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In this issue, we are proud to feature a series of groundbreaking interventions. Ifdal Elsaket explores anti-Blackness in Egypt through the genre of “jungle films.” She lays bare the racial and imperial fantasies that informed these films’ popularity. Elsaket exposes a process of racialization through which Egyptians positioned themselves as superior and modern, at a time when Egypt’s claims to Sudan took on a greater urgency and Blackness marked otherness. This deeply ingrained vision of Africa as a place of inferiority would continue to inflect film and visual culture long after decolonization. . . [read more]


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​Table of Contents

Articles

8. Jungle Films in Egypt: Race, Anti-Blackness, and Empire
Ifdal Iskalat

34. Trapped Escape: Young Palestinian Women and the Israeli National-Civic Service
Suhad Daher-Nashif

60. Spiritual Capital and the Copy: Painting, Photography, and the Production of the Image in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
Nisa Ari

100. The Inequality Puzzle in Egypt: What Do We Really Know?
Tamer El Gindi

144. Arab Self-Criticism after 1967 Revisited: The Normative Turn in Marxist Thought and Its Heuristic Fallacies
Manfred Sing

Reviews

192. Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda
Edited by Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss
Reviewed by Nader Atassi


197. Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different
Anthony C. Alessandrini
Reviewed by Sophia Azeb


202. The Arab City: Architecture and Representation
Edited by Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi
Reviewed by Deen Sharp


207. Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
Edited by Nelida Fuccaro
Reviewed by Nicholas Simcik Arese


212. Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory, and Power
Edited by Elia Zureik, David Lyon and Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Reviewed by Charles Anderson


217. Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates
Michael Quentin Morton
Reviewed by Kristi N. Barnwell


221. A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic
Stefan Winter
Reviewed by Charles Wilkins


Review Essays

226. The Kurds of Syria 
by Sean Lee

Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War 
by Michael M. Gunter

The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East 
by Harriet Allsopp

La question kurde: Passé et présent 
by Jordi Tejel Gorgas

238. Excavating Origins, Assessing Development: The Evolution of Middle East Studies and Its Scholars 
by Laurie A. Brand

Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East
by Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar

Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
by Zachary Lockman

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