirschkind
     reviewed by Patricia Kubala
193. Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
     by Khaled Hroub
     reviewed by Ilan Pappé
196. Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
     by Aliza Marcus
     reviewed by Firat Bozcali
200. Desiring Arabs
     by Joseph A. Massad
     reviewed by Marnia Lazreg
203. Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalists and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine
     by Weldon C Matthews
     reviewed by Charles Anderson
207. Torture and Democracy
     by Darius Rejali
     reviewed by Lisa Hajjar
210. Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
     Edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar
     reviewed by Mona El-Ghobashy
214. Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
     Edited by Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg
     reviewed by Dina Ramadan
218. America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
     by Robert Vitalis
     reviewed by Sudhir Chella Rajan
222. Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
     by Brian Whitaker
     reviewed by Neville Hoad
225. Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
     by Jessica Winegar
     reviewed by Anneka Lenssen

Review Essays

228. Two Texts From the Banlieue
     by Gretchen Head