Arabic-L:LIT:Jan-Feb. Al-Adab now out

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Date: 12 Feb 2004
From:kidriss at cyberia.net.lb
Subject:Jan-Feb. Al-Adab now out

  Mutual Creation: Art and Its Societies South of the Mediterranean,
  & Muhammad Shukri Remembered
Files in the new issue of Al-Adab magazine

Al-Adab #1-2/04 (Jan. Feb. 2004, v.52)
Visit www.adabmag.com
Al-Adab is an Arabic bi-monthly literary and cultural review.
  See order information below.

First File: The essays of the file, “Mutual Creation: Art & Its  
Societies South of the Mediterranean,” discuss the contemporary  
production of fine art in Arab, Turkish, and Kurdish communities in  
terms of the social, political and intellectual investments made in  
that art and the roles it has played in framing social debates and  
identities.  16 pages of color plates. (The file is dedicated to the  
late Abdelrahman Munif.)  Contributions include:

	• 	Todd Porterfield, “The Art Historian’s Role: Beyond the Discourse  
of Civilisation”
	• 	 Jessica Winegar, “The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary  
Egypt”
	• 	 Deniz Artun, “Visitors to the Academie Julian Studios from the  
Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey”
	• 	 Kirsten Scheid, “Art as a Social Index? - Revisiting Beirut’s  
Earliest Exhibitions”
	• 	 Silvia Naef, “Paris – Baghdad? - Plastic Arts & Modernity in Iraq”
	• 	 Tina Sherwell, “Geographies of Identity: Place & Memory in  
Contemporary Palestinian Art”
	• 	 Walid Sadek, “Acquiring Death: The Goals of Art and Dwelling in  
Lebanon”
	• 	 Annabelle Boissier, “The Stakes in Current Tunisian Art:  
Experimentation in Collective Memory and New Identities”
	• 	 Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, “Re-inscribing Oneself into the Middle East:  
Etel Adnan and her livres d’artiste in the Context of al-Hurufiyya  
al-`Arabiyya”
	• 	 Clemence Escalbert, “A Reflection on the Landscapes of Kurdistan”


Second file: Muhammad Shukri, the prominent biographer and novelist who  
passed away at the end of 2003, is taken up in 4 articles by Hasan  
Bahrawi, Ferial Ghazzoul, Muhammad Oubayd Allah, and the late Maghda  
al-Nouwayhi.

Articles: Munir al-Hamash writes on the dangers of the  
European-Mediterranean Partnership.  Loles Olivan reports on how Arab  
issues were treated in the recent European Social Forum (Paris,  
Nov/03).  Omar Barghouti deconstructs the zionist “relative humanism”  
vis-à-vis Palestinians.

Book Review: Yumna al-’Id writes on Muhammad al-Bisati’s recent novel,  
“Firdaws.”

Commemoration: Samia Mehrez remembers Maghda al-Nowayhi (1958-2002).

Critique of Previous Issue:  Maher al-Shareef discusses how progressive  
Arab nationalism can be the agenda for the future.

Editorial: Samah Idriss writes about the alienation Arab adults feel,  
and traces part of it to children’s books.

Poems: Mamdouh al-Sakkaf and Buthayna al-’Isa.  
   
This issue is available for $12 (which includes postage) and can be  
ordered from <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>.  Payment can be made by credit  
card, cash in a registered envelope, or check for sums over $100.

Files in Coming Issues:  Iranian Poetry; Arab Youth and Political  
Participation; The New Novel in Egypt; Arabism in Kurdish Eyes; Sudan  
in Egyptian Eyes; Algeria in Moroccan Eyes; Arabism in Amatzig Eyes

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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