NARRATIVE VIOLENCE: AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Nouri Gana and Heike Härting

Introduction: Narrative Violence: Africa and the Middle East
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 1-10 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-051 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stuart Kendall

Eden and Atrocity: Pierre Guyotat's Algeria
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 11-19 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-052 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nouri Gana

Reel Violence: Paradise Now and the Collapse of the Spectacle
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 20-37 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-053 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kimberly Wedeven Segall

Melancholy Ties: Intergenerational Loss and Exile in Persepolis
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 38-49 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-054 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ken Seigneurie

Anointing with Rubble: Ruins in the Lebanese War Novel
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 50-60 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-055 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Heike Härting

Global Humanitarianism, Race, and the Spectacle of the African Corpse in Current Western Representations of the Rwandan Genocide
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 61-77 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-056 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo

When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak: Narratives of Violence and Rape in Congo (DRC)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 78-92 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-057 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Caroline Brown

A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 93-108 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-058 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

Abusive Narratives: Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, and the Transmission of Violence
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 109-123 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-059 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Asha Varadharajan

Afterword: The Phenomenology of Violence and the Politics of Becoming
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 124-141 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-060 [Abstract] [PDF]  

VARIORUM

Touraj Atabaki

Constitutionalism in Iran and Its Asian Interdependencies
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 142-153 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-061 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fariba Zarinebaf

From Istanbul to Tabriz: Modernity and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 154-169 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-062 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ziad Fahmy

Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion, 1885-1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya'qub Sannu'
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 170-183 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-063 [Abstract] [PDF]  

John Willoughby

Segmented Feminization and the Decline of Neopatriarchy in GCC Countries of the Persian Gulf
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 184-199 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-064 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zakia Salime

Mobilizing Muslim Women: Multiple Voices, the Sharia, and the State
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 200-211 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-065 [Abstract] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Erin Stiles

Law and Power in the Islamic World
Law and Power in the Islamic World
Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 212-213 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-066 [PDF]  

Shriya Sridharan

IIndigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
IIndigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
Jyoti Hosagrahar New York: Routledge, 2005 xiii, 234 pp., $47.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 213-215 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-068 [PDF]  

Nancy Um

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Kären Wigen, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007 x, 261 pp., $52.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 215-216 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-069 [PDF]  

Kamran Aghaie

Martyrdom in Islam
Martyrdom in Islam
David Cook Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 220 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $24.99 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 217-219 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-070 [PDF]  

Arash Khazeni

The Political Development of the Kurds in Iran: Pastoral Nationalism
The Political Development of the Kurds in Iran: Pastoral Nationalism
Farideh Koohi-Kamali London: Palgrave, 2003 256 pp., $69.95 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 219-220 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2007-071 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 221-222 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-28-1-221 [PDF]  

RETRACTION

RETRACTION
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1): 223 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-072 [PDF]  

To see an article, click its [Full Text] or [PDF] link.