A new special issue of Contemporary Levant (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2017) titled "Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region" is out.
The issue was put together by our 2016-2017 postdoctoral fellows Muzna Al-Masri and Lamia Moghnieh, as well as Samar Kanafani, Zina Sawaf, Helena Nassif, Elizabeth Saleh, and Amal Eqeiq.
The issue features commentaries by Lila Abu-Lughod and Roosbelinda Cárdenas. It was edited by Michelle Obeid.
The ACSS hosted Al-Masri, Kanafani, Sawaf, and Nassif at its 2016 Research Forum, where they presented the preliminary versions of their works during a roundtable titled "In the Field: Ethnographic Knowledge Production in the Arab Region" and moderated by ACSS Trustee Hania Sholkamy (American University in Cairo).
Al-Masri's research project during her ACSS postdoctoral fellowship is titled: Football, Contestation & Elite Formation in Beirut.
Moghnieh's research project during her ACSS postdoctoral fellowship is titled: The Psychological Reconstruction of Lebanon: a Social History of Humanitarian Intervention, Psychiatry and Violence.
Below is the issue's table of contents:
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Editor's Note - Michelle Obeid
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Introduction: Being, doing and knowing in the field: reflections on ethnographic practice in the Arab region - Samar Kanafani & Zina Sawaf
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Article: Ethnography in movement: bounding the field between the compound and the trailer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Zina Sawaf
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Article: 'The violence we live in': reading and experiencing violence in the field - Lamia Moghnieh
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Article: Sensory reverberations: rethinking the temporal and experiential boundaries of war ethnography - Muzna Al-Masri
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Essay: To fear and to defy: emotions in the field - Helena Nassif
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Essay: A tangled web of lies: reflections on ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian Turkmen women on the side of a road in Beirut - Elizabeth Saleh
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Essay: From Palestine to Mexico (and back): reflections of a literary scholar - Amal Eqeiq
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Commentary on ‘Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region’ - Lila Abu-Lughod
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Commentary on ‘Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region’ - Roosbelinda Cárdenas
About Contemporary Levant
Contemporary Levant is an international peer-reviewed, multi disciplinary journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), a British Academy-sponsored institute. The journal publishes original research on contemporary politics, society and culture in the Levant region, its diasporas and neighbouring countries that have a clear relevance to it. The journal aims to foster research agendas that engage with and reflect current and emerging issues in the region. With the aim of maintaining a balance between empirical research and theoretical developments, the journal welcomes scholarly contributions from various disciplines including: anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, modern history, social geography, media, film studies and literature.
Contemporary Levant is an international peer-reviewed, multi disciplinary journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), a British Academy-sponsored institute. The journal publishes original research on contemporary politics, society and culture in the Levant region, its diasporas and neighbouring countries that have a clear relevance to it. The journal aims to foster research agendas that engage with and reflect current and emerging issues in the region. With the aim of maintaining a balance between empirical research and theoretical developments, the journal welcomes scholarly contributions from various disciplines including: anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, modern history, social geography, media, film studies and literature.