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Download This PDF File Syrian Studies Association Bulletin The Bulletin is the regular publication of the Syrian Studies Association, an international association created to promote research on and scholarly understanding of Syria. Andrea L. Stanton, Editor; Benjamin Smuin, Book Review Editor Volume 21, Number 1 (Fall 2016) Table of Contents Letter from the President Hilary Kalmbach Syrian Studies Association News Syrian Studies Association Annual Meeting at MESA 2016 Andrea L Stanton Syrian Studies Association-Sponsored Panels at MESA 2016 Andrea L Stanton Syrian Studies Association 2016 Officer Elections Andrea L Stanton Syrian Studies Association 2015 Book and Article Prizes Charles Wilkins Feature Articles Non-Alignment Movement Networks in the Global South: The Hoover Institute Archive Lily Balloffet Book Reviews Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period Johanna L. Peterson Habib Malik, Islamism and the Furture of the Christians of the Middle East Maya El-Darzi John McHugo, Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years Mary C. Wilson Keith D. Watenpaugh, Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism Gershon Shafir Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 21, Number 1 (Fall 2016) 2 Letter from the President crucial for improving the situations faced by Syria and Syrians today. 13 November 2016 Please join us on Thursday 17 November in It is difficult to imagine how the situation the New Hampshire Room on Floor 5 of the confronting Syria and Syrians could become MESA conference hotel to consider this worse. Five years into civil war, reports important topic. We will hold our business estimate over 400,000 Syrians are dead and meeting (open to all SSA members) from 5- 11 million displaced, yet repeated efforts to 6pm and then this conversation (open to all stop the fighting and negotiate for peace conference attendees) from 6-7:30pm. have failed. Since the start of the war, the Syrian Studies Association has organised At the start of 2016, we welcomed former events at the MESA Annual Meeting about secretary-treasurer Stacy Fahrenthold back the conflict. Our speakers have discussed on the board as our junior member-at-large the political, social, cultural, and human and Graham Pitts as our graduate student dimensions of the conflict, and raised representative. Now, at the close of the awareness of the ways in which academics year, it falls on me to thank five departing and their institutions can help. officers for their service to the association. Andrea Stanton has made an especially This year, we have decided to turn our significant contribution over the past focus inward and ask whether there is a decade, serving as Book Review Editor from future for the academic study of Syria in 2007-2010 and Co-Chair of the Prize the coming years. We face a conundrum: Committee from 2008-2010, and then at a time when knowledge and public Editor of the Bulletin for the past six years. awareness of Syria is crucial, there are Benjamin Smuin has been on the board for significant barriers to producing new five years, first as Student Member in 2012 research on Syria, past and present. Access and 2013, and then as Book Review Editor to sources is challenging and our ranks are for the past three years. We are also thinning, as doctoral students and grateful for the service of Charles Wilkins established scholars turn their attention to and Melanie Schulze Tanielian, and other countries in the region. We will Geoffrey Schad over the past two years, as confront this conundrum through a Prize Committee Chair, Member-at-Large, conversation led by a panel of academic and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. experts and focused on two related topics: Results of the elections to replace them will research and impact. We will explore the be announced at the MESA meeting later sources that are available for research on this week. Syria, including archival and library materials held outside of Syria, and through Best wishes, connecting with Syrians abroad, including Hilary Kalmbach refugees. We will also discuss strategies for contributing effectively to the policy making Dr Hilary Kalmbach holds a tenured position and awareness raising initiatives that are in the History Department at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Islam in the modern Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 21, Number 1 (Fall 2016) 3 Middle East, with particular attention to Andrea L. Stanton authority, knowledge, education, and gender. She is the founding director of The Syrian Studies Association is sponsoring MENACS, the Middle East and North African two panels at the 2016 Middle East Studies Centre at Sussex, and is the current Association Annual Meeting. We