On Race, Sports, and Identity: Picking Up the Ball in Middle East Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun T. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle East Studies

In their love for sports, Egyptians are no different from people in other parts of the world. They follow closely their favorite local teams in national-cup competitions, the careers of those stars who have taken their games to professional clubs in Europe, and, of course, the fortunes of their national teams in international competition. Success, such as Egypt's victory in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations can draw millions into the streets of Cairo and Alexandria in celebration. Losses can result in full-scale political investigations launched by President Hosni Mubarak.

The Jamahiriya Experiment in Libya: Qadhafi and Rousseau

1980 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami G. Hajjar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The World ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Middle East Studies

Only a few social scientists outside the field of Middle East studies are aware that in the sovereign state of Libya today there is no government. Indeed, it is not likely to have one so long as the country's strongman, Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi,1 continues to be the leader of the Libyan revolution. This has been the case ever since 2 March 1977, when the institution of government in its traditional legal-bureaucratic sense was dismantled, and the people's authority, exercised through people's congresses and committees, was proclaimed. By this action, Libya initiated in practice the so-called era of jamahiriya—the era of the masses and the practice of direct democracy – and has taken a number of steps in that direction. A recent example was the renaming of some of its embassies overseas as ‘people's bureaux’, with Libyan students and citizens taking charge of their functions and management.2 This action, instigated personally by Qadhafi, was intended to illustrate to the world that since Libya has no government, ordinary Libyan citizens overseas represent themselves directly to foreign peoples.

International Financial Centers: The World Experience and Russia’s Opportunities

2008 ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Rozinsky
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Value Added ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
Regional Headquarters ◽  
The World ◽  
International Financial Center

The author assumes that setting the target of creating an international financial center in Russia is caused by the international competition for maximizing national share in value-added chains in modern industries and for human resources capable of creating the value-added. Having analyzed the historical evolution of international financial centers the author opts for pursuing the aim of turning Moscow into the regional center for the CIS, CEE and / or Middle East countries. To achieve it, some measures are proposed, including motivating international companies and banks to transfer their regional headquarters to Moscow.

Middle East Studies On-Line

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Jon W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Middle East ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Change World ◽  
Mailing Lists ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
A Site ◽  
Middle East Studies

Materials of Middle East studies and not just for Middle East studies are increasingly appearing on-line. The ‘Net (Internet) that brought file archives, newsgroups and mailing lists devoted to regional issues and material has become a publishing medium in the Web (World Wide Web) with more and more of the output of Middle East studies themselves. The Bulletin now has a site, or “homepage,” on the World Wide Web at http://www.cua.edu/www/mesabul with select articles from recent issues and connections to material on the MESA Bulletin Gopher.The World Wide Web has been the breakthrough technology for making the Internet user-friendly and mainstream. WWW hides the “computery” aspects of the Internet behind snappy graphics and an easy-to-use interface that together have fostered much recent press and commercial enthusiasm over “the Net,” such as: It’s similar to what the library was 100 years ago, or the telegraph. It will be bigger and better than television. We’re not talking about a 500-channel medium. We’re talking about 250,000 channels that speak across all borders It represents who we are, how we act, transact business and engage in relationships. The Internet is about information empowerment. I think it will change world culture. (Michael Wolff in Investor’s Business Daily 21 Sep 95, p. A8)This summer, the number of commercial Internet sites passed those of educational institutions. The Internet, in a sense, has graduated.

Power and Knowledge Revisited in Middle East Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervat Hatem
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North American ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Territorial Boundaries ◽  
Middle East Studies

In thinking about a focus for the 2008 Presidential Address, I could not help but be influenced by the fact that this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Edward Said’s seminal book on Orientalism. I chose to examine the connection between power and knowledge, central to his work, and how this has influenced not only the study of the Middle East, but how it has influenced the members and activities of the Middle East Studies Association, the largest North American professional association devoted to the study of the region, an organization whose influence sometimes extends beyond its territorial boundaries to other parts of the world.

