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| Protest throughout the Arab world has washed the shores of North Africa in recent months and has spread to the eastern Mediterranean, and to Yemen and Bahrain in the Arabian Peninsula. The mass outcry that has already succeeded in deposing unjust, longtime dictators has been dubbed by the media “the Arab Spring,” inspired by the wave of revolutions in Europe in 1848 and 1849. Like Louis-Philippe of France, Hosny Mubarak of Egypt and Zine al-Abidin Ben Ali of Tunis have been overthrown at the behest of their people. Other rulers, such as the leaders of Syria,Libya and Yemen, face protests... |
| "is authentic?" and whether inherent ambivalence as a cultural strategy can be considered authentic. The opening piece, "What about Levantinization?" originally written in English by Jacqueline Kahanoff, a Jewish writer who emigrated from Egypt to Israel in the 1950s, is being published in this issue in English for the first " | |
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| " Journal of Levantine Studies What about Levantinization? Jacqueline Kahanoff It has often seemed to me that whatever Jews of European origin dislike or don't understand about their fellow Jews born on this side of the Mediterranean, they label, disparagingly, as "Levantine." If Moroccan Jews speak poor French and claim their " | |
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| " Journal of Levantine Studies Beyond the Sea of Formlessness: Jacqueline Kahanoff and the Levantine Generation Daniel Monterescu Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University ALGERIA Ronny Someck Translated by Vivian Eden * If I had another daughter I'd call her Algeria, and you would doff your colonial hats to " | |
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| "Middle East. 50 Thus, for example, for the literary critic Nissim Calderon, the very promise of Mediterranean pluralism (as best demonstrated in the writings of Jacqueline Kahanoff and Albert Camus) is explicitly associated with a certain commitment to denouncing the Orient: Kahanoff was never shy about judging the Orient. She " | |
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