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A wedding party walks the shattered streets of Aleppo. A flash mob dances in a public square in occupied Ramallah. These scenes inspire the imagina-tions of millions as they travel through social media. They are shocking and comforting at once. The Arab world we are accustomed to seeing is one of accumulating catastrophes, multiple wars, occupations, and unprecedented authoritarian and sectarian militarization. By all counts, the conditions of people, as varied as they may be, in places like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Palestine appear to only be getting worse before, and if, they will get any better. These conditions target the very possibility of life. Yet despite these hardships and amidst the varieties of dispossession and injustice we are now witnessing, people continue to live, to create, and to love . . . [read more]
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Articles

8. Minority Identities Before and After Iraq: The Making of the Modern Assyrian and Chaldean Appellations
by Yasmeen Hanoosh 

42. Thus the Sadness of the Heron: Interpreting Aslan’s Imbaba
by Hazem Ziada 
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72. Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics, 1952-1966
by Kristi N. Barnwell 


Special Section: Love in the Arab World

96. The Trouble of Love in the Arab World: Romance, Marriage, and the Shaping of Intimate Lives
by Corinne Fortier, Aymon Kreill, and Irene Maffi 

102. A Different Kind of Love: Compatibility (Insijam) and Marriage in Jordan
by Fida Adely 

128. The Price of Love: Valentine’s Day in Egypt and Its Enemies
by Aymon Kreil 

148. The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian Television Drama
by Rebecca Joubin 


Book Reviews

176. Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
by Nadav Samin 
reviewed by Rosie Bsheer

181. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950
by Marwa Elshakry 
reviewed by Hilary Falb Kalisman

186. A History of Modern Oman
by Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout 
reviewed by Guillemette Crouzet

190. The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
by Michael Herb 
reviewed by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell

195. The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
by Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh 
reviewed by Kareem Rabie

200. Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire: Modernisation and the Path to Palestinian Statehood
by Farid Al-Salim 
reviewed by Erik Freas


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206. The British Invasion and Occupation of Ottoman Iraq
by Dale Stahl 

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