Arena Journal issue no. 43/44, 2015
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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INTRODUCTION | ||
Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James | 1 | |
ORIENTATIONS | ||
Making the Middle East Modern: Shifting Historical Frameworks | Stephen Pascoe | 14 |
They Have Never Been Modern? Then What Is the Problem with those Persians? | Paul James | 31 |
IMAGINARIES | ||
Intersections and Tensions between Civilizations and Modernities: The Case of Oman | John Rundell | 55 |
The Beast of Syrian Modernity: Yassin al-Haj Salehs Prison Notebooks | Frias Massouh | 80 |
Arab Cinema: Possibilities of Modernity, Nationalism and Resistance | James Field | 96 |
TRANSFORMATIONS | ||
Traditionalizing the Modern: Tunisia's Living Museums | Virginie Rey | 115 |
The Messianic Idea in Shi'i Islam and its Modern Politicization | Cara Hinkson | 135 |
Nasser and the Modernization of Egypt | Robert Pascoe | 156 |
Zionism: An Unfinished Revolution? | Yoni Molad | 178 |
Hunting Leviathan in the Middle East | Maher Mughrabi | 191 |
Notes on Contributors | 208 |