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bUY THE fALL 2006 ISSUE nOW!
(Vol. XIV No. 2): Fall 2006

From The Editors:

Over the last three decades, scholars of the Middle East have been on the frontlines of undermining Orientalist and Cold War frameworks as well as challenging dichotomies such as the traditional versus the modern, the Oriental versus the Occidental, and the "backward" versus the progressive. At the same time, Western mainstream media and many Western governments have continued to mobilize Islamophobia and anti-Arabracism, sometimes in perilously unprecedented ways. The assumptions that scholars have challenged are now reemerging in dangerously bombastic forms and from the mouths of the most powerful men and women in the world . . . [read more]

Table of Contents

Special Issue: The Dynamics of Space

Articles
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9. Subalternity, Material Practices, and Popular Aspirations: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon
by John Chalcraft 

39. Conflict and Community in Church-Based Refugee Havens in Cairo: The Quest for Space to be Dinka
by Carla N. Daughtry 

60. Spatial Transformations in the Lebanese “Independence Intifada”
by Sune Haugbolle 

78. Egyptian Theater: Reconstructing Performance Spaces
by Dina Amin 


Book Reviews

107. Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq
by Magnus T. Bernhardsson 
reviewed by Zainab Bahrani

111. Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World 
by Yasser Elsheshtawy 
reviewed by Ali A. Alraouf

116. Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
by Farha Ghannam 
reviewed by Mara Naaman

120. Fin de Siecle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital
by Jens Hanssen 
reviewed by Nadya Sbaiti

125. Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
by David Harvey 
reviewed by Nicholas De Genova

129. Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces
by Kimberly Katz 
reviewed by Elena Corbett

133. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948
by Mark Le Vine 
reviewed by Andrea Stanton

137. A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture
Edited by Rafi Segal 
reviewed by Yosef Jabareen

142. Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire
by Wendy M. K. Shaw 
reviewed by James E. Baldwin

145. The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experiences in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries
by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh 
reviewed by Alan Mikhail

149. Makan: The Right to the City and New Ways of Understanding Space
Edited by Suad Bishara 
reviewed by Ozlem Altan

155. Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918
by Issa Blumi 
reviewed by Alexis Wick

159. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
by Mahmoud Darwish 
reviewed by Robert Creswell

163. Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
by Julia Elyachar 
reviewed by Koray Caliskan

169. Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952
Edited by Arthur Goldschmidt 
reviewed by Jennifer Derr

173. Modern Egyptian Art, 1910-2003
by Liliane Karnouk 
reviewed by Dina Ramadan

177. Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict
by Samir Khalaf 
reviewed by Raja Abillama

177. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
by Mahmood Mamdani 
reviewed by Marwan Dalal

181. The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
by Joseph A. Massad 
reviewed by Laleh Khalili

185. The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa
Edited by Scott S. Reese 
reviewed by Paul E. Lovejoy

188. The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
by Samah Selim 
reviewed by Yasmine Ramadan

191. The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock
by Virginia Tilley 
reviewed by Issa Mikel

195. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
by Keith David Watenpaugh 
reviewed by Sherene Seikaly

199. Palestinian Theater
by Reuven Snir 
reviewed by Jordan Sudermann


Review Essay

203. The New State of Poetics
by Anthony Alessandrini 


Exhibition Review

213. Haunting Preconceptions
by Sarah Rogers



Film Review

219. Crossing Boundaries Through Film and Dark (Safe) Spaces
by Maysoun Freij 

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