...Negar Razavi Abstract In recent years, a growing number of experts claiming personal and familial ties to the Middle East have joined elite foreign policy think tanks in Washington, DC, in an effort to shape US policy debates on this complex region. Based on more than two years of ethnographic...

... . Highlighting the role played by the Kenyan state in the ongoing war against the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, it takes seriously the African subjects who co-constitute geographies of war making in East Africa today, from the political and business elite who normalize militarized masculinities...

... Press. Borneman, John. 1991 . After the wall: East meets west in the new Berlin . Boston: Basic Books. ____. 1992 . Belonging in the two Berlins:Kin, state, nation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Böthig, Peter, and Klaus Michael, eds. 1993 . Machtspiele: Literatur und...

...Joel Beinin Duke University Press 2003 The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse It is dimly possible to imagine that the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Joel Beinin World Trade Center and the Pentagon could have provided an occasion to begin...

...Helga Tawil-Souri In Palestine/Israel, different colored identification cards are mandated by the Israeli state apparatus to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and those who are citizens of Israel. The article traces the development of the bureaucracy of the Palestinian...

...Olivia C. Harrison The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I...

...Rudolf Mrázek This essay explores the acoustic regime of two twentieth-century internment camps: Boven Digoel (1927–43), in the Dutch East Indies, and Terezín or Theresienstadt (1942–45), in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today the Czech Republic. Based on archival materials...

...Eng-Beng Lim This essay considers the phenomenon of the global university, particularly the trend of setting up satellite campuses, or “outposts,” in Asia and the Middle East. It tracks the global university as part of the Western university's international knowledge system and its connection...

...Kamran Asdar Ali; Martina Rieker Drawing on the larger project of the Shehr Network on Comparative Urban Landscapes, the articles in this issue seek to revisit conceptually and theoretically the question of marginality in the production of contemporary urban cartographies in the Middle East...

...Meryem Kamil This article centers two new media projects that imagine Palestinian decolonization, given the occupation of Palestinian land: news site Al Jazeera English’s 360-degree video tour of al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem and Palestinian grassroots organization Udna’s three-dimensional...

... sought to regulate the work of postcolonialist Middle East studies scholars. Thus Daniel Pipes’s Web site, Campus Watch, published dossiers of eight prominent professors of Middle East studies who demonstrated “bias” in their teaching and promoted anti-Americanism. The targeted eight...

... a liminal space, and West Asia is absent. Here, I deliberately deploy the term West Asia, rather than the more commonly used Middle East, to emphasize European conceptions of the historical 56 Sridevi Menon and imaginative...

...-Making in Divided Societies: The Israel–South Africa Analogy (Human Sciences Research Council). Joel Beinin is professor of Middle East history at Stanford University, where his research has focused on the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. He has written and lectured...

... of Orientalism’s publication, the critical scholars of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) — many of whom contributed to Middle East Report and the Journal of Palestine Studies — were politically and intellectually allied with Said’s...

... as the cornerstone of an unapologetic pro- ject to remake the political order of the Middle East. Yet the question of Palestine refused to disappear. From the protests of up to half a million people in several cities of Europe to the revived antiwar activism of the campuses of North American universities (see...

... erosion of this resolve. Although his friends and relatives had been emigrating from East Pakistan/Bangladesh since the partition in 1947, and though he had suffered professional discrimination on religious grounds and was driven out of his ancestral home, Sudhamoy, a participant in the language...

... to Israel’s conquest of East Jerusalem in June 1967. Below I analyze the character and implications of such representations since that fateful year. First, however, it is vital to turn attention to quotidian appropriations at the sites of commandeered Palestinian structures such as the Said family home...

...-thinking students, dominated the media and came to define the terms of public debate over higher education in state and national legislative forums. The concept of academic freedom became a keyword and battleground in the controversy over Columbia’s Middle East studies program that unfolded...

..., the transatlantic African slave trade, and the East Indies and China trades in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, on the other hand, perhaps the more unusual observation I offer is that many of the liberal concepts that were used to justify...

...- Timothy istan visited Washington, D.C. Ten days earlier Taliban forces had won Mitchell control of the countryside around Kabul, and with the south and east of the country already in their hands they were now making preparations to conquer the north. In Washington the Taliban delegation met...