Eminent Iraqi writer Daizy Al-Amir passed away in Houston, USA in November 2018. Born in Alexandria in 1935, she was a prolific short-story writer who wrote and travelled across many countries and continents throughout the course of her life. Daizy Al-Amir’s legacy to Arab and women’s literature, particularly in Beirut, are many-faceted. This article pays tribute to two important aspects of Daizy Al-Amir’s work: her literary works published with the highly influential literary journal Al-Ādāb from the 1960s and her short stories about women in the Arab world that were published in Arabic‐English translation.
伊拉克著名作家戴齐·阿米尔于2018年11月在美国休斯敦去世。1935年，她出生于亚历山大港，是一位多产的短篇小说作家，一生创作并游历了许多国家和大洲。Daizy Al Amir对阿拉伯和妇女文学，特别是在贝鲁特，留下了多方面的遗产。这篇文章赞扬了Daizy Al Amir作品的两个重要方面：她在20世纪60年代发表在极具影响力的文学杂志《Al-Ādāb》上的文学作品，以及她以阿英翻译出版的关于阿拉伯世界女性的短篇小说。
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{"title":"Roger Owen (27 May 1935‐22 December 2018): Formerly A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University","authors":"C. Tripp","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00002_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00002_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41340039","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}
A remembrance of the experience of Baghdad during the Second World War, is presented mainly from the vantage of the book sellers’ market of Suq Al Sarai, located in the centre of Baghdad near Al-Sarai and Al-Mutanabbi streets. The Suq, long the locale of cultural exchange and a foundry for Iraqi intellectual life, experienced the war in a unique way, with shortages of paper and accessibility to foreign books, journals and voices at the fore, rather than the absence of foodstuffs and other necessities of everyday life made short due to the war. The author notes how the violence and the attendant dislocation brought to this home of ideas and comity was to see itself repeated with even much greater bloodshed in a further violent clash during 2007.
纪念巴格达在第二次世界大战期间的经历，主要是从Suq Al Sarai的图书销售商市场的有利位置展示的，该市场位于巴格达市中心，靠近Al Sarai和Al Mutanabi街道。苏克人长期以来一直是文化交流的场所，也是伊拉克知识生活的铸造厂，他们以一种独特的方式经历了战争，纸张短缺，外国书籍、期刊和声音随处可见，而不是因为战争而缺少食品和其他日常生活必需品。提交人指出，暴力和随之而来的混乱给这个思想和礼让之家带来了怎样的后果，在2007年的一场进一步的暴力冲突中，暴力和混乱再次发生，流血事件更加严重。
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This article explores the Iraqi-American life writer Zainab Salbi’s memoir Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny; Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam (2005) in the light of a Foucauldian framework to examine both visible and invisible tactics of power once exercised by Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian regime. The Foucauldian analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as features of governmentality and political rationality are useful in understanding Salbi’s narration of Saddam Hussein’s use of the law and law-like regulations for perpetuating his authoritarian domination. I argue that through the ritual exercise of justice and conduct, the portrayed tyrant achieves the subjugation and constitution of individuals as well as the control of groups. The article suggests that by documenting her life story in an act of Foucauldian indocilité, or conscious insubordination, Salbi desubjugates the established politics of truth, and in so doing, detaches herself from the various modalities of subjectivity that the specific strategies of governmentality seek to formulate and impose on her as an Iraqi individual.
{"title":"Foucauldian rituals of justice and conduct in Zainab Salbi’s Between Two Worlds","authors":"Moussa Pourya Asl","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00010_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00010_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the Iraqi-American life writer Zainab Salbi’s memoir Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny; Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam (2005) in the light of a Foucauldian framework to examine both visible and invisible tactics of power once exercised by Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian regime. The Foucauldian analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as features of governmentality and political rationality are useful in understanding Salbi’s narration of Saddam Hussein’s use of the law and law-like regulations for perpetuating his authoritarian domination. I argue that through the ritual exercise of justice and conduct, the portrayed tyrant achieves the subjugation and constitution of individuals as well as the control of groups. The article suggests that by documenting her life story in an act of Foucauldian indocilité, or conscious insubordination, Salbi desubjugates the established politics of truth, and in so doing, detaches herself from the various modalities of subjectivity that the specific strategies of governmentality seek to formulate and impose on her as an Iraqi individual.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42937332","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}
Iraq’s petroleum sector has been the only economic sector that has experienced a formal articulated transparency regime for almost a decade through the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). As an entirely new concept in the Iraqi governance mindset, transparency was introduced following the 2003 invasion and Iraq has passed through distinct phases in its association with EITI, from application as a candidate in 2009 to a compliant country by the end of 2012, through its suspension in late 2017, from which time Iraq has worked hard to re-instate its compliancy status. This article discusses and assesses the Iraqi experience with transparency and the path it has followed in its implementation of this new concept for prudent management of its finite natural resources of petroleum. Specifically, what prompted or compelled Iraq to adopt EITI norms; what measures it had taken to gain the compliant status; why that status was suspended; what Iraq was expected to do if it wants to regain that status and, above all, what outcomes and how sustainable they might be are examined. Though Iraq’s EITI (IEITI) experience has been characterized as a bureaucratic formality and symbolic, the article argues that good, comprehensive and regular reporting on transparency enhances transparency and contributes to good governance in the petroleum sector. Hence, the article argues further, that what is needed is how to transform IEITI into a real, effective and impactful change agency.
