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A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Red Indian’s Penultimate Speech to the White Man” 马哈茂德·达尔维什《红印第安人对白人的倒数第二篇演讲》的后殖民生态批评解读

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.2.0111

Ahmad Qabaha, Abdel Karim Daraghmeh

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OCCUPATION VS. RESISTANCE 占领vs.抵抗

Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.4.0264

Bansidhar Pradhan

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The Rise and Fall of Postcolonial Charisma 后殖民魅力的兴衰

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.1.0061

Mohammed A. Bamyeh

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Amphibious storytellers in Leo Africanus and The Moor’s Account 《利奥·非洲》和《摩尔人的故事》中的两栖说书人

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0212

M. Khalifa

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Hamdi, Tahrir. Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity 哈姆迪,解放。想象中的巴勒斯坦:流亡文化与民族认同

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0249

Haneen Al-Zboon

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The Cutting Edge between Nationalistic Commitment (Iltizam) and Literary Compulsion (Ilzam) in Palestinian Literature 巴勒斯坦文学中的民族主义承诺(Iltizam)与文学强迫(Ilzam)之间的前沿

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.17265/1539-8080/2014.03.008

Dima, Tahboub

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Old Conflicts, New Paradigm 旧冲突，新范式

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.2.0171

Salam Mir

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A Derridean approach to Qatar’s paradox of hospitality 对卡塔尔热情好客悖论的一种荒诞的解读

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Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0191

Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar, Wadha R. Alathba

{"title":"A Derridean approach to Qatar’s paradox of hospitality","authors":"Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar, Wadha R. Alathba","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0191","url":null,"abstract":"Qatar has been heavily critiqued for its alleged inability to be hospitable to fans and tourists from different cultural, gender, and religious backgrounds (Todman, 2022). It has been damagingly portrayed as an “unwelcoming and closed conservative country” (Al-Ansari & Zahirovic, 2021: 203). This article examines Qatar’s paradoxical positioning of hospitality. It draws on the Derridean notion of hospitality to conceptualize the Qatari cultural and sociopolitical context as being conditioned by “hostipitality,” a term that Derrida coined to explain the contradictory nature of hospitality, “a word which carries its own contradiction incorporated into it, a Latin word which allows itself to be parasitized by its opposite, ‘hostility’” (2000b: 3). This article, therefore, utilizes Derrida’s theory of “hostipitality” to deconstruct the Western mindset of liberalism and the alleged unconditional respect for all. Two examples are used, the Qatari World Cup and Souq Waqif, to further contextualize and problematize the paradoxical positionality of Qatari hospitality. How can applying the Derridean hostipitality help negotiate Qatar’s controversial hospitality positioning? How do the cases of the World Cup and Souq Waqif exemplify the paradoxical aspect of conditioned hospitality? Additionally, the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment is used to situate the paradox and help reconcile hospitality with hostility to form an emerging conception of negotiated conditioned hospitality. This study invokes the paradox of the “Ship of Theseus” to respond to the Derridean contradictory notion of hostipitality and further problematize Qatar’s positionality of hospitality.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270841","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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Imagining Palestine: From The Margin to the Center 想象中的巴勒斯坦:从边缘到中心

Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.4.0302

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Arab Studies Quarterly 阿拉伯研究季刊

Arab Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.4.0000

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