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• AL-KHUMASIYA: SYRIA'S INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATE OF THE 1950S.

  Author:Sami MoubayedFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20218,932 words Article 1600LAl-Khumasiya was a highly influential industrial complex that operated in Syria from 1946 until its nationalization in 1961. During the 1950s, it was the pride and joy of Syrian government officials, who took dignitaries...

• Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2021959 words Article 1310LFischbach, Michael R. Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 296 pages. Paperback $26.00 Black Power and Palestine is a remarkable and timely study...

• MULTILINGUALISM, TRAUMA, AND LIMINALITY IN THE BULLET COLLECTION: CONTACT ZONES, CHECKPOINTS, AND LIMINAL POINTS.

  Author:Syrine HoutFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20219,236 words Article 1550LInformed by theories of code-switching, memory, and trauma, my reading of Lebanese American Patricia Sarrafian Ward's diasporic novel The Bullet Collection (2003) centers on its multilingual usages to demonstrate how...

• "THE FOURTH LANGUAGE FOR ALL FEMALES": WOMEN'S SUBVERSIVE BODIES IN ASSIA DJEBAR'S FANTASIA, AN ALGERIAN CALCAVADE.

  Authors:Abdel Karim Daragmeh and Bilal HamamraFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20216,171 words Article 1350LThis article aims to illustrate the dialogic significance of the trance dance, a discursive scene of women's bodily expressions, in the Algerian feminist postcolonial novelist and film director, Assia Djebar's Fantasia...

• Lightening through the Clouds: 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2021750 words Article 1230LSanagan, Mark. Lightening through the Clouds: 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. 272 pages. Hardcover $50.00 Lightening through the Clouds is a...

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance.

  Author:Peter BartuFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20211,407 words Book review 1250LKhalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. 336 pages. Hardcover $27.99 Rashid Khalidi has written another...

• Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War.

  Author:Sa'ed AtshanFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2021855 words Article 1350LKapadia, Ronak. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 352 pages. Paperback $28.95 Mainstream scholars of security would benefit tremendously from...

• HOLLYWOOD, AMERICAN POLITICS, AND TERRORISM: WHEN ART TURNS INTO A POLITICAL TOOL.

  Author:Ali SerdoukFrom:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20214,945 words Article 1660LSince Sirocco, a 1951 film, the United States' cinema, Hollywood, has produced many terrorism films that have portrayed Arabs and Muslims unjustly as "terrorists." After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hollywood's projection...

• EDITOR'S NOTE.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2021375 words Brief article 1400LThis issue includes four articles. Syrine Hout's "Multilingualism, Trauma, and Liminality in The Bullet Collection: Contact Zones, Checkpoints, and Liminal Points" relies on "theories of code-switching, memory and trauma...

• The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2021871 words Article 1200LSachs, Jeffrey D. The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 280 pages. Hardcover $24.95 The scope of Jeffrey D. Sachs' study is panoramic. With the...