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Collecting Traces, Documenting Past and Present: How Archiving Became a Way to Open Futures in Contemporary Arab Political Experiences 收集痕迹，记录过去与现在：档案如何成为当代阿拉伯政治经历中开启未来的途径
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01701003
Leyla Dakhli
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Returning to ‘Nature’: Jurjy Zaydan and Sabri Musa’s Imagination of Future Egypt 回归 "自然"：Jurjy Zaydan 和 Sabri Musa 对未来埃及的想象
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01701006
Teresa Pepe
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Refractions of a Grim Future: Figuring Dissonant Beirut in Barrack Rima’s Speculative Graphic Narratives 残酷未来的折射：在巴拉克-里马的推测性图画叙事中塑造不和谐的贝鲁特
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01701005
Rasha Chatta
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The Atomic Future: Technology, Labor and World Peace in the Thought of ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath 原子未来：阿里-拉希德-沙阿思思想中的技术、劳动与世界和平
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01701002
Hebatalla Taha, Pelle Valentin Olsen
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Reckoning with the Legacy of the Digital: Toward a Renewed Quest for Modernity in the Middle East 重新认识数字遗产：重新认识数字遗产：中东对现代性的新追求
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-tat00011
Mohamed Zayani, Joe F. Khalil
{"title":"Reckoning with the Legacy of the Digital: Toward a Renewed Quest for Modernity in the Middle East","authors":"Mohamed Zayani, Joe F. Khalil","doi":"10.1163/18739865-tat00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-tat00011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although the digital Middle East has received wide attention, there has been little engagement with the cultural roots of ongoing transformations. This article offers a critical analysis of the region’s technological journey over the past century, revealing how the pursuit of the digital aligns with a historical quest for modernity and aspirations for socioeconomic development. By examining the cultural origins and trajectory of the region’s engagement with technology, the article illuminates how the present is inextricably linked to the past through multiple temporalities. It contends that a mnemonic connection with modernization, as a culturally embedded concept, is essential for comprehending the unfolding digital turn and engaging with the region’s adoption of various technologies, including the digital. This article contributes to the expanding body of literature on the intersection of technology and society in the Middle East. It underscores the need for a nuanced understanding of the region’s intricate relationship with modernization and digitalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910580","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}
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Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era , by Ozge Baykan Calafato 打造现代土耳其公民：共和国早期的乡土摄影》，作者：Ozge Baykan Calafato
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01604006
I. Kouteinikova
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The Media and the Islands Crisis 媒体与岛屿危机
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-tat00009
Amr Abdelrahim
{"title":"The Media and the Islands Crisis","authors":"Amr Abdelrahim","doi":"10.1163/18739865-tat00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-tat00009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Attracting large audiences during the late Mubarak era and the revolutionary period that followed, Egyptian political talk show hosts played an important role in supporting the authoritarian rollback initiated during the summer of 2013 before seemingly losing much of their hard-won influence. To understand their marginalization better, this article claims that the habits and practices these secular preachers acquired, through a relatively autonomous configuration of their field, did not match the post-2013 regime’s media vision. This observation is supported by discourse analysis of the hosts covering the 2016 Islands crisis, highlighting how their discursive strategies, namely the pluralistic ‘in-betweenness’ of most pundits, were rooted in their career trajectories and how they failed to contain the dislocation of the hegemonic discourse, thereby pushing securocrats to strip the media field of its remaining autonomy.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"209 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135371158","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}
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Inventing a Selfie Studio 发明自拍工作室
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01603004
Özge Baykan Baykan Calafato
{"title":"Inventing a Selfie Studio","authors":"Özge Baykan Baykan Calafato","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01603004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01603004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Through a case study of Istanbul’s Foto Görçek, playfully dubbed ‘the world’s first selfie studio’, this article focuses on the changing photographic practices from the mid-1940s–1960s in modern Turkey, which experienced a dramatic political transition during the 1950s with the introduction of the multi-party regime following three decades of strictly secular Kemalist rule. This study explores how Foto Görçek challenged and transformed studio practices in Turkey, particularly during its increasing popularity in the 1950s–1960s, by allowing people to take up Elizabeth Edwards’ notion of the ‘theater of the self’, or when the self also takes on the role of the photographer. Accordingly, the article looks at the affordances of the photo studio as a space where citizens reimagined their desired selves and when new ways of imagining the self were made available to them. Moreover, this study investigates how such new imagined selves in the aftermath of the Second World War served to renegotiate a desired modern Turkish identity resulting from the rigorous state-controlled nation-building process during the 1920s–1930s.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"97 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135372906","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}
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‘I Dance, I Revolt’ 《我跳舞，我反抗》
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01603003
Shayna M. Silverstein
{"title":"‘I Dance, I Revolt’","authors":"Shayna M. Silverstein","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01603003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01603003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the intensification of migration and border politics throughout Europe in the mid-2010s, displaced Syrians fleeing war to seek asylum and a livable life were simultaneously welcomed as vulnerable strangers who could contribute to European economies and societies and perceived as threats to the imaginaries of a homogenous Europe. This essay critiques the logic embedded in this narrative, namely that migrants are a social factor external and destabilizing to Europe, through a critical interpretation of Syrian choreographer Mithkal Alzghair’s work, Displacement (2016). This provocative dance work pivots on Alzghair’s reimagining of dabke , Syria’s celebrated folk dance, in which he deconstructs the social relations and embodied aesthetics of popular dabke practices to forge a political critique of Syrian authoritarianism and forced migration. By crafting a repertoire of movement that critiques the aesthetic and political ideologies on which it is based, Displacement arguably disrupts the postcolonial imaginaries of national identity and place that have historically ensconced folk dance in Syria and in Europe, respectively, and transforms the possibilities of what cultural heritage connotes, represents and signifies for Syrians and Europeans. Instead, the destabilizing work of embodied performance reveals how instability is endemic to European spaces and society. Through the convergence of performance theory and praxis, this essay demonstrates how Displacement stages live, perpetual, repetitive, and embodied motion in ways that open a space for artists and audiences to collectively engage with a fractious period and reconfigure the complex relations of power and representation situated between Syria and Europe.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"77 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135167632","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}
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Choreographing Movement as ‘Double Critique’ in Bouchra Ouizguen’s ‘Corbeaux’ Bouchra Ouizguen的《Corbeaux》中的编舞运动“双重批判”
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01603005
Rachid Belghiti
{"title":"Choreographing Movement as ‘Double Critique’ in Bouchra Ouizguen’s ‘Corbeaux’","authors":"Rachid Belghiti","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01603005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01603005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes movement in and around Bouchra Ouizguen’s dance performance ‘Corbeaux’ (2014) through the conceptual framework of Abdelkabir Khatibi’s ‘double critique’. The article explores how ‘Corbeaux’ choreographs its reenactment of the hal Sufi traditional head movement and how this choreography epistemically emerges as a ‘double critique’ or a crisis of both the immobilizing sacred pastness of this movement and the Orientalist constructions when dance and the dancing body are relentlessly subjected. The article clarifies that while inviting a dialogue between Western theories of Dance Studies and Khatibi’s decolonial method of ‘double critique,’ ‘Corbeaux’ prompts its reader / spectator not to romanticize either the dance or the dancing body since neither should disavow subjection to global capital. The article indeed complicates Khatibi’s conception of doubleness through the doubleness of dance as a space of both reenactment and customization of the Sufi archive which the dance reenacts within the choreography of global market mobility.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135167491","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}
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