Middle East Topics Arguments最新文献

{"title":"Contacts in the MENA region: a brief introduction","authors":"V. Tsukanova, Evgeniya Prusskaya","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"05-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45522023","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 Invisible Life-worlds of a Coptic Christian","authors":"M. Ibrahim","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8087","url":null,"abstract":"This essay presents the life-story of a Coptic Christian between the PlayStation lounge, the coffeehouse and the prison. By taking this constellation as a point of departure, I broadly link such a portrait to overlooked contacts between Coptic Christian youth and the clerical hierarchy of the institution of the Coptic Orthodox Church. While attention is usually given to how Copts experience, negotiate and struggle against the various roles of the Church and its tradition of khidma (service), I investigate Coptic youngsters’ lifeworlds when they wish or have to stay invisible from the Coptic Church’s presumptions of representing its congregants.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"89-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47039446","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":"When Crisis Promotes Proximity","authors":"Jonathan Kriener","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8091","url":null,"abstract":"During the Lebanese war of 1975 to 1990, the only public university of Lebanon branched out into more than 40 locations all over the country. While this deed reflects the inner division of Lebanon, it also moved the University nearer to the country’s geographical and social peripheries. Employing field research, newspaper articles, and grey literature this article gauges the effects of fragmentation in terms of the dynamics of social control that resulted from it. It shows that by the perspective of social control, sectarianism and clientelism can be observed as related with, but distinct from one another.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"64-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47417384","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":"Arabic or Latin: Language Contact and Script Practices","authors":"Dris Soulaimani","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8080","url":null,"abstract":"This study discusses the social aspects of script reforms and the hierarchies attached to languages and scripts in contact. In Morocco, Arabic, French, and Berber/Amazigh compete for similar social domains. In recent years, intense debates took place surrounding the official adoption of Tifinagh to codify Amazigh; however less focus has been placed on the unofficial selection of the French-based Latin characters to write both Arabic and Amazigh. This study argues that, besides practicality, preference of the Latin script in Morocco is ideologically connected to the status of French as a language that indexes power, modernity and social prestige.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"13-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49590354","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":"Arabic as a scholarly language? Pitfalls of multilingualism in scholarship","authors":"V. Tsukanova, M. Waltisberg","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8094","url":null,"abstract":"Virtually all Arabists at some point ask themselves whether they should take into account specialized literature in Arabic, whether to take part in conferences held in Arabic countries, and which language they should choose for publishing their work. In this paper, we try to review this question in a broader context of the language of scholarship. By adducing historical and typological parallels, we reflect on the role of language in conducting research and exchanging ideas. The authors of this article are both linguists specialized in Semitic languages; therefore, they concentrate on the problems of their field, although these should be relevant to some extent also for the adjacent fields in the humanities.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"30-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49279913","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":"Networks, contact zones and the trans-local dimensions of the imperial Mediterranean","authors":"Gavin MURRAY-MILLER","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8075","url":null,"abstract":"Recent histories of the Mediterranean have drawn attention to the region’s internal diversity and provided a basis for considering the sea and its surrounding coastal areas as a place of trans-national entanglements. While this space was a contact zone between cultures, the dynamics and practices of Mediterranean imperialism frequently extended beyond a strict colonizer-colonized relationship. By examining networks forged through emigre communities, journalism, religion and finances, we can rethink concepts of the contact zone within a trans-imperial context. Assessing forms of engagement across and between imperial frontiers allows us to question the familiar metropole- periphery relationship and examine the connective webs that linked nodal cities and multiple peripheries spanning Europe, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"58-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44121972","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":"Language Contacts in Arabic Poetry","authors":"Hanan Natour","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8077","url":null,"abstract":"Language contacts in poetry differ from other forms of linguistic contacts, allowing writers to merge formal specificities of distinct languages within a single poem. This paper focuses on contacts between Arabic and European languages in selected poems of Adonis (*1930) and Fuad Rifka (1930-2011), both of whom are Syrian-Lebanese by birth and have lived for many years in Western Europe: Adonis in France and Rifka in Germany. How, then, do both poets deal with contacts between Arabic and French or German in their poetry? Can poetry be a way of crossing boundaries by merging patterns of different languages into one? \u0000  \u0000Erratum: p. 84, col. 1, line 23. Printed: الورق. Corrected: الورق.