Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8021
Sophie Chamas
This article draws on ethnographic research carried out with Marxist reading groups run by a Lebanese revolutionary socialist organization. I examine the labor that Marxist theoretical practice was doing in a political conjuncture widely viewed as post-Marxist , discussing the relationship between theory and affect, and the role that affective infrastructures play in maintaining and reproducing social movements and political organisations. Drawing on Moten and Harney, I frame this intellectual labor as a form of dissonant , disorganized study - a mode of preparing for revolution by being together in brokenness and routinely generating a commitment to a particular political horizon. This form of political praxis as study unfolded within a Lebanese activist scene dominated by a pragmatic conception of politics, within which the critical labor of the radical and revolutionary left was largely considered sterile , mired in something akin to what Berlant calls cruel optimism. Drawing on Munoz, his conceptualisation of the politics of queer utopia, and his defence of utopian imaginativeness, I argue that for radical and revolutionary leftists in counter-revolutionary times, cultivating solidarity and camaraderie by maintaining a space of study that could enable technologies of both self and collective constituted a productive political act.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8247
M. Agosti
Tahrir Square was the critical event that prompted a new generation of Egyptian feminist and human rights activists to join citizens in the streets to claim a new social and gender contract. While female protestors were an essential part of the revolution, their bodies powerfully triggered the economy of shame to ostracize some activists and to underpin, as Williams explains structures of feeling that sidelined the need to address rape in the square. This paper argues that the female protestor is a focus of political violence whose experiences illuminate the matrix that sustains and normalizes sexual violence in a society. This allows us to connect female body politics with broader socio-economic and political conflicts and with processes of state reconfiguration in marginal/liminal spaces.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8232
R. Naguib
This article surveys and analyzes the gendered symbols and imageries in the hegemonic nationalist discourse in Egypt, under Nasser and under Sisi. It advances that gender binaries are projected onto the relation between ruler and ruled, state and nation, military and civilian, as a means to demobilize and subordinate “the people” following coups d’etat. The article also analyzes the negative feminization of the Egyptian populace under Sisi, which serves to discredit demands for political participation and social justice and to legitimate their suppression, especially following the mass mobilizations of January 25, 2011.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8269
Areej Allawzi
#14–2020 Book Reviewed. Mamduh 'Adwan, 2018 ISBN 9789933540388 A collection of six chapters and a probing introduction by author Eylaf Bader Eddin make up the journey of When They Chanted „Forever“: The Language of The Syrian Revolution. This book marks the first attempt to examine the features of the linguistic discourse used during the Syrian revolution, as referred to by the author, which started in 2011. The main period of the discussed language of the revolution is 2011-2012. It records the manifestations and the turning points in the development of the visual, audio, and linguistic discourse of this revolution. The importance of this work is that it discusses the cultural material produced during the time of the Syrian revolution. It also forms an unprecedented scholarly work that studies the two opposing types of discourse of the pro-Assad regime, during the pre-revolutionary period, and the anti-Assad regime during the first year of the revolution. A similar work entitled Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir and edited by Samia Mehrez translates the archive of the Egyptian revolution. The contributors to this edited volume have translated a significant amount of cultural production during the time of the Egyptian revolution such as chants, banners, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches. Their translations are informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures (Mehrez 15). Mehrez’s book highlights the importance of translation in understanding how events have transformed Egypt during the revolution. Similarly, Bader Eddin’s book, also within the context of the Arab spring, provides an account of the events changing Syria by discussing the discourse of the revolution, particularly, in 2011-2012. Bader Eddin starts his work with a quote from Samuel Beckett‘s Unnamable: No, they have nothing to fear, I am walled around with their vociferations, non will ever hear me say it, I won‘t say it, I can‘t say it, I have no language but theirs, no, perhaps I‘ll say it, even with their language (15). The Unnamable is a monologue told by an unnameable narrator. It is a story to find one’s identity, to define one’s self and to examine the role of language in defining one’s self (Nojoumian 387-388). The pronoun they in this epigraph may be taken to refer to the Syrian revolutionist who, according to the author, have nothing to fear and whose chants are vociferous against tyranny. Bader Eddin appears to determine his sense of belonging when he dedicates his book „to my Syria about which and for which I am writing, hoping to return to it“ (17). By writing this book and REVIEW 176
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8258
William Kynan-Wilson
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8257
Shereen Abouelnaga
