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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 2. Orange Line construction site, Lahore, adjacent to the seventeenth-century Mughal gateway Chauburji. Photograph by the author, February 2018. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. The train tracks are the site of economic activity and a constant flow of foot traffic sustains this activity. Photograph by the authors, Kibera, 2016. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Commerce is to be relocated to a site that is divorced from daily social activity emanating from the home. Social life and economic activity have been sundered. Photograph by the authors, Kibera, 2016. More
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 2. Site of the new garden of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab acquired in 1860. Line drawing by the author. More
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 5. The film depicts the battlefield as a site of death and martyrdom but also care and brotherhood. Safar be Chazzabeh (dir. Rasool Mollagholipour). More
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 3. An iconic image of Harutyun Hovakimyan, standing inside an excavation site near the Dayr al-Zur Bridge with his team in 1938. Next to him is a local innkeeper Murad Kelejian, also holding bones, and the bell ringer of the St. Hripsime Church in Dayr al-Zur with an unknown worker More
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 5. 1962 hand-drawn site plan issued by Amman Municipality. Source: Personal archives of Haj Yousef Abu Awwad, mukhtar of Muhammad Amin camp, 2013. More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Mostafa Hussein Abstract This article explores Jewish spaces in Cairo as repositories of memory and their role in shaping a collective understanding of the Jewish past among non-Jewish Egyptians. By examining these sites through the perspectives of engaged observers, it uncovers their multifaceted...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 1. Garden sites proposed by the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab in 1851. Line drawing by the author. More
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Erdoğan's Hagia Sophia enactment commemorated at the site's exit. Image by the author. More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 3. An iconic image of Harutyun Hovakimyan, standing inside an excavation site near the Dayr al-Zur Bridge with his team in 1938. Next to him is a local innkeeper Murad Kelejian, also holding bones, and the bell ringer of the St. Hripsime Church in Dayr al-Zur with an unknown worker...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2010
...May Telmissany Cinema has been for many diasporic communities the privileged site of self-representation and sometimes of idealistic (re)construction of homeland. Over the past thirty years, Palestinian cinema has constituted a site for negotiation and circulation of values and behaviors that have...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 342–351.
Published: 01 August 2024
... a visual vantage point onto the majority of the village lands, which have been expropriated by Israel. Following a demolition by Israel, Faqu'ans have transformed this frontier site from a place for home-building, first into a garbage dump and then, most recently, into a garden. Faqu'ans’ shifting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 328–343.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Amal Sachedina Abstract Since becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 43–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the Second World War, primarily as a reaction to the mass destruction experienced in European cities. Managing “heritage” in the context of the global political imagination created after the war, UNESCO has become the key player, lead actor, and sole orchestrator of all things/sites/memories—tangible...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 487–497.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of questions: What happens at the site of return, when subjectivity fragmented by migration and assimilation seeks to recover a lost sense of coherence? How does the text itself become a geographical location in which narrative strategies are employed to bring the past into dialogue with the present? What...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 130–146.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Valerie Behiery The Muslim veil is a heavily charged site in mainstream Western culture and media. However, its continued use as a visual shorthand for the oppressed Muslim woman, and by extension for the misogyny and violence of Islam, stands in sharp contrast to the numerous depictions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 547–562.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., I examine new experiences of negotiating social status and cultural codes in multiple locales. New sites of leisure allow some middle- and lower middle-class Jordanians to insert themselves into Jordan's (relatively) new cosmopolitan leisure economy—physically and sometimes also economically—in ways...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 August 2015
... a site of embodied philosophical engagement with questions regarding the bounds of self and community and our ethics toward others. We turn to these rich traditions, both textual and embodied, to confound and erase the sharp boundaries between the human, the animal, and the environment that have been...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 324–345.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...