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"77-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48862840","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":"ʿAmr Munīr: Miṣr fī al-āsāṭīr al-ʿarabiiyah","authors":"A. Sheir","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.13.8104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.13.8104","url":null,"abstract":"#13–2019 Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʿ lā li-l-Thaqāfah, 2016, 475 pages. ISBN: 9789779209380 ʻAmr Munīr is an Egyptian historian and specialist in the history of Medieval Egypt. His primary research area is the folklore and cultural heritage of Egypt in the Middle Ages and early modern era. This present work Miṣr fī al-āsātīr al-‘arabīiyah (Egypt in the Arabian Myths) examines the myths about Egypt in the writings of Muslim-Arab travellers and historians. It develops a new approach in modern historical studies that differs from the Arab classical historical studies, which present historical studies built on the classic narratives of the past written by the contemporary chroniclers. In contrast, Munīr’s approach may be considered a transmission stage in recent Arab historiography combining cultural heritage studies and classic historical studies. He seeks to trace the popular imaginations stored in myths and tales that the traditional sources included, but which have been neglected by previous studies. Munīr investigates historical and folk sources of Egypt, Egyptian Society, as well as Egyptian Cities and the Nile. To distinguish between myths and historical events, the author examines the old myths about Egypt that people transmitted through the ages. Munīr then compares and evaluates the perception and transmission of these myths in the writings of the classical Muslim historians, chroniclers and travellers. This method enables Munīr to differentiate between the traditional myths transferred and inherited by generations through the ages, on the one hand, and historical events as recorded in historiographical Arabic sources, on the other. Munīr considers the account of al-Maqrīzī (1364-1442), Kitāb al-mawāʿiẓ wa-l-iʿtibār bi-dhikr al-khīṭaṭ wa-l-āthār (Topographic and historical description of Egypt), which also known as al-khiṭaṭ al-maqrīziyyah, as the most prominent source of this study that contains substantial heritage materials about Egyptian history and folklore. Another significant study source is the book Seyahatnâme Miṣr (book of travel of Egypt) by Evliya Çelebi (1611–82), an Ottoman traveller through the territories of the Ottoman Empire and neighbouring lands. Munīr states that this traveller provided a unique description of Egyptian society and its folklore, including many popular tales, myths and superstitions circulated among the Egyptian populace. The sources of this work include a wide range of contemporaneous Muslim sources. In broad terms, the majority of the sources and writers were chroniclers, eyewitnesses and classical Muslims historians. Therefore, Munīr’s book relied on a variety of other sources, such as Kitāb futūḥ Miṣr wa-akhbāruhā (Conquests of Egypt and REVIEW 103","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"13 1","pages":"103-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44882740","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":"Reshaping Space and Time in Morocco: The Agencification of Urban Government and its Effects in the Bouregreg Valley (Rabat/ Salé)","authors":"Maryame Amarouche, Koenraad Bogaert","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.12.7934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.12.7934","url":null,"abstract":"Since the turn of the new century, urban mega-projects became a new growth strategy in Morocco. Yet, in contrast to their utopian promises, urban mega-projects do not solve the contemporary urban crisis in the region, but reproduce it in different ways. A paradigmatic case is the Bouregreg project in the valley between Rabat and Sale. This article considers the ways in which this megaproject represents a means to extract profits and privatize public wealth, but also how it represents an urban laboratory for the development of new modalities of government, control, and domination. Finally it assesses the social impact of the project on small-scale farmers and private landowners.","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"12 1","pages":"44-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46723831","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":"Ibrahim Taha: 2016. The Fourth Dimension: Semiotic Debates with Palestinian and Arabic Literatures. Nazareth: The Arabic Language Academy","authors":"Basilius Bawardi","doi":"10.17192/META.2019.12.8009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17192/META.2019.12.8009","url":null,"abstract":"#12–2019 Book Reviewed University of Minnesota Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 9789659251834 Until recently, literary criticism among the Palestinian minority in Israel was dogmatic and ideological and did not meet the ethical standards of true literary critique. Rather, it was nourished by the ideological activities of the political party frameworks of that minority, mainly the Communist Party (RAKAH) and its newspaper al-ittiḥād (The Unity) and magazine al-ghadd (Tomorrow). The critique focused on praising the literary works for the author’s intentions rather than for qualities of the literary text itself. Conversely, it would purposefully crush a work of literature because of the personality of the author or his political or ideological affiliations. I do not believe that this kind of literary criticism did justice to the texts that developed during the national and social struggle of this minority. This book by Ibrahim Taha attempts to address key questions concerning such literary criticism: what is the current state of the field? What key changes has Palestinian literary criticism in Israel undergone? Given the scarcity of literary criticism, how can one balance between the number of literary texts and methodical academic literary criticism?","PeriodicalId":30565,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Topics Arguments","volume":"12 1","pages":"135-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41366397","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}