...Litheko Modisane This essay examines the public life of the South African film Mapantsula (1988), an overtly antiapartheid engagé film about a petty gangster in the context of the 1980s political unrest in South African townships, from the moment of the film's inception to the history of its...

... Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion, 1885 – 1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil...

...Vivek Bhandari Duke University Press 2006 Civil Society and the Predicament of Multiple Publics Vivek Bhandari n a newspaper article published recently, Neera Chandhoke, someone...

... in publicly as well as gatherings social in people among discussed was disease doaboutto on the what Willem Floor A Public Affair Venereal Disease in Iran (1855 – 2005...

...Camron Michael Amin Duke University Press 2006 Blurring Private and Public Lives by Design: Isfahan University of Technology, 1977 – 2005 Camron Michael Amin...

...Lois Beck; Julia Huang Duke University Press 2006 Manipulating Private Lives and Public Spaces in Qashqa’i Society in Iran Lois Beck and Julia Huang We are looking...

...Eric Germain Duke University Press 2007 Southern Hemisphere Diasporic Communities in the Building of an International Muslim Public Opinion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century...

... fteLbns ii War Civil Lebanese the of Memory Private and Public est fCiaoPes 92;Per oa ed., 94). Nora, Pierre 1992); Press, Chicago of versity Halbwachs, Maurice 2. of city old the of destroyed. most Hama and killed were estimated An people regime. thousand Baathist twenty...

... fIainWmnsActivism Women’s Iranian of Roots the of Reading Historiographical and Historical Alternative An Sphere: Public the in Women Qajar Nineteenth-Century .jhu.edu/journals/journal Booth, History,” Marilyn Gender and see Women’s East East, Middle both in Middle Directions in “New the conducted...

... locates the early encounters of the East Bengal population with film through multiple public spheres. Raju demonstrates how cinema was a site of contest between various social groups from the 1900s through the 1960s in East Bengal. He challenges the dominant mode of nationalist, empirical-teleological...

... or methodological engine pulling this impressive cargo. Mona L. Russell Book Reviews 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer...

...Patricia K. McCormick Internet Access in Africa: A Critical Review of Public Policy Issues Patricia K. McCormick The Internet is, as of yet, an essentially insignificant me- these phone lines are unevenly distributed. Eighty percent of dium in Africa with access limited to some 0.1...

...Homa Katouzian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian he first half of the twentieth century minus the Reza Shah period is unique in the whole history of Persian literature in the amount of satire...

...Homa Katouzian © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian To begin with, it would be useful to say a few chaos. words about the main elements...

...Anuj Bhuwania Bhuwania’s article studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India. PIL is a unique jurisdiction initiated by the Indian Supreme Court in the aftermath of the Emergency of 1975-77. Bhuwania locates the history of PIL in India’s postcolonial predicament...

...Francis Cody Some concept of mass publicity is foundational for a number of theories of democratic self-determination, but the subject of publicity is radically dependent on technologies of representation for its own self-identity. Research on newspapers and the public sphere is valuable because...

... literary public, exemplified by Al-Punch , a newspaper born out of a controversy over who had a right to use the Urdu language. Pursuing cosmopolitan impulses while celebrating local culture, the paper invited readers’ collaboration by cultivating a witty and intimate style. While scholarship on South...

... Left, and even those with more imperialist drives—who often have little in common other than the strong valorization they place on women's visibility in public spaces. Nation-state building processes are also place-making processes that tread on intimate terrains, entailing public acts of loyalty...

...Amy Malek In the last decade Iranian Americans have increasingly taken to the same streets and fair-grounds as Irish, German, and Puerto Rican American communities before them to hold ethnic parades and festivals to assert their cultural and ethnic identity to an American public often hostile...

...Nelida Fuccaro Fuccaro’s article explores new geographies of leisure and consumption that emerged in Manama and in Bahrain’s oil camps in the first decades of oil development. New forms of public communication such as the press, printed materials, and cinema are used to explore urban spaces, actors...