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 2004 / Spring 2005
(Vol. XII No. 2 / Vol. XIII No. 1)Table of Contents
Articles
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The Deaf in Ottoman Syria, 16th - 18th Centuries
by Sara Scalenghe
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Blinding Ignorance: Medical Science, Diseased Eyes, and Religious Practice in Egypt
by Sherine F. Hamdy
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Attempts at Liberation: Body Materialization and Community Building Among Palestinian Political Captives
by Esmail al-Nashif
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"I Am a Whore But I Will Be a Good Mother": On the Production and Consumption of the Female Body in Egypt
by Lucie Ryzova
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Dancing the Hootchy Kootchy: The Belly Dancer as Embodiment of Socio-Cultural Tensions
by Amira Jarmakani
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Biology and "Created Nature": Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature from Modern Turkey and the West
by Taner Edis
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The Politics of Bellydancing in Cairo
by Shannon Arvizu
Book Reviews
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They Die Strangers: A Novella and Stories from Yemen
by Muhammad Abdul-Wali
reviewed by Gregory D. Johnson -
Modern Arab Historiography: Historical Discourse and the Nation-State
by Youssef Chouieri
reviewed by Elizabeth Bishop -
From Arab Nationalism to OPEC" Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations,
by Nathan J. Citino
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti -
The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's
Movement, 1920-1948
by Ellen Fleischmann
reviewed by Noah Haiduc-Dale -
The Polymath
by Bensalem Himmich
reviewed by Gretchen Head -
Tormented Births: Passages to Modernity in Europe and the
Middle East
by Isam Al-Khafaji
reviewed by Simon Jackson -
The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
by Heath Lowry
reviewed by James E. Baldwin -
The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
by Nur Masalha
reviewed by Samuel Jacob Kuruvilla -
The Bullet Collection
by Patricia Sarrafian Ward
reviewed by Amira Pierce -
Toward a New Approach to Ottoman Historiography
reviewed by Isa Blumi -
Beyond the Saudi "Enigma,"
reviewed by Peter C. Valenti -
Imagining Lebanese Nationalism
reviewed by Max David Weiss -
Unruly Subjects: Middle Eastern Women in Two Documentary Films
reviewed by Robert Avila