{"title":"Transparency in Iraq petroleum sector: More symbolic formality than impacting effectiveness","authors":"A. Jiyad","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00004_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00004_1","url":null,"abstract":"Iraq’s petroleum sector has been the only economic sector that has experienced a formal articulated transparency regime for almost a decade through the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). As an entirely new concept in the Iraqi governance mindset, transparency\u0000 was introduced following the 2003 invasion and Iraq has passed through distinct phases in its association with EITI, from application as a candidate in 2009 to a compliant country by the end of 2012, through its suspension in late 2017, from which time Iraq has worked hard to re-instate its\u0000 compliancy status. This article discusses and assesses the Iraqi experience with transparency and the path it has followed in its implementation of this new concept for prudent management of its finite natural resources of petroleum. Specifically, what prompted or compelled Iraq to adopt EITI\u0000 norms; what measures it had taken to gain the compliant status; why that status was suspended; what Iraq was expected to do if it wants to regain that status and, above all, what outcomes and how sustainable they might be are examined. Though Iraq’s EITI (IEITI) experience has been characterized\u0000 as a bureaucratic formality and symbolic, the article argues that good, comprehensive and regular reporting on transparency enhances transparency and contributes to good governance in the petroleum sector. Hence, the article argues further, that what is needed is how to transform IEITI into\u0000 a real, effective and impactful change agency.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41736214","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":"Is it a budget, or unconcealed robbery and collusion?","authors":"Majed Allawi","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00006_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00006_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579846","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":"Fadhil J. Chalabi (1927‐2019): A remembrance","authors":"A. Jiyad","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00003_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00003_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46973874","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}
Review of: 50 Years in the World of Oil ‐ Memoirs and Autobiography ‐ 50Issam Al-Chalabi (2019)Beirut/Lebanon: Arab Establishment for Studies and Publications, 820 pp.,ISBN 978-6-14419-945, h/bk
{"title":"50 Years in the World of Oil ‐ Memoirs and Autobiography","authors":"A. Jiyad","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00013_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00013_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: 50 Years in the World of Oil ‐ Memoirs and Autobiography ‐ 50Issam Al-Chalabi (2019)Beirut/Lebanon: Arab Establishment for Studies and Publications, 820 pp.,ISBN 978-6-14419-945, h/bk","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508125","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":"Iraq and the Wathba of 2019","authors":"T. Ismael, J. Ismael","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00001_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00001_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48420173","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}
This article seeks to analyse the emerging Sino-Russian strategic understanding on the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and beyond by investigating its underlying motivations and its implications for Middle East and international politics. Building on the assumptions of ‘power transition theory’ in explaining great power interactions, it is argued that the Sino-Russian strategic understanding on the Arab uprisings dovetails with their pre-existing strategic posture in relation to global politics, and was motivated by their joint rising dissatisfaction with US unilateralist and hegemonic policies in the region. Such policies, from a Sino-Russian perspective, tended to exclude, rather than accommodate, the interests of both powers in this pivotal part of the globe. This prompted Russia and China to capitalize on their growing military and economic power and join efforts in the form of a strategic understanding in an attempt to effectively challenge an intrusive and overreaching hegemon and secure their interests in the region. This strategic understanding has had significant implications for the configuration of great power relationships in the direction of challenging US regional hegemony and facilitating a shift in the regional and global balance of power.
{"title":"The Sino-Russian strategic understanding on the Arab uprisings: Motivations and implications","authors":"Gamal M. Selim","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00011_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00011_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to analyse the emerging Sino-Russian strategic understanding on the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and beyond by investigating its underlying motivations and its implications for Middle East and international politics. Building on the assumptions of ‘power transition\u0000 theory’ in explaining great power interactions, it is argued that the Sino-Russian strategic understanding on the Arab uprisings dovetails with their pre-existing strategic posture in relation to global politics, and was motivated by their joint rising dissatisfaction with US unilateralist\u0000 and hegemonic policies in the region. Such policies, from a Sino-Russian perspective, tended to exclude, rather than accommodate, the interests of both powers in this pivotal part of the globe. This prompted Russia and China to capitalize on their growing military and economic power and join\u0000 efforts in the form of a strategic understanding in an attempt to effectively challenge an intrusive and overreaching hegemon and secure their interests in the region. This strategic understanding has had significant implications for the configuration of great power relationships in the direction\u0000 of challenging US regional hegemony and facilitating a shift in the regional and global balance of power.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jciaw_00011_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48370037","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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