scholarly journals The Power of Philanthropy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-65
Author(s):  
S.R. Goldstein-Sabbah
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
North African ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Religious Networks ◽  
Western European

Abstract This article explores aspects of Middle Eastern and North African (mena) Jewry in the first half of the twentieth century through their engagement with philanthropy. Specifically, this article demonstrates how many urban Jewish communities in mena adopted and adapted Western European philanthropic structures to fit the needs of their local communities by engaging with multiple public spheres (Jewish, Arab, imperial) that were, at times, in conflict with each other. By highlighting the transnational nature of mena Jewry in the twentieth century, this article demonstrates the importance of philanthropic networks as an articulation of power and social status. Finally, this piece suggests that local Jewish philanthropic initiatives can act as a prism by which we understand power structures within transnational religious networks.

She Came from Kasaba

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 582-585
Author(s):  
Leslie Hakim-Dowek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Modal Approach ◽  
History Of

As in Marianne Hirsch’s (2008) notion of ‘devoir de memoire’, this poem-piece, from a new series, uses the role of creation and imagination to strive to ‘re-activate and re-embody’ distant family/historical transcultural spaces and memories within the perspective of a dispersed history of a Middle-Eastern minority, the Sephardi/Jewish community. There is little awareness that Sephardi/Jewish communities were an integral part of the Middle East and North Africa for many centuries before they were driven out of their homes in the second half of the twentieth century. Using a multi-modal approach combining photography and poetry, this photo-poem series has for focus my female lineage. This piece evokes in particular the memory of my grandmother, encapsulating many points in history where persecution and displacement occurred across many social, political and linguistic borders.

White Categorical Ambiguity: Exclusion of Middle Eastern Americans From the White Racial Category

2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062093054
Author(s):  
Kimberly E. Chaney ◽  
Diana T. Sanchez ◽  
Lina Saud
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
North African ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Middle Eastern Americans

Despite legal classification as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans experience high levels of discrimination, suggesting low social status precludes them from accessing the White racial category. After first demonstrating that the rated Whiteness of MENA Americans influences support for discriminatory policies (Study 1), the present research explores ratings and perceptions of Whiteness of MENA Americans by demonstrating how MENA ethnicities shift racial categorization of prototypically White and racially ambiguous targets (Studies 2–4), and how MENA Americans’ social status influences rated Whiteness (Study 5). As few studies have explored the relative Whiteness of different ethnicities in the United States despite the fluid history of the White racial category, the present studies have implications for the processes that inform White categorization and lay categorizations of MENA Americans.

scholarly journals Connected Readers: Reading Networks and Community in early twentieth-century New Zealand

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Liebich
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Formed Part

Drawing on the archive of Fred Barkas (1854-1932), a middle-class New Zealand reader, the article explores how reading networks within local communities were established and how, where and when readers connected to other readers to form a local reading community. Barkas’ letters reveal an often unorganised and diffuse reading culture in Timaru, NZ, which was highly social and defined along such markers as social status and cultural capital. Readers connected in a variety of ways, interwoven into other activities within the local community and in spaces not traditionally associated with reading. The article concludes by asking how readers in New Zealand were also connected to other reading communities around the British World and formed part of a global reading community.

The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Frederick S. Colby
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Despite the central importance of festival and devotional piety to premodernMuslims, book-length studies in this field have been relatively rare.Katz’s work, The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, represents a tour-deforceof critical scholarship that advances the field significantly both throughits engagement with textual sources from the formative period to the presentand through its judicious use of theoretical tools to analyze this material. Asits title suggests, the work strives to explore how Muslims have alternativelypromoted and contested the commemoration of the Prophet’s birth atdifferent points in history, with a particular emphasis on how the devotionalistapproach, which was prominent in the pre-modern era, fell out of favoramong Middle Eastern Sunnis in the late twentieth century. Aimed primarilyat specialists in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, especially scholarsof history, law, and religion, this work is recommended to anyone interestedin the history of Muslim ritual, the history of devotion to the Prophet, andthe interplay between normative and non-normative forms ofMuslim beliefand practice ...

scholarly journals The Jewish communities of Safed and Jerusalem during the fourteenth century

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
MICHAEL EHRLICH
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
European Origin ◽  
Western European

Abstract In this article I suggest that, although many Jews perished during the wars between the Mamluks and the Franks during the thirteenth century's second half, and others migrated to different Jewish communities in the Middle East and Europe, some Jews migrated to Safed, Jerusalem, and perhaps to Gaza as well. A significant number of the Jews who lived in Safed and Jerusalem during the early decades of the fourteenth century were of a Western European origin but were not newcomers from Europe. I suggest that some of these were Jews who previously lived in Acre and Tyre and migrated to Safed and Jerusalem either shortly before the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem got its coup de grâce, or afterwards.

Sesame allergy is more prevalent among Middle Eastern/North African patients in an urban healthcare system

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine LM. Joseph ◽  
Alexandra R. Sitarik ◽  
Rachel Kado ◽  
Gillian Bassirpour ◽  
Cheryl A. Miree ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
North African ◽  
African Patients

The Ideological Dimensionality in the Middle Eastern and North African Constitutions: A New Era in the Evolution of Islamic Constitutionalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 147892992091294
Author(s):  
Berna Öney
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
North African ◽  
New Era ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Popular Movements ◽  
Ideological Dimension

The popular movements in 2011 led to many regime changes that resulted in amended or new constitutions in the Middle East and North Africa region. The constitutional debates concentrated mainly on the functions of the constitutions in authoritarian regimes, constitution-making processes, and the role of Islam during and after the uprisings. However, no research has analyzed the ideological dimensionality of the Middle Eastern and North African constitutions. By analyzing 19 newly enacted, drafted, and amended constitutions before and after the popular movements in the region, this article shows that the single ideological dimension in the constitutions can be defined by the openness of a state for liberal and modern values. This ideological dimension encompasses all the regional political debates on the political regime dynamics, the inclusion of rights and liberties, and the role of Islam. Besides offering an alternative typology for the constitutions in the region, this article also provides evidence for the beginning of the fourth phase of Islamic constitutionalism that merges the ideas of rule of law, which originates from democratic notions, and Islamic norms.

Comparison between the yeast flora of Middle Eastern and Western European soft drinks

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. M. J. Sand ◽  
A. M. van Grinsven
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Soft Drinks ◽  
Yeast Flora ◽  
Western European
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