Presidential Address 1984 Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ira M. Lapidus
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Special Privilege ◽  
The World ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Early Islamic

Since this is my last gesture as President of the Association I should like to thank you all warmly for the honor you have done me in electing me as President and for the opportunity of working with the Board of Directors and with the Secretary, Michael Bonine, on your behalf. It also happens that I am just about to finish a book on the history of Islamic societies. In a very different way this project has also been a special privilege. I have been able to branch out from my basic and abiding interest in the Arab Middle East and from my studies in early Islamic history to learn something about Muslim peoples all over the world. To learn so much and to work out a way of presenting such a large subject in a coherent way has made this a wonderfully rewarding project. Like a great puzzle, it has occupied my mind for seven years. I hope that the book I am writing will return the rewards of this learning to the reader.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Tamara Sonn
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
American Academy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
American Council ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle East Studies

If Edward Said is known for identifying the political implications of negative stereotypes of Islam, John L. Esposito is known for correcting them. This chapter summarizes the significance of Esposito’s contributions to the study of Islam and his leadership in inspiring other scholars around the world. The best-known scholar of Islam in North America, Esposito has published more than seventy books, as well as handbooks, encyclopedias, and other sources that have become standard academic references. He has served as president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, the Middle East Studies Association, and the American Academy of Religion. This chapter also introduces the chapters contained in this volume, which extend his work in four areas: the secular bias of Orientalism, its failure to recognize both the enormous diversity within Islam and profound similarities between Islam and other religions, and the current iteration of Orientalism: Islamophobia.

The Middle East without Space?

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle East Studies

One of the first ways that many scholars of the Middle East encounter the region is precisely through the lens of “region” itself. Our ability to know the Middle East as a region today, we learn, is a complicated inheritance of imperialism, Orientalism, and Cold War area studies scholarship. To study the Middle East as the “Middle East,” in other words, is to be necessarily positioned within a contested and unequal field of knowledge, one whose contours are both historically and geographically specific. Much of the best research and teaching within Middle East studies continues to demonstrate that knowingaboutthe region—and the world more broadly—is closely entwined with the politicsofthe region. The interdisciplinary spatial turn within Middle East studies has been and continues to be so fertile precisely because of that reflexivity.

Beyond Exception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Kanna ◽  
Amélie Le Renard ◽  
Neha Vora
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Over nearly two decades during which they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, the authors have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for the book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a “field” that is marked by such representations. The book's focus is on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. It analyzes what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies studied. The book proposes ways that this analysis of exceptionalism provides tools for rethinking the concepts that have become commonplace, structuring narratives and analytical frameworks within fieldwork in and on the Arabian Peninsula. It asks: What would not only Middle East studies, but studies of postcolonial societies and global capitalism in other parts of the world look like if the Arabian Peninsula was central, rather than peripheral or exceptional, to ongoing sociohistorical processes and representational practices? The book explores how the exceptionalizing discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula studies spring from colonialist discourses still operative in anthropology and sociology more generally, and suggest that de-exceptionalizing the region within their disciplines can offer opportunities for decolonized knowledge production.

Panji Hitam Dari Arah Timur

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Dadi Herdiansah
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Conflict Area ◽  
Middle East Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Spread

One of the information spread about the arrival of the Mahdi priest was that he led the war troops by carrying a black banner from the east. This information comes from several histories in several hadith books. Pro contra has occurred in response to this history. The Muslim groups who believe in the truth of this black banner tradition have flocked from all corners of the world to the Middle East conflict area which is believed and believed there is a group of mujahids carrying black banner as mentioned by the hadith. Even in the conflict area there was mutual claim between the factions that their faction was mentioned by the hadith carrying its black banner, so that even from one another, civil war was not inevitable in some places. But what is the origin of the hadith? This note is the adoptive writer to criticize the hadith by issuing all of his paths with the takhrīj al-hadīth method, Jarh wa ta'dīl and ‘Ilalu al-hadīth.

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