This book stems from a reaction to the pervasive and acritical use of civilizational paradigms in the study of modern Arabic literature.
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Review of The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity Since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
This review was originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click
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Paradoxical Modernity: Pasolini and Israele
The multifaceted work[i] of Pier Paolo Pasolini has largely been examined, and is still inspiring different disciplinary, epistemological, and political explorations and reflections inside and outside of Italy. However, his particular filmic an..
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Understanding Modernity: A Review of the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
On 6 June 2014, the Kuwait pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia’s 14th International Architecture Exhibition opened with a restaging of an event that took place three deca..
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Muslims and the Path of Intellectual Slavery: An Interview with Wael Hallaq (Part Two)
This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Wael Hallaq (click here for Part 1). In this second, Hallaq expounds upon the conflict he sees in the relationship between scho..
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New Texts Out Now: Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change
Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
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New Texts Out Now: Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament
Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
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New Texts Out Now: Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey
Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Jadaliyya (J): What..
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New Texts Out Now: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt
Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
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New Texts Out Now: Paul Sedra, "From Mission to Modernity"
Paul Sedra, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
Jadaliyya: What made you write this book?
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