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...Zeina Maasri Abstract Shedding light on the postcolonial Arabic book, this article expands the literary and art historical fields of inquiry by bringing into play the translocal design and visual economy of modern art books. It is focused on the short-lived Silsilat al-Nafa'is (Precious Books...

...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...

... n h raino Modernity of Creation the and Globalization for Precedence Journals: Literary-Scientific Arabic...

...Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp Many Arab immigrants came to the Americas—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina (to name only a few countries)—primarily with the intent to make money quickly and return home. Their enduring presence, however, is marked by ambiguous categorizations of Arabs...

...Dina Matar © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Heya TV: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Women? Dina Matar he changing media landscape in the Arab world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is said to be creating new social and power dynamics in the region...

...Helga Tawil Souri © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 The Political Battlefield of Pro-Arab Video Games on Palestinian Screens Helga Tawil Souri...

...Rashid Khalidi Khalidi introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Ahmad Dallal and Khaled Fahmy, who focus on the state of humanities in the Arab world. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities Egypt Arab world GLOBAL HUMANITIES...

...Ahmad Dallal Available evidence suggests that the crisis of the humanities is more critical in the Arab world than it is in the West. This article provides a provisional sketch of the state of arts and humanities scholarship within university settings in the Arab world. The article also examines...

...Martin Slama; Johann Heiss This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue’s special section “Comparing Arab Diasporas.” The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials...

...). My article traces how border residents of Muslim Lebanese origins responded to this post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorist encompassment. I suggest that Arabs publicly mobilized through three media- and state-sponsored initiatives that sought to combat U.S.-derived suspicions. Beginning in September 2001...

...Sumit K. Mandal This article explores how Arabness has been rediscovered in the Malay world—in this instance Indonesia and Malaysia and, to some extent, Singapore—from the early 1990s to the present. Arabs, mostly of Hadhrami descent, are an intimate part of local culture, given the shared faith...

...Paulo G. Pinto The Arab community in Brazil comprises an estimated 4–6 million immigrants and their descendants and was created by an almost continuous flux of immigrants from the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) since the nineteenth century. While until the 1970s the Arab immigrants...

... with additional input from sociocultural anthropology’s theorizing. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Diaspora and “Arabness”: Limits and Potentials for Critical Analysis Maria Six-­Hohenbalken and Andre...

...Laura C. Robson Scholars have situated Najib ‘Azuri’s famous book Le reveil de la nation arabe (1905) primarily within the context of two major historiographical debates: the origins of Arab nationalism and the beginnings of an Arab-Jewish conflict in twentieth-century Palestine. Both...

... to and the Arab World t man Amy Mills, James A. Reilly, and Christine Philliou...

...Mary-Jane Deeb The 99 superhero comics were first published in 2006 by Teshkeel Comics, a division of the Teshkeel media group, in Kuwait. Deeb’s essay covers this comics phenomenon within the context of contemporary Arab society. It analyzes the importance of the historical framework within which...

...Joel Gordon Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: History and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt Di-Capua Yoav . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 406 pp., $65.00 (cloth) , $36.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

.... In the 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...

...Christoph Schumann In the intellectual history of the Arab world, there is a remarkable dearth of literature on liberal thought. In comparison, nationalism and Islamism have attracted much more attention and molded our image of the Middle East. This essay takes a new look at liberal thought...

...Sanjay Joshi Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class Keith David Watenpaugh Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 xi + 325 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern...