We are excited to announce the third issue of the new JadMag (Jadaliyya in Print). In just one year since its launch, we are attracting more authors and building momentum towards significantly increasing its exclusive content.
In a groundbreaking article, anthropologist Julia Elyachar poses important provocations for political economy of the Middle East. In it she traces the relationship between khans, funduqs, and caravanserai in the Levant and factories on the Malabar Coast to the rise of “the factory” in England in the sixteenth century. By “establishing a new historical geography of the factory,” Elyachar pushes us to rethink the factory and the violence of accumulation of past and present.
This issue also features a special bundle on the uprisings in Algeria and Sudan, providing incisive analysis of the movements and connecting them to other movements for change in North Africa. In the bundle’s centerpiece article, Thomas Serres illustrates how the current political economy of Algeria must be understood within a political framework that emerged in the wake of independence.
Finally, the issue includes a diverse array of articles, interviews, reviews, and archival pieces on topics ranging from electricity in Lebanon, climate change in Egypt, and Hashemite rule in Jordan to the role of law in the Palestinian struggle for freedom and nineteenth-century emigration from the Levant.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
A Few Things Wrong with Political Economy of the Middle East (or, On Factories of the Semi-Civilized)
Julia Elyachar
Understanding the Protests in Algeria and Sudan
The Sun Sets on Algeria’s Crony Capitalists
Thomas Serres
The Laughter of Dignity: Comedy and Dissent in the Algerian Popular Protests
Hiyem Cheurfa
Algeria, Where is Your African Revolution?
Thomas Serres
Quick Thoughts: Historical Memory in Algeria’s Current Protests
Muriam Haleh Davis
The New Mobilization Dynamics of Sudan’s Popular Uprising: The Virtue of Learning from the Past
Khalid Medani
A Hirak Glossary: Terms from Algeria and Morocco
Muriam Haleh Davis, Hiyem Cheurfa, and Thomas Serres
The Orientalist Gaze in U.S. Textbooks: Representing Palestinians in History Education
Daniel Osborn
Civilian Versus Militant: Kashmir, Islam, and the Brewing IndoPak War
Zunaira Komal
Negotiating Chaldean Resettlement El Cajon, California
Brittany Dawson
Archaeologists for Human Rights in Turkey
Dies van der Linde
PEDAGOGY
Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon
Ziad Abu-Rish, Owain Lawson, Joanne Nucho, Eric Verdeil, and Dana Abi Ghanem
Essential Readings: Emigration from the Levant, 1870–1930: A Primer in Mahjar Studies
Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Essential Readings: Memory, Trauma, and Amazigh Activism in Contemporary Maghrebi Literature
Brahim el Guabli
Essential Readings: Hashemite Rule in Jordan
Pete Moore
ARABIC
جدي البوندي
Molly Crabapple
ما لم يكتبه عبد الرحمن منيف
Yazan el-Haj
اليهودي والمسلم حين يتجاوران
Sinan Antoon
النفط السلاح الأهم حتى في هذا القرن
Wadood Hamad
في وداع الطيب تيزيني
Mohammed Saleh
REVIEWS
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (New Texts Out Now)
Noura Erakat
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers (New Texts Out Now)
Hiba Bou Akar
Misery in Hindsight: On Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum
Edwin Nasr
Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (New Texts Out Now)
Donatella Della Ratta
INTERVIEWS
The Jewish Fedayeen: An Interview with William Nassar
Alexi Shalom
FROM THE ARCHIVES
The Violence of Climate Change in Egypt
Mika Minio-Paluello
Saudi Arabia and the War of Legitimacy in Yemen
Lara Aryani
TRIBUTE
The Legacy of Asmahan Haddad and the Arab Studies Institute
Jadaliyya Editors