Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.4.0287
Mahmoud Abdelhamid, M. A. Khalifa
: The archive is used both literally and metaphorically as a manifestation of the ubiquity of power and the authority invested in material archives. To work from the margin and in secrecy is a trait of the subaltern quest of both Wadood the bookseller and Dr nameer, as well as the different characters of the De Molina family. The official history written by the powers that be marginalizes the other. However, the digging of the archives by the subaltern raises the hope of an alternative history that saves the traces of the subaltern. The archive includes physical archives, manuscripts, artefacts, stamps, cassettes, and photos, as amply shown in Fihris . In Ḥ i ṣ n al-tur ā b , the archive has more of a metaphoric than literal meaning: it is the spectral topos of suppressed desire and recovered memory. The archive enables the subaltern to speak by digging up and even making up archives. Both quests are feverish and reflect the trauma that motivates digging up the past as recovered memory and the desire to keep traces of the past as tokens of a marginalized identity seeking redress. Archives are tokens of the past that threaten the integrity of the history written by the powerful: the hunter. The victims question that history and create nuisance that offers hope of a more just history that includes the marginalized subalterns.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0181
Tareh
{"title":"On the Violence of Self-Determination: The Palestinian Refugee as the Ontological Other","authors":"Tareh","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270018","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0025
Ismael
{"title":"Pax Americana and the Dissolution of Arab States: The Humanitarian Consequences (1990–2019)","authors":"Ismael","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66269836","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0091
Aoudé
{"title":"Turkey and its Immediate Arab Neighbors in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Aoudé","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66269896","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0139
Patty A. Kelly
A Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Neils Bohr, states “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Predicting the future is a challenging problem, particularly when dealing with an open system. That doesn’t seem to stop us from trying. Science fiction has a long history of making predictions. Some examples are laughably quaint; robot maids and butlers, a staple of 1950s era science fiction, seem less and less plausible as we make advances in robotics and artificial intelligence—real-world AIs seem much more likely to be task-specific, rather than generalists, at least in current lifetimes. Other imagined technologies turn out to have been quite prescient. H. G. Wells described an automatic sliding door in When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899; the first one was installed in 1960. In 1968, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey showed characters using tablet computers in everyday life. I remember computer watches and computer books from Inspector Gadget and other fiction in my childhood; the GPS watch and tablet computer I got in grad school felt like the realization of those tropes. Sometimes the science fiction even spurs the technical invention; Martin Cooper’s work on mobile telephones at Bell Labs was driven, in part, by the desire to bring about the communicators from the television franchise Star Trek. Even harder to predict than the specific technological advances is how those advances will impact society. Star Trek envisioned a future where automation and replicator technology would eliminate material need. However, an episode in its first season still revolved around a group of women going off into space to meet unknown men so they could become wives; the writers failed entirely to realize that there would be no reason for women to subject themselves to such treatment—as many women actually did in historical settings such as the American West in the late 1800s, seeking better economic opportunities—in a post-scarcity society. It’s easy to project unchallenged assumptions about society into a future where those assumptions would be completely unfounded. How, then, can one make any sort of reasonable predictions about the future? One path, taken by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith in their new book Soonish, is to focus on relatively near-term technology and its ramifications. Near-term, because it’s much more likely that we can predict technical changes 20 years from now than 200; technology, because it’s easier (though still difficult) to see what technologies might become possible, and what effects these specific technologies could have, than to predict other large-scale societal changes. In this book, the authors lay out ten emerging technologies that have the possibility of huge ramifications in a time frame ranging from a decade or so (if things progress rapidly) to a century (if the technology actually works, but it takes us, as a species, a while to figure it out). They present the current state of each particular tech
{"title":"Book review","authors":"Patty A. Kelly","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0139","url":null,"abstract":"A Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Neils Bohr, states “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Predicting the future is a challenging problem, particularly when dealing with an open system. That doesn’t seem to stop us from trying. Science fiction has a long history of making predictions. Some examples are laughably quaint; robot maids and butlers, a staple of 1950s era science fiction, seem less and less plausible as we make advances in robotics and artificial intelligence—real-world AIs seem much more likely to be task-specific, rather than generalists, at least in current lifetimes. Other imagined technologies turn out to have been quite prescient. H. G. Wells described an automatic sliding door in When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899; the first one was installed in 1960. In 1968, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey showed characters using tablet computers in everyday life. I remember computer watches and computer books from Inspector Gadget and other fiction in my childhood; the GPS watch and tablet computer I got in grad school felt like the realization of those tropes. Sometimes the science fiction even spurs the technical invention; Martin Cooper’s work on mobile telephones at Bell Labs was driven, in part, by the desire to bring about the communicators from the television franchise Star Trek. Even harder to predict than the specific technological advances is how those advances will impact society. Star Trek envisioned a future where automation and replicator technology would eliminate material need. However, an episode in its first season still revolved around a group of women going off into space to meet unknown men so they could become wives; the writers failed entirely to realize that there would be no reason for women to subject themselves to such treatment—as many women actually did in historical settings such as the American West in the late 1800s, seeking better economic opportunities—in a post-scarcity society. It’s easy to project unchallenged assumptions about society into a future where those assumptions would be completely unfounded. How, then, can one make any sort of reasonable predictions about the future? One path, taken by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith in their new book Soonish, is to focus on relatively near-term technology and its ramifications. Near-term, because it’s much more likely that we can predict technical changes 20 years from now than 200; technology, because it’s easier (though still difficult) to see what technologies might become possible, and what effects these specific technologies could have, than to predict other large-scale societal changes. In this book, the authors lay out ten emerging technologies that have the possibility of huge ramifications in a time frame ranging from a decade or so (if things progress rapidly) to a century (if the technology actually works, but it takes us, as a species, a while to figure it out). They present the current state of each particular tech","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44968001","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.4.0272
M. Abd-Rabbo
: The nineteenth-century American novelist, Herman Melville, is oftentimes viewed as a multi-cultured innovator who possibly anticipated post-modernism. In his epic romance, Mardi , Melville incorporates aspects of Orientalism within a Westernized framework, thereby eroding cultural borders. This article focuses on Arabian Nights as one possible parent text for Mardi on the one hand, and on Melville’s naturalization of certain Orientalist concepts in his novel on the other. furthermore, it explores the question of whether Melville “whitewashes” the Eastern narrative to naturalize the text and thus familiarize Westerners with a foreign culture in the spirit of multi-culturalism, or whether he simply subscribes to the Orientalist stereotypes prevalent in nineteenth-century America.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0168
Temsamani
{"title":"The Salwa Canal and the Island of Qatar","authors":"Temsamani","doi":"10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.3.0168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44343,"journal":{"name":"Arab Studies Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270007","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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