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(Vol. XIX No. 1): Spring 2011
From The Editors: The revolutions, uprisings, demonstrations and protests have unfolded in ways both exultant and heartbreaking across North Africa and the Middle East in the last several months. As individuals, communities, citizenries, and populations, tired of decades of a manipulation of history, a usurpation of resources, and a corruption of rulership, finally said “enough! ... [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
10. Culture as History and Landscape: Hizballah’s Efforts to Shape an Islamic Milieu in Lebanon
by Mona Harb and Lara Deeb
42. Fellahin, Fida'iyyin, Laji'in: Palestinian Camp Refugees in Lebanon as Autochthons
by Nadia Latif
66. Pomp and Circumstance: Royal Symbolism and the ‘Id al-Kabir Sacrifice in Morocco
by Stacy Holden
94. Finitude and the Authorship of Fiction: Muhammad ‘Awfi’s Preface to his Chronicle, Lubab al-Albab (The Piths of Intellects)
by Prashant Keshavmurthy
Book Reviews
122. Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion
Edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler
reviewed by Paul Amar
127. Redeploying the State: Corporatism, Neoliberalism, and Coalition Politics
by Hishaam D. Aidi
reviewed by Agnieszka Paczynska
132. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa
by Richard C. Keller
reviewed by Lawrence W. McMahon
137. Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900
by Julia A. Clancy-Smith
reviewed by Omar Cheta
142. The World of Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–91): Life, Networks, and Writings
by Stefan Reichmuth
reviewed by Dahlia E. M. Gubara
147. Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
reviewed by Stephen Sheehi
152. Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China
by Jay Dautcher
reviewed by Kelly Hammond
156. Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
by Samia Mehrez
reviewed by Elliott Colla
300. Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict
by Photographs by Ziad Antar, text by Rasha Salti
reviewed by Sarah A. Rogers
338. Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World
by Waleed Hazbun
reviewed by Adel Ait-Ghezala
162. Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story
by Ahmed Mansour
reviewed by Dahr Jamil
196. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by Erez Manela
reviewed by Maggie Clinton
232. The Claims of Culture at Empire’s End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
by Jennifer M. Dueck
reviewed by Samuel Dolbee
254. For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
by Hanan Kholoussy
reviewed by Omnia El Shakry
Articles
10. Culture as History and Landscape: Hizballah’s Efforts to Shape an Islamic Milieu in Lebanon
by Mona Harb and Lara Deeb
42. Fellahin, Fida'iyyin, Laji'in: Palestinian Camp Refugees in Lebanon as Autochthons
by Nadia Latif
66. Pomp and Circumstance: Royal Symbolism and the ‘Id al-Kabir Sacrifice in Morocco
by Stacy Holden
94. Finitude and the Authorship of Fiction: Muhammad ‘Awfi’s Preface to his Chronicle, Lubab al-Albab (The Piths of Intellects)
by Prashant Keshavmurthy
Book Reviews
122. Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion
Edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler
reviewed by Paul Amar
127. Redeploying the State: Corporatism, Neoliberalism, and Coalition Politics
by Hishaam D. Aidi
reviewed by Agnieszka Paczynska
132. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa
by Richard C. Keller
reviewed by Lawrence W. McMahon
137. Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900
by Julia A. Clancy-Smith
reviewed by Omar Cheta
142. The World of Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–91): Life, Networks, and Writings
by Stefan Reichmuth
reviewed by Dahlia E. M. Gubara
147. Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
reviewed by Stephen Sheehi
152. Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China
by Jay Dautcher
reviewed by Kelly Hammond
156. Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
by Samia Mehrez
reviewed by Elliott Colla
300. Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict
by Photographs by Ziad Antar, text by Rasha Salti
reviewed by Sarah A. Rogers
338. Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World
by Waleed Hazbun
reviewed by Adel Ait-Ghezala
162. Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story
by Ahmed Mansour
reviewed by Dahr Jamil
196. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by Erez Manela
reviewed by Maggie Clinton
232. The Claims of Culture at Empire’s End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
by Jennifer M. Dueck
reviewed by Samuel Dolbee
254. For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
by Hanan Kholoussy
reviewed by Omnia El Shakry