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A History of Tunisia, January 14, 2011: The End of a Dictator and the Beginning of Democratic Construction

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Ahmed Jdey
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 69–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506256
Published: 01 February 2012
...Ahmed Jdey History has its own laws and its own tricks. Dictators, who are inherently antihistorical, do not realize it; yet humanity, in its rich and exciting trajectory, continues to instruct the great dictators and despots of the world about the force of history, in Africa as well as Asia...
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Toward a Literary Communism: The 1926 Baku Turcological Congress

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Nergis Ertürk
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 183–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2151848
Published: 01 May 2013
..., and reformer Ahmed Baytursun, the German Turcologist Theodor Menzel, and Vasilii Bartol’d, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the congress was convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the discussion of writing systems and orthographic and lexical questions, as well as the classificatory question...
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The Lyricism of Violence: Translating Faith in Revolution

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Christi Ann Merrill
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 119–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1430845
Published: 01 August 2011
...Christi Ann Merrill This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk...
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French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Arab Nahda

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David Fieni
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 143–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1597916
Published: 01 May 2012
..., to describe. In contrast to Renan, the thinkers and writers of the Arab nahda , or “awakening,” examined here–Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Farah Antun, and Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq–devised their texts at ground level, shifting their tactics on a dynamic field of operations in response...
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Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education

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Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 123–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10472373
Published: 01 August 2023
... and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the author theorizes through Sara Ahmed's critical frameworks, in order to share the greatest lesson they learned: aside from...
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A Revolution of Dignity and Poetry

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Mohamed-Salah Omri
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 137–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506283
Published: 01 February 2012
... of Dignity and Poetry›139 resistance operated before that date, I zero in on one key figure of both moments, the poet Mohamed Sgaier Awlad Ahmed. Indeed, although there was a multitude of poems and poets for and about the revolution, Awlad Ahmed remains unique in maintaining his poetic...
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Figure 2. A caricature by Sopho Antoniadis printed in Egyptiotes Ellin/al-Yunani al-Mutamassir on May 31, 1933, showing the Francophone Egyptian writer Ahmed Rassim, first to the left, among a number of public figures. Image courtesy of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive in Athens (ELIA).

A caricature by Sopho Antoniadis printed in Egyptiotes Ellin/al-Yunani al-...

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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. A caricature by Sopho Antoniadis printed in Egyptiotes Ellin/al-Yunani al-Mutamassir on May 31, 1933, showing the Francophone Egyptian writer Ahmed Rassim, first to the left, among a number of public figures. Image courtesy of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive in Athens More
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Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language

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Raha Rafii
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 33–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10472331
Published: 01 August 2023
..., dynastic chronology, thus rendering other, non-Sunni histories deviant by default. Shahab Ahmed ( 2015 : 32) built on Hodgson's framework of an expanded, “Islamicate” civilization to integrate what he called the Balkans-to-Bengal complex, a geographic region he centered due to its stated importance...
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The Tunisian Revolution Observatory: Considering the Perspectives of the Intellectual and Political Elite

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Abdeljelil Temimi
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 87–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506265
Published: 01 February 2012
... reconciliation with pre- serving the gains of modernity enacted by Tunisia in a well- considered pio- neering project of civilization that was instituted over the course of decades in numerous systems of reform. We can place in this same context the texts of Ahmed Néjib Chebbi, Ahmed Brahim...
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Towards a Lyric History of India

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Aamir R. Mufti
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 245–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-245
Published: 01 May 2004
... be put together by adding the separated halves, but in both there appear, however distantly, the changes of the whole, which only moves in contradiction. —Theodor Adorno 1 At its best, the Urdu lyric verse of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) can make available to the reader...
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Introduction: For Dignity; Tunisia and the Poetry of Emergent Democratic Humanism

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R. A. Judy
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506218
Published: 01 February 2012
.... —Ahmed Jdey Ahmed Jdey said to me on a hot sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2011, as we walked the length of Avenue Habib Bourguiba, which has become the agora of the revolution, and participated in one of its spon- taneous symposia, that the analysis Frantz Fanon made...
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A Specter Is Haunting Poland: Art, Absence, and the European Union

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Shir Alon
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 97–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7999520
Published: 01 February 2020
..., but they do change the nation s projected self- image. Sara Ahmed identifies a very similar mechanism in her critique of acts of national apology in the Australian aboriginal context: performative acts of shame and apology, in the name of the nation, indicate that the nation recognizes its shortcomings...
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Books Received

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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 247–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2828416
Published: 01 February 2015
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Books Received Ahmed, Sara. Willful Subjects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Anker, Elisabeth R. Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom. Dur- ham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Berger, James. The Disarticulate...
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Symposium on Youth of the Revolution of Dignity and Democracy, Thursday, February 17, 2011

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Abdeljelil Temimi
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 113–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506274
Published: 01 February 2012
... moment that they are think- ing in the interest of the people. I do not see a single person thinking for the people’s interest to the same extent they are for themselves. Take, for example, Néjib Chebbi and Ahmed Brahim, both of whom have chosen to cooperate with the transitional government...
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The Long Revolution

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Arif Dirlik
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 19–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7496972
Published: 01 May 2019
... future, and this will take new strategic and theoretical resources References Ahmed Nafeez . 2014a . “ Are You Opposed to Fracking? Then You Might Just Be a Terrorist .” Guardian , January 21 , 2014 . http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jan/21/fracking-activism...
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Books Received

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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 221–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1730680
Published: 01 August 2012
... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books Received Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Blatt, Ari J. Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...
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C. P. Cavafy as an Egyptiote

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Hala Halim
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936698
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 2. A caricature by Sopho Antoniadis printed in Egyptiotes Ellin/al-Yunani al-Mutamassir on May 31, 1933, showing the Francophone Egyptian writer Ahmed Rassim, first to the left, among a number of public figures. Image courtesy of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive in Athens...
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The Grammars of the Tunisian Revolution

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Mouldi Guessoumi
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 17–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1506227
Published: 01 February 2012
... Ahmed Jabbari. The two days of hell in Kasserine brought 30Ÿboundary 2 / Spring 2012 fired on a funeral procession in Ezzouhour, one of the most miserable and disadvantaged quarters of the city. But what was intended to intimidate the protestors backfired. Within just a few hours, images...
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Books Received

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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 239–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-34-2-239
Published: 01 May 2007
... 2007 Books Received Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Bell, Kevin. Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Beller, Jonathan...
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Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise

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Joe Cleary
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 11–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2685980
Published: 01 May 2014
... the parties involved and has made the consequent Palestinian plight one of the scandals of Israeli history and of the American world order. After the National Liberation Front (FLN), under Ahmed Ben Bella, came to power in Algeria in 1962, it is esti- mated that over 800,000 settlers of European origin...
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