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(Vol. XVIII No. 1): Spring 2010

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The last decade has comprised tremendous transformations for the artscapes of the Middle East, transformations simultaneously occurring on a number of levels. Regionally, there has been a mushrooming of “independent” art spaces, artist-run projects, and large-scale bi/annual events and festivals. Conveniently neat portrayals of bifurcated art scene(s)—pitting more recent initiatives against the historic prominence of the state as the primary patron of the arts—quickly gained currency and framed the majority of discussions of artistic production ... [read more]
Table of Contents

Special Issue: Visual Arts and Art Practices in the Middle East

Theme Articles


12. Authenticity and Its Modernist Discontents: The Colonial Encounter and African and Middle Eastern Art History 
by Prita Meier 

46. Daoud Corm, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and the Origins of Lebanese Modern Art 
by Sarah Rogers 

78. Egyptian Surrealism and “Degenerate Art” in 1939 
by Don LaCoss 

118. On Being “the Other” in Post-Civil War Lebanon: Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production
by Hanan Toukan 


Articles
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162. Hashemitism, Jordanian National Identity, and the Abu Odeh Episode
by Stefanie Nanes 

196. Ottoman Reform, Islam, and Palestine’s Peasantry
by Erik Eliav Freas 


Conversations

232. A Constant State of Urgency

254. Street Talk: On Infrastructure and Pleasures

270. Six-Shooters and Nationalist Stamps: A Conversation Between Naeem Mohaiemen and Haig Aivazian

288. When Global Art Meanders on a Magic Carpet: A Conversation on Tehran's Roaming Biennial

​300. To Participate or Follow? (Views on the Current Situation of the Istanbul Art Scene)


Interview

316. Interview with Wafaa Bilal


Theme Reviews

330. Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present
by Kamal Boullata 
reviewed by Rhonda A. Saad

334. Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War
by Zeina Maasri 
reviewed by Sune Haugbolle

338. Tarjama/Translation. ArteEast Exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art, New York. 10 May – 27 September 2009
reviewed by Clare Davies

344. Iran Inside Out. Group Show, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City. 26 June – 5 September 2009
reviewed by Kamran Rastegar

349. What Keeps Mankind Alive?. 11th International Art Exhibition, Istanbul Biennial. 12 September – 8 November 2009 
reviewed by Nermin Saybasili

356. Making Worlds // Hacer Mundos // Fare Mundi. 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. 7 June – 22 November 2009 
reviewed by Nada Shabout


Book Reviews

362. The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq
by Orit Bashkin 
reviewed by Haytham Bahoora

366. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
by Elliott Colla 
reviewed by Yasmine Ramadan

370. Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
by Christopher M. Davidson 
reviewed by Arang Keshavarzian

374. The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
by Michael Ezekiel Gasper 
reviewed by Aaron Jakes

379. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
by M. Sükrü Hanioğlu 
reviewed by Cenk Palaz

383. My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman 
reviewed by Hala Khamis Nassar

387. Poets for Palestine
by Remi Kanazi, ed. 
reviewed by Ahmad Diab

392. Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
by Mahmood Mamdani 
reviewed by Caitlyn Bolton

397. The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
by Oliver Roy 
reviewed by Matthew Berkman

402. Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
by Eyal Weizman 
reviewed by On Barak

407. Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict
by Mark Zeitoun 
reviewed by Nicholas Rowe​

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