{"title":"Cosmopolitanism in Dubai’s Pan-Arab Drama","authors":"Fadi G. Haddad, A. Dhoest","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01302002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01302002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Pan-Arab dramas (Ar. al-drama al-ʿarabiyya al-mushtaraka) are a recent trend in Arabic drama series (Ar. musalsalat); they portray an ensemble of characters of various Arab nationalities in a transnational narrative setting. By considering transnational television a factor that contributes to the cosmopolitan imagination, and given the argument that Gulf cities are replacing historical Arab capitals and becoming ‘new centers’ for Arab culture, education and business, we explore the manner in which cosmopolitanism is represented in transnational Arab drama content. We do this through a case study of ‘04’ (Zero Four), a pan-Arab drama series that tells the story of four young expatriates of four Arab nationalities, experiencing their personal, professional and private lives in modern-day Dubai. We find that the boundaries of the cosmopolitan imagined community encompass the Arab world, resulting in a cosmopolitan imaginary that seems to favor Arabs over non-Arabs.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"190-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42531068","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":"From Postcolonialism to Post-Arab Spring","authors":"N. M. Zaamout","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01302001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01302001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Hamid Dabashi (2012) saw the Arab spring revolutions as a collective act of overcoming the colonial condition and retrieving a repressed cosmopolitan worldliness that has been overshadowed by the contradictions of postcolonial politics. Dabashi posits that the pluralist and egalitarian slogans of protesters were an expression of this worldliness. In this research I assess this claim in the context of Syria. I examine the question: Has this cosmopolitan orientation resurfaced in Syria? I argue that the 2011 Syrian uprising was a retrieval of what Dabashi describes as repressed cosmopolitan worldliness. It was a grassroots attempt to bring an inclusive meaning to Syrianism, consistent with the country’s boundaries and reflective of its ethnic and religious cosmopolitanism. The transformation of the crisis into a global proxy war has resulted in the rise of hundreds of armed groups driven by competing projects that have vacated the revolutionary attempt to redefine Syrianism.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"131-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49478327","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":"Cosmopolitanism, Activism and Arab Documentary Film","authors":"J. Wessels","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01302003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01302003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since the 1970s, Arab documentary filmmakers have highlighted struggles for personal freedom, dignity and democracy by those restricted by oppressive systems of colonialism, occupation and authoritarianism. In this article I study four contemporary Arab documentary films to identify a path vital for the rethinking of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship in Middle East studies. After the 2011 global interest in the Arab uprisings, Syrian and Palestinian documentaries rose to acclaim at international film festivals, and won Emmys and Oscar nominations. The often character-led stories of these films defy orientalist views of the Middle East. Creative global communities at international film festivals are emerging, where Arab documentary filmmakers and their non-elitist stories connect on various humanistic, sociocultural and political levels with non-Arab peers. In this article my aim is to contribute to a redefinition of cosmopolitanism, one not based on the rationalism of the Enlightenment but on the universality of human emotion and sentiment.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"210-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18739865-01302003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43631044","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":"Cosmopolitanism in the Arab World","authors":"Heba Elsayed, A. Webb","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01302005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01302005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"123-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47074746","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":"CairoComix Festival, Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo, 1–3 November 2019., by","authors":"Sara Hany Shaker Rizkallah","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01302004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01302004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"233-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338450","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":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781644693889-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693889-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74024293","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":"3. From Culture and Explosion","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781644693889-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693889-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89453534","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":"7. The Symbolism of Petersburg and the Problems of Semiotics of the City","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781644693889-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693889-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89597659","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":"5. The Language of Theater","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781644693889-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693889-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86056329","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":"1. From Universe of the Mind","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781644693889-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693889-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80582563","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}