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Download This PDF File Syrian Studies Association Bulletin The Bulletin is the bi-annual publication of the Syrian Studies Association, an international association created to promote research and scholarly understanding of Syria. Andrea L. Stanton serves as Editor, with Beverly Tsacoyianis as Book Review Editor. Taxis at Baramkeh Garage in the rain, February 2006. Credit: Andrea L Stanton Volume 17, Number 2 (Fall 2012): Syria: Past, Present, Future Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 17, Number 2 (Fall 2012): Syria: Past, Present, Future 1 Table of Contents Letter from the President Joshua Landis (p. 2) Syrian Studies Association News SSA-Sponsored Events and Syria-Related Papers at MESA 2012 Zayde Antrim (p. 3) Feature Articles Buq'at Dau' (Spotlight) Part 9 (2012): Tanfis (Airing), a Democratic Facade, Delayed Retribution, and Artistic Craftiness Rebecca Joubin (p. 7) Modernization, Communal Space and Inter-confessional Conflicts in 19th Century Damascus Anais Massot (p. 12) To Protest or not to Protest? The Christian Predicament in the Syrian Uprising Salma Mousa (p. 16) “Syria Love”: Watching Syrian Propaganda in Iraq Edith Szanto (p. 19) “Our Real Educated People:” Neoliberalism and Syria’s New Elites Mandy Terc (p. 22) Field Notes The Remnants of the Assad Regime Radwan Ziadeh (p. 25) Book Reviews Review of Kürt Tarihi (The Kurdish History) magazine Ahmet Serdar Akturk (p. 26) Samar Yazbek. A Woman in the Crossfire, Diaries of the Syrian Revolution. Translated by Max Weiss Alexa Firat (p. 28) Negotiating Influence: The Economy, Security Apparatus, and the Assad Regime Karam Dana (p. 30) Letter from the President Prize Committee Chair, all of which will be announced at MESA. 2012 has been a year full of activity for the Syrian Studies Association. For the Dissertation Prize, to be announced at MESA, we had a whopping nine entries. Steve The SSA has prepared a new constitution for Tamari, the head of the Prize Committee writes discussion at our board meeting at MESA. We that the entries cover “a host of issues from WW have made some big changes. We felt that the I to Palestinian refugees, to music, and Sayyida SSA needed to modernize the way it selects Zaynab. All are written by women, too! We officers and carries out elections. To that end, have entries from Ireland, England (3), Sweden, we have democratized our process. From now USA (3), and Canada. The fields represented are on, the SSA will ask the membership to sociology, political science, music, nominate and vote on all officers. anthropology, and religious studies.” Voting has taken place for a new Here are the entries: Secretary/Treasurer, Member-at-Large, and Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 17, Number 2 (Fall 2012): Syria: Past, Present, Future 2 1. Anaheed al-Hardan, Trinity College, Dublin, Sociology, 2011, Remembering the catastrophe: Uprooted Histories and the Grandchildren of the Nakba, 294pp. Syrian Studies Association (SSA)- 2. Sophia Hoffman, SOAS, London, Political Sponsored Events and Syria-Related Science/Sociology, 2011, Disciplining Papers at MESA 2012 movement: State sovereignty in the context of Zayde Antrim Iraqi migration to Syria, 287pp. 3. Emma Jorum, Uppsala University, Sweden, Meetings in Conjunction Political Science, 2011, Beyond the Saturday, 11/17 Border, Syrian Policies towards Territories SSA Board Meeting: 2-3pm, Plaza Court 1 Lost, 264pp. (Plaza-C) 4. Shayna Silverstein, University of Chicago, SSA Business Meeting: 3:30-4pm (Plaza Court Music, 2012, Mobilizing Bodies in Syria: 3 (Plaza C) Dabke, Popular Culture, and the Politics of SSA Panel Discussion, “Perspectives on the Belonging, 402pp. Syrian Uprising”: 4-5:30pm, Plaza Court 3 5. Melanie, Tanielian,, University of California, (Plaza-C) Berkeley, History, 2012, The War of Famine: Panelists: Seda Altug, Rebecca Joubin, Ben Everyday Life in Wartime Beirut and Mount Smuin, Keith Watenpaugh, Max Weiss Lebanon (1914-1918) , 236pp. 6. Amanda Terc, University of Michigan, Ann SSA Sponsored Panels Arbor, Anthropology, 2011, Syria's New 1. Sunday, 11/18, 2:00pm: Neoliberal Elite: English Usage, Linguistic Practices and Group Boundaries, 300pp. Post-Ottoman Citizenship Discourses in the 7. Nadia von Maltzahn, St. Anthony's College, Arab Levant (P3008) Oxford, Oriental Studies, Political Science, The mid-nineteenth century in the Ottoman 2010, "Bridging the Cultural Divide: rian- Empire was a period of great reform which in Iranian Cultural Diplomacy since 1979", 346pp. turn influenced new concepts of governance, 8. Maria Kastinou, Intimate bodies, violent social structure, and political and civil identities. struggles: the poetics and politics of nuptiality One of the most influential laws to be passed in Syria. Durham University, 2012. during this time was the Ottoman Nationality 