Arab Studies Quarterly
Volume 46 • Number 1 •Winter 2024
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Arab Studies Quarterly
Editor
Ibrahim G. Aoudé, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Liana M. Petranek, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Salam Mir, Independent Scholar, U.S.A.
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Tahrir Hamdi, Arab Open University, Jordan
Rami Siklawi, Independent Scholar, Lebanon
BOARD OF EDITORS
Janice J. Terry, Eastern Michigan University, Emeritus, Chair
Salam Al-Rawi, AAUG
Ibrahim G. Aoudé, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu
Fouad Moughrabi, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Jamal R. Nassar, California State University, San Bernardino
Ahlam Muhtaseb, California State University, San Bernardino
Ghada Talhami, Lake Forest College, Emeritus, Chicago
Advisory BoArd of Editors
Nabeel Abraham, Henry Ford Community College
Baha Abu-Laban, University of Alberta
Tareq Ismael, University of Calgary
Jamil E. Jreisat, University of South Florida
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Afaf Mahfouz, Society for International Development and the Washington Psycho-Analytic Society
William Quandt, University of Virginia
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) is a peer-reviewed journal on the Arabs, their culture, history, and institutions.
Articles featured in ASQ represent the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Editors or of the Center for the Study of Muslim and Arab Worlds or its officers. The authors assume responsibility for the facts and interpretations in their articles.
CONTRIBUTIONS AND EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Notes to contributors and details of submission can be found at: www.plutojournals.com/asq/
Editorial Correspondence should be addressed to: Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822. Email: aoude@123456hawaii.edu
All communications regarding book reviews and review essays should be directed to Salam Mir: salam21204@123456yahoo.com
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note 4
Essay by the Editor: The Centrality of West Asia to Global Politics 5
ARTICLES
Echos of Exile: Rememory and Resistance in Salt Houses 9
Sajjad Gheytasi
Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine 28
Samir Abed Rabbo
Sexuality in Emerging Translated Modern Arabic Literature: Between Mimicking and Dismantling the Eurocentric Narrative in The Corpse Washer 56
Ibrahim Abu Elrob
BOOK REVIEWS
Brehony, Louis. Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance 77
Tusiani, Michael D. And Anne-Marie Johnson. From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower 80
BOOKS IN BRIEF 84