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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 May 2010
... with an eye for accentuating a heterogeneous Arab identity, this émigré film was a turning point in its unequivocal focus on Jews as part of Arab national identity. With the creation of the state of Israel, allusion to Jews as part of the Arab social mosaic increasingly became a taboo in Arab cinema. While...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 312–330.
Published: 01 August 2011
... without any Muslim or Arab ancestry. Arab Muslim communities and identities in Brazil are formed by very complex articulations between transnational and local interpretations and practices of Islam and Arab identities, which emerge and gain reality within the cultural and sociological framework of each...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2011
... by asking the following questions: What is significant about the present assertions of Arab identity in comparison to developments more than a century earlier? How have these assertions developed in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively? And what, if anything, is shared between the two cases that may hark...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 590–598.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and, certainly, neither should be considered essential to identity in the Middle East. Nevertheless, Limbert contends, it is through attention to the Middle East’s margins—that is, in this case, the Indian Ocean—that we might better understand the various meanings of, and shifts in, the notion of Arabness. ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 282–295.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... In the fifth section, a brief description of how some Arab elites in Mexico have drawn on their foreignness to assert a Lebanese identity illustrates the complexity of describing Arab diasporas in the Americas and anticipates the sixth section, which concerns the reception of Arab immigrants in the United...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Redefining Identity through Language
in the Literature of the Diaspora
Reem Bassiouney
his essay examines the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian Collo-
quial Arabic (ECA) in the novel Al-hubb fi al-manfa (Love in Exile) by Baha Tahir. The
essay argues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 August 2017
... into the precolonial Swahili poetic genre of the utendi . In contrast to previous analyses that have highlighted the appropriation of text to fit local discourses of identity, Vierke argues that the relationship between the Swahili translation and the previous Arabic text is basically aesthetic. Drawing on the concept...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 428–442.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and other Arabs, ity to converse with the British in their own lan-
as well as among other colonized subjects, guage in order to describe the meaning of his
of
mostly because of his dark complexion. In a national identity. He evokes the name British...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 517–518.
Published: 01 August 2005
... professor in the
Civilization Sequence Program at the American
University of Beirut. He is the author of Foun-
dations of Modern Arab Identity (University Press
of Florida, 2004) as well as several articles on
Arab cultural and visual studies. He is particu-
larly interested in the relationship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 164–171.
Published: 01 May 2011
... (and Lebanon’s) “authentic” Arab tity of interests among foreign powers, Jews,
identity and orientation. Undifferentiated Mus- Freemasons, and the CUP is the major theme of
lims (a problematic generalization, but more on a book that Hallak published in 1984.21 His evi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 439–449.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., which Western commentators them- migrant communities abroad. By merit of this
Africa and the selves refuse to acknowledge. Contrary to the circulation and its role in the formation of
sophism of the current crop of most American a pan-Arab identity, journals also situated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 110–121.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and Remember Baghdad approach the treatment meted out to Iraqi Jews in Iraq and Israel, Iraqi Jews' responses to histories of exclusion and vilification, the intricacies of articulating an Arab Jewish identity in Israel, and questions of nostalgia and return. The first section delineates the exclusion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 404–412.
Published: 01 December 2021
... insightful research contributed much to our understanding of the Arabic press, depicted the print media as reflecting the religious identities of its editors and publishers. Ayalon suggested that the Nahḍawi private press reproduced the tensions among Christians of various denominations; publications owned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 557–568.
Published: 01 December 2011
... charitable giving in Turkey results from a unique interaction of inherited Ottoman ideology and practices, themselves the result of combined Muslim, Turco-Mongol, Byzantine, and Arab influences; the observed example of modern Western philanthropy, notably that of the United States; and the specific...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 601–614.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the transition in modern Turkey from the Arabic to the Latin script, calligraphy thus serves as an alternative, and perhaps subtly oppositional, form of expression in the Turkish Republic. That Islamic calligraphy continues to be appreciated in Turkey demonstrates resistance to the national identity handed down...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and typography by Ajjaj Irrawi. Photographs by Agop Kanledjian, courtesy of Abboudi Bou Jawde's collection. Al-Azzawi belonged to the second generation of modern Iraqi artists who strove to claim an Arab and Iraqi national identity through the arts. The search for a culturally grounded aesthetic form had...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 644–657.
Published: 01 December 2011
... belief in the predominance of regional over pan- Arab identities.
Dismissed from the debate over Arab nationalism, ‘Azuri’s text has had a second life in
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the historiography of the Arab- Jewish...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 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 retaliatory...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 231–250.
Published: 01 August 2011
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tionalism and ethnic conflict.” 5 0 Chirot and Reid identities prevalent in Lebanon and among
Arab
conclude that their study of the Jewish and Chi- first-generation migrants, whose identifications...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 343–354.
Published: 01 August 2011
... as the struggle for Indonesian independence led to drastic changes in the orientation and identity of the Hadhrami minority. Besides dealing with the vicissitudes, strategies, and loyalties of these inhabitants of Arabs descent, this article argues that the turbulent time they went through increased the pace...
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