F M Totah
Biographic Data
| ID | 35736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F M Totah |
| GIVEN NAMES | F M |
| FAMILY NAME | Totah |
| SIGNATURE | TOTAH F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3620-0456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mobile Mapping and its Potential for Faculty Collaboration and Undergraduate Student Learning
Undergraduate research is a high impact practice for student learning, but the key is often to match projects with tools that build students’ skills as they learn about a topic. Digital tools now profligate to the point that they are almost overwhelming to the student and teacher alike. These tools, coupled with computing have forged an entirely new field: digital humanities. Our manuscript discusses how one easy to use, student friendly digital …
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp
The camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Fur…
Sunta and Sana Spring Conference
The 2019 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology
Meet You in Vancouver
The Palestinian cause in Syrian nationalism
The Morning They Came for Us
Women in the Middle East Take a Stand
Dream Factories in the Time of War
Bab Al-Harah
Berlin's Little Syria
Ramadan TV
Qatar, the Little Country That Could until It Couldn't
The Wall and the Chicken
Nothing Has Changed
In this article, I explore how discourses on the urban-rural binary that has long defined social hierarchies in Damascus informed the gentrification of the Old City of Damascus. Gentrification was facilitated by economic policies that favored a market economy, and took the form of converting traditional couryard houses into restaurants and hotels. Moreover, it led to the displacement of long-term residents and the influx of new social users to th…
The Memory Keeper
The public visibility and political activity of women remain contentious social issues in the Middle East. Where women are encouraged by the state to be politically active, their ensuing visibility is perceived as threatening to the local male-dominated social order, which in turn hampers their efficacy as political agents. In this article I explore political commemoration in Syria as a socially sanctioned venue for apolitical political activity …
Return to the Origin
The 2002 government restoration of Suq in Damascus led to disagreements between officials and merchants over acceptable spatial practice in the marketplace. Though both were vested in the Suq's introduction to the historic Old City, they had different interpretations of this role. Officials emphasized a sanitized and ordered space whereas merchants focused on the commercial activities necessary in the marketplace over discipline. Eventually both …
A New Old Damascus
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Christa Salamandra. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 199 pp
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp
The camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Fur…
Nothing Has Changed
In this article, I explore how discourses on the urban-rural binary that has long defined social hierarchies in Damascus informed the gentrification of the Old City of Damascus. Gentrification was facilitated by economic policies that favored a market economy, and took the form of converting traditional couryard houses into restaurants and hotels. Moreover, it led to the displacement of long-term residents and the influx of new social users to th…
The Memory Keeper
The public visibility and political activity of women remain contentious social issues in the Middle East. Where women are encouraged by the state to be politically active, their ensuing visibility is perceived as threatening to the local male-dominated social order, which in turn hampers their efficacy as political agents. In this article I explore political commemoration in Syria as a socially sanctioned venue for apolitical political activity …
A New Old Damascus
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Christa Salamandra. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 199 pp
Return to the Origin
The 2002 government restoration of Suq in Damascus led to disagreements between officials and merchants over acceptable spatial practice in the marketplace. Though both were vested in the Suq's introduction to the historic Old City, they had different interpretations of this role. Officials emphasized a sanitized and ordered space whereas merchants focused on the commercial activities necessary in the marketplace over discipline. Eventually both …
A New Old Damascus
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Christa Salamandra. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 199 pp
Return to the Origin
The 2002 government restoration of Suq in Damascus led to disagreements between officials and merchants over acceptable spatial practice in the marketplace. Though both were vested in the Suq's introduction to the historic Old City, they had different interpretations of this role. Officials emphasized a sanitized and ordered space whereas merchants focused on the commercial activities necessary in the marketplace over discipline. Eventually both …
The Memory Keeper
The public visibility and political activity of women remain contentious social issues in the Middle East. Where women are encouraged by the state to be politically active, their ensuing visibility is perceived as threatening to the local male-dominated social order, which in turn hampers their efficacy as political agents. In this article I explore political commemoration in Syria as a socially sanctioned venue for apolitical political activity …
Nothing Has Changed
In this article, I explore how discourses on the urban-rural binary that has long defined social hierarchies in Damascus informed the gentrification of the Old City of Damascus. Gentrification was facilitated by economic policies that favored a market economy, and took the form of converting traditional couryard houses into restaurants and hotels. Moreover, it led to the displacement of long-term residents and the influx of new social users to th…
Women in the Middle East Take a Stand
Dream Factories in the Time of War
Bab Al-Harah
Berlin's Little Syria
Ramadan TV
Qatar, the Little Country That Could until It Couldn't
The Wall and the Chicken
The Palestinian cause in Syrian nationalism
The Morning They Came for Us
Sunta and Sana Spring Conference
The 2019 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology
Meet You in Vancouver
Mobile Mapping and its Potential for Faculty Collaboration and Undergraduate Student Learning
Undergraduate research is a high impact practice for student learning, but the key is often to match projects with tools that build students’ skills as they learn about a topic. Digital tools now profligate to the point that they are almost overwhelming to the student and teacher alike. These tools, coupled with computing have forged an entirely new field: digital humanities. Our manuscript discusses how one easy to use, student friendly digital …
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp
The camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Fur…
Computer Science (13 works) · Citation (10 works) · Library science (10 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (4 works) · History (3 works)