This special issue hopes to encourage deep and critical reflection about the methodological implications of conducting fieldwork. While doing fieldwork for our PhDs and professions, several of us contributors found that the line of inquiry on methodology had been conspicuously side-lined i..
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New Texts Out Now: Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
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New Texts Out Now: Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
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New Texts Out Now: Edmund Burke III, The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
Edmund Burke III, The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this boo..
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NPR Interviews Jadaliyya Co-Editor Elliott Colla on ISIS and the Media
In this interview with NPR`s Brooke Gladstone, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Elliott Colla discusses his essay "Watching ISIS on TV." Colla does a reading from his essay in which he describes his Iraqi in-law..
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New Texts Out Now: Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
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New Texts Out Now: Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Winner of the 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice, and ..
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Writing the Revolution: Dilemmas of Ethnographic Writing after the January 25th Revolution in Egypt
How to write ethnographically about Egypt after the January 25th Revolution? This problem dogged the convening of a panel at the AAA in November 2011 and the compiling of this “Hot Spot ..