Peter Wien
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1402852 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Wien |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Wien |
| FIRMA | WIEN P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8770-9907 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Monumental after life
Since the middle of the twentieth century, consecutive political regimes have tried to leave an imprint on Baghdad’s urban topography, implementing successive development plans that have included the building of massive military monuments like the famous Martyr’s Monument and the Victory Arches. Focusing on their lesser-known sibling, the Unknown Soldier Monument, this article traces the evolution of modern Iraqi monument culture, connecting the …
Problematic Archives
The transfer of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives to the United States in the wake of the 2003 invasion triggered an ongoing debate about patrimony and the legality of the removal of government documents in military conflict. However, the appropriation of Iraq's archival heritage did not start in 2003 and does not concern international law only. Parallel to debates over restoring artifacts in Western museums to the global South, this article argues in …
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East
This roundtable is the product of a conference on tribalism in the Modern Middle East held at the University of Maryland in College Park in early May 2019. In two days of scholarly exchange, the participants addressed questions on the reality of tribal life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and its impact on politics and society. Most of the specialists who participated in the conference are also contributors in this forum. To keep the…
Orit Bashkin. Impossible Exodus
Orit Bashkin’s book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel tells the story of the Iraqi Jewish community after its forced migration to Israel in the mid-twentieth century. It documents with great skill and in great detail the conflicts that followed the confrontation with a dominant Ashkenazi elite and its hegemonic grip on Israel’s politics, culture, and economy. Bashkin has written a balanced, meticulously referenced, non-polemical, yet deeply…
The Commander
Laila Parson's The Commander is an impressive achievement: it combines the best traits of the modern biographical genre with the markings of rigorous scholarly research. The book follows a plot line, offers suspense in condensed accounts of key moments where the hero's life intersected with events of world-historical importance, elaborates on encounters with leaders of world renown, and places the protagonist in the middle of vivid depictions of …
Arab Nationalism
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. Arab Nationalism sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as…
Arabs and Fascism
The article establishes an interpretive framework for Arab responses to fascism during the 1930s and World War II. Promoters of the Islamofascism paradigm refer to this period as simply a manifestation of the allegedly illiberal inclinations of a vast majority of Arabs and Muslims. They present Arab expressions of sympathy for fascism as conditioned by alleged authoritarian or totalitarian structures inherent in the Islamic religion. In a more nu…
Preface
“Relocating Arab Nationalism” locates various representations of nationalism in the Arab world in new and hitherto neglected contexts. The project was first conceived in a conversation among some of the contributing authors about the validity of nationalism as a research topic in a seemingly postnationalist period in the Middle East. This conversation turned into a panel at the 2007 MESA conference in Montreal as an attempt to contribute to a fur…
The Culpability of Exile
Germany hosted a significant number of exiles and foreign students during the period of Nazi rule, among them many Arabs. This article explores the various circumstances of exile in Germany before and during the Second World War. After the war, these compromising sojourns were often used for personal attacks in political battles, not least in the Middle East conflict. To avoid the conventional focus on prominent nationalist leaders in exile, the …
The Long and Intricate Funeral of Yasin Al-Hashimi
After his premature death in exile in Beirut in 1937, the body of former Iraqi prime minister Yasin al-Hashimi became a matter of contention between the Syrian and Iraqi governments, as did his legacy as an avid Pan-Arabist. When the coffin with the deceased stopped in Damascus on its promised transfer to Baghdad, the Syrian National Bloc government used the opportunity to stage a solemn republican funeral to bolster its Arab nationalist credenti…
Arab Nationalism
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. 'Arab Nationalism' sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism …
Coming to Terms With the Past
The books that are the subject of this review essay comprise three new contributions and one revised edition about a topic that has become paradigmatic in defining scholarly and political approaches to key areas of Middle Eastern history. It has shaped studies of the historical and ideological roots of Arab nationalism, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the emergence and perseverance of authoritarian regimes in the modern Middle East. The ways that …
Iraqi Arab Nationalism
Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early 1940s. He deconstructs the established view that a large proportion of the nationalist movement in Iraq during this period was heavily influenced by Nazi Germany, arguing that the admiration for Germany was highly nuanced, and only rarely translated into admiration for Nazism. National unity and patriotism were important, b…
Dagmar Glaß Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, 2 vols. (Würzburg, Germany
Dagmar Glaß Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, 2 vols. (Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2004). Pp. 765. €94 paper. - Volume 40 Issue 2
The Modern Middle East
Inventing Iraq
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East
This roundtable is the product of a conference on tribalism in the Modern Middle East held at the University of Maryland in College Park in early May 2019. In two days of scholarly exchange, the participants addressed questions on the reality of tribal life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and its impact on politics and society. Most of the specialists who participated in the conference are also contributors in this forum. To keep the…
The Culpability of Exile
Germany hosted a significant number of exiles and foreign students during the period of Nazi rule, among them many Arabs. This article explores the various circumstances of exile in Germany before and during the Second World War. After the war, these compromising sojourns were often used for personal attacks in political battles, not least in the Middle East conflict. To avoid the conventional focus on prominent nationalist leaders in exile, the …
Coming to Terms With the Past
