NEWTON Bouquet, 'Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East' (September 2018)

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NEWTON Bouquet, "Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East" (September 2018)

NEWTON Bouquet, "Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East" (September 2018)

By : NEWTON Editors

For our September 2018 NEWTON bouquet, we chose to focus on refugees and migrants, as these two groups/categories are becoming increasingly integral to any current political, academic, and media discussions of the Middle East and elsewhere, given this is an era espousing the highest numbers of displacement (as refugees, IDPs, or migrants) in history. Many of the pieces included in this month's bouquet outline the various ways that forced displacement and willful migration impact—often on a psychological, emotional, and physical level—the lives of individuals who have relocated. Other pieces discuss the ways that refugees and migrants, once relocated and/or resettled, influence and change the culture and landscape around them in significant ways.  

1) Ilana Feldman, The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a “Palestine Refugee”

“In this article, I explore the effects of changing administrative definitions of a 'Palestine refugee,' as well as of a refugee 'eligible for assistance,' on recipients.”


 

2) Ramy Aly, Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity

“I was driven by the desire to tell the story of Arab London (at least one version of it), to understand Arab migration to Britain—but more specifically, to look at the how young people born and raised in London do Arabness in an everyday sense.”

 

3) Anaheed Al-Hardan, Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities

“The central concern in question is the 1948 Nakba, which has, at least since the 1993 Palestinian-Israeli Oslo Accords, been advocated as the ultimate patriotic signifier of the Palestinian past and present.”

 

4) Orit Bashkin, Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel

“I wanted to challenge the notion that Israel served as a melting pot for Jewish communities and to illustrate instead how the adoption of Israeli citizenship was a long, excruciating and traumatic experience.”

 

 

5) Sherene Seikaly, “How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History”

“I detail Naim’s consumerism, his financial investments and property, his land dispute with his brother, and then trace his experience of dispossession after the Nakba, as a refugee in Lebanon.”

 

6) Wendy Pearlman, “Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon”

“There is hardly a corner of the globe in which Lebanese have not settled, and the worldwide diaspora of Lebanese origin outnumbers those living within Lebanon’s borders.”

 

 

7) Andrew Gardner and Autumn Watts, eds., Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of the Global System

“The principal idea behind this book was to avoid the tedious and byzantine scholarly conversation about migration, and to instead simply provide readers with the narratives themselves.”

 

 

8) Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond

“Studying a location where different empires (the British, French, and Ottoman) interconnected with private companies and international organizations leads us to understand not only the perceptions and experiences of globalization, but also the attempts to regulate it.”

 

 

9) Attiya Ahmad, Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

“These women’s experiences in the Gulf also contrast with those of migrant domestic workers in other parts of the world, where religious conversions are little report

 

10) Louise Cainkar, “Global Arab World Migrations and Diasporas”

“We know that there are variations and commonalities in the experiences of Arab world migrants and among Arab world diasporas; we should begin to talk about what matters and why it matters.”

 

 
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NEWTON Bouquet, "The Politics of Artistic Expression in the Middle East" (August 2018)

For our August 2018 NEWTON bouquet, we chose to focus on different modes of artistic expression in the Middle East, as it is crucial to recognize the deep and abiding connection between art and politics in the region. Literature, art, music, and film (as well as other creative mediums) are often utilized by individuals looking to express or convey a political or social message in constrained political environments where blatant political speech is discouraged or suppressed. In other cases, art is used by official state actors or institutions to foster or reenforce preferential power-structures and/or favorable political agendas.

1) Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation

“The book treats cinema as constitutive in the invention of the nation and looks at the myriad and proliferating Zionist representations of the land and the people in the first hundred years of cinematic production in Palestine.”

2) Mervat Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

“I wondered if a fuller investigation of Taymur’s life and work would provide us with a better understanding of the entirety of her life and, more importantly, an appreciation of her work that entitled her to the status of one of the prominent writers during this important period of Egyptian history.”

3) Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

“It took me years to realize that physical confinement—not the veil—was the foundation of women`s subordination in Iranian society and the source of their literary quasi-invisibility.”

4) Eyad Houssami, Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre

“Because theater can be dangerous and transformative, governments—authoritarian, oligarchical, and military regimes—have laid a siege around theater in the Arab Middle East, reining it in to maintain the status quo."

 

5) Samuel England, Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts

“I arrived at the conclusion that a great many of these moments of insult, coercion, and self-promotion advanced larger imperial goals that the authors (who generally also held high political posts) had in mind.”

 

6) Sunaina Maira, Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement

“It became clear to me after talking to these young activists, and to Palestinian rappers, that their protests and cultural production expressed a call for an alternative political language at a moment when it seemed that political vocabularies had been exhausted and when political skepticism and fatigue has been pervasive in Palestine.”

 

7) Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?

“The main focus of this book is to identify the major directions of Persian modernist fiction and their formation processes.”

 

8) Najat Rahman, In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish

“I argue that Palestinian art, local and diasporic, articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation.” 

9) Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture

“And then of course with the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim communities in the US and Europe—and New York saw a great deal of that—I became interested in how Muslim youth were responding to the range of punitive policies they were facing.” 

10) Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle, Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East

“I think this publication takes important steps towards viewing mass media not just as the realm where collective ideas are negotiated, but also where aesthetic and emotional registers are worked out, and where a politics of everyday life connects individual and collective norms.”