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{"title":"YAEL WARSHEL. Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, August 2021). $99.99 hardback. ISBN 9781108485722.","authors":"Fran Hassencahl","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.45","url":null,"abstract":"were afoot. The book not only explores what happened, but how it happened and how it was covered by the press. It also explores the economic and logistical challenges of competition for readership and advertising revenues, which shaped the papers’ content. The book could have been richer if it included a chapter solely dedicated to the history of the Hebrew press worldwide, especially the Jewish diaspora in Europe and beyond. Nevertheless, Elyada’s work is very much relevant to historians and academics whose interests cover the history of the Hebrew and Jewish press in Palestine during the Ottoman Empire, including the beginning development of those newspapers, their media techniques, procedures, challenges, and contents.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"194 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44412531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Double Colonization: A Voice of the Voiceless in Leila Abouzeid's Year of the Elephant","authors":"R. Q. Rashed","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.33","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many Afro-Arab women novelists, if not all, have been addressing feminist issues for ages while homeland issues have been masculinized. Against this trend, Leila Abouzeid's academic interests span not only women's issues, but also those of men and of her country as well. Her book shows how a woman is dominated by patriarchy and colonization and how she herself appears to be an executioner. It also shows her struggle and resistance against patriarchy and imperial power, without sacrificing her commitment to her national and religious identity. In contrast to secular feminism, Abouzeid views religion as a source of relief and solace. The study also argues that the men happily adopt the colonial culture whereas their women resist it. Tackling the experience of double colonization in Year of the Elephant captures the experiences of millions of women in both the eastern and western hemispheres who rebel over the laws that govern their lives.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"91 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46462868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attribute Agenda Setting on Twitter and the Wall Street Journal: The Case of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar","authors":"Mariam F. Alkazemi, Sameneh Oladi Ghadikolai, Marilynn Oetjens, E. Boone","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.31","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines attributes associated with U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Omar's unique intersectionality of identities as a Black, immigrant, Muslim woman presents a rich case study for an examination of attribute agenda setting. A sample of Tweets, all Wall Street Journal articles referencing the congresswoman, and Google searches were obtained for the hashtags (“IlhanOmar,” “GoBack,” and “WelcomeHome.”) from May 2019 to January 2020. The Tweets and articles were then coded for a variety of dimensions. Analysis of the frequencies of words associated with the coding and the hashtags showed that the majority of the messages were negative despite the hashtag for which they were collected. A cross-correlation time series analysis showed that articles and editorials published by the Wall Street Journal predicted spikes in Google searches and Twitter messages. This article pinpoints underlying sociological phenomena about the representations of gender, race, religion, and immigration status to show the arguments that link attributes of Ilhan Omar together on Twitter.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"35 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45537781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ADAM H. BECKER. Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xviii + 357 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$32.50 ISBN 978-0-2261-4528-0.","authors":"David N. Yaghoubian","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.37","url":null,"abstract":"Adam H. Becker provides a richly detailed and eloquent account of the process by which American evangelical missionary activity in northwestern Iran and the eastern portions of the Ottoman Empire (now southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq) during the nineteenth century fostered the development of national consciousness among indigenous Syriac Christian students and associ-ates, which enabled the creation of a modern Assyrian nationalism in the twentieth century. Becker ’ s complex and nuanced work adds to the ranks of recent studies on nationalism in the Middle East, most notably Reza Zia Ebrahimi ’ s, The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation (Columbia University Press, 2016) that are theoretically sophisticated and reflect a refined understanding of the impact of Orientalist knowledge on indigenous interlocutors and their own agency in the process of forging and reifying new nationalist narratives based on selective reading and interpreta-tion of the past. Since these essentially modernist studies identify the recent inventedness of newly re-imagined national communities, locate the formative role of Western scholarship in their development, and analyze the autoethno-graphic process of indigenous self-identification as ancient nations undergoing revival, their arguments and conclusions are inherently in conflict with the nationalist, primordialist narratives that they systematically unpack. Like Ebrahimi, Becker remains conscious of the likely potential to ruffle some nationalist feathers while demonstrating both empathy and scholarly bravery in his persistence to interpret his sources faithfully and to abundantly illustrate and rigorously support his analysis and conclusions. Becker ’ s introduction simultaneously establishes the chronological, geo-graphical, and social terrain to be considered in the book ’ s eight chapters","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43438316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"RMS volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/rms.