Vol. 7, Spring 2007
Table of Content
ARTICLES
THE AGENCY OF ART AND THE STUDY OF ARAB MODERNITY
Kirstin Scheid.
“CULTURE KNOWLEDGE” AND THE VIOLENCE OF IMPERIALISM: REVISITING THE ARAB MIND
Frances S. Hasso.
SPECIAL FOCUS
WRITING: - A “TOOL FOR CHANGE”
‘ABD AL-RAHMAN MUNIF REMEMBERED
GUEST EDITOR
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
INTRODUCTION
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
NARRATIVE, HISTORY & POLITICS
ARD AL-SAWAD: A NOVEL FORMULATION OF PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF IRAQ
Ferial J. Ghazoul.
UPON LEAVING THE BRIDGE & ENDINGS: A REDEMPTIVE JOURNEY
Maher Jarrar.
WRITING THE NOVEL ANEW: EAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND NOW AND HERE OR EAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN ONCE AGAIN
(Arabic and English Translation)
Elias Khoury.
DE-CONSTRUCTION: TWO EDGES OF A MAGIAN LOVE-STORY
Nisrine Jaafar.
HISTOIRE ET FICTION DANS MUDUN AL-MILH (LES CITES DE SEL)
(French and English abstract)
Eric Gautier.
MUNIF ON ART
MUNIF’S INTEREST IN MODERN ART: FRIENDSHIP, SYMBOLIC EXCHANGE AND THE ART OF THE BOOK
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
IN HIS OWN WORDS
THE MONUMENT OF FREEDOM (Arabic and English translation)
‘Abd al-Rahman Munif.
MUNIF: A BIO-HISTORY
AN ARABIAN MASTER
Sabry Hafez.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
MUNIF’S WORKS: A CHRONOLOGY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra to Munif.
Marwan to Munif.
Munif to Marwan.
BOOK REVIEWS
Maher Jarar (ed.)
Abdel Rahman Munif wal Iraq: Sira wa Thikrayat
Reviewed by Abdel Razzaq Takriti.
Gabriel Piterberg
An Ottoman Tragedy; History and Historiography at Play
Reviewed by Jens Hanssen.
Robert Dankoff
An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Çelebi
Suraiya Faroqhi and Halil Inalcik, eds.,
The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage Series, Vol 31
Reviewed by Charles Wilkins.
Jane Hathaway
A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen
Reviewed by Alan Mikhail.
Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis (eds.)
A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century
Reviewed by Linda Darling.
Heath W. Lowry
The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
Reviewed by H. Erdem Çıpa.
Anton Minkov
Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730
Reviewed by Nikolay Antov.