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South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (1): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Barbara Harlow Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Barbara Harlow Mismar Goha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency ^Joha is a popular figure of folk wit and people s humor throughout the Arab world. Known as Si Djeha in Morocco or Djuha in Palestine and Syria, Goha has long...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (4): 606–607.
Published: 01 October 1951
...Theodore Ropp Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times . By Hourani George Fadlo . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1951 . Pp. xiii , 121 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 606 The South Atlantic Quarterly Simon...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (4): 715–734.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Matthew Abraham This essay uses Fouzi El-Asmar's To Be an Arab in Israel as a point of departure to examine the plight of Israel's Palestinian Arab citizens since 1948, while also exploring the inherent contradictions within the logic and political economy of Zionism that situate Palestinians...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (4): 701–728.
Published: 01 October 2003
...John Michael 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 John Michael Beyond Us and Them: Identity and Terror from an Arab American’s Perspective Orientalist Romance...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (3): 654–660.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of origin and at European borders—demand freedom from their regimes’ oppression and freedom of movement. As European youth can mostly move freely in the world, Arab youth share the dream of doing the same. Both local tyrannies and their international allies, as well as unjust socioeconomic and migration...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (3): 529–543.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Nada M. Shabout This essay explores the articulation of the Arabic letter and text in the modern art of North Africa as a liminal space of interaction. Arabic text in particular offered artists a space of intersection between the various layers of identities of North Africa (al Maghrib al-Arabi...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (4): 518–519.
Published: 01 October 1957
...Herman Salinger World Literatures; Arabic, Chinese, Czechoslovak, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Swedish, and Yugoslav . By Remenyi Joseph . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 1956 . Pp. 315 . $5.00...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (2): 396–406.
Published: 01 April 2014
... analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regimes were fairly effective in blocking the emergence of truly independent associations of any sort. In fact, “civil society organizations” played...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (1): 9–30.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Alain Gresh Africa's largest country, Sudan, is first and foremost part of the Arab world, sensitive to the political tides that sweep the Arab peoples from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. Like other members of the Arab League, Sudan was taken by surprise by the defeat of 1967. It was shaken...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of representation around Darfur “from within.” Focusing on Sudan's historically strong civil society, the essay elucidates how the Sudanese civil society's analysis of the country's conflicts eschews oversimplified binary oppositions, such as “Arab North” versus “Christian/animist South” or “Arab” versus “African...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China; lives in New York) Black Ceremony , 2011, Realized outside Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, December 5, 2011, 3:00 pm, approximately 3 minutes. 8,300 smoke shells fitted with computer chips. Commissioned by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern More
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 655–664.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and regional variants of area studies such as Turkish, Arab, Iranian, and Middle East studies but also the Euro‐American academy more broadly. Furthermore, the introduction underlines the potential of decolonial methodologies in reshaping the study of Kurds and Kurdistan, emphasizing the significance...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 803–823.
Published: 01 October 2024
... vernacular learning, it will be argued, was produced under the domination of Persian and Arabic, and to some extent it amounted to heresy, that is, an act of symbolic resistance. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the vernacularization of Kurdish language and learning in the seventeenth‐century...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 October 2008
... to Levantine culture. Hence, in his 1848 account of the U.S. naval expedition of the Red Sea and Jordan, William Lynch compared Arabs to Indians and the Holy Land to the U.S. Southwest. During the Gilded Age, Mark Twain compared Palestinian villages to western U.S. mining camps. In the 1940s, World War II war...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (1): 169–185.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and the United States, where mass distrust targets the system of representative democracy as such, without an aspiration to “improve” its shortcomings or distortions. It also differs from the Arab Spring revolutions, which attempted to destroy the corrupted political regimes as wholes. In his essay Budraitskis...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (2): 380–395.
Published: 01 April 2014
...: revolutionaries who challenged the state. Hence the vast majority of Gezi Park protesters maintain a critical distance from the military. By comparing the protests in Egypt and Turkey, this essay represents an attempt to step outside the “Arab Spring” paradigm while also thinking together the dystopic and utopic...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 January 2018
... delineated notions of how urban space, society, and resources are organized and used and what constitutes politics. Unstructured, sporadically collective, and often involving Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, and non-Arabs working together to contest the discriminatory policies of the Lebanese state...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (1): 111–133.
Published: 01 January 2018
... have been built on nationalist identifications and the nation-state as a goal. Alongside the nation as reference point, transnational and intersectional movements and objectives have also animated Palestinian politics, including pan-Arabism, pan- Islamism, and the human rights movement. The BDS...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2019
...,” circumscribed by the structural limitations imposed on it by international finance and the global geopolitical matrix, navigated the sequences unleashed by the two revolutionary insurrections, the Arab Spring and the Kurdish movement for self-governance. Whether or not Erdoğan wins the June 2018 elections, he...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 April 2023
... with the more worldly and cosmopolitan philosophies of medieval Arabic, Persian, and Jewish thought. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 unevenness South humanism science interwar international How does an idea of the “South” help us reckon...