Scholarly Works - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Class struggle in the era of identity politics: The revolutionary modernism of doron tzabari
(Wayne State University Press, 2019-01-01)From the beginning of its history, the Zionist workers’ society in the Land of Israel was plagued with fundamental identity problems. Chief among them was the tension between the socialist vision of Zionist ideologues and ... -
Authorship, Ownership and Rewriting. Va'iz Kashifi and Abu'l-Fazl B. Mubarak within the Hereditary Line of Kalila wa-Dimna Authors.
In Tīmūrid Herāt, during the last decade of the fifteenth century, the elderly and renowned Vāʿiz Kāshifī (d. 910 AH/ 1504-05 CE) was at the zenith of a full career as judge and preacher, involved in Ṣūfism and celebrated ... -
Restoring childhood: humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za`tari refugee camp
(2017-07-03)Of the 80,000 Syrians living in Za`tari refugee camp in Jordan, roughly 44,000 are under the age of 18. This article explores childhoods lived in displacement in this humanitarian space. Za`tari’s humanitarian apparatus ... -
Arabic Codes in Hebrew Texts: On the Typology of Literary Code-switching
(Brill, 2016-08-16)In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews left or had to leave Iraq for Israel. In the course of their encounter with a new society, with Hebrew as the national language, most Iraqi Jewish authors found it impossible to continue writing ...
