Maya Mikdashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 649134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Mikdashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikdashi |
| SIGNATURE | MIKDASHI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conversation around the themes of archives, futurity, history, and colonial epistemology. The author describes how experiencing The Phoenix of Gaza took her to three different historical and contemporary locations: Lebanon, the Great Lakes region, and a prev…
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East
Fieldwork on violence needs to take into consideration its knowledge practices and the ways in which violence is contained, produced and made sense of as normalized or traumatic. This I argue is a way to incorporate knowledge production of violence with the experiential that anthropology has privileged as a source of understanding suffering. The work of Munira Khayyat and that of Jean-Michel Landry are brought together in this issue by ethnograph…
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects forged through…
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
Queer Theory and Permanent War
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Maya Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Religious Conversion and Daʿwa Secularism
This dissertation is an ethnography that focuses on competing discourses and practices of secularity in contemporary Lebanon. It is situated at the intersections of legal anthropology, theories of secularism and religion, and interdisciplinary studies of the state and sexual/gendered citizenship. I focus on two phenomena. One is the Lebanese state’s regulation of religious conversion, a practice the state and its courts consider proof of their se…
Sex and Sectarianism
In this essay Mikdashi examines the legal practice of strategic conversion, or religious conversion undertaken in order to make use of different aspects of the Lebanese legal system. Mikdashi illustrates the process of strategic conversion by comparing it to that of correcting one’s sex in the census registry, an act that also changes the network of laws that applies to a citizen. A further comparison is made by introducing the practice of removi…
What Is Settler Colonialism? (for Leo Delano Ames Jr.)
The question that titles this article is deceptively simple. It invites answers that do not, and cannot, exist. One can only address the remainder of a settler colonial project, particularly one as successful as the United States. It is impossible to write about that which cannot be known, and yet there is an ethical imperative to do so. In looking for answers to the question of settler colonialism, I have only a narrative, one that tries to resi…
Queering Citizenship, Queering Middle East Studies
Critical citizenship studies have argued that researchers should not take the myth of the universal unmarked citizen to heart, but rather focus on the distance between the ideal of citizenship and its everyday embodied practices and on what the citizen and the state do rather than on the state's narration of itself. As Partha Chatterjee writes in his critique of Benedict Anderson, to endorse “unbound serialities” such as the universal and anonymo…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes, B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes
Book Review| November 01 2009 Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes, B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes Wild Mulberries, Younes, Iman Humaydan. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008. Pp. 129. ISBN 978-1-56656-700-8.B as in Beirut, Younes, Iman Humaydan. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-1-56656-706-1. Maya Mikdashi Maya Mikdashi Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle Eas…
Pop Goes the Arab World: Popular Music, Gender, Politics, and Transnationalism in the Arab World
Assumptions are often made as to the static nature of contemporary Arab politics and societies. Authors, scholars and commentators look for sociopolitical dynamism in the arenas they are used to: newspapers, television and parliament/congress, to name but a few. When they do not see or hear these debates taking place in the formal institutions that they are familiar with, they are quick to assume that these reassessments are simply not occurring.…
Queer Theory and Permanent War
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Maya Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Sex and Sectarianism
In this essay Mikdashi examines the legal practice of strategic conversion, or religious conversion undertaken in order to make use of different aspects of the Lebanese legal system. Mikdashi illustrates the process of strategic conversion by comparing it to that of correcting one’s sex in the census registry, an act that also changes the network of laws that applies to a citizen. A further comparison is made by introducing the practice of removi…
Queering Citizenship, Queering Middle East Studies
Critical citizenship studies have argued that researchers should not take the myth of the universal unmarked citizen to heart, but rather focus on the distance between the ideal of citizenship and its everyday embodied practices and on what the citizen and the state do rather than on the state's narration of itself. As Partha Chatterjee writes in his critique of Benedict Anderson, to endorse “unbound serialities” such as the universal and anonymo…
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East
Fieldwork on violence needs to take into consideration its knowledge practices and the ways in which violence is contained, produced and made sense of as normalized or traumatic. This I argue is a way to incorporate knowledge production of violence with the experiential that anthropology has privileged as a source of understanding suffering. The work of Munira Khayyat and that of Jean-Michel Landry are brought together in this issue by ethnograph…
Pop Goes the Arab World: Popular Music, Gender, Politics, and Transnationalism in the Arab World
Assumptions are often made as to the static nature of contemporary Arab politics and societies. Authors, scholars and commentators look for sociopolitical dynamism in the arenas they are used to: newspapers, television and parliament/congress, to name but a few. When they do not see or hear these debates taking place in the formal institutions that they are familiar with, they are quick to assume that these reassessments are simply not occurring.…
Pop Goes the Arab World: Popular Music, Gender, Politics, and Transnationalism in the Arab World
Assumptions are often made as to the static nature of contemporary Arab politics and societies. Authors, scholars and commentators look for sociopolitical dynamism in the arenas they are used to: newspapers, television and parliament/congress, to name but a few. When they do not see or hear these debates taking place in the formal institutions that they are familiar with, they are quick to assume that these reassessments are simply not occurring.…
Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes, B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes
Book Review| November 01 2009 Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes, B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes Wild Mulberries, Younes, Iman Humaydan. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008. Pp. 129. ISBN 978-1-56656-700-8.B as in Beirut, Younes, Iman Humaydan. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-1-56656-706-1. Maya Mikdashi Maya Mikdashi Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle Eas…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
What Is Settler Colonialism? (for Leo Delano Ames Jr.)
The question that titles this article is deceptively simple. It invites answers that do not, and cannot, exist. One can only address the remainder of a settler colonial project, particularly one as successful as the United States. It is impossible to write about that which cannot be known, and yet there is an ethical imperative to do so. In looking for answers to the question of settler colonialism, I have only a narrative, one that tries to resi…
Queering Citizenship, Queering Middle East Studies
Critical citizenship studies have argued that researchers should not take the myth of the universal unmarked citizen to heart, but rather focus on the distance between the ideal of citizenship and its everyday embodied practices and on what the citizen and the state do rather than on the state's narration of itself. As Partha Chatterjee writes in his critique of Benedict Anderson, to endorse “unbound serialities” such as the universal and anonymo…
Sex and Sectarianism
In this essay Mikdashi examines the legal practice of strategic conversion, or religious conversion undertaken in order to make use of different aspects of the Lebanese legal system. Mikdashi illustrates the process of strategic conversion by comparing it to that of correcting one’s sex in the census registry, an act that also changes the network of laws that applies to a citizen. A further comparison is made by introducing the practice of removi…
Religious Conversion and Daʿwa Secularism
This dissertation is an ethnography that focuses on competing discourses and practices of secularity in contemporary Lebanon. It is situated at the intersections of legal anthropology, theories of secularism and religion, and interdisciplinary studies of the state and sexual/gendered citizenship. I focus on two phenomena. One is the Lebanese state’s regulation of religious conversion, a practice the state and its courts consider proof of their se…
Queer Theory and Permanent War
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Maya Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects forged through…
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East
Fieldwork on violence needs to take into consideration its knowledge practices and the ways in which violence is contained, produced and made sense of as normalized or traumatic. This I argue is a way to incorporate knowledge production of violence with the experiential that anthropology has privileged as a source of understanding suffering. The work of Munira Khayyat and that of Jean-Michel Landry are brought together in this issue by ethnograph…
Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conversation around the themes of archives, futurity, history, and colonial epistemology. The author describes how experiencing The Phoenix of Gaza took her to three different historical and contemporary locations: Lebanon, the Great Lakes region, and a prev…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works)