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Published: 01 January 2015
Figure 3 Assala professing love to Obama in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Ken Seigneurie This essay examines the cultural politics of the Lebanese Independence Uprising of spring 2005. I argue that representations produced during the uprising reveal a rhetoric of resistance to the kind of military coercion and legitimating discourses that mark contemporary history...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., diplomats, university professors, and high-ranking professionals in international organizations such as the UN or the World Bank. 1 Usually, the emperor would wait for us in the mezzanine, standing between the mock torture chamber (see fig. 1 ), a special memory from the Lebanese civil war (1975...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 567–585.
Published: 01 September 1996
... everywhere, and black pennants
and Lebanese flags, red, white, and the green of the cedar tree, $uttering like
a series of rapid heartbeats; milling Saudi businessmen in ceremonial headgear,
lines of Lebanese girl scouts passing a water bottle, Druse chieftains jingering
worry beads, a sweaty...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 113–134.
Published: 01 January 2023
... labor of tobacco, the steady turning of the seasons and the steadfast cultivation of a life in an unlivable world. The village home of Bou Sahel, Im Sahel, and their daughters Khawla, Nawal, and Zainab is a stone's throw removed from the Lebanese border with Israel, a frontline of war since 1948...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 457–473.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the Lebanese civil war, for instance, key shibboleths were used to differentiate Palestinian refugees from Lebanese citizens, with those “mispronouncing” the shibboleths being readily identified and persecuted accordingly. The instrumentalization of dialect testing as part of immigration and asylum...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 May 2009
... One Rio) (2008).
Ken Seigneurie is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at
Lebanese American University, Beirut. His recent work includes “A Rhetoric of
Abeyance in Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came Back...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 433–445.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian sta-
tions, as well as to Radio Monte Carlo. These are their main sources for hearing
new songs and singers; they supply musical soundtracks to accompany daily
activities. These radio stations, then, directly...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 161–183.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Figure 3 Assala professing love to Obama in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation ...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2002
... . . . or that most queens, in the
final analysis, preferred, then as now, a thick cock, whatever its length, to
a thin one.24
Contra Schmitt, As3ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese political scientist who lives
and teaches in the United...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 265–290.
Published: 01 May 2022
... their usage. In both California and Lebanon, heat waves bring the risk of rolling blackouts due to the increased demands of air-conditioning units. Lebanese Twitter accounts and formal advisories from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) recommend that people refrain from using multiple...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sixty-five years of displacement, on what seemed to be a fundamental uncertainty of purpose in humanitarian work over this long term, she nodded vigorously in agreement. Yes, she said, it was in emergencies—such as after the Lebanese army’s destruction of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
... first came to prominence
when the influential Lebanese literary journalShi r (Poetry; ) published four
of his poems in its summer 1967 issue. He was immediately hailed as the leading
figure of Palestinian...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 65–89.
Published: 01 January 2003
... experience of
the Lebanese civil war both as a participant and a student that when a logic of
communal war prevails, neither of the warring sides really cares for the actual
material human being-ness of the situation. More “important” things like...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 469–496.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Thi Nguyen’s (2015 : 793) notion of the hoodie as “an example of Hortense Spillers’s signifying property plus.” 13 See the shibboleths associated with the “Parsley” massacre of the Dominican Republic, Palestinian versus Lebanese pronunciations of tomato in the Lebanese civil war...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 567–592.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . My neck is thinner than a hair: A history of the car bomb in the 1975-1991 Lebanese Civil Wars , vol. 1 , January 21 , 1986. Performance at the Kitchen, New York City, February 28, 2006. Rabinow, Paul. 1989 . French modern: Norms and forms of the social environment . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 259–284.
Published: 01 January 2000
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ing of charitable services, and diverse foundations. Although it is receding,
Moroccan influence still makes itself felt, particularly in Muslim West Africa
(Mali, Senegal).40
The channels linking the rest of the continent with the Middle East are con-
trolled by a Lebanese diaspora that has long...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 187–199.
Published: 01 January 2014
... as an “anthropologist of the world.” I really do think that anthropology as a truly worldwide discipline in its research interests has a particular public role. I just read Amin Maalouf’s Disordered World , a book on various troubles now facing humanity — Maalouf is a Lebanese writer, long in the Paris diaspora, so...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 May 2019
... that this distinction is generational. The UOIF is made up largely of men born in the Maghreb who came to France in their late twenties and thirties. The CCIF and similar associations are led by a younger generation mostly born, and all raised, in France. 4 This move is similar to that made by the Lebanese...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 113–127.
Published: 01 January 2017
... film, Deseos (2015), where, in collaboration with the Lebanese anthropologist Maya Mikdashi, we wrote a series of letters inspired by the early nineteenth-century legal case of Martina Parra, a Colombian woman who was prosecuted for being a “hermaphrodite” and who, not unlike Delgado, faced...
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