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"b1 - b3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42610894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"Heather L. Ferguson","doi":"10.1017/rms.2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps it is fitting, amidst the unending slog of pandemic teaching and a year of escalating geopolitical crises across AfroEurasia, that our long-delayed issue of RoMES presents a plethora of voices arraigned around our Special Focus topic “Spotlight on Pedagogical Perspectives and the Politics of Representation.” The idea for this topic emerged from a 2020 MESA panel attentive to volatile and contentious debates in the public sphere concerning Muslim identities and Middle Eastern geopolitical realities and social movements. Over the course of the past year, professors, students, activists, and law makers have sought to highlight patterns of misrepresentation, misattribution, and misappropriation in what amounts to a collective effort to position MENA dynamics as part of a global movement to redress inequity and establish new pedagogical, legal, and political paradigms. While many of us may feel discouraged when scrolling through our social media feeds replete with evidence of damaged and precarious lives and territories, this issue of RoMES should also inspire us to stay engaged with the discursive power afforded us as members of an expanding vision of MESA. First, Corey Sherman (University of California, Hastings) opens the issue with an “ethnographically informed textual and structural analysis of public high school curricula in Washington, D.C.” and the processes by which this curriculum represents and, arguably, “produces” the Middle East in the minds of its students, teachers, and administrators. As school board meetings across the U.S. become the staging ground for defining past and present “truths” of the nation and drawing new definitions of “us” and “them,” Sherman’s essay shakes us out of the confines of higher education and reminds us of the stakes involved in public debates. We shirk these public debates at the risk of further isolating academic knowledge production and at the risk of MENA lives. Second, Ranjit Singh (University of Mary Washington) leads us through the techniques and strategies for addressing the BDS movement in an undergraduate seminar. As MESA members, we have debated the role of the organization in analyzing and labeling historical and contemporary events in Israel/ Palestine. Singh pointedly draws our attention to the classroom as a site for critical engagement with the methods and the ethics of how we as scholars, professors, and members of the global community navigate debates around one of the more significant movements of our time. Third, Mariam Alkazemi, Sameneh Oladi Ghadikolai, Marilynn Oetjens, and Edward L. Boone","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46954728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rocks and Hard Places: Gender, Satire, and Social Reproduction in Pre-Revolutionary Iran","authors":"S. Razavi","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.34","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the ways that Iranian women have been situated in the nation-building exercise from the White Revolution of 1963 to the 1979 revolution and period of consolidation of clerical power. Social Reproduction Theory elucidates critical facets of both state control and spaces of counterhegemonic resistance. These spaces include publications like Tawfiq, a political satire magazine published in the Pahlavi era, which is featured in the analysis as a site of political contestation that could be utilized and expanded by other opposition groups. This paper argues that in contrast to the popularly accepted dichotomy between liberalized and regressive gender roles, this arena represented a critical failure on the part of the secular opposition, which enabled the clerical faction to co-opt and take control of narratives in which they cast themselves as protectors of women and other vulnerable groups.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"69 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45021089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Middle East Studies Under Occupation: The Case of Washington, D.C.","authors":"Corey Sherman","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.32","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A key component of Middle East Studies methodology is to identify and deconstruct the relationship between knowledge about the region and the power structures that give knowledge meaning. Typically, that methodology is applied to Middle East Studies at the post-secondary level. This paper applies that methodology to public schools in Washington, D.C. Through structural analysis, I will tease out the “epistemological commitments” (Abu El Haj 2001) of what the government of Washington, D.C. calls “social studies learning standards” -- short sentences which “detail the knowledge students are expected to acquire at a particular grade level.” Based on my experience teaching the Middle East in a Washington, D.C. public high school, I also raise questions about the relationship between the content standards and teachers’ work conditions, and whether such conditions support or inhibit the development of a praxis (Freire 2016) which could deconstruct US colonialism inside American public schools. One goal of this paper is to bring Middle East Studies into conversation with American Studies, broadly defined, and in particular ethnographic studies of DC that consider the colonial relationship between the US Government and Washingtonians. I conclude by calling for a deeper engagement with the American public school system by Middle East Studies scholars at both a theoretical and practical level","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"4 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeing and Hearing Omar ibn Said","authors":"Courtney Dorroll, Colleen Ballance, Philip Dorroll","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.47","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article will illustrate how using interdisciplinary student-faculty collaborative research can help decolonialize Islamic Studies. This article will be based on a case study of our recently completed student-faculty collaborate research project, Seeing and Hearing Omar ibn Said. Faculty members led a student-faculty research and public outreach project regarding Omar ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim man from the Senegambia region. The students’ work focused on the biographical opera Omar, which was planned for debut at the 2020 Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. This interdisciplinary collaboration combined religious studies, history, and performance studies. The students produced outreach materials designed for public engagement and education. Ultimately this article brings to light several important topics: the pedagogy of interdisciplinary studies, giving students agency in an interdisciplinary setting, and the lack of recognition of early Muslims in America.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"56 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45760844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Encircled Kingdom: The Saudi Anti-Communist Stance, 1958–67","authors":"Mohammad A. Al Tuwayjiri","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.40","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article evaluates Saudi Arabia's anti-Communist stance between 1958 and 1967, in the midst of the Cold War. It presents an alternative interpretation of how anti-Communism was framed as a struggle against Arab Nationalism and Zionism in the Middle East. Furthermore, it highlights the different perspectives on anti-Communist agitation provided in primary sources and Saudi historiography and offers fresh insight into the Saudis’ anti-Communist stance. The analysis shows that Saudi attitudes in the Cold War were dominated by a fear of the Soviet Communists that subsequently extended to all other secular ideologies. The article concludes that the Saudi strategy of anti-Communism was a crucial building block to curb the spread of Communism in the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"158 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49167182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}