are President of the Syrian Studies Association. pleased to support these fine panels and encourage SSA members to attend. P4298 Text and Technology: Exploring the Syrian Studies Association News Materiality of Early Arabic Periodicals: Friday, November 18, 8:00am Syrian Studies Association Annual Meeting: Thursday, November 17 This session examines how the materiality of Arabic periodicals impacted political Andrea L. Stanton ideas, identity, and language in the late Ottoman world. The papers focus on The Syrian Studies Association will hold its periodicals produced in the cities of Cairo annual business meeting on November 17, and Beirut (between 1851 and 1885) and 2016, at the Middle East Studies Association examine them as objects, artifacts, and Annual Meeting at the Boston Marriott carriers of knowledge whose physical and Copley Place in Boston. We look forward to material dimensions lend additional layers seeing SSA members at the business to the understanding of their broader socio- meeting and all interested in Syrian studies political and cultural significance. The at the panel discussion. session offers a multi-disciplinary “reading” of these dimensions and examines crucial Executive Board Meeting: 3:30-4:30pm: questions of politics and identity. How can Connecticut (5) we describe the relationship between sensual experience and epistemology in Business Meeting (open to all SSA Arabic? How did periodicals function as members): 5:00-6:00pm: New Hampshire aesthetic objects or disseminators of (5) knowledge? How did these publications’ visual aspects impact textual content and Panel Discussion (open to all MESA vice-versa? How did affordable news impact attendees): 6-7:30pm: New Hampshire (5) the public use of Arabic language or the very way language was instrumentalized? Andrea L Stanton is Editor of the Syrian Studies Association Bulletin. Addressing these questions by offering new interpretations about the transnational world of (Ottoman) Arab modernity, the papers selected for this session present new Syrian Studies Association-Sponsored research that examines the ways in which Panels at MESA 2016 materiality can be historicized in order to provide alternative readings of knowledge production and historical transformation. Syrian Studies Association Bulletin Volume 21, Number 1 (Fall 2016) 4 The first paper explores the production and understudied. This panel addresses key language of Majmu‘ Fawayid (Beirut, 1851- questions in the research agenda for 1856), an early Arabic-language missionary geographical Syria (Bilad al-Sham), ranging periodical printed at the press of the across political, social and cultural history Protestant mission in Syria. The second and adopting a variety of sources and examines the dissemination of military methods. knowledge and visual aspects in the largely overlooked first Arabic military periodical, The first two papers investigate major Jaridat Arkan Harb al-Jaysh al-Misri (Cairo, challenges that Istanbul authorities faced in 1873-1877) as an extension and promotion the extension of their power over Syrian of the ideologies of Euro-Egyptian society following the conquest in 1516 of imperialist expansionism. Another paper the Mamluk Sultanate. Making use of considers the interplay between Ottoman official correspondence in the illustrations and textual content of the 1530s, the first paper identifies and medical journal al-Tabib (Beirut, 1874-1885) evaluates major problems in the early as important markers of the multifaceted management of Syrian military cadres, perceptions of medical practice and their many of whom were former soldiers in the intersection with the views on society, Mamluk regime. The paper also investigates identity, and technology. The final paper the changed relationship between Syria and explores the relationship of Arabic print Egypt; now separated from its former technology to the mediation of knowledge capital, Cairo, Syria enjoyed a shift in its via standardized Arabic as a protocol of imperial status relative to Egypt. Turning control. This session thus considers crucial from the macro- to the micro-historical, the problems of modern Middle Eastern history second paper follows the career of a Syrian through a deep engagement with print Kurdish notable in Ottoman state service materiality and its impact on ideas and and in so doing evaluates the capacity of identity. the Ottoman system to recruit and retain local elites. It illustrates a discretionary Chair: Dana Sajdi, Boston College Ottoman practice whereby chiefly lineages, Discussant: Nadia al-Bagdadi, Central with their regional knowledge and influence, European University were brought into Ottoman state service Presenters: Adam Mestyan, Harvard with regional appointments
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