Susan Slyomovics

Books

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  How to Accept German Reparations

  University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014

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  Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

  Into the New Millennium

  Indiana University Press, 2013

Additional Books

• 2022. Co-editor. Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe. London: Verso.
• 2019. Co-editor. L’inévitable prison / The Inevitable Prison, special issue of l’Année du Maghreb, vol. 20. Aix-en-Provence: MMSH.
  https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/4379
• 2014. How to Accept German Reparations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 2013. Co-editor. Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millenium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2010. Editor. Clifford Geertz in Morocco. Routledge.
• 2008. Co-editor. Waging War and Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights. Left Coast Press.
• 2008. Co-translator (Arabic). Fatna El Bouih, Talk of Darkness. University of Texas Press.
• 2005. The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 2001. Editor. The Living Medina in the Maghrib: The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture, and History. London: Frank Cass.
• 2001. Co-editor. Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 1998. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 1987. The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Multimedia

• Fatna ElBouih: Talk of Darkness, Human Rights in Morocco. A public reading and lecture at UCLA, March 10, 2009. watch video
• A Thousand and One Nights: Oral Epic Performance The Tale of Anas al-Wujud and al-Ward fi-l-Akmam. An Oral Performance by Awadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali. watch video
• A Thousand and One Nights: The Merchant of Art Supplementary media for the UCLA course: A Thousand and One Nights Alf Layla wa-Layla, taught by Prof. Susan Slyomovics. watch video

Selected Journal Articles and Chapters in Books

• 2014. Algerian Women’s Būqūlah Poetry: Cultural Politics, Oral Literature and Anti-Colonial Resistance. Journal of Arabic Literature 45: 145-168. PDF
• 2014. Who and What is Native to Israel? On Marcel Janco’s Settler Art and Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff’s “Levantinism.” Settler Colonial Studies, 4/1: 27-47. LINK
• 2013. State of the State of the Art Studies: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. In The Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium. Co-edited by Sherine Hafez and Susan Slyomovics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 3-22.
• 2012. Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria. In Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land, and Voyage. Edited by Ian Richard Netton. London: Routledge, 128-150.
• 2012. French Restitution, German Compensation: Algerian Jews and Vichy’s Financial Legacy. Journal of North African Studies 17/5: 881-901.
• 2012. Happiness, Human Rights and the Arab Spring. Vital Topics Forum “On Happiness,” edited by Barbara Rose Johnston. American Anthropologist, 114/1: 14-15.
• 2012. Fatna El Bouih and the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 8/1: 37-62.
• 2011. American “Blood Money” and a Question of Reparations. Middle East Report, 259: 44-46.
• 2009. Edward Said’s Nazareth. Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media, 50/1 & 2: 9-45.
• 2009. Perceptions, Not Illustrations, of Sefrou, Morocco: Paul Hyman’s Images and the Work of Ethnographic Photography. Journal of North African Studies, 14:3/4: 445-466.
• 2009. Morocco and Algeria: Financial Reparations, Blood Money, and Human Rights Witness Testimony. In Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy. Edited by Richard A. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 265-284.
• 2008. Reparations in Morocco: The Symbolic Dirham. In Waging War and Making Peace: The Anthropology of Reparations. Co-edited by Barbara Rose Johnston and Susan Slyomovics. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 95-114.
• 2008. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kufr Qasim, Fact and Echo (with Waleed Khleif). In Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Kishvar Rizvi and Sandy Eisenstadt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 186-217.
• 2008. Témoignages écrits et silences: L’Instance Équité et Réconciliation (IER) marocaine et la reparation. Année du Maghreb. Paris: CNRS Editions, 123-148.
• 2007. The Rape of Qula, a Destroyed Palestinian Village. In Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Edited by Ahmad Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod. New York: Columbia University Press, 27-51.
• 2005. The Argument from Silence: Morocco’s Truth Commission and Women Political Prisoners. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1/3: 73-95.
• 2005. Morocco’s Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Middle East Report Online: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero040405.html
• 2005. Morocco: Self-Definition as Self-Determination. In Negotiating Self-Determination. Edited by Hurst Hannum and Eileen F. Babbitt. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 135-157.
• 2003. “Asig ma’bad” (The Passion of Ma’bad): The Epic Confronts Hilali History. Oriente Moderno 22 (83) n.s.: 335-346.
• 2003. No Buying Off the Past: Moroccan Indemnities and the Opposition. MERIP/Middle East Report 229: 34-37.
• 2002. Torture, Truth and Recovery in Morocco. In Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation (Platform 2_Documenta 11). Edited by Okwui Enwezor et al. Ostfildern-Ruit (Germany): Hatje Cantz Verlag, 213-230.
• 2001. Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen. Journal of North African Studies, 5/2: 81-96.
• 2001. A Truth Commission for Morocco. MERIP/Middle East Report, 218:18-21.
• 2001. Sex, Lies, and Television: Algerian and Moroccan Cartoons on the Gulf War. In Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2-98.
• 1999. The Arab Epic Hero as Outcast, Trickster, and Confidence Man. In Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World. Edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 54-68.
• 1998. Living Traditions: Arabic. In Teaching Oral Traditions. Edited by John Miles Foley. New York: The Modern Languages Association of America, 266-272.
• 1996. The Muslim World Day Parade and “Storefront” Mosques of New York City. In Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 204-216.
• 1995. New York City’s Muslim World Day Parade. In Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora. Edited by Peter Van Der Veer. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 157-177.
• 1995. Algeria Elsewhere: The Pilgrimage of the Virgin of Santa Cruz in Oran,Algeria and Nimes, France. In Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. Edited by Regina Bendix and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt, New York: Garland Press, 337-354.
• 1997. “Hassiba Benbouali, If You Could See Our Algeria…”: Women and Public Space in Algeria. MERIP / Middle East Report 192 (1995): 8-13. Reprinted In Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report. Edited by Joel Beinin. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 211-219; reprinted in Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. Edited by Suha Sabbagh. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 1996, 211-220.
• 1994. The Memory of Place: Rebuilding the Pre-1948 Palestinian Village. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 3/2: 157-168.
• 1994. Performing A Thousand and One Nights in Egypt. Oral Tradition, 9/2: 90-419.
• 1993. Cartoon Commentary: Algerian and Moroccan Caricatures from the Gulf War. MERIP / Middle East Report Jan/Feb: 21-24.
• 1993. Discourses on the Pre-1948 Palestinian Village: The Case of Ein Hod / Ein Houd. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 4/11: 27-38.
• 1993. The Body in Water: American Women and Spa Culture. In Bodylore. Edited by Katherine Young. Knoxville. Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 35-56.
• 1993. Rebbele Mordkhele’s Pilgrimage in New York City, Tel Aviv and Carpathian Ruthenia.In Yivo Annual, Going Home. Edited by Jack Kugelmass. Evanston: Northwestern University Press and Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 369-394. Excerpted and reprinted in Carpatho-Rusyn American: A Forum for Carpatho-Rusyn Ethnic Heritage.
• 1992. Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War. Public Culture 4: 93-101.
• 1991. “To Put One’s Fingers in the Bleeding Wound”: Palestinian Theatre Under Israeli Censorship. The Drama Review T130: 18-38. Reprinted in Ad-Dad: A Journal of Arabic Literature, 3 (1992): 1-11; reprinted in Arab-Israeli Relations: A Collection of Contending Perspectives and Recent Research, 10 volumes. Edited by Ian Lustick. New York: Garland Press, 1993, 5: 282-303
• 1990. A Woman’s Life on the Algiers Stage. MERIP / Middle East Report Sept/Oct.
• 1990. Ritual Grievance: The Language of Woman? Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 5/1: 53-60
• 1989. Cross-Cultural Dress and Tourist Performance in Egypt. Performing Arts Journal Special issue on Interculturalism 33/34: 139-150.
• 1987. The Death-song of Amir Khafaji: Puns in an Oral and Printed Episode of Sirat Bani Hilal. Journal of Arabic Literature 18: 62-78
• 1987. Methodes de transcription et traduction d’une performance de geste orale arabe. In Le Conte. Edited by Pierre Lyon and Paul Perron. Montreal: Didier, 127-139.
• 1986. Arabic Folk Literature and Political Expression. Arab Studies Quarterly 8/2: 178-185.

