Abstract: This essay introduces the special section “The Politics of Feminist Politics,” which brings together the work of feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia to highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions …
Abstract: My argument revolves around two distinct but entangled lines of inquiry. The first considers the spectacle of Muslim female injury/vulnerability in relation to projects of global solidarity and sisterhood. In light of t…
Abstract: After the euphoria of the first waves of the Arab uprisings that toppled two heads of state in Tunisia and Egypt, the woman’s body became the frontline of the protest scene. The unitary mass-revolutionary body that mark…
Abstract: Speculation structures the unprecedented breadth and depth of contemporary global capitalism. We define it as an engagement with uncertainty that aims to materialize potential futures. Studies of economization and finan…
Abstract: In this article, I theorize the phenomenon of specific women being taken up periodically to represent the collectivity of Muslim women — and, relationally, reveal characteristics about the collectivity of Muslim men — b…
Abstract: Drawing on analysis of different sources — media analysis, policy documents, interviews, and participant observation — this article analyzes the representation of Queen Rania of Jordan and the First Lady of Syria, Asma …
Abstract: There is near unanimity among observers that those who have benefited most from the Arab Spring are the Islamists, who have been brought to power at the ballot box in a number of the countries that have witnessed revolu…
Abstract: Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence i…
Abstract: The establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine in 1948, and the forcible dispossession and destruction of the major part of Palestinian society from the conquered territories that this entailed, is today referred…
Abstract: This introduction provides the context within which the conversation about Rudolph Ware’s book is conducted. It identifies the key issues The Walking Qur’an addresses as well as the epistemological ruptures indispensabl…