{"title":"The War of Words: Language as an Instrument of Palestinian National Struggle","authors":"Loubna Qutami, Omar Zahzah","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0066","url":null,"abstract":"This critical set of reflections addresses how the increasing visibility of the Palestinian struggle and the growing attention to Palestine in the (US) academy coincides with altered and depleted meanings for terms and concepts once central to a Palestinian liberation framework. The authors challenge the de-familiarization of the Palestinian political lexicon by ruminating on past, present and potential future meanings for words whose currency, they argue, has assumed a deceptively simple valuation. What are the unforeseen political consequences of visibility, of “incorporation,” and how might these be resisted within the arena of meaning and through the process of reviving language as an instrument of national liberation struggle? Revisiting old definitions of terms and contributing thoughts to the value of words such as Zionism, peace process and negotiations, statehood and violence, the authors contest the boundaries of disciplinary research in service of Palestinian liberation. Part I: The War and its Many Battles","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66269886","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":"Rifts, Ruptures, and Fractures: The (Ir)relevance of Postmodern Conceptual Frames from the Point of View of Palestine's Poet Mahmoud Darwish","authors":"Daragmeh, Qabaha","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0151","url":null,"abstract":"This article responds to the relative neglect of reading Mahmoud Darwish from a postmodern perspective. Inspired by postmodern theory, we suggest that Darwish after Oslo agreements in 1993 seeks to have a displaced and dialectical encoun ter with the collective identity; he utilizes a transition from being into becoming, from filiation into affiliation, knowing that this transition mirrors rifts, ruptures, and fractures in the Palestinian historical and geopolitical conditions in the post-Oslo era. By looking at poems written after the Oslo Accords, which were described by Bashir Abu-Manneh as “the root cause of the disintegration and liquidation of Palestinian agency,” we argue that Darwish’s persona manifests the postmodern intellectual who is tempted to leave the collective and expatriate himself to hone an independent self and thought that provides a fresh perspective and a new understanding of Palestinian collectivity. While Darwish’s pre-Oslo poetry expressed a collective voice, identification, and commitment to the national narrative, after Oslo, he gets more personal and, perhaps, detached from and critical of the nationalist political entities and narratives. Building on theoretical insights from both postcolonial and postmodern intellectuals, we also articulate ways in which the dialectical relation between postcolonialism and postmodernism appears in Darwish’s poetry. We find that the persona at times combines, and at other times, fluctuates between, singularity and multiplicity, certainty and suspicion, the collective and the personal, place and space, tradition and innovation, while seeking revision, transition, contingency, dynamism, fluidity in the contemporary,","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66269964","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":"Book review","authors":"A. Pepper","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0242","url":null,"abstract":"A Sewer is the Best Medicine","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42921320","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 Chinese Model: The US Nightmare","authors":"Siklawi","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66269945","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":"Mirroring Hybridity: The use of Arab Folk Tradition in Laila Halaby's\u0000 Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis's The Night\u0000 Counter","authors":"Reem M. Hilal","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.4.0251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.4.0251","url":null,"abstract":": This article explores the way in which Laila Halaby in Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis in The Night Counter utilize the Arab folk tradition in novels on Arab and Muslim American experience to counter the dominant narrative that simultaneously erases their extensive history in the United States and juxtaposes it with a forced visibility that is marked by Otherness, threat, and distrust. The article argues that by using folkloric figures and storytelling structures, Halaby and Yunis reverse the positionality of these communities by marking the multiple cultural signifiers that inform their stories in order to construct a palimpsest that reinscribes Arab and Muslim American experiences within narratives that perceive them as problems. As such, the Arab folk tradition emerges as a significant mode in the cultural memory of Arab and Muslim Americans, and the American literary fabric more broadly, and takes on a new meaning in this context.","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270088","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":"Book review","authors":"H. Rigg","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0136","url":null,"abstract":"Digital and technological advancements are proliferating through criminal justice systems and law enforcement agencies, dramatically influencing prisoners’ access to procedural justice (see Almog and Aharonson 2004; Fowler 2013; Lederer 2017; Stone 2015). Carolyn McKay (2018: 5) contended that many jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Canada and European countries, are increasingly integrating videoconferencing technologies and audio-visual links (AVLs) into prison and courtroom infrastructures. In her comprehensive analysis, McKay articulated that prisoners’ perspectives have often been neglected in previous literature and that understanding their subjective experiences with criminal proceedings via AVLs is crucial for reform and change in the current policy framework (see Young 2011).","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43487560","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":"Book review","authors":"Caroline Kahlenberg","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0226","url":null,"abstract":"This new textbook is intended for students familiar with general relativity at the introductory level of Bernard Schutz’s book A First Course in General Relativity (1985 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and not yet accomplished at the advanced level of Robert Wald’s book General Relativity (1984 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), upon which it nevertheless draws rather heavily. What is distinctively new in this book is that it is a real toolkit, and yet it is not short of detailed applications. As such, it is a helpful book to recommend to students making the transition for which it is intended. The idea of a new textbook on general relativity usually delights me, as the field is still changing rapidly. New perspectives find new ways to present old things to new students. They also have totally new things to present to us all, based on the interests of the current research from which they have grown. This new book presents a wealth of useful tools to students in just five, well integrated chapters, starting with a quick review of the fundamentals and ending with an extensive application of general relativity to black hole spacetimes. In his own words, Eric Poisson has striven to present interesting topics and common techniques not adequately covered in readily available existing texts. This has certainly been accomplished, in a synthesis extracted from many sources. Congruences of geodesics, a staple analytical tool, occupy a whole chapter, and in greater depth and clarity than can be found elsewhere. A thorough, and lengthy, presentation on hypersurfaces, including a careful treatment of the null case, carries the author’s unique perspective. This treatment of hypersurfaces is put to practical use in the chapter on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations, which also leans on recent quasilocal energy discussions and includes an elegant treatment of the Bondi–Sachs mass in a unified context. Many of us have become familiar with the careful, well thought out, pedagogical style of the author, and this book certainly lives up to that reputation. It has developed from a course originating from Poisson, but now already given a number of times by several different instructors, so it is well battle-tested. Since Poisson has worked extensively in many of the areas he covers, the book also carries a personal touch, with an emphasis on clarity. As intended, the influence of Werner Israel, to whom the book is dedicated, shows through, implicit in many places, and at times explicit as well. Probably my strongest quibble with the content is the absence of a comprehensive discussion of isolated and dynamical horizons, which Ashtekar and coworkers have done so much to develop recently. Students equipped with the skills Poisson intends to impart would do well to be prepared in this one particular complementary area too. The potential reader should also be cautioned that there is no treatment of black hole perturbations. Though their role in gravitat","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839277","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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