The books that are the subject of this review essay comprise three new contributions and one revised edition about a topic that has become paradigmatic in defining scholarly and political approaches to key areas of Middle Eastern history. It has shaped studies of the historical and ideological roots of Arab nationalism, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the emergence and perseverance of authoritarian regimes in the modern Middle East. The ways that …
The Long and Intricate Funeral of Yasin Al-Hashimi
After his premature death in exile in Beirut in 1937, the body of former Iraqi prime minister Yasin al-Hashimi became a matter of contention between the Syrian and Iraqi governments, as did his legacy as an avid Pan-Arabist. When the coffin with the deceased stopped in Damascus on its promised transfer to Baghdad, the Syrian National Bloc government used the opportunity to stage a solemn republican funeral to bolster its Arab nationalist credenti…
Arabs and Fascism
The article establishes an interpretive framework for Arab responses to fascism during the 1930s and World War II. Promoters of the Islamofascism paradigm refer to this period as simply a manifestation of the allegedly illiberal inclinations of a vast majority of Arabs and Muslims. They present Arab expressions of sympathy for fascism as conditioned by alleged authoritarian or totalitarian structures inherent in the Islamic religion. In a more nu…
Iraqi Arab Nationalism
Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early 1940s. He deconstructs the established view that a large proportion of the nationalist movement in Iraq during this period was heavily influenced by Nazi Germany, arguing that the admiration for Germany was highly nuanced, and only rarely translated into admiration for Nazism. National unity and patriotism were important, b…
Dagmar Glaß Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, 2 vols. (Würzburg, Germany
Dagmar Glaß Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, 2 vols. (Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2004). Pp. 765. €94 paper. - Volume 40 Issue 2
The Modern Middle East
Inventing Iraq
Arab Nationalism
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. 'Arab Nationalism' sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism …
Coming to Terms With the Past
The books that are the subject of this review essay comprise three new contributions and one revised edition about a topic that has become paradigmatic in defining scholarly and political approaches to key areas of Middle Eastern history. It has shaped studies of the historical and ideological roots of Arab nationalism, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the emergence and perseverance of authoritarian regimes in the modern Middle East. The ways that …
Preface
“Relocating Arab Nationalism” locates various representations of nationalism in the Arab world in new and hitherto neglected contexts. The project was first conceived in a conversation among some of the contributing authors about the validity of nationalism as a research topic in a seemingly postnationalist period in the Middle East. This conversation turned into a panel at the 2007 MESA conference in Montreal as an attempt to contribute to a fur…
The Culpability of Exile
Germany hosted a significant number of exiles and foreign students during the period of Nazi rule, among them many Arabs. This article explores the various circumstances of exile in Germany before and during the Second World War. After the war, these compromising sojourns were often used for personal attacks in political battles, not least in the Middle East conflict. To avoid the conventional focus on prominent nationalist leaders in exile, the …
The Long and Intricate Funeral of Yasin Al-Hashimi
After his premature death in exile in Beirut in 1937, the body of former Iraqi prime minister Yasin al-Hashimi became a matter of contention between the Syrian and Iraqi governments, as did his legacy as an avid Pan-Arabist. When the coffin with the deceased stopped in Damascus on its promised transfer to Baghdad, the Syrian National Bloc government used the opportunity to stage a solemn republican funeral to bolster its Arab nationalist credenti…
Arabs and Fascism
The article establishes an interpretive framework for Arab responses to fascism during the 1930s and World War II. Promoters of the Islamofascism paradigm refer to this period as simply a manifestation of the allegedly illiberal inclinations of a vast majority of Arabs and Muslims. They present Arab expressions of sympathy for fascism as conditioned by alleged authoritarian or totalitarian structures inherent in the Islamic religion. In a more nu…
Arab Nationalism
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. Arab Nationalism sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as…
The Commander
Laila Parson's The Commander is an impressive achievement: it combines the best traits of the modern biographical genre with the markings of rigorous scholarly research. The book follows a plot line, offers suspense in condensed accounts of key moments where the hero's life intersected with events of world-historical importance, elaborates on encounters with leaders of world renown, and places the protagonist in the middle of vivid depictions of …
Orit Bashkin. Impossible Exodus
Orit Bashkin’s book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel tells the story of the Iraqi Jewish community after its forced migration to Israel in the mid-twentieth century. It documents with great skill and in great detail the conflicts that followed the confrontation with a dominant Ashkenazi elite and its hegemonic grip on Israel’s politics, culture, and economy. Bashkin has written a balanced, meticulously referenced, non-polemical, yet deeply…
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East
This roundtable is the product of a conference on tribalism in the Modern Middle East held at the University of Maryland in College Park in early May 2019. In two days of scholarly exchange, the participants addressed questions on the reality of tribal life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and its impact on politics and society. Most of the specialists who participated in the conference are also contributors in this forum. To keep the…
Problematic Archives
The transfer of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives to the United States in the wake of the 2003 invasion triggered an ongoing debate about patrimony and the legality of the removal of government documents in military conflict. However, the appropriation of Iraq's archival heritage did not start in 2003 and does not concern international law only. Parallel to debates over restoring artifacts in Western museums to the global South, this article argues in …
Monumental after life
Since the middle of the twentieth century, consecutive political regimes have tried to leave an imprint on Baghdad’s urban topography, implementing successive development plans that have included the building of massive military monuments like the famous Martyr’s Monument and the Victory Arches. Focusing on their lesser-known sibling, the Unknown Soldier Monument, this article traces the evolution of modern Iraqi monument culture, connecting the …
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