Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb

INTRODUCTION: Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb

The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again…

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Arena Journal issue no. 43/44, 2015

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
INTRODUCTION
Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb
Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James1
ORIENTATIONS
Making the Middle East Modern:
Shifting Historical Frameworks
Stephen Pascoe14
They Have Never Been Modern? Then What Is the Problem with those Persians?
Paul James31
IMAGINARIES
Intersections and Tensions between Civilizations and Modernities:
The Case of Oman
John Rundell55
The Beast of Syrian Modernity:
Yassin al-Haj Salehs Prison Notebooks
Frias Massouh80
Arab Cinema:
Possibilities of Modernity, Nationalism and Resistance
James Field96
TRANSFORMATIONS
Traditionalizing the Modern:
Tunisia's Living Museums
Virginie Rey115
The Messianic Idea in Shi'i Islam and its Modern Politicization
Cara Hinkson135
Nasser and the Modernization of Egypt
Robert Pascoe156
Zionism:
An Unfinished Revolution?
Yoni Molad178
Hunting Leviathan in the Middle East
Maher Mughrabi191
Notes on Contributors
208

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