This paper reads the testimonies of Yazidi women who survived their slavery at the hands of ISIS (DAESH) to understand how this ‘minoritized’ body, a term coined by Arjun Appadurai, has become a worldwide signifier. Due to the circulation of images and technologies, the testimonies of those women who survived have become the only means that allows visibility; yet, the visibility of the violated minoritized body is a fact that still signifies power and instills worldwide horror. The paper attempts to understand how the minoritized individual body has become a body politic, onto which power relations are played out and where several discourses intersect.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.17192/META.2020.14.8254
Noura Kamal
In 2002, Nablus City in Palestine had to face more than one siege. The first siege affected all Palestinian cities; the Israeli army invaded the Palestinian territories and imposed a curfew for around a month in April. Later the same year between June and October, the city of Nablus witnessed a siege that was characterized by immobility and destruction. No one was allowed to leave their home; to do so put their lives under threat. This paper will reflect upon the role of the neighborhood in the construction of a social safety network. This network supported the inhabitants in their struggle to confront the occupational apparatus and to practice their daily activities despite the three-month siege that was imposed by the Israeli army. This paper focuses on neighborhood relations: describing their distinctive influence on peoples’ lives and reflecting on the meaning of being a neighbor, the obligations of neighbors within the same district, and how these relations manifested during the siege in 2002 and afterwards.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.7928
Sandrine Melki
While tackling the gender/urban development approach is new, but widely spread in the western world, the subject is almost irrelevant to Middle-Eastern research. The case study of one neighborhood in the cosmopolitan and distinctive Beirut explores this approach while focusing on women, either as recipients or as producers within their experience of space and their involvement with urban material.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8105
Anna Christina Scheiter
#13–2019 Book Reviewed. Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2018. ISBN 9783958320826 The book “Sprache und Diktatur – Formen des Sprechens, Modi des Schweigens“ („Language and Dictatorship – Forms of Speaking, Modes of Silence”), edited by Sarhan Dhouib, is the first volume in a series of publications entitled “Experiences of Injustice from a Transcultural Perspective”. As an Arab-German collaboration, the series takes an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the function and meaning of language in the context of authoritarian systems of rule, specifically the two German dictatorships of the 20th century and the postcolonial authoritarian systems in the Arab world. The fact that the volume as a whole appears as a coherent compilation of research can be attributed to the project’s own understanding of transculturality, which it defines as the result of intercultural work stemming from an open and patient dialogue among different theories and academic actors (10). In the light of the recent transformations in the course of the Arab Spring, it is one aim of this dialogue to explore the possibility of drawing on experiences and methodological and thematic approaches established for coming to terms with past experiences of injustice in the German context when dealing with such experiences in the Arab states (9). The editor considers the critical engagement with authoritarian structures a prerequisite for the establishment of democratic institutions and social systems (9). The 18 chapters of this volume are arranged in three segments that approach the use of language in a dictatorship from different perspectives: the first part lays out methods of language regulation employed by dictatorial regimes, the second part deals with counter-discourse and subversion, and the third part considers the role of language in the context of public protest. While a preface by the editor lays out the general aims and thoughts guiding the book, each segment also begins with an introduction summarizing its central ideas. With regard to the structure and length of the book, a general conclusion might have been sensible; instead, the volume ends with a transitional commentary linking the volume at hand to the next volume of the series, which is entitled “Experiences of Injustice from a Transcultural Perspective”. Though the focus of the following volume is on injustice and memory, the last chapter shows the proximity between the two subject areas by drawing attention to the ways in which art can accompany the critical reflection of experiences of injustice (13). In the first chapter, Bettina Bock outlines what could be described as an underlying theoretical framework, which is taken up and applied in several of the following REVIEW 96
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8088
Chiara Fontana
Western studies on Persian metrical system debate the linguistic origins of quatrains, (Per. robāʽiyyāt - Ar. rubāʽiyyāt) in Arabic, and regard prosodic Persian schemes independently of Arabic counterparts, despite reciprocally influenced metrical patterns. Attempts to dismantle Arabo-centric critical inferences about Persian metres are largely prosodic observations of the robāʽi/rubāʽī, thus neglecting their ontological evolution from a metrical scheme into an aesthetically experimental frame in Persian and Arabic poetry. This study closely investigates the spread of robāʽī/rubāʽī from Persian to Arabic literature employing a holistic culturally embedded methodology to reread their linkages in global terms, as an example of an inherited “Proto-World Literature”.
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