Adrien Zakar
Biographic Data
| ID | 94375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrien Zakar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrien |
| FAMILY NAME | Zakar |
| SIGNATURE | ZAKAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8818-4304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bibliography on the Nakba
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
Gimmicks of War
This essay examines three pivotal instances where late Ottoman maps served as “gimmicks of war.” Forgotten and reactivated, these visual artifacts gained renewed political significance years after their production on battlefields. The analysis focuses on three maps: an 1878 map of Eastern Anatolia delineating six Armenian provinces, a wall map of Palestine featured at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898, and a map of Lebanon that facilitated the …
Jawlān
In this article, we focus on the keyword Jawlān to highlight one of the most critical, if overlooked, dimensions of autocracy in modern Syria. Occupied by Israel in 1967, the Jawlān is a borderland where words have made political relationships possible, sustaining forms of national and kin attachments for decades. We show how, within post-1967 Syria, the Jawlān came to function as a discursive vessel for the state to address its citizenry outside…
The Joke Is on Us (At 34[3)]
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
The End of Ottoman Positivism
In the midst of World War I, a group of Ottoman scientists published a debate entitled “National Education” in the 1916 issue of the periodical Muallim (The Teacher). The exchange between the sociologist Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924) and the psychologist Satiʾ al-Husari (1882–1968) started out with different agendas for imperial education and culminated with an outburst regarding the definition of modern science. In his conclusive remarks, al-Husari de…
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
The End of Ottoman Positivism
In the midst of World War I, a group of Ottoman scientists published a debate entitled “National Education” in the 1916 issue of the periodical Muallim (The Teacher). The exchange between the sociologist Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924) and the psychologist Satiʾ al-Husari (1882–1968) started out with different agendas for imperial education and culminated with an outburst regarding the definition of modern science. In his conclusive remarks, al-Husari de…
The Joke Is on Us (At 34[3)]
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
Jawlān
In this article, we focus on the keyword Jawlān to highlight one of the most critical, if overlooked, dimensions of autocracy in modern Syria. Occupied by Israel in 1967, the Jawlān is a borderