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The Artist’s Way: Mohsin Hamid Confesses an Artistic Trauma in his Non-Fiction 艺术家之路:莫辛·哈米德在他的非虚构作品中承认艺术创伤
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.44.1.0005
M. Madiou, Samira al-Khawaldeh
While critics take a particular interest in discussing Mohsin Hamid as a novelist of globalization, migration, war, politics, economics, and capitalism, I contend that Hamid manifests a strong interest in, even obsession with, art in his fiction and non-fiction, which also makes him a novelist of art. Relying on his own words in his non-fiction, I argue that Hamid expresses a direct, often indirect concern about his artistic life, which includes his artistic experiences, ways, pursuits, and struggles in the globalized world of art. This article aims to ground my obstinate claim that Hamid symbolically exposes his own artistic life in his fiction in reality; it does this by focusing on Hamid’s non-fiction where his personal confessions can be said to be the most pronounced in contrast to his fiction where these are symbolic and, therefore, less definite. It establishes the basis on which my subsequent claim that Hamid speaks about his artistic experiences in his fiction can stand and, by extension, the claim that his fiction, besides being metafictional, can also be considered autobiographical.
虽然评论家们特别有兴趣讨论哈米德作为全球化、移民、战争、政治、经济和资本主义的小说家,但我认为哈米德在他的小说和非小说中表现出对艺术的强烈兴趣,甚至痴迷,这也使他成为一个艺术小说家。我认为哈米德在他的非虚构作品中表达了一种直接的,往往是间接的对他的艺术生活的关注,包括他在全球化的艺术世界中的艺术经历、艺术方式、艺术追求和斗争。本文旨在从现实出发,论证哈米德在小说中象征性地暴露了自己的艺术生活;它通过关注哈米德的非虚构作品来做到这一点,他的个人忏悔可以说是最明显的,与他的小说相比,这些都是象征性的,因此,不那么明确。它奠定了我随后的论断的基础,即哈米德在他的小说中讲述了他的艺术经历,并且,延伸开来,他的小说,除了是元虚构的,也可以被认为是自传的。
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On Humanitarian Law and the U.S. Double Standard 论人道法与美国双重标准
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.44.1.0018
G. Talhami
U.S. criticism of its client/ally Saudi Arabia regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi immediately diminished the kingdom’s ability to secure funds for its latest mega development project, the Neom convention center. U.S. intelligence pinned the crime on aides to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS). At the same time, a seemingly unauthorized operation, later attributed to former president Donald Trump, killed a top Iranian commander, Qasem Suleimani, by a drone strike. Congress was not involved and the UN protested this as a violation of Article 51 of its Charter, emphasizing that this was justified in a case of imminent threat, undertaken only by a state. Encouraged by drone technology, the U.S. found it easy to locate the target and minimize collateral damage. International lawyers and military experts are still debating the legitimacy of such action. The U.S. is persisting in claiming that it upholds the standards of international humanitarian law which sometimes sanctions targeted killing. A number of international law professors continue to deride U.S. action as illegal, while the latter continues to describe its actions as defensive in nature. Organizations such as Human Rights Watch lament the reluctance of previous U.S. presidents to define targeted killing.
美国就记者贾马尔·卡舒吉被杀一事批评其客户/盟友沙特阿拉伯,立即削弱了沙特为其最新大型开发项目Neom会议中心获得资金的能力。美国情报部门将犯罪归咎于王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼(mohammed Bin Salman)的助手。与此同时,一项看似未经授权的行动,后来被认为是前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)发起的,用无人机袭击杀死了伊朗高级指挥官卡西姆·苏莱曼尼(Qasem Suleimani)。美国国会没有参与其中,联合国抗议称这违反了《联合国宪章》第51条,并强调在面临迫在眉睫的威胁的情况下,这是正当的,只能由一个国家采取行动。在无人机技术的鼓舞下,美国发现很容易定位目标并将附带损害降到最低。国际律师和军事专家仍在争论此类行动的合法性。美国坚持声称,它支持国际人道主义法的标准,该标准有时会制裁有针对性的杀戮。一些国际法教授继续嘲笑美国的行动是非法的,而后者继续将其行动描述为防御性质。人权观察(Human Rights Watch)等组织对前几任美国总统不愿界定定点清除表示遗憾。
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Essay By the Editor 编辑随笔
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.44.1.0029
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Gothic Politics in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) 艾哈迈德·萨达维的《巴格达的弗兰肯斯坦》(2013)中的哥特式政治
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0045
Marwa Alkhayat
The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes a sense of indeterminateness and it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, a war Frankenfiction. It stages horror to chronicle national disintegration through the rise of a sewn-together zombie to mark the appalling arrival of the Iraqi dissenter. The new twenty-first-century monster is a zombie to defy marginality and to associate monstrosity with deviance and abnormality. Within this rationale, the present study investigates the aesthetics of Postcolonial Gothic politics to examine the use of the supernatural, the grotesque body, the monstrous abject, and the haunted ruins to depict a dismembered nation through the deployment of eerie motifs and surreal techniques. My premise fleshes out the Frankenstein hubris to dismantle the US political culture in Iraq. The aim is to reframe the modern Gothic monster as an emblem of reverse colonialism to defy the imperialist ideologies and to articulate past trauma through the rhetoric of bodily horror, haunting and ghostly fear.
本文考察了一种黑暗的叙事,以阐明幽灵和怪物的修辞。哥特性唤起了一种不确定感,它戏剧性地表现了破坏性的非物质事件,正如艾哈迈德·萨达维(Ahmed Saadawi)在《巴格达的弗兰肯斯坦》(Frankenstein in Baghdad)中所讯问的那样,这是一部战争弗兰肯小说。它通过一个缝在一起的僵尸的崛起来纪念伊拉克持不同政见者的可怕到来,上演了一场恐怖,记录了国家的解体。21世纪的新怪物是一个无视边缘的僵尸,并将怪物与越轨和异常联系在一起。在此基础上,本研究考察了后殖民哥特式政治的美学,通过怪异的主题和超现实的技术,研究了超自然、怪诞的身体、可怕的身体和闹鬼的废墟的使用,来描绘一个被肢解的国家。我的假设充实了弗兰肯斯坦式的傲慢,想要摧毁美国在伊拉克的政治文化。其目的是将现代哥特式怪物重新定义为反殖民主义的象征,以反抗帝国主义的意识形态,并通过身体恐怖的修辞来阐明过去的创伤,萦绕和幽灵般的恐惧。
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Arab Studies Quarterly 阿拉伯研究季刊
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.14293/s2199-1006.1.sor-socsci.clv33lk.v1
ScienceOpen Admin
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Book review 书评
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.4.0383
R. Wodak
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Book review 书评
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.4.0371
F. Moughrabi
The title of this book is arguably misleading for two reasons. One is that 'parasites', in the form of protozoan and metazoan pathogens, are distinguished from 'disease' organisms viruses, bacteria and fungi. Such a distinction, especially when there are chapter headings such as 'Diseases caused by Protozoa', is likely to confuse rather than enlighten. Secondly, 'tropics' is restricted in the book's coverage to South-east Asia. The main text is divided into four sections. The title of part I, 'Fish anatomy', is again slightly misleading since it deals with organs as habitats for parasites and is not concerned with descriptive anatomy. It is nevertheless a useful and very informative summary of the pathogens that are likely to occur in any given organ system. Part II 'Diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy' again provides clear and well-structured accounts of these topics, illustrated by flow diagrams and charts. The therapy section is the least useful, being particularly superficial on immunization techniques. The four chapters comprising parts I and II will prove invaluable, however, to those establishing laboratories or to those engaged in training personnel. Part III, consisting of two chapters under the general heading 'Diseases', contains details of viral and bacterial, and fungal infections. This part surprisingly accounts for only 10% of the book, which seems disproportionately small in relation to the likely importance of micro-organisms as pathogens. In comparison part IV, 'Parasites and pests', accounts for 50% of the book. This part contains chapters on Protozoa and all the major metazoan parasitic groups plus the crustaceans, leeches and molluscs. There are full, often detailed, accounts of the species of parasites found in South-east Asia. There is a strong emphasis on taxonomy and detailed nomenclature (synonyms are often given) which would seem more appropriate to a book whose aims were more directly academic. One gains the impression that many of the species included in this part of the book are not important pathogens in fish culture. The final chapter, included in part IV, deals with nutritional and environmental disorders. It is rather more superficial than the preceding chapters. Treatment of diseases is covered after the description of single species or groups of species, as appropriate. In general the coverage is useful but occasionally overdone. The section concerning Icthyophthirius, for example, amounts to five and a half pages and could prove confusing to a fish farmer looking for a convenient treatment. The index is fairly comprehensive although there are irritating omissions. For example, formulae are given for fixatives but these are not indexed, and neither is anaesthesia. In the text there is unnecesssary repetition of chemical formulae, for such ordinary chemicals as common salt and copper sulphate, which could have been omitted after the first mention. In general, however, the book is produced to a very high standard
这本书的标题可能有两点误导性。其一是原生动物和后生动物病原体形式的"寄生虫"与"疾病"生物体病毒、细菌和真菌不同。这样的区别,特别是当章节的标题是“由原生动物引起的疾病”时,很可能会让人感到困惑,而不是有所启发。其次,“热带”一词在这本书中的覆盖范围仅限于东南亚。正文分为四个部分。第一部分的标题,“鱼类解剖学”,又有点误导人,因为它处理的是作为寄生虫栖息地的器官,而不是描述性解剖学。然而,它是一个有用的和非常翔实的病原体的总结,可能发生在任何给定的器官系统。第二部分“诊断、预防和治疗”再次提供了这些主题的清晰和结构良好的说明,用流程图和图表说明。治疗部分是最没用的,在免疫技术方面特别肤浅。但是,对于建立实验室或从事人员培训的人来说,包括第一和第二部分的四章将证明是非常宝贵的。第三部分由总标题为“疾病”的两章组成,详细介绍了病毒、细菌和真菌感染。令人惊讶的是,这部分只占了全书的10%,与微生物作为病原体的重要性相比,这似乎是不成比例的小。相比之下,第四部分“寄生虫和害虫”占了书的50%。这一部分包含了关于原生动物和所有主要的后生动物寄生群以及甲壳类动物、水蛭和软体动物的章节。在东南亚发现的寄生虫种类有完整的,通常是详细的描述。这本书非常强调分类学和详细的命名法(经常给出同义词),这对于一本目的更直接的学术书籍来说似乎更合适。人们得到的印象是,书中这一部分所包括的许多物种在鱼类养殖中不是重要的病原体。最后一章,包括在第四部分,讨论营养和环境失调。它比前面几章要肤浅得多。在适当情况下,在描述单一物种或物种群之后,涵盖疾病的治疗。总的来说,这种覆盖是有用的,但偶尔也会做得过火。例如,关于鱼豚的章节长达五页半,可能会让一个寻求方便治疗方法的养鱼户感到困惑。该指数相当全面,尽管也有令人恼火的遗漏。例如,给出了固定剂的配方,但没有索引,麻醉也没有索引。在正文中,对于普通的化学品,如食盐和硫酸铜,有不必要的化学公式的重复,在第一次提到之后可以省略。然而,总的来说,这本书的制作水平很高,几乎没有错误。总之,这本书将为调查人员提供许多兴趣和价值,对于他们来说,它将证明是一个有用的参考资料来源,尽管不一定是参考资料,因为列表只有大约110个标题,并且它的许多优秀章节完全推荐给知情的读者。
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Book review 书评
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.4.0381
M. Balzer, Agnieszka Halemba
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Book review 书评
IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.3.0290
W. Beach
I have had a love/hate relationship with this book ever since it first came out. On the one hand, this is an excellent introduction for mathematicians to the differential geometry underlying general relativity. On the other hand, this is definitely a book for mathematicians. The book’s greatest strength is its clear, precise presentation of the basic ideas in differential geometry, combined with equally clear and precise applications to theoretical physics, notably general relativity. But the book’s precision is also its greatest weakness; this is not an easy book to read for non-mathematicians, who may not appreciate the notational complexity, some of which is nonstandard. The present edition is very similar to the original, published in 1992. In addition to minor revisions and clarifications of the material, there is now a brief introduction to fiber bundles, and a (very) brief discussion of the gauge theory description of fundamental particles. The index to the symbols used is also a more complete than in the past, but without the descriptive material present in the previous edition. The bulk of the book consists of a careful introduction to tensors and their properties. Tensors are introduced first as linear maps on vector spaces, and only later generalized to tensor fields on manifolds. The differentiation and integration of differential forms is discussed in detail, including Stokes’ theorem, Lie differentiation and Hodge duality, and connections, curvature, and torsion. To this point, Wasserman’s text can be viewed as an expanded version of Bishop and Goldberg’s classic text [1], one major difference being Wasserman’s inclusion of the pseudo-Riemannian case from the beginning (in particular, when discussing Hodge duality). Whether one prefers Wasserman’s approach to Bishop and Goldberg’s is largely a matter of taste: Wasserman’s treatment is both more complete and more precise, making it easier to check calculations in detail, but occasionally more difficult to remember what one is calculating. An instructor using this text would be well advised to think carefully about which topics to cover, rather than trying to do everything. The remainder of the book contains applications: to mechanics, to relativity, and to gauge theory. In each case, better treatments exist elsewhere. However, each such treatment typically introduces its own notation; it is not without some truth that differential geometry is often described as the study of objects under changes of notation. Having several short treatments of these different topics in one place makes it easy for the instructor to choose those he or she wishes to to emphasize, while providing a clear transition to more advanced treatments. The presentation does have some idiosyncrasies. The key concept of a derivation is not clearly defined. Some subtleties are referred to in cryptic comments (‘This space is too large.’) which are never explained. The occasionally nonstandard notation is not always ea
自从这本书问世以来,我就对它产生了爱恨交织的关系。一方面,这是数学家们对广义相对论的微分几何的极好介绍。另一方面,这绝对是一本数学家的书。这本书最大的优势是它清晰、精确地阐述了微分几何的基本思想,并将其同样清晰、精确的应用于理论物理学,尤其是广义相对论。但这本书的精确性也是它最大的弱点;对于非数学家来说,这不是一本容易阅读的书,他们可能不欣赏符号的复杂性,其中一些是非标准的。目前的版本与1992年出版的原版非常相似。除了对材料进行小的修改和澄清外,现在还对纤维束进行了简要介绍,并对基本粒子的规范理论描述进行了(非常)简短的讨论。所用符号的索引也比过去更完整,但没有上一版本中的描述性材料。这本书的大部分内容包括对张量及其性质的仔细介绍。张量首先作为向量空间上的线性映射引入,后来才推广到流形上的张量场。详细讨论了微分形式的微分和积分,包括Stokes定理、李微分和Hodge对偶,以及连接、曲率和扭转。在这一点上,Wasserman的文本可以被视为Bishop和Goldberg经典文本[1]的扩展版本,一个主要区别是Wasserman从一开始就包含了伪黎曼情形(特别是在讨论Hodge对偶时)。与毕晓普和戈德堡的方法相比,人们是否更喜欢沃瑟曼的方法在很大程度上是一个品味问题:沃瑟曼方法更完整、更精确,更容易详细检查计算结果,但有时更难记住自己在计算什么。使用本文的讲师最好仔细考虑要涵盖哪些主题,而不是什么都做。这本书的其余部分包含了应用:力学、相对论和规范理论。在每种情况下,其他地方都有更好的治疗方法。然而,每种这样的处理方式通常都会引入自己的符号;微分几何经常被描述为对符号变化下的物体的研究,这并非没有道理。在一个地方对这些不同的主题进行几次简短的治疗,可以让教练很容易地选择他或她想要强调的内容,同时提供向更高级治疗的明确过渡。演讲确实有一些特点。推导的关键概念没有明确定义。一些微妙之处在隐晦的评论中被提及(“这个空间太大了”),这些评论从未被解释过。偶尔不标准的记法并不总是容易遵循的,尽管这是对微分几何入门文本的常见批评,微分几何必须在精度和理解之间取得平衡。适当的交叉引用并不总是以“回忆…”的形式出现,其中有时包含(正确的)结果,我觉得这些结果并不明显,我也无法很快在前面的章节中明确指出。我对出版格式也有一个小小的不满,就是外部边距太小,只有1厘米;我觉得这太让人分心了。但所有这些批评都很轻微。沃瑟曼的书无疑是数学家,特别是那些对物理学应用感兴趣的数学家对张量分析的一个极好的介绍。《经典引力》和《量子引力》的读者会想知道这本书是否同样适合作为广义相对论入门课程的教材。乍一看,这篇文章似乎填补了Schutz[2]或d'Inverno[3]的本科生文章和Sachs[4]的研究生文章之间数学复杂度的空白,前者不需要微分几何背景,后者需要。尽管如此,不幸的是,答案是否定的。我教授的广义相对论课程主要针对高等数学专业的本科生,但数学和物理专业的本科生和研究生都参加;这是唯一的课程
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IF 0.3 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.3.0285
Omar Darwazah
This book is a dispassionate re-examination of the “laws and codes” that are presented as “Islamic” or “ shar‘ῑ ” in order to empower common Muslims to reconnect with the Qur’ān and the Prophetic legacy more directly. In that context, it highlights how the Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān and the Prophetic legacy has been clouded by the “interpretive constructs emanating from fallible humans” (p. viii). Instead, the author calls for the implementation of a value-oriented approach taken from the Qur’ān and the life of the Prophet Muhammad when determining Muslim understanding of the sharῑ‘ah and daily life. The serious
这本书是对“法律和法典”的冷静重新审视,这些“法律和法典”被呈现为“伊斯兰”或“共享”,以便使普通穆斯林能够更直接地重新连接古兰经ān和先知的遗产。在这种背景下,它强调了穆斯林对古兰经ān和先知遗产的理解是如何被“来自易犯错的人类的解释性结构”所蒙蔽的(第viii页)。相反,作者呼吁在确定穆斯林对shar ' ah和日常生活的理解时,采用一种以价值为导向的方法,这种方法取自古兰经ān和先知穆罕默德的生活。严重的
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