Yasser Tabbaa. Review of "Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction" by Oliver Leaman.

Tabbaa, Yasser

doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.28

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“…In this context, it is unfortunately not surprising that Jordanian women on municipal councils are mocked 67 and socially ostracized for engaging in traditionally male activities. 68 Our findings about the tribal uses of the gender quota in Jordan tell us something not only about how tribes elsewhere in the Muslim world might respond to gender quotas but also about the behaviors of a range of conservative political parties given that tribes in Jordan behave so much like parties. Clark and Schwedler found that Islamist parties in Jordan and Yemen acted strategically with regards to women's participation.…”

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confidence: 86%

Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East

Bush¹,

Gao²

2017

comp polit

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Abstract:Why do some political actors nominate women more than others in the Muslim world? This article argues that certain social groups have an instrumental demand for female candidates because they believe such candidates will enhance their electoral chances in the wake of gender quotas' adoption. Looking at Jordan, it hypothesizes that small tribes can make big gains by nominating women due to the design of the country's reserved seat quota. This argument complements existing perspectives on women's (under-)representation in the Muslim world, which emphasize the role of features of the culture, economy, or religion. The analysis of original data on Jordan's local elections and tribes supports the argument. The article's findings have implications for our understanding of women's representation, tribal politics, and authoritarian elections.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East

Bush¹,

Gao²

2017

comp polit

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“…The group was founded by Nahla Tabbaa, a Jordanian artist, educated in Britain, who established the Urban Reflection group as part of her master’s degree in curatorial practice at Bath School of Art and Design. The activists, mainly artists and people “involved in urban activism and social inclusion” (Tabbaa, 2012), build on situationist theory, which is a mid-20th-century movement based on creating situations – basically art projects – that “agitate the sterility and oppression of the actual environment and ruling economic and political system” (Wollen, 1993: 121). David Debord, one of the movement’s founders, identifies the situation as “a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events” (quoted in Albright, 2003: 29).…”

Section: Decoloniality and Urban Space: Shifting The Discourse From Interpretation To Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The event the Urban Reflection organized used art as a mechanism to express the self: a creative outlet for local artists and youth in Hay Al-Qala’a. It thus added a new layer of signiﬁcation where “artists … [are] given a role in social development, using their talent to address environmental, urban and social issues” (Tabbaa, 2012). The role of the local community was to “discuss” the subjects to be painted and to participate in their painting.…”

Section: Decoloniality and Urban Space: Shifting The Discourse From Interpretation To Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The role of the local community was to “discuss” the subjects to be painted and to participate in their painting. The founder describes this process as the following: “Our team would meet with the artists on a weekly basis, where their proposals were developed through a series of talks, panel discussions, film screenings and on site contact activities with the community of [Hay Al-Qala’a]” (Tabbaa, 2012).…”

Section: Decoloniality and Urban Space: Shifting The Discourse From Interpretation To Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, local intelligence and creativity are missed. This is demonstrated in the founder’s conclusion that the art initiative was “most importantly an experience which ultimately brought people together and inspired us to believe that social change can truly happen through art” (Tabbaa, 2012).…”

Section: Decoloniality and Urban Space: Shifting The Discourse From Interpretation To Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Liberating genealogies in Amman: Urban histories between a colonizing legacy and a decolonizing illusion

Rabady

Abu‐Khafajah

2021

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Colonialism operated in Amman through a matrix of power generated from a Western emphasis on its biblical and classical pasts. The cultural dominance of this matrix persisted in the postcolonial period. It perpetuated the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being as it accentuated Western imperial pasts and marked the local – whether heritage or something else – as marginal. Coloniality is reflected in the successive planning and regeneration projects of Amman’s place of origin: Amman Valley (Wadi Amman). A postcolonial approach is usually used to discuss these projects on the basis of locals’ “otherness” and passivity. However, we shift the discussion toward examining local intelligence as having the power to resist the persistent colonial matrix, using the example of an art initiative by local activists in Wadi Amman as part of its regeneration. Using the concept of decoloniality, this article grapples with local knowledge and being in Wadi Amman and their capacity to turn urban heritage spaces into places of resistance. It reveals that despite the resistance potential in urban heritage spaces, the persistent colonial matrix of power reduces them to spaces of illusion. Because of the cultural dominance of the art initiative in Wadi Amman and the marginalization of locality, we conclude that resistance itself is being colonized and decoloniality is but an illusion. In line with decolonial theory, we call for a geopolitical turn that allows us to unfold the different shapes of struggle in the urban heritage spaces of postcolonial cities in order to locate, celebrate, and criticize the liberating genealogies found in them.

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Relationship of Body Weights with the Productive Performance of Lambs of the Awassi and Karakul Breeds and Crossbred Sheep

Ali,

Altaei

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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A study was carried out on 60 ewes of the Awassi and Karakul breeds, and cross at age of birth, weaned and 6 months in Barakat Abi Al-Fadl Al-Abbas Station in Karbala Governorate, Iraq from the first of June 2022 until the first of June of the year 2023.with the aim of studying relationship between body weights (BW) of lambs and productive performance (PP) through a set of factors (Genetic group - Sex of lamb - Age of dams - Month of birth - Weight of dams), The statistical analysis system (SAS) was used to analyze the data. The result is displayed as follows: The genetic group, the sex of lambs, the age of the ewe, and the month of birth didn’t affect BW and average weight gain (AWG) of lambs at birth, weaning, and 6 months of age. Only weight of the ewe had a significant effect (P<0.05) on weight of lambs at 6 months of age. The ewes weighing more than 48 kg were superior to the rest of the other weights, with an average weight of 28.35 kg, while the weight of the ewe did not affect the weight of lambs at birth and weaning, also affected weight of the ewe on rate of weight gain at birth, weaning, and 6 months, with the superiority of ewes weighing more than 48 kg over the rest of the weights. Weaning weight was positively correlated with birth weight and highly significant (P<0.01), and the regression coefficient between 6-month-old body weight and weaning weight was high and significant (P<0.01).

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Yasser Tabbaa. Review of "Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction" by Oliver Leaman.

Cited by 3 publications

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Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East

Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East

Liberating genealogies in Amman: Urban histories between a colonizing legacy and a decolonizing illusion

Relationship of Body Weights with the Productive Performance of Lambs of the Awassi and Karakul Breeds and Crossbred Sheep

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