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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
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By Siba N. Grovogui
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
304 pp., $110.00
Introduction
A Critique of Eurocentrism: Then and Now
Though published ten years ago, Siba Grovogui’s Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy has had little circulation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 20–37.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., and Lebanon, the Arab world suffers from what might be called a collapse of witnessing. By focusing on the controversies over the humanization of terrorism in Hany Abu-Assad's film Paradise Now ( Al-Jenna al-an ), I demonstrate the ways in which the film grapples with the construction of a narrative terrorism...
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in Amphibious Media Histories: Dhow Infrastructures and Narratives in Indian Ocean Film and Media
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 3. Screen shot of wreckage, Everlasting Now (dir. Umesh Saigal, 1985).
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in Nizwa Fort: Transforming Ibadi Religion through Heritage Discourse in Oman
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2019
Figure 8. Reconstruction of the Omani ‘arish , which could act as a men's sabla and now stands for national values of solidary, interpersonal consultation, and harmony (Nizwa Fort). Photograph by the author.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 27–33.
Published: 01 May 2011
...” was witnessed. After this lengthy retreat, we now observe the reemergence of religions in different forms. Religion has proved to have “nine lives,” and each time, the death of God turned into the resurrection of God. But the resurrected God and reemerged religions are not one and the same as before. They have...
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in Pakistan Papers: Louis Kahn's Designs of a Past and Future in Islamabad and Dhaka
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 3. Revised proposal of the president's estate, Islamabad. The president's house is now placed at top of the hill, model 1963–66. Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 565–573.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Eric Tagliacozzo It has been for some time now a truism of sorts that the Middle East is a wider locale than the arid landscapes traditionally identified by the moniker. The notional geographies that scholars have worked with for decades are no longer so set and bound. A number of high-profile...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 130–146.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the veil present in contemporary artistic practice. This article analyzes mainstream representations of the veil and their various subtexts, before charting three alternative narratives of the veil found in contemporary art produced by artists of Muslim descent who now exhibit, and often live, in Europe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 429–436.
Published: 01 August 2012
... their own poetics, women resist a biopolitics in which their bodies are used as a symbolic means of dramatizing conflicts. They have had to replace the everyday, for now, with a politics, polemics, and poetry that allows them to resist. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 195–213.
Published: 01 May 2012
... against his own will and eventually ends up as an exile, this time as a professor at the University of London. In the third phase, Taqizadeh returns to Iran in 1947, having been Iranian ambassador to London for five years, and becomes a Majlis deputy and then chairman of the Senate. He is now far too...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 May 2014
...” and “non-West.” Through its reading of Tawāḍuʿ Pang’s China and Islam , it also attempts to recall a now unfamiliar world in which the nation-state did not yet enjoy the dominance it achieved once decolonization was fully underway. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This essay originated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 50–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
... as a device for structuring experience.” This essay argues that the Lebanese war novel has also quietly incorporated “stopping before the ruins” into a modernist idiom. This is not simply to state that the abandoned campsite has now become the burned-out home and that the ex-lover has become one's family...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 257–261.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the British, and now recognized as a pioneering modernizer and renegade constitutional monarch, Aman Allah introduced a series of reforms during his reign that Faiz Ahmed has recently characterized as “a burgeoning model of Islamic legal modernism.” Yet the story of Afghanistan's experiments with Islamic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Pant and the history of Indian engagement with Rhodesia has not, until now, been explored. This article argues that the central role of India in the colonial world ensured that London reined in the white settler Rhodesian government from enacting discriminatory legislation against its minority Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 532–537.
Published: 01 August 2022
... radicals sought an African-grounded sovereignty, an alternate future now forgotten. jesse.w.shipley@dartmouth.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 coup d’état Ghana neo-imperialism revolution sovereignty African politics Between 1979 and 1983 soldiers, workers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
... appear alongside stone versions of paintings from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang and Alchi in Ladakh. This article examines how this replica stupa and the surrounding theme park allow the new state of Telangana not only to articulate its claim to the Buddhist heritage that is now shared with the state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 296–309.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Ismael M. Montana Between 1512 and 1574, after they halted Spain’s imperial and colonial ambitions, with the exception of Morocco the Ottomans in turn occupied the Maghrib. To administer this new eyalets (provinces), which was now incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans introduced...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and spotted with bouquets of high rises. Instead of developing around one central core in a contiguous manner, Riyadh grew around the massive usage of cars. Why and how did the suburbanization of Riyadh happen? How did Saudi automobility become the overwhelming social and political structure it is now...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the Foucauldian term heterotopia to designate the sites of motor sports competitions in Libya and Algeria. The colonies now were even more modern than France or Italy itself, or, put differently, they served as showcases for a possible future. Motor sports were especially apt to serve the outlined purposes. Road...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 434–443.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Sanjib Baruah Abstract For quite some time now, there has been an effort to settle India's Naga conflict. Instead of ordering the developments in the conventional teleological narrative of a peace process, this article looks at certain facts on the ground created by the two-decades-old cease-fire...
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