Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Adab New Issue

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1) Subject:Al-Adab New Issue

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Date: 08 Dec  2003
From:kidriss <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject:Al-Adab New Issue

Edward Said’s Impact on the World and Us, &
 >From Arabism to Arabism: Renewing Arab Nationalism
Two penetrating files in the new issue of Al-Adab magazine

Al-Adab #11-12/03 (Nov-Dec., v.51)
Al-Adab is an Arabic bi-monthly literary and cultural review.

“Said’s impact on the World and on Us,” is a 49-page set of original  
essays by mostly younger scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors  
are: Elia Suleiman (Film director), Elias Rashmawi (activist), , Joseph  
Mas’ad (Modern Arabic Thought, Columbia), Sinan Anton (Arabic Lit.,  
Dartmouth), Ahmad Dallal (Islamic Studies, Georgetown), As’ad Abu  
Khalil (Political Sciences, UC at Stanislaus and UC at Berkley), Usaama  
Makdisi (History, Rice), Saree Makdisi (English Lit., UCLA), Samia  
Mehrez (Arabic Studies, AUC), Ferial Ghazzoul (Arabic and Comparative  
Lit., AUC), Aseel Sawalha (Anthropology, Pace), and Omar Barghouti (PhD  
candidate in Moral Philosophy, Tel Aviv University and choreographer  
for El-Funoon).

“From Arabism to Arabism: Renewing Arab Nationalism,” was compiled by  
Samah Idriss and Jamal Baroot.  It includes 8 original articles (49  
pages, also):

	• 	A. S. Al-Mulla: Can Arabism Be Democratized and How?
	• 	A. F. al-Fawwaz: The Arab Nationalist Project -- Revision for a New  
Beginning
	• 	J. K. al-Jiba’i: From Sectarian Ethnicity to Democratic Nationalism
	• 	S. al-Din al-Kilani: The Arabic Idea between the Past and the Future
	• 	T. Labib: The Discourse...and the Nationalist
	• 	A. al-Abdallah: The Future of the Inseparableness between Unity and  
Socialism
	• 	Y. al-Hajj Saleh: Ethnic Groups in the Middle East: The Arab Idea  
and the Peoples’ Prison


Also in the issue: Debates on the 2 Nationalist Documents (published  
earlier in al-Adab) by Ameer Makhoul, Raja’ al-Nasser, and Ziad  
al-Jashi; original short stories by A. Sahrawi, M. al-Hajj Saleh, B.  
al-Bouabeidi, and T. BenJalloun; Kirsten Scheid and Samah Idriss  
discuss in their editorial, “From MacFalafel to Nescafe,” the  
importance of the ‘local’ and the ‘small’ and various forms of  
boycotting.

This issue is available for $10 and can be ordered from  
<kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>.

Next issue: New Approaches to the Study of Art in the Arab/Muslim  
Mediterranean

Subscribe to Al-Adab, at reasonably low rates ($30+ postage), and keep  
the magazine going!

For more information, see: www.adabmag.com
Keep up with Al-Adab, keep up with Arab creativity and global critical  
engagement.

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