9. Edith Szanto, Following Sayyida Law, which declared all inhabitants of Ottoman Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary territory as Ottoman nationals. At the same time, Syria, University of Toronto, Religious Studies, French concepts of patrie and so-termed 'natural 2012. rights' began to spread in the Arab region, particularly Egypt and cities such as Beirut. The Fred Lawson and Heghnar Watenpaugh have ramifications of Ottoman nationality and the organized a terrific panel that will follow the discourses it influenced appeared on a broader SSA business meeting on Saturday, November level after the post-World War I creation of the 17, 2012. Titled “Perspectives on the Syrian League of Nations and the international mandate Uprisings”, it will include: Rebecca Joubin, system. Both Ottoman precedents and colonial Seda Altug, Max Weiss, Keith Watenpaugh, and concepts of citizenship came to play a major role Ben Smuin. in the history of civic identity and rights and the discussions of nationality and citizenship in the Andrea Stanton, Bulletin Editor and Beverly early years of the mandates. This panel seeks to Tsacoyianis, Book Review Editor, have put explore legacies of Ottoman discourses of together another excellent issue of the SSA citizenship and nationality, and historicize post- bulletin. Ottoman legislation, discourses and concepts of citizenship in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Joshua Landis Transjordan and Iraq. In particular, how did the November 2012 Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 17, Number 2 (Fall 2012): Syria: Past, Present, Future 3 figure of the (Arab) primordial national conflict with the figure of the newly-invented, 2. Sunday, 11/18, 4:30pm: internationally-recognized citizen? What role did education play under the mandate in creating Blurring Nationalism and Religion in the Early civic identity and counter-narratives to colonial 20th-Century Middle East (P2985) citizenship? What were the differences in Anthony Smith has defined nationalism as “a citizenship rights and duties under the system of new religion of the people,” with its own mandates administered by France as opposed to prophets, scriptures, holy days, and rituals. Britain? Emigrant and refugee status are key to Nationalism, rooted in the triumph of secular these discourses. ideologies of the l9th and early 20th centuries, clearly demonstrated religious Equally important is the position of Arab qualities. This panel aims to reconsider the emigrants who had been born Ottoman nationals nature of the relationship between religion but left their homelands before or after the and nationalism in the Middle East following imposition of mandates. In various cases, these World War I by considering the following native Arabs could not return to their homelands questions: How did religion, religious to claim citizenship. In cases such as this, the practices and religious classes address practices of nationality as discussed by the nationalist discourse? Did nationalists, as the Arabs came into contrast with the colonial creators of nationalist rhetoric, did the authors imposition of citizenship. Historians have of nationalist rhetoric couch nationalism in focused heavily on nationalism and the religious terms or symbols, and to what extent development of national identities in the post- did they link national struggles or the nation Ottoman world but the study of nationality and to religion? Were there any attempts to its relation to citizenship have yet to be fully reform, rationalize, modify or nationalize explored. This panel will explore just that, as religious ideas, rituals or organizations? How well as begin the process of comparing how did religious classes and institutions engage Arabs in different mandates internalized nationalist movements and try to shape their citizenship, as well as practiced and rejected respective politics and economies? What did components of its civil, political and social the rise of national consciousness mean to the rights. religious or sectarian minorities? Our first paper will analyze conflicting views of Shira Robinson (George Washington religion held by exiled Kurdish nationalists University), Chair living in Syria and Lebanon under French mandatory rule. The second paper discusses Benjamin Thomas White (University of an activist network in Latin America that Birmingham), “Refugees and Naitonality in linked the Maronite Church to Lebanese 1920s Syria and Lebanon” emigrant parties and its impact on Lebanese Lauren Banko (School of Oriental and nationalist ideology and the church during the African Studies), “Nationality, Citizenship early Mandate period. Our third paper, and Rights: Palestinian Counterdiscourses focusing on investment in Lebanese energy and Practices, 1920-1930” companies,
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