Scholarly Works - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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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 ... -
“Order” and “Civility”: Middle-Class Imaginaries of Citizenship before the Syrian Uprising
Are calls for civility necessarily elitist, serving to reproduce existing hierarchies of social and political power? Or can they work to clear a space in which citizenship can be reimagined and new political demands can ... -
Agronomy and Philosophy in Early China
The language used to describe agricultural life in early China was of itself a much used medium for philosophical, social, and political commentary. This paper explores how agriculture figures in the language of philosophical ...
