COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume 24 | Number 1 | 2004




Table of Contents


Contentions



Henry Giroux: What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno’s Politics of Education





Sex, Gender, and Family Structure Guest Edited by A. Holly Shissler




Tracy Pintchman: Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard: Quarantined: Women and the Partition

Monica M. Ringer: Rethinking Religion: Progress and Morality in the Early 20th Century Women’s Press

Liat Kozma: Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Sarah Gualtieri: Gendering the Chain Migration Thesis: Women and Syrian Transatlantic Migration, 1878- 1924

Camron Michael Amin: Importing ‘Beauty Culture’ into Iran in the 1920’s and 1930’s: Mass Marketing Individualism in an Age of Anti-Imperialist Sacrifice

Shaun T. Lopez: The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930’s Egypt

A. Holly Shissler: Beauty is Nothing to Be Ashamed of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey



Collaboration and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa Guest Edited by Julia Clancy-Smith




Julia Clancy-Smith: Introduction

James Onley: Britain’s Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century

Moshe Gershovich: Collaboration and “Pacification”: French Conquest, Moroccan Combatants, and the Transformation of the Middle Atlas

James McDougall: The Shabiba Islamiyya of Algiers: Education, Authority and Colonial Control, 1921-57



September 11th: Global Impacts Guest Edited by Louise Cainkar




Louise Cainkar: Introduction

Bahram M. Rajaee: Deciphering Iran: The Political Evolution of the Islamic Republic and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11th

Ala Al-Hamarneh & Christian Steiner: Islamic Tourism: Rethinking the Strategies of Tourism Development in the Arab World after September 11th

Derek Gregory: Palestine and the War on Terror

Brian Glyn Williams: From “Secessionist Rebels” to “Al-Qaeda Shock Bri-gades”: Assessing Russia’s Efforts to Extend the Post-September 11th War on Terror to Chechnya

Irit Back: Muslimsand Christians in Nigeria: Attitudes Toward the United States from a Post-September 11th Perspective

Sunaina Maira: Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States After September 11th

Victoria Mason: Strangers Within the "Lucky Country": Arab-Australians After September 11th

Louise Cainkar: Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review


Variorum




Paul Sedra:Imagining an Imperial Race:Egyptology in the Service of Empire

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza: The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of Productive Engagement


Book Reviews




Holger Weiss, ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa. Reviewed by Raphael Chijioke Njoku.

Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Reviewed by Nesta Ramazani.

Eva E. Rosander. Transforming Female Identities: Women's Organizational Forms in West Africa. Reviewed by Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong.

Ellen L. Fleischmann. The Nation and its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948. Reviewed by Abigail Jacobson.

Mai Palmberg, ed. Encounter Images in the Meetings between Africa and Europe. Reviewed by Mary McCullough.

Mahnaz Kousha. Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women. Reviewed by Mary Hegland.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Amina Mama, Henning Melber & Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Identity and Beyond: Rethinking Africanity. Reviewed by Karen Bouwer.