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This book stems from a reaction to the pervasive and acritical use of civilizational paradigms in the study of modern Arabic literature.

Like any research project, this book emerged from a convergence of personal experience and academic engagement. On the one hand, it springs from a long-term fascination with the ways in which work—particularly everyday, mundane work—forms us as gendered and sta..

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 

I started writing this book in September 2001, though I did not know it at the time. I was fifteen years old and had just arrived in Ankara, Turkey for a year as an exchange student. George W. Bush was president.

First, there is an intrinsic value in studying Taha’s general philosophy and its ethical foundations, since he offers a promising alternative to the trends that have dominated Arab and Muslim philosophical thought in the last century.

The book came out of a doctoral dissertation that I defended at the University of Alberta in 2013, although its publication took a few more years and several more rewritings. I was not fully conscious of this at the time of writing the manuscript, but I have si..

We wanted to write a book that would contribute to the critical studies of modernity and global culture by making visible the actually existing, diverse, but previously neglected practices of social housing in the broader Middle East. We believed that the absen..

During the past decade, many researchers have studied the relationship between geography and law in an attempt to clarify the links between these two increasingly complex concepts. In reality, comparing law and the built or natural environment can alter our understanding of both..

The capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil (Hawler in Kurdish), with its 1.5 million residents, plus a large number of Syrian refugees and displaced persons from the nearby Mosul region, have been going through a development boom since 2003, a date that marks the end of Saddam Hussein’s regi..

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..

Noah Haiduc-Dale, Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Wasif Jawhariyyeh, The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948. Edited and intro..

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..

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..

Throughout the last three decades, Wael Hallaq has emerged as one of the leading scholars of Islamic law in Western academia. He has made major contributions not only to the study of the theory and practice of Islamic law, but to the development of a methodology through which Islamic scholars..

On 28 and 29 March 2014 the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo (AUC) convened its Annual History Seminar at Oriental Hall in downtown Cairo. Titled “Before the Modern, After the Medieval: Egypt and the Middle East in the 18^th Century,” the..

Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond<..

There has been a flurry of commentary recently that claims something of a “silen..

Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.

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Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Nelida Fuccaro, editor, Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East.

Amir Baradaran, Marry Me to the End of Love. Cite internationale des Artes, Paris, France, 23-30 June 2012. Curated by Feri Daftari.

Not often is a performance as variegated in its political significance or as generous to critical exposition as Amir Bar..

Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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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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Paul Sedra, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011.

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