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  Zero-person and the psyche

  Graham Harman

  This article addresses several closely linked issues: the mind-body problem, the relation between first-person and third-person descriptions, and panpyschism. First, the mind-body problem is one small part of a more basic body-body problem, as found in the abandoned occasionalist tradition. Second, what is missing from the distinction between first- and third-person descriptions is what I will call the zero-person stance. Third, the term "panpsychism" must be replaced with a more accurate alternative; in this article I propose "endopsychism" as the alternative term.

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  A Half-Century of Wheat Farming in Egypt: Self-Sufficency, Marketable Surplus, and Farm Size

  Francois Ireton

  This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.

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  Participating in Agribusiness: Contested Meanings of Rurality and Water in Jordan

  Mauro Van Aken

  This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.

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  Intersecting Photography with Text: Reflections on a Working Process

  Mona Abaza

  The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.

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  Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Intersecting Photography with Text: Reactions on a Working Process

  Mona Abaza

  This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/8

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  Social Ties between the people of al Walaja village at home and abroad

  Sheerin Al-Araj

  This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine various human situations among Palestinians, ranging from villages that have been divided by borders such as the Green Line to populations of Palestinian origin that have been cut off from their roots in Palestine and are now seeking to establish their lives elsewhere. The common theme is the role of borders and boundaries—those that people seek to cross and those that the wider political processes establish around existing populations. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 1.

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  Epistemological Intersections: Anthropology and Art - From Archive to Art Film: A Palestinian Aesthetics of Memory Reviewed

  Diana Allam

  This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/12

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  From Archive to Art Film: A Palestinian Aesthetics of Memory Reviewed

  Diana Allan

  The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.

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  Kefaya at a turning point

  Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid

  Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/6

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  "No Ideas but in Things": A Documentary Art Short on Message

  Yasser Alwan

  The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.

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  Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: “No Ideas But in Things”: A Documentary Art Short on Message

  Yasser Alwan

  This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/6

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  Europe in Asia: Mosques and Temples in the Age of Discovery

  David Blanks

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  Sacred Space: an Introduction

  David Blanks and Bradley S. Clough

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  Exploding into the seventies: Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm, Shiekh Imam, and the aesthetics of a new youth politics

  Marilyn Booth

  Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/5

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  When "enough" is not enough: Resistance during accumulation by dispossession

  Ray Bush

  Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/8

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  The Buddha in the Dunes: The Aesthetics of Alientation and the Sacred in the Surreal Japanese Novel

  Richard Byford

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  The Sacrament of Mari Giris: Rituals of Contact and Consumption at a Coptic Orthodox Saint's Festival in Upper Egypt

  Cassandra R. Chambliss

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  Worker protests under economic liberalization in Egypt

  Francoise Clement

  Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/9

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  Communitas or Contestation? Buddhist-Hindu Practices and Interactions at "The Holiest Place in Sri Lanka"

  Bradley S. Clough

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  Funerary Riturals in Cairo's City of the Dead: The Sacred and the Profane, Considerations from the Field

  Anna Tozzi di Marco

  The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.

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  Itineraries of Palestinian refugees

  Mohamed Kamel Dorai

  This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine various human situations among Palestinians, ranging from villages that have been divided by borders such as the Green Line to populations of Palestinian origin that have been cut off from their roots in Palestine and are now seeking to establish their lives elsewhere. The common theme is the role of borders and boundaries—those that people seek to cross and those that the wider political processes establish around existing populations. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 1.

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  Epistemological Intersections: Anthropology and Art - Knowledge Production and the Visual Medium

  Fadwa El Guindi

  This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/10

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  Knowledge Production and the Visual Medium

  Fadwa el Guindi

  The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.

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  A feminist movement in Egypt?

  Rabab El-Mahdi

  Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/10

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  Evidence of What? The Photographic Archive and its Problematics

  Heba Farid

  The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.