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Since the 1990s, official silences in France surrounding the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962) have increasingly been lifted, and sensitive archival collections have been brought to light by historians such as Benjamin Stora and Raphaëlle Branche. Yet given the ensuing “memory wars” tha..

“Here the tabular space--of the map, the canvas, the textbook--comes to be transformed into a topology that rapidly acquires depth when it is bent and deviated by excluded rhythms and dislocating narratives. Space is never empty or merely geometrical; it is always full of detailed, unfolding con..

AbirSaksouk-Sasso, “Making Spaces for Communal Sovereignty: The Story of Beirut`s Dalieh,” in Arab Studies Journal(Vol. XXIII No. 1), Fall 2015: 296-319.

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Civic engagement in Saudi Arabia has been viewed mostly from the angle of labor, nationalist, or sectarian activism that evolves in phases of political or social tension.[1] In this essay, I examine civic engagement in the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of the city. I argue that the above stat..

Melani Cammett, Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

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