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Editorial
UP
FRONT
An
Uprising at a Crossroads
Rema
Hammami and Jamil Hilal
The
Joint Strike Fighter in the Middle East
Luke Warren and Erik Floden
ARTICLES
Take Them Out of the Ball Game: Egypt’s
Cultural Players in Crisis
Samia
Mehrez
Downveiling:
Gender and the Contest over Culture in Cairo
Linda Herrera
How “Berber”
Matters in the Middle of Nowhere
David Crawford
Iranian
Cinema: Art, Society and the State
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Nature Has
No Culture: The Photographs of Abbas Kiarostami
Shiva Balaghi and Anthony Shadid
Arab “World
Music” in the US
Ted Swedenburg
Web
Resources on Middle East Cultures
Salah D. Hassan
Challenging
the Embargo: Arabic Literature in the US Market
Hosam Aboul-Ela
In the Shadow
of Kurdish: The Silence of Other Ethnolinguistic Minorities In Turkey
Joan Smith/Kocamahhul
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Cover
Photo: Anti-riot soldiers line up in front of a demonstration
at al-Azhar University in Cairo, May 10, 2000. Some 3,000
students of al-Azhar, mainstream Islam's most prestigious
religious institution, demonstrated demanding the resignation
of Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni over the
publication of a novel by renowned Syrian writer Haydar
Haydar which they claim insults Islam. (Amr Nabil/AP Photo)
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