{"title":"The Restoration of Sunnism: The Early History of Islamic Law Schools and the Professoriate in Egypt, 495–647/1101–1249 Gary Leiser. Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Columbus, GA: Lockwood Press, 2022). Pp. 347. $69.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781948488891","authors":"Jonathan P. Berkey","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823000983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823000983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48397627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon Munira Khayyat (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 286. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520389991","authors":"L. Deeb","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823000922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823000922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45633218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s Amy Aisen Kallander (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 280. £75.00 hardback. ISBN: 9781108845045","authors":"Hind Ahmed Zaki","doi":"10.1017/s002074382300096x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002074382300096x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42294854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 312. $95.33 hardcover. ISBN: 9781474484015","authors":"C. Yaghoobi","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823000910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823000910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47948103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City","authors":"Sophia Goodfriend","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823000879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823000879","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article provides an ethnographic account of automated surveillance technologies' impact in the occupied West Bank, taking Blue Wolf—a biometric identification system deployed by the Israeli army—as a case study. Interviews with Palestinian residents of Hebron subjected to intensive surveillance, a senior Israeli general turned biometric start-up founder, and testimonies from veterans tasked with building up Blue Wolf's database provide a rare view into the uneven texture of life under algorithmic surveillance. Their narratives reveal how automated surveillance systems function as a form of state-sponsored terror. As a globalized information economy intersects with the eliminatory aims of Israeli settler colonialism in Hebron, new surveillance technologies erode Palestinian social life while allowing technocratic settlers to recast the violence of occupation as an opportunity for capital investment and growth. Attending to the texture of life under algorithmic surveillance in Hebron ultimately reorients theories of accumulation and dispossession in the digital age away from purely economistic framings. Instead, I foreground the violent political imperatives that drive innovations in surveillance, in Palestine and worldwide.","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46874551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Latin Alphabet for the Arabic Language: Romanizing Arabic in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Beyond","authors":"Olga Verlato","doi":"10.1017/s002074382300079x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002074382300079x","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores early attempts to romanize the Arabic language in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Egypt and situates them within a global history of script reforms in the modern period. I focus on the models to write Arabic in the Latin script developed by the Cairo-based magazine al-Muqtataf between 1889 and 1897 (which, to the extent of my knowledge, have never been examined before), relating them to the responses they elicited from the magazine's readers and some of the romanization practices found in advertising, commercial displays in the streets, and governance at the time. I demonstrate that, in this period, romanized Arabic was envisioned as an original way to pursue financial profit and technological efficiency, confront European knowledge production, and redefine the standing of Arabic within transregional publishing networks that encompassed different languages and alphabets. This analysis thus offers an alternative geography of script reform that supersedes the national framework.","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49209464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Television and Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists Wazhmah Osman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020). Pp. 288. $110.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9780252085451","authors":"Zeynep Sertbulut","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823001113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823001113","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135002234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Threats to Academic Freedom are Global, and So Must Be Its Defense","authors":"Ilana Feldman","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823001022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823001022","url":null,"abstract":"As I sit down to write the introduction to this IJMES roundtable on threats to academic freedom in the Middle East and the multiple consequences of these threats for scholars from and of the region, I also am reading news about proliferating restrictions in the United States. In Florida, professors are changing their courses due to prohibitions on teaching about race issued by the state's governor and legislature, and under threat of losing their jobs and livelihood if they run afoul of these restrictions. In Minnesota an adjunct art history professor was denied future teaching opportunities and called Islamophobic by her employer for exposing her students to the range of Muslim perspectives on creating images of the Prophet Muhammad. At Harvard the former head of Human Rights Watch was initially denied a fellowship, seemingly due to the organization's reporting on Israeli human rights violations. And these instances are just a small sample of the anti–academic freedom news. They serve as a reminder that threats to academic freedom are global.","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135054054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City – CORRIGENDUM","authors":"Sophia Goodfriend","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823001101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823001101","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134996867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities","authors":"Nihat Celik","doi":"10.1017/s0020743823001034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743823001034","url":null,"abstract":"“Your political hegemony ended; your cultural hegemony, too, will end.” 1","PeriodicalId":47340,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Middle East Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135054055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}