{"title":"Navigating Economic Inclusion and Psychological Exclusion","authors":"Ayman Mleitat, Bilal Hamamra, Ahmad Qabaha","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.45.4.0288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.45.4.0288","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Kristeva’s theory of abjection, Wallerstein’s world system theory, and Petras’ imperialist-centered model of capitalist accumulation, this article argues that the immigration of Changez from Pakistan to America in The Reluctant Fundamentalist demonstrates a structural shift from the periphery to the center as a highly educated and skilled human capital in the era of global capitalism. The article contends that Changez’s decision to accept a funded scholarship at Princeton University is a result of the lack of economic opportunities in Pakistan and the corrupt economic and political systems that impoverished his family. Furthermore, the article critically examines America’s paradoxical policies of inclusion and exclusion toward Changez. While he gains access to Princeton University and the Underwood Samson company, his economic inclusion is not accompanied by genuine acceptance. In the context of global capitalism, Changez is economically included but psychologically abjected due to his ethnic identity.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257284","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":"Germany’s Never-Ending Guilt Trip","authors":"Samir A. Abed-Rabbo","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.45.1.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.45.1.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the future government of Israel and the official representative of the Zionist Organization (ZO), entered a contractual transactional relationship from 1933 to 1939. In 1952 the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the State of Israel, on behalf of all Jews, signed an agreement that paved the way for Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. No suggestion is being made here that Nazi Germany and the FRG are the same; the FRG assumed responsibilities for the crimes of the Holocaust. However, both contractual transactional relationships between both countries from 1933 to the present have initiated policies and programs that contributed significantly to the deterioration of German Jewish living conditions in Germany, the transfer of thousands of German Jewish citizens and their assets out of Germany to colonize Palestine, the establishment of Israel in historic Palestine, the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the allocation of a significant portion of German reparation money for the benefit of Israel instead of the victims of the Holocaust, the strengthening of the Israeli economy and industrial base, and providing Israel with German military technology and equipment to wage wars in the region. In this article, I will examine and analyze the special, often secret, relationship between Germany and the Zionist mechanization to colonize Palestine, the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the arming of the state with modern weapon platforms that can carry and deliver nuclear weapons. This secret relationship is in clear violation of German law, made possible by creating a universal guilt feeling among Germans for the crime of the Holocaust, and associated with a deliberate lack of public debate and accountability.","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":"66270531","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":"Imagining a Poetics of Loss","authors":"Bayan Al-Dahiyat, Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.45.2.0134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.45.2.0134","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims at showing how the poetry of Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef becomes the imagined geography of the Muscogee (Creek) nation and Iraq respectively. Despite the different contexts of struggle, both poets depict a national community through imagining a decolonized geographical space where intellectuals and poetry act as witnesses to defy the colonial erasure of memory. This article will attempt to highlight certain intellectual and literary texts that take active part in imagining and presenting an anti-colonial counter discourse that would lead to a new understanding of national identity and nation. It will rely on Bill Ashcroft’s theory of Postcolonial Utopianism and building imagined homelands as well as Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities. Representative poems from the two poets, Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef, will be examined in order to shed light on the theoretical and imaginative creation of nations.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270747","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":"How can Social Cohesion Foster State-Building and Confront Tribalism? A Comparative Analysis of the Post-Arab Uprisings Period in Tunisia and Libya","authors":"Férial Ménaifi","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0068","url":null,"abstract":"The Middle East and North Africa have experienced mass protests and political changes since the end of 2010. Indeed, the uprisings were a decisive turning point in the history of the Arab world. Although the leading causes of the revolts appear to be similar, as they result from political repression and socioeconomic grievances, their outcomes were highly different, and thus each state has developed a distinct state-building process. This article aims to explain one of the main factors that led to these divergences by comparing the role of “social cohesion” in Tunisia’s and Libya’s uprisings. The study concludes that, while the strength of social cohesion in Tunisia has fostered the role of civil society and thus explains to a certain degree the relative success of democratic transition in the country, the weakness of social cohesion in Libya has damaged the social fabric and therefore increased the emergence of tribal conflicts in the post-transition era.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270305","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":"Setting Narrative through Instagram Posts: A Study of BBC’s Reportage on Afghanistan","authors":"K. Sharma, S. Naresh","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0084","url":null,"abstract":"Media organizations have an immense role to play in disseminating information and shaping perspectives across borders. Though the information revolution provides us with many new opportunities, it also helps in establishing a single narrative through the cultural cultivation of popular media over time. Orientalism, in this manner, presents an image that the West created of the Near East centuries ago and these second-hand experiences are enhanced over the years by the powerful states and media organizations to maintain the established hegemony. This current study focuses on understanding the British Broadcasting Corporation’s narrative and its ability to include and exclude certain historical facts while reporting on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan through Instagram posts. The study found BBC portraying a favorable image for the role played by the NATO allies in Afghanistan and described the Taliban as a sheer group of terror, barbaric, and inhumane organization, following extreme Sharia laws.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270369","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":"Barbosa, Gustavo. The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon","authors":"Sa’ed Atshan","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.44.3-4.0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.44.3-4.0215","url":null,"abstract":"The Best of Hard Times , fruto da pesquisa de doutorado de Gustavo Barbosa entre os moradores de Chatila, um campo de refugiados palestinos em Beirute, é uma análise etnográfica da construção da masculinidade entre os shabab (rapazes) do campo. Com leveza e humor, o autor usa a metáfora da água para construir a sua etnografia e tornar inteligível a realidade local; com uma sensibilidade lírica, ele constrói uma conexão entre os shabab e o leitor. A partir de uma perspectiva crítica em relação ao feminismo neoliberal euro-americano, Barbosa mostra os limites de “gênero” enquanto um conceito binário que opõe homens e mulheres, cujas diferenças implicariam, necessariamente, uma hierarquia. O argumento central do autor é que, num contexto onde o “poder” é inexistente ou, no mínimo, bastante limitado, como ocorre entre os shabab de Chatila, essa noção de gênero se liquefaz. É o voo dos pombos criados pelos shabab que serve de metáfora para a masculinidade desses homens sem poder. Barbosa faz mais do que dissolver a pretensa universalidade e atemporalidade do conceito de gênero ou defender uma interseccionalidade The Best of Hard Times is the result of Gustavo Barbosa’s doctoral research with dwellers of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. It is an ethnographic analysis of the construction of masculinity among the shabab (lads) of the camp. Thoughtfully and humorously, the author uses the water metaphor to weave his ethnography and lend intelligibility to the local realities; with a poetic sensibility, he builds a connection between the shabab and the reader. From a critical perspective in relation to much of the neoliberal Euro-American feminism, Barbosa shows the limits of “gender” as a binary concept opposing men and women, whose differences would, necessarily, imply a hierarchy. The author’s central argument is that, in a context where “power” is inexistent or, at least, very limited, as it happens with Shatila’s shabab , the concept of gender liquefies. It is the flight of pigeons raised by the shabab that serves as a metaphor for the masculinity of these powerless men. Barbosa does more than dissolve the supposed universality and atemporality of the concept of gender or preach for the intersectionality of gender, age, class, ethnicity and nationality. He proposes an alternative methodology and epistemology that engage movement rather than frozen positions: to queer the intellectual thought and the production of an anthropology that is more permeable to the studied realities and less tamed by academic colonialism. Queering allows us to envision other modes of living, relating, and connecting.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270450","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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