Middle Eastern Identities Series
Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Egypt and the Fabrication of European Identity
- "Archaeology and the Unconscious: Hegel, Egyptomania, and the Legitimation of Orientalism," Stuart Harten
- "Jehova-Isis: The Mysteries of Egypt and the Quest for Natural Religion in the Age of Enlightenment," Jan Assman
- Commentary by Stanley Burstein
Identity and Material Culture in the Early Islamic World
- "Material Culture and Urban Identities: The Evidence of Pottery from the Early Islamic Period," Michael Morony
- Response by Donald Whitcomb
Writing Identity in Medieval Cairo
- "Fatimid Practice: A Parallax of Judgement," Irene A. Bierman
- "Writing Identity in Medieval Cairo," Paula Sanders
- Commentary by Jere L. Bacharach
The Cinema of Displacement: Middle Eastern Identities in Transition
- "Recurring Themes in the Middle Eastern Cinema of Diaspora," Hamid Naficy
- "Post-Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation and Diaspora in Middle Eastern Film/Video," Ella Habiba Shohat
The Civil Society Debate in Middle Eastern Studies?
- "The Virtue of Studying Civil Society," Augustus Richard Norton
- "Rethinking the Civil Society Approach to the Middle East: The Informal Economy as a Possible Alternative," Roger Owen
- "Civil Society in the Shadow of the Egyptian State: The Role of Informal Networks in the Construction of Public Life," Diane Singerman
- Commentary by James Gelvin
Art and Identity
- "Art and Identity in the Thirteenth-Century Caucasus," Anthony Eastmond
- "Art and the Articulation of Cultural Identity in the Thirteenth-Century Levant," Barbara Zeitler
