Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions

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    • Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present pasts and possible futures 

      Hannun, M; Lin, P-HA; Schmeding, A (Cambridge University Press, 4 July 2022)
      As the US-led global “War on Terror” enters its third decade, the structural, physical, and epistemological violence it has wrought continues to shape lives and landscapes in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the scholarship ...

    • Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the enduring entanglements of “writing against” 

      Hannun, M (Cambridge University Press, 4 July 2022)
      In the fall of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar entitled Women and Gender in the Arab World at Georgetown University. It had been two decades since 9/11 and the start of the “War on Terror,” events that most of my students ...

    • Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the cultivation of queer Arabness 

      Allouche, S; Chamas, S (The Feminist Press, 12 October 2022)
      In this article, we engage in a discursive analysis and affective reading of written and recorded responses to the suicide of Sarah Hegazi, an Egyptian queer feminist communist who took her own life in exile in Canada in ...

    • Affect, excess & settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel 

      Natanel, K (Routledge, 18 August 2022)
      What happens when we pay attention to the sensations of our research? Based on an image and encounter during fieldwork in West Jerusalem, this article traces how a feeling of discomfort both confirms and challenges what ...

    • Colonial Management of Iranian Kurdistan; with Emphasis on Water Resources 

      Hassaniyan, A; Sohrabi, M (University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, 25 August 2022)
      Iranian Kurdistan (a region referred to by the Kurds as Rojhelat/East Kurdistan), which possesses a large variety of minerals, oil reserves, dense forests, and massive surface and underground water resources, has for decades ...