... the Arab and Muslim world) to Cameroon, thus stressing her protagonists’ uneasy positioning within the colonizer-colonized, West-East divides and connecting Zionist racialization to broader, global processes of colonial capitalism. By exploring her elaborate readings of photographs in the novel, the essay...

... poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008). Known and loved throughout the Arab world, and often described as Palestine’s national poet, Darwish both embraced and, particularly in later years, chafed against the ties that bound the reception of his poetry to the political fate of his homeland. 2 In this poem...

... of extinction, and there is a strong pos- sibility that he knows about those theories. Our text will be the famous “dream of the Arab” that Wordsworth composed in Febru- ary and March of 1804 and placed at the opening of Book 5 of the poem we now know as the Prelude. Book 5 is the Prelude’s book about...

... earned an M.A. in Arab Studies, and at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature in 2006. His dissertation was on the 10th-century Arab poet Ibn al-Hajjaj. His poems and essays (in ,Arabic and English) have appeared in various journals and publications in the Arab world...

...- fl ections I have begun above on conversion and translation and argue that what is found in this book—which itself orbits uneas- ily around the event of a conversion—is a kind of translation of “the idea of the Arab Jew.”10 To put it too briefl y, Ballas’s book, deploying language as (perhaps...

... was to argue that the multiplicity of things is not due to their quiddities, or essences, but to their singularities. In Ṣadrā’s thought existences are real, while abstractions, such as language, are nothing. Substantialist thought relies on essence or quiddity ( māhiyya in Arabic, “what...

... the boycott of uiuc to public forums to union organizing, has no doubt already entered the history of the future of Palestinian solidarity activism and its relationship to the academy. — Jasbir K. Puar evyn lê espiritu (ee): In The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims...

... as a college sophomore—a Swahili assertion of her African heritage discovered “in an African names book.” 1 In an anecdotal disclosure, Hartman recounts her eventual dismay to learn that Swahili is the mercantilist language of slave trading among Arab, African, and Portuguese merchants in the Indian Ocean...

... and the sculptural arts of the Assyrians and Babylonians in a fresh dialogue of forms. A new medium appeared in this dialogue, in the form of a book called a daftar, Arabic for “notebook”—the kind of text open to an ongoing documentation of contingencies. The Name of the Flower...

...—is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration. Edward W. Said, “Reflections on Exile” You arrive at Drawing in the Diaspora , an exhibit featuring the work of the Chicago-born Palestinian artist Leila Abdelrazaq held at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn...

... is sensitive to their pain, to their silences, and Pandolfo: Testimony in Counterpoint 75 to their speaking Arabic or Berber in an institution where patients’ records are written in French (a colonial legacy in the administra- tion of health in Morocco). For the psychiatric...

... . Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Shephard Todd . Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Skillman Nikki . The Lyric in the Age of the Brain...

... integrated within the history of race and science? Gómez’s monograph gestures toward Europe and West Africa’s connections to a broader world. He mentions knowledge practices and epistemic structures elsewhere in the world that inform European and African actors alike, such as the relevance of Arabic...

... the scene for his discussion with a reflection on contemporary events since 9/11, the “war on terror,” and the Arab uprisings. By situating the Islamic revolution on the world-historical stage, Ghamari-Tabrizi points to the stakes of 1979 and its materialized traces still felt in global politics...

... democratically mobilized once again in the revolutionary transformations of the Arab world.2 50 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol. 22, no. 1 While some political philosophers still approach human rights in austere and abstract isolation from the worldly contexts in which...

... through the lens of Qurʾanic eschatological ethics as having the structure of the “ordeal” (in Arabic, balāʾ or ibtilāʾ ): a divine trial to which the subject is called to respond. ( ks , 3–4) This scene of transference enriches her ambition to forge an intellectual kinship (Pandolfo’s words...

... to weigh in on their linked, yet at times fraught, struggles.1 Roundtable participants highlighted the challenges of solidarity between the two, critiquing anti- Black racism within Arab communities in the United States and the Arab world, and discussing how Zionism has been the default position...

.... Lemm, Vanessa and Miguel Vatter. The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. Lubin, Alex. Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro- Arab Political Imaginary. Chapel Hill: University...

... for the Occasional Paper Series sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Despite the essay’s significance, it has not circulated as widely as Asad’s other writ- ings. Qui Parle is reprinting it in order to make available the particular arguments that developed...

... University Press, 2005). Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Janet Afary, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 2005...