...Mohammed Abdullah Hussein Muharram Despite the renewed interest in Arabic writing following Naguib Mahfouz's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war on terror, and the US invasion of Iraq, texts by Arab authors are surprisingly absent from the major...

...Bashir Abu-Manneh This essay adapts Theodor Adorno's conception of modernism to Arab and Palestinian historical conditions and argues that it is crucial for understanding the emergence and contours of Palestinian modernism. Key features, such as the disintegration of the individual and history...

...José Felipe Alvergue This essay explores the manner in which disavowal exists in the contemporary contexts of liberal democratism, particularly the latter’s participation in Arab alienation, and how it is communicated, consequently, in the maintenance of a cultural hegemony over the signifying...

... Unnikrishnan, Katie Raissian .” April 18 . YouTube video, 01:11:56. https://youtu.be/YLqfDM5HQD8 . Baishya Amit . 2017 . “ Review of Temporary People .” World Literature Today 91 , no. 2 : 68 – 69 . Beblawi Hazem . 1990 . “ The Rentier State in the Arab World .” In The Arab...

...” to representations of Arabs in the English canon. His essay “Resisting the Violence of Oriental- ist Translation: Defining ‘Arab’ from an Arab Perspective” appeared in The Middle East Panorama(2011). Along with Muneer Ahmed Ali Yousef, he is currently working on an anthology of Arabic post- colonial fiction...

... . The State and Capitalism in Israel . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press . Bernstein Deborah . 2000 . Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine . Albany : State University of New York . Borochov Ber . 1955 . “ Haplatforma Shelanu .” In Ktavim , 1 : 193...

... of Language (2001), offers three choices to its users, presets that will determine the language of the typographic and sonographic field: A (Arabic), C (Mandarin Chinese), or E (English).1 The structure of each is the same: mousing over the screen reveals fragments of linguistic signs and phonemes...

..., going out to jazz clubs in neighborhoods where the signs were written more often in Arabic than in French, places so far away from tourist attractions that she wondered if they were in Paris at all. She had the minnesota review clung to Eric's side, often drifting off to sleep on his shoulder...

... of California at Berkeley, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. As a doctoral student, Asad did fieldwork in northern Sudan, where he studied the political structures of a group of nomads. This resulted in a first book, The Kababish Arabs: Power, Authority, and Consent...

... on the edito- rial committee at that time were expected to know or learn foreign languages, to engage deeply with other cultures. Some spoke three or four; Anderson himself spoke French, German, Russian, Italian, Por- tuguese and Spanish; Fred Halliday spoke Persian and Arabic; Ben Brewster spoke...

... in Israeli and Arab culture, where Beckett figures more prominently than I realized at the time (he’s been translated into Arabic). When I talk to people who know the films of Palestinian-Israeli filmmaker Elia Suleiman better than I do, they all agree that there’s a Beckett component to what he’s...

... with ra-ta-tat ra-rah of instant text. Here’s to what never boils over, the lid unrattled, lava deep in the volcano staying there, caldera stoppered, hurricane humbled to off-shore, pre-schooler sulk. Here’s to the repression Arab hip-hop. Here’s to not fussing about...

... (Counterfire, 2011). His more scholarly and analytical books include Imperialism and Resis- tance (Routledge, 2006) and The Levellers’ Revolution (Verso, 2016). His experiences in Cairo during the so-called Arab Spring resulted in The People Demand: A Short History of the Arab Revolutions, with Joseph...

... is assistant professor in the Department of English at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on Arabic and global literature in relation to the global economic system. Her essay, The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Oil and Capitalism in Abdelrahman Munif s Cities of Salt...

..., a factor in my not getting tenure at Brandeis University….but that’s another story. 132 the minnesota review taken the position . . . that the leadership [of the PLO] is obdurate and unreformable” (395). He goes on to call for Arafat’s resignation and suggests that Arab...

... in Culver City, California. When I read these pieces, my blood ran cold, for what was being featured—and advocated—was the symbolic ritual lynching, pure and simple, of an Arab. The announcement that the ritual was going to take place; the detailed description...

... was Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North. Season of Migration to the North reverses Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: a dark-skinned Arabic-speaking African travels up the Thames to London, and in that northern heart of darkness he commits several unspeakably violent acts...

... s, gender, and sexuality studies at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is the author of five books, including Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence (2014), which won the African Literature Association s 2016 Book of the Year Award, and Diasporic (Dis)Locations: Indo...

.... Right now I have an initiative in Africa that will probably end up resulting in some films because nobody’s paying attention there. In North Africa, I’ve got a number of films in development, and you’ll probably see stuff coming out from Arab filmmakers. There is almost nothing here now...

... of 2007 8, and again within the turmoil of the Arab Spring and Occupy movements of 2011). From this perspective, and with all of the dangers of theoreticism and off-the-shelf gesturalism, the common and com- mons of commonism are a relay that refuses the expulsion or elision of a genealogy...