BOOK REVIEW: Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. THE NEW MAMLUKS: EGYPTIAN SOCIETY AND MODERN FEUDALISM (MIDDLE EAST STUDIES BEYOND DOMINANT PARADIGMS). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Farha Ghannam
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Syracuse University ◽  
Middle East Studies

Report of the Editor: International Journal Of Middle East Studies, 1973

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-11
Author(s):  
Stanford J. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Middle East ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Sabbatical Leave

IJMES continued to be published on schedule during 1973, with the Editor performing his functions while on sabbatical leave in Istanbul, with generous assistance from the members of the Editorial Board and the Book Review Board, as well as the secretarial staff of the Near Eastern Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

Orientalist Speech-acts and Israeli Middle East Studies: Cautions and Criticisms of Edward Said Beyond the Battle of Ideas

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Eyal Clyne
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Middle East Studies

Drawing on speech acts theory, this article discusses the illocutionary and perlocutionary forces of discursive practices with which certain academic circles seek to discredit the Saidian ‘Orientalism’ framework. Identifying the unusual value attached to Said as object of attachment or detachment, desirability and exceptionality, this analysis turns away from deliberations about ‘orientalism’ as a party in a battle of ideas, and studies common cautionary statements and other responses by peers as actions in the social (academic) world, that enculture and police expectations. Cautioning subjects about this framework, or conditioning its employment to preceding extensive pre-emptive complicating mitigations, in effect constructs this framework as undesirable and ‘risky’. While strong discursive reactions are not uncommon in academia, comparing them to treatments of less-controversial social theories reveals formulations, meanings and attentions which are arguably reserved for this ‘theory’. Conclusively, common dismissals, warnings and criticisms of Said and ‘Orientalism’ often exemplify Saidian claims, as they deploy the powerful advantage of enforcing hegemonic, and indeed Orientalist, views.

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