...Merieme Yafout There is near unanimity among observers that those who have benefited most from the Arab Spring are the Islamists, who have been brought to power at the ballot box in a number of the countries that have witnessed revolutions or popular movements. How has the Islamists' transition...

... . ———. “The NGO-isation of Arab Women's Movements.” IDS Bulletin 35 ( 2004 ): 34 – 42 . Joya Angela . “Syria and the Arab Spring: The Evolution of the Conflict and the Role of Domestic and External Factors.” Ortadoğu Etütleri ( Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies ) 4 ( 2012 ): 27...

... , 101 – 19 . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . ———. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . Al-Ali Nadje . “Gendering the Arab Spring.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 5 ( 2012 ): 26 – 31...

... openness and to possibilities for a more inclusive politics. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Feminisms Islam Women's Rights Embodiment Arab Spring Many of these articles were first presented at workshops organized through Columbia University's Center for the Study of Social...

... lining. On the one hand, because social science fold. Yet, as Beinin and Vairel recog- all of the principal articles in the volume were writ- nized, because of its exclusive focus on Islamic activ- Studies of ten prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when...

...” link between the ited the country in Winter and Spring 2002, more Palestinian/Israeli and Jordanian tourist markets. tourists of Arab nationalities visited the country in The collapse of the Oslo Accords and the resulting Spring and Summer 2002. During the Christmas and situation are the main...

... 1950s, under the rubric of Arab nationalism, students saw Arab solidarity as the key to overturning repression in all its forms, including those perpetrated by the AUB administration. Starting in 1968, students believed the Palestinian fedayeen represented a spirit that would catalyze a wholesale...

...LITAL LEVY Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Exchanging Words: Thematizations of Translation in Arabic Writing from Israel1 LITAL LEVY When two languages meet, one of them is necessarily linked to...

... follows a group of local Palestinian activists who consciously chose the square to stage protests, thus reclaiming Arab Jaffa's material heritage and directly challenging recent histories of spatial expropriation by the Israeli state, the Tel Aviv municipality, and real estate developers. The analysis...

... preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. After a half century of serving the Arab cause, realism became an overnight anachronism and from its grip emerged the Lebanese war...

... themselves “students” is that Islamic reformist thought articulated in (Arabic: t.ullāb; Chinese: xuesheng), the Chinese the Arab Middle East — stressing both reason and Azharites were in fact mature scholars who had revival ormed — the f spring from which flowed the worked as imams, authors...

... , 2011 . www.mei.edu/content/women-shari%E2%80%98-and-personal-status-law-reform-egypt-after-revolution . Hamdy Sherine F. “Strength and Vulnerability after Egypt's Arab Spring Uprisings.” American Ethnologist 39 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 43 – 48 . Harnisch Chris Mecham Quinn...

... disciplines other than literary analysis.) In part they are regional. (Contributors usually have specialized in a particular culture or language — Turkish, Persian, or Arabic, in addition to lesser-taught languages like Uighur, Urdu, or Uzbek.) Beard describes his experiences as an editor of two projects: the...

... and unconventional themes substantively related to these issues. Occidentalism, it is argued here, has taken various forms over the past few decades: the “Orientalism in Reverse” of Hasan Hanafi and his call for the establishment of a science of istighrab (occidentalism) in the Arab world; the...

... East and South Asia who highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions that mark the imagina- tive geographies of both “feminism” and “Islam” and suggest points of transregional convergence. These essays turn to specific situations, including the Arab Spring in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia...

... Imperial Age to the BA in history and journalism from the George Wash- Arab Spring.” ington University in 2001. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Kuwait City: Urbanisation, the Built Envi- Liat Kozma is a lecturer at the Department of Islamic...

... Israel in win- Studies of article. ter/spring 2001 consisting of 1,202 face-to-face Briefly, the results of my study suggest interviews in Arabic among Palestinian citizens. South Asia, that the political, economic...

... consult the Lotus texts cited are best advised to look up the relevant issue by month and year of publication. In transliterating Arab names within the body of this article, I have opted for the transliteration as it appears in the more recent translations into English of a given writer. In footnote...

... he history of the Arab Middle East on the eve of and during World War II has at- tracted much academic interest. Numerous works have been published on German and...

... concept of francophonie serves as a framework Attempts to describe the linguistic diversity of the for the exploration of cultural diversity. Notably it Maghreb generally fall short of the mark. In the pre- makes possible a comparative reading of French, Afri- colonial period, classical Arabic, employed...