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(Vol. X No. 2/Vol. XI No. 1): Fall 2002/Spring 2003

From The Editors:

In this issue, our book review section continues to expand, both as a resource for scholars and as a forum for less specialized readers to explore the field of Middle East studies and its diverse intersections with other academic disciplines. This issue contains 32 book reviews, including seven review essays, offering insightful analyses of new publications in the fields of history, anthropology, politics, international relations, religion, art history, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Among the books under review are new translations of literature from Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, and Morocco. In addition we are very pleased to offer a new feature, a dialogue between two writers, in this instance stemming from the publication of Oz Shelach's novel Picnic Grounds. In this conversation, poet, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay talks with Shelach about the relationship of language to power in Israel, and Shelach's decision to begin writing in English. We encourage our readers to take a look at our available "Books for Review" section (p. 249) . . . [read more]
Table of Contents

Articles​​​

10. Magda's Story: Once Upon a Time . . .
by Samia Mehrez 

17. Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani
by Amy Zalman 

44. Press Advertising in Egypt: Business Realities and Local Meaning, 1882-1956
by Relli Shechter 

67. Heresy and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
by Sahar Bazzaz 

87. Arabic News with an American Accent: Cairo's Al-Ahram and the Mexican Peso Crisis
by Hosam Aboul-Ela 


Book Reviews
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112. Books Received Index

117. Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature

Edited by David C. Jacobson and Kamal Abdel-Malek 
reviewed by Ariel Moriah Blumenthal

121. Second Class: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools
by Human Rights Watch 
reviewed by Ismael Abu-Saad

125. The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Religion, Identity and Otherness in the Analysis of War and Conflict
by Hamdi A. Hassan 
reviewed by Charles Anderson

129. An Introduction to Arabic Literature
by Roger Allen 
reviewed by Haytham Bahoora

132. Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship
by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett 
reviewed by Bashkin Bashkin

136. The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism
by Amira el-Azhary Sonbol 
reviewed by David Bender

140. The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam: A Mosque of Their Own
by Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun 
reviewed by Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor

144. Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement
by Nadje al-Ali 
reviewed by Laura Bier

147. The Graying of the Raven: Cultural and Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry
by Aida Adib Bamia 
reviewed by Nabil Boudraa

150. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
by Hamid Naficy 
reviewed by Joel Gordon

153. I Saw Ramallah
by Mourid Barghouti 
reviewed by Dana Hearn

157. Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank
by Cheryl A. Rubenberg 
reviewed by Sherry Lowrance

161. Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan 1850-1921
by Eugene Rogan 
reviewed by Shana Minkin

165. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh 
reviewed by Dana Hearn

168. The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict
by Michael Dumper 
reviewed by Alejandro Paz

172. Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story
by Taja Muhammad Ali 
reviewed by Jennifer Peterson

175. Travellers in Egypt
Edited by Pail Starkey and Janet Starkey 
reviewed by Jessamine Price

179. Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
by Eleanor Abdella Doumato 
reviewed by Janell Rothenberg

182. Egypt During the Sadat Years
by Kirk J. Beattie 
reviewed by Dina Shehata

185. Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen
by Kevin Rusby 
reviewed by Lucine Taminian

188. Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls
by Jahangir Amuzegar 
reviewed by Robert Walters

191. The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq
by Nelida Fuccaro 
reviewed by Peter Wien

195. A Modern History of Yemen
by Paul Dresch 
reviewed by John Willis

199. France, the United States, and the Algerian War
by Irvin M. Wall 
reviewed by Julia Voelker

203. Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
by Khaled Abou El Fadl 
reviewed by Sherifa Zuhur

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