...Jayce Salloum Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 (sites + ) demarcations.. making pictures in Lebanon Jayce Salloum The captionshexts accompanying each photograph...

...Marc Manganaro Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 A Funeral in North Lebanon: On Narratives of Other-Cultural Encounters Marc Manganaro 1magine...

...Joanne Randa Nucho Abstract This essay describes an emerging “post‐grid imaginary” that is informing visions of future collapse, growing scarcity, and deepening infrastructural fragmentation. By examining electrical grid failures in Lebanon and California, we can move beyond developmentalist...

... Eleftheriades, self-declared “emperor of Nowheristan.” In the time of my fieldwork in Beirut (2008 – 10), Nowheristan, an ambitious political project that sought to abolish borders, passports, nation-states, and war on a global scale, beginning from Lebanon, was recruiting virtual supporters through a digital...

... Muslim modernity.3 Another alternative, also Lebanon-based, emerged in the span of ten weeks in spring 2005 in the form of an ethics-based national movement under the name Independence Uprising (Intifd.at al-Istiqla¯l...

... live it), just like other annihilating processes of capital and modernity. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Al shams tashriq min al janub [The sun rises from the South] Dawn bursts over the hills of South Lebanon bathing the landscape...

... of the precarious present. 2015 humanitarianism Lebanon mental health Palestinians refugee When I remarked to an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency with primary responsibility for providing assistance to Palestinian refugees over...

... supporting refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey (see, e.g., IRIN 2012 ; Gatten and Alabaster 2012) . These initiatives have included Lebanese, Jordanian, and Turkish citizens providing food and shelter to refugees ( IRIN 2012 ) and local faith-based organizations delivering aid and providing spiritual...

...: that between Saddam Hussein and Israel’s own rulers-invaders of Lebanon, occupiers of foreign territory, torturers and killers of children. A question for the future: if there is a war, what further crimes are they going to conceal under its cruelties and confusions? And a question for the present...

.... Arab Music In recent decades musicians from Egypt and Lebanon have been the most promi- nent in the Arab music world. Like other contemporary local musical cultures on the periphery of the West, the dynamic of musical change in these countries...

...-invaders of Lebanon, occupiers of foreign territory, torturers and killers of children. A question for the future: if there is a war, what further crimes are they going to conceal under its cruelties and confusions? And a question for the present: here in my country and my city, among Jews like...

...- ent can be apprehended only from the perspective of that estranged past. Here Public Culture offers close cultural studies of the market by Caitlin Zaloom and Shameem Black; essays on bounding spaces in Israel by Daniel Monterescu, on political mediation in Lebanon by Ken Seigneurie...

... to the politics of national humiliation, outlined by William A. Cal­ lahan, as a useful prelude to thought about civil strife in Lebanon. This issue of Public Culture also offers a juxtaposition of works on image, nation, circulation, and narration. Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky’s study of pho­...

... and future in photographs of Brazil; Gary Wilder dis- cusses Aimé Césaire’s untimely political vision of decolonization without national independence; Ken Seigneurie defragments the discourses of popular culture in Lebanon’s Independence Uprising of spring 2005; Michael Ralph grapples with Hurricane...

... about the subject without the elaboration of a specific case, while at the same time providing a model through which to ponder a particular instance if we so choose. My work as an anthropologist and a writer has focused on Mexico, south Lebanon, and Native Americans in the United States. All three...

... run, can the Left envisage supporting a level of U.N. participation in such a case (given the history of U.N. subservience to its great power overlords)? What do we make of Prodi’s and Chirac’s brigades in southern Lebanon? And so on. These questions we take seriously, though we certainly have...

... students if anyone had ever heard Iraqi music. None had. So we listened together to some ataba, a popular sung poetry form hown in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, performed in colloquial Arabic and ac- companied by the rebabd, a one-stringed bowed lute. These are narrative quatrains sung by elder...

... new social orders or maintaining older ones. Where is the critical leverage when the conditions for individual and collective dreams are also the grounds for social and personal suffering? How does one approach the hatred that turns the dreams of a good life into the ruins of Lebanon, Yugoslavia...

... supporters to write letters to the Lebanese authorities demanding an “end [to] discrimination and harassment against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in Lebanon.” The Gay Lebanon Web site—featuring a buff blond European man on the first...

... Screens, Lebanon, by Randa Chahal Sabbag; October in Algiers, Algeria, by Malik Lakhdar Hamina; Bezness, Tunisia, by Nouri Bouzid; etc only a few Black African films (Un certain matin, 342 Burkina Faso; Quartier Mozart, Cameroon; and Hyena, Senegal, by Djibril Diop Public Culture...