A key conceptual problem for observers of the Arab uprisings–academics and journalists alike–continues to be how to classify and assess the ideological transformations taking place. “The people want the downfall of the regime,” the central slogan of the uprisings, has been interpreted as anything from a return to pan-Arab sentiments to a new Arab liberalism. [...]
by Maya Mikdashi One: Gender is not the study of what is evident, it is an analysis of how what is evident came to be. Two: Before resolving to write about gender, sexuality, or any other practice or aspect of subjectivity in the Middle East, one must first define what exactly the object of study is. [...]
Egypt’s first round of elections, in which a third of the country voted, comes to a close.
by: Farah Mokhtareizadeh Upon Ali’s pillow drew odes from farmers of the Oikumene, they whose dirges lamented silence. Curious hands dug and sought the seeds of heaven, they whose omens split open silence. Jesus summons Joseph through colour of time, to coat Potiphar’s rhyme, draw God’s dream to deign and thread open [...]
