2025

Maydan Issue 5

Fifth issue of Maydan: journal on Arab, Semitic, and Islamic worlds.

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Editorial

  • Editorial Gaia Sorge (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
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Articles

  1. Contemporary Artivism in Morocco: Transformations of Creative Dissent in Post-2011 and the New “Organic Artist” Chiara Scarfò (University of Florence and University of Turin)
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  2. Da partigiani a fidāʾiyyīn: studenti palestinesi in Italia e analogie radicali tra sionismo e fascismo Sofia Bacchini (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
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  3. From Ground Zero (2024) and A Fidai Film (2024): Archival Artivism in Palestinian Cinema in Times of Genocide Fabiana Piretti (Independent researcher)
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  4. Return to/through Postmemories: ʿAraba qadīma bi-satāʾir (2011) by Ġassān Zaqṭān Carolina Toso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Amsterdam)
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  5. Abū Ḥayyān fī Ṭanǧa: il presente all’esame del passato Patrick Di Croce (University of Macerata)
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Working Papers

  1. Solo strategie di sopravvivenza? L’impatto delle cooperative femminili nel settore agricolo in Tunisia Mariateresa Natuzzi
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  2. Tra autogestione e statalismo: il ruolo di classe della dirigenza sindacale nell’Algeria socialista (1965-1968) Lorenzo Scala (Sapienza University of Rome)
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Varia

  1. When We Talk About Literature. Notes on a Meeting of EURAMAL’s Early Career Scholars (Oslo, September 25–29, 2025) Safinaz Saad & Adéla Provazníková
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Reviews

  1. Chiara Pagano. La politica berbera nella Libia coloniale Alessia Colonnelli (University of Heidelberg)
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  2. Elena Andreeva & Kevin McNeer. Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Exploitation and Resistance from the 19th Century – Present Day Viola Pacini (University of Bologna)
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  3. Ezgi Başaran. The New Spirit of Islamism Enrico Maria La Forgia (University of Padua)
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  4. Jalal Al Husseini, Valentina Napolitano & Norig Neveu. Migrations in Jordan: Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies Annamaria Bianco (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS / Institut Français du Proche-Orient)
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  5. Stéphane Cermakian & Annamaria Bianco. Exil et traduction – Regards sur un croisement fécond Camille Lotz (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
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  6. Asmaa Essakouti. Realms of Strangers. Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī Maria Eleonora Del Core (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
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