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(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
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