Search Results for East Asia

...Christopher Gow Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia Shohini Chaudhuri Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 vii + 199 pp., $22.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–  1830...

...Mohammed Alsudairi Abstract During the course of the Cold War, Saudi Arabia cultivated close relations with the anti-communist states of East Asia. This development, this article argues, was driven by the shared positional marginality experienced by these actors vis-à-vis the Third World bloc...

...Vasant Kaiwar; Sucheta Mazumdar © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 South A4s2aBulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 & 2 (1999). Editors’ Notes: Launching a New South Asia Bulletin/Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vasant...

... Perspectives BCCI gave him access to hitherto untapped BCCI from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia documents, reports, and records. However, what is Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. meant by cricket here, especially...

...Timothy Mitchell; Anupama Rao © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 mission statement Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Mission Statement omparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle...

... animals ethics enchantment religion politics South Asia Middle East This special issue began as a panel titled “Other than Human? Affective Spaces and Animals in Contemporary India” at the Forty-Second Annual Conference on South Asia at Madison, Wisconsin. We thank Naveeda Khan and Wendy...

... thinkers have helped put into motion this paradigm shift, asking how and in which ways histories of the Middle East might be nudged in different directions. Tagliacozzo’s article travels in these same furrows, arguing that Southeast Asia—a place seldom envisioned as part of the Middle East—is also a part...

...Nurfadzilah Yahaya Abstract Located at the intersection of four regions, the Middle East, East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, Afghanistan is a country whose legal history is sure to be diverse and exciting at the confluence of multiple legal currents. In the book Afghanistan Rising: Islamic...

... the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s. It argues that the mobility channels between the two countries took shape not through oil and state governance alone, but also through US military complexes formed through a series of wars across East, Southeast, and West Asia following the Second World War; acute interest...

... Asia. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Shahzia Sikander Animation Drawing Painting East India Company References Hanru Hou . “Shahzia Sikander.” In Paradigm Shifts: Walter and McBean Galleries, Exhibitions and Public Programs, San Francisco Art Institute, 2006–2011...

...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...

...Rosie Bsheer; Mohammed Alsudairi Abstract This introduction to the special section “Inter-Asian Cold War Linkages” shows how an interdisciplinary group of ten scholars take up the understudied Cold War linkages between the Middle East, on the one hand, and East and South Asia on the other...

...Mrinalini Sinha This essay responds to the mission statement of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and considers the place of region in the contemporary postnational and post-area studies moment of scholarship. In particular, it examines the possibilities of leveraging...

... a range of lateral networks that fall within the Third World or Global South. It is hence of particular relevance to those pursuing post–area studies scholarship and has much to say to the themes of this special issue on comparative literature across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Hofmeyr’s...

... of Africa, South tory deal directly or indirectly with the impact East Asia, and the Caribbean; and Southern of this migration on Jewish communities and and Eastern Europeans were looking for better on American society more generally. Wherever...

..., and then in it turned to be East Pakistan. Yet how does a transnational cultural form like cinema get adapted or translated for a local culture? What may have happened when the arriving medium is of Western origin and the recipient culture is a nation/region in (post)colonial South Asia? In order...

... then East, the with Europe acquaint to and West the Asia to bear to summoned was Russia prophesied, Peter Great as the If, was Unless...

...Touraj Atabaki In the historiography of Iranian constitutionalism and the constitutional revolution, the reformist movement is treated as a receptive movement crafted by the ideas originating chiefly from nineteenth-century Western Europe or Russia, with no dependencies on Asia or the Middle East...

...Nouri Gana; Heike Härting The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not only...

... militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia. In police records, court transcripts, and legislative archives, pilgrims with links to Arabia accordingly began appearing...