Mashriq & MahjarPub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.24847/v10i22023.395
Joseph R. Farag
{"title":"MAURICE EBILEENI, Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2022)","authors":"Joseph R. Farag","doi":"10.24847/v10i22023.395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":476848,"journal":{"name":"Mashriq & Mahjar","volume":"53 50","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134902646","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}
Mashriq & MahjarPub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.24847/v10i22023.383
Yalda Hamidi
{"title":"MICHAEL SULEIMAN, SUAD JOSEPH, and LOUISE CAINKAR, eds., Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021)","authors":"Yalda Hamidi","doi":"10.24847/v10i22023.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":476848,"journal":{"name":"Mashriq & Mahjar","volume":"150 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135872045","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}
Mashriq & MahjarPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.24847/v10i22023.371
Michelle Obeid
{"title":"GHASSAN HAGE, The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)","authors":"Michelle Obeid","doi":"10.24847/v10i22023.371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":476848,"journal":{"name":"Mashriq & Mahjar","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135996051","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}
Mashriq & MahjarPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.24847/v10i22023.351
Sarah Irving
{"title":"\"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho\": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine","authors":"Sarah Irving","doi":"10.24847/v10i22023.351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.351","url":null,"abstract":"In press coverage of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, frequent mention is made of the deaths of three women at the Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho. That the three were from British-occupied India apparently rendered them unusual enough to be noted by a journalist, whose observation was reproduced around the world. This article draws on newspapers, official documents and secondary literatures on the hajj, tourism and the British Empire to consider the history of South Asian travellers to Palestine and relationships between colonialism and travel in the interwar period.
 One of the three women was Lady Abdul Rauf, the wife of a retired High Court judge and veteran Indian Muslim nationalist campaigner, Sir Syed Abdul Rauf. The couple had departed Bombay in April 1927 for the hajj to Mecca and Medina, but extended their trip to include Jericho. This was not unusual; the Indian Hospice in the Old City of Jerusalem attests to a long history of Indian visitors to Palestine. This paper, however, locates the ill-fated presence of Lady Abdul Rauf and her companions in the changing nature of Indian travel in the region, as religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem combined with politics and tourism, and as changing infrastructures of capitalism and colonialism shifted how Indian visitors experienced Palestine.","PeriodicalId":476848,"journal":{"name":"Mashriq & Mahjar","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740203","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}
Mashriq & MahjarPub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.24847/v10i22023.362
Yair Wallach
{"title":"Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality","authors":"Yair Wallach","doi":"10.24847/v10i22023.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.362","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at Ashkenazi-operated hotels in Tiberias, Beirut, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere, in the late Ottoman period and under British rule, to consider the confusing ambiguities that these stories reveal. Ashkenazi presence in Palestine is typically understood in terms of either the pious, zealot pilgrims, or the nationalist settlers. And yet the story of the hotel owners and operators could also fit into a different category, that of migrants, who sought to integrate within existing social, economic, and political structures. The tourism and hospitality industry, which relied on flows of people across borders and on a diverse customer-base, was to some degree at odds with the segregation associated with Zionist Yishuv. Such stories, which have been forgotten and erased by the history of Palestine in the twentieth century, prompt us to rethink our understanding of Ashkenazi history in the region.","PeriodicalId":476848,"journal":{"name":"Mashriq & Mahjar","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135064090","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}