Translations

• 2014. “The Vagabond” by Leila Sebbar (with Kathleen Micham). Jadaliyya, March 27.
• 2008. Talk of Darkness by Fatna El Bouih (with Mustafa Kamal). Austin: University of Texas Press.
• 2003. “Arabic: The Silenced Father-Tongue” by Leila Sebbar and “Writing in the Language of the Other” by Assia Djebar (with Isabelle de Courtivron). In In Other Words: Writers on Bilingualism, Creativity and Identity. Edited by Isabelle de Courtivron. New York: St. Martins Press, 19-27 and 101-109.
• 2002. “The Bridegroom,” (Al-Aris) by Salah El Ouadie: Prison Literature and Human Rights,” Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn Early. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 360-365.
• 2000. “The Flower Bed,” by Abdelfettah Kilito. Mediterraneans 11:37-41.
• 1997-98. “Three Poems by Waleed Khleif,” Jusoor, 9/10: 508-512.
• 1997. “The Epic of the Bani Hilal Narrated by Awadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali,” In Oral Epics from Africa: Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent. Edited by John William Johnson, Thomas A. Hale, and Stephen Belcher. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 240-251.
• 1995. “Women’s Laments for Children Who Have Died” (with Suzanne Qualls). In Children in the Muslim Middle East. Edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 223-225.
• 1989. “Muhammad Afifi Matar: Poem,” Journal of Arabic Literature, 20. 1988. Poems of Anna Margolin and Bertha Kling, Der Paken-treger (The Book Peddler), 9-10: 55. 1986. “The Poetry of Abderrahman Abnoudy,” Seneca Review, 16/1: 81-90.