...Maxime Cervulle “Arab or leftist?” “Faggot.” Cartoon taken from Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, Rapport contre la normalité (Paris: Champ Libre, 1971) Interventions French Homonormativity and the Commodification of the Arab Body Maxime Cervulle Not one of our words...

...Stephen Pascoe Abstract In April 1931, boycotts of foreign-owned electricity companies were launched across multiple cities of the Arab Levant under French Mandate. This article argues that the boycotts drew on an established local culture of boycotting that was shaped by the social relations...

... to balance the development and deployment of an open and accessible Web interface for individual online submissions of digital materials with targeted outreach to and solicitation of contributions from members of underrepresented communities, including the Arab, Chinese, and Latino communities. The article...

... discussions of HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s and early 1990s, anxiety surrounding Kuwait’s integration into transnational networks of travel and tourism brought tensions over gender roles, citizenship, sexuality, and infidelity to the forefront of public discourse. Drawing on local Arabic-language newspapers...

... and sexualized torture of Arab/Muslim men in the war on terror, the targeting of women as the proper subjects of microfinance and other credit products, and women, men, cyborgs, and sex in speculative fiction about climate change. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 US empire...

...), 7 April 1978. Out of the Battleground Michael B. Oren The Arab-Israel conflict, perhaps more than any other modern dispute, has been a conflict both in and of history. For forty years, two versions of the history of that conflict have confronted...

... Israeli historians and researchers are trying to redefine the past and to question some of the key myths which emerged with the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948-49. Previously, Arab at- tempts to challenge the same myths were always treated by Israelis as propaganda. Now, Israelis...

.... The Arab League boycott experience illustrated the extent to which a carefully arranged and officially enacted long-term state action coordinated by a regional body can withstand the ebbs and flows of political immediacy. Out of all the initiatives that the Arab League had ever adopted, this was the most...

... and political discourses through recurrent series of binary oppositions, of which the couple “Arab/Berber” is perhaps the most central. Routinely deployed as an explanatory principle of the sociological reality of Maghribi societies, and persistently invoked...

... in teaching Middle Eastern history, especially in relation to the Arab- Israeli conflict. Given the complexity of the topic, we felt that coteaching this course would enable us to give our students a more compelling presentation. The strength of our...

... for a British occupation that lasted until 1956, and the clashes between Arabs and Zionists in Palestine during the period of British colonial rule (1917–48). Organized violence by nationalist politico-military organizations directed at either civilian settlers or civil...

... the masses, and some analysts have even argued that Ahmadine- jad has thus managed to expand Iran’s influence among Muslim and Arab people. At the domestic level, however, the Iranian president’s controversial discourse on the Holocaust has been criticized as highly harmful to Iran’s national interests...

... reexamination of Israel's his- tory that has been underway since the mid-1980s' led primarily by Israeli scholars. In this reassessment, revisionist studies of the Arab-Israeli conflict have made the greatest impression on the concerned public, significantly shifting the terms of discourse about...

...& in Egypt, a Jew educated by French Jesuitswho, despite his love for Egypt, never mastered the Arabic language, play such a sig- nificant role in the Egyptian communist movement? All who knew Curiel attest to his charismatic personality, so enchanting that despite his flawed Arabic he won...

... that the Egyptian-Israeli agreement contradicted Islam. The Ira- nian boycott of Cairo strengthened the regional isolation imposed on Egypt by the Arab countries that had rejected the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The Islamic Revolution coincided with many changes in Egypt, including the country’s...

... of Palestinian Arabs, Bedouin, and Yemenite Jews.9 After the 1967 War, with the Israeli annexation of the eastern part of Jerusalem, the Old City — as the fulcrum of a once-divided Jerusalem — became the object of extensive development. The transformation of the citadel into a museum (again) was a key ele...

... of the Muslim Body as Object of Torture “Such dehumanization is unacceptable in any culture, but it is especially so in the Arab world. Homosexual acts are against Islamic law and it is humiliating for men to be naked in front of other men,” Bernard Haykel, a professor...

... of exclusivity inherent in the Palestinian identity became immortalized by late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century intellectuals and politicians who divided their affinities between “the Ottoman Empire, their religion, Arabism, their homeland Palestine, their city or region, and their family...

... support for its continued existence, while a Grand Liban would have had greater autonomy from France at the price of coming to terms with a large Muslim population.10 Yet other ideologies, such as Arabism and Syrian nationalism, questioned Lebanese autonomy...