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{"title":"Another Cartography is Possible: Relocating the Middle East and North Africa","authors":"Harun Rasiah","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.13","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Teaching the history of the modern Middle East and North Africa at a small liberal arts university offered an opportunity to address student demands to “decolonize the curriculum.” As the survey course comes under increasing scrutiny, we asked where exactly is the Middle East located in our political imagination today? This essay focuses on the role of maps in rethinking geographic frameworks by using a seaborne perspective, that of the Mediterranean, Arabian and Red Seas (MARS) in contrast to the familiar Middle East and North Africa (MENA).","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"309 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46727142","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":"On the Migrant Subject","authors":"Hengameh Ziai","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.27","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Pluralism is deployed to govern migration across the Global North and Global South in contradictory ways. Fearing the arrival of migrants on its own shores – a threat to its biopolitical constitution – Europe deploys discourses of pluralism in the Global South to encourage migrants en route to Europe to sedentarize in “transit” countries like Sudan. Neoliberal development projects propagate the virtues of pluralism to host communities in Sudan, who are exhorted to view migrants as potential economic assets. Yet, in the context of Europe those same migrants continue to be seen as an economic and racial threat. While a lack of skills and entrepreneurialism are framed as the “root cause” of migration to Europe, migrants are paradoxically presented as trainable and therefore economically productive in the Global South. This article offers a critical examination of consolidating migration management practices in Sudan, their imbrication with development projects, and the racial anxieties they evoke in both Europe and in “transit” countries. It homes in on not only populations headed towards Europe, but those intending to remain in Sudan, notably Syrians, and explores the lessons and aporias of Sudan's hitherto open-door policy towards the latter.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"196 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41896116","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":"Josh Ruebner. Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State. (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2017). Pp. 120. $15 paper. IBSN 9781566560290.","authors":"Sobechukwu Uwajeh","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"365 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46647340","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":"Walter Armbrust. Martyr's and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). Pp. 311. $27.95 cloth. ISBN 9780691162645.","authors":"Darci Sprengel","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.5","url":null,"abstract":"Although there are now many studies of the Arab revolutions, few articulate revolution with relations of class, gender, religion, and global politics as expertly as Walter Armbrust’s second monograph. Grounded in insightful media analysis and thick ethnography, Martyrs and Tricksters entwines local histories with global realities while taking seriously not only the revolutionary heroes that star in most academic studies, but also those who are pro-regime. Taking a chronological approach to the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the book begins with an ethnography of the initial eighteen days and it ends in the wake of the 2013 Raba’a Massacre. Despite its chronological organization, the book is not concerned with causality. Instead, it investigates what happens in the space of a social and political void from which there is no apparent exit. One of its major strengths, then, is its intentional focus on the ambiguous and unintentional, capturing the confusion and uncertainty of experiencing a revolution in real time. Another strength is the breadth of the book’s analysis, which weaves Ramadan serials, memes, YouTube videos, television talk shows, Facebook posts, and music (mahraganat) together with first-person accounts of demonstrations. Most broadly, Martyrs and Tricksters reveals the relevance of the Egyptian revolution to contemporary global politics, providing an important case study of how unthinkable realities can emerge from globalized neoliberal crisis. One of the book’s major contributions is establishing liminality as a useful concept for understanding revolutions. Drawing from Victor Turner’s theory of ritual process, the first chapter defines liminality as a characteristic of all transitions between normative states through which different possibilities can be entertained (3). Because liminality is dangerous, it is usually managed by conventions and rituals to ensure expected transition (e.g., social rites of passage). A revolution, in contrast, is an unforeseen transition, a passage through liminality that lacks clear control of the Review of Middle East Studies, 54(2), 352–362 © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"352 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45830149","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 MESA Global Academy: Sustaining Knowledge Production Among MENA Scholars","authors":"Mimi Kirk","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.21","url":null,"abstract":"The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Global Academy is an initiative that sustains research collaborations and knowledge production among regionally-focused scholars from the Middle East and North Africa and their counterparts outside the region. Spearheaded by MESA, the project is an expression of the scholarly field's commitment to scholarship in and from the region. By awarding scholarships to displaced scholars from the MENA region currently located in North America, and thereby enabling them to attend meetings, workshops, and conferences, the project supports individuals whose academic trajectory has been adversely affected by developments in their home countries.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"314 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48318431","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":"Kaya Davies Hayon. Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film. (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018). Pp. 181; $27.96 paperback. ISBN 9781501335990.","authors":"Cheryl Sokol","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"339 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44772352","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 Ferguson","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.28","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44149217","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":"Dan Rabinowitz. The Power of Deserts: Climate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 184. $14.00 paper. ISBN 9781503609983.","authors":"Natalie Koch","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.3","url":null,"abstract":"rather than a religious identity, have been used to continue the oppression of Alevi people in the post-Ottoman landscape. Countering historical misconceptions with such careful research successfully undermines the weak foundations used to deny Alevis their rights and history. The scholarly and social sensitivity Karakaya-Stump brought to bear during this work makes The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia an exemplary study that will inspire future scholarship, but which will not be easily equaled in scope and substance.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"360 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44175350","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":"Learning from Past Mistakes and Living a Better Life: Report on the Workshop in Istanbul on “Ottoman Ego-Documents”","authors":"Selim Karahasanoğlu","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.2","url":null,"abstract":"A workshop entitled “Ottoman Ego-Documents” was held at Istanbul Medeniyet University on March 11–13, 2020. The workshop was organized by Istanbul Medeniyet University's Faculty of Letters in collaboration with the Center for Ego-Document Studies and supported by the Turkish Historical Society and the Foundation for Science, Art, History and Literature (İSTEV). It was attended by specialists in history, literature, law, and theology. This event marked the first time in Turkey that this topic was discussed with a large scope. The only previous organized discussion in Turkey on “ego-documents” seems to have been “Autobiographical Themes in Turkish Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,” held jointly by Boğaziçi University and the Orient-Institut der DMG in 2003. This discussion was mostly theoretical and the material covered belonged mainly to the post-Tanzimat era. A volume edited by Olcay Akyıldız, Halim Kara, and Börte Sagaster, the organizers of that event, was subsequently published by Ergon.","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"294 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43355465","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":"Ali Al Shihabi. The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2016). Pp. 155. $22.95 paper. ISBN 9781558766136.","authors":"Sean D. Burke","doi":"10.1017/rms.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21066,"journal":{"name":"Review of Middle East Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"363 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/rms.2021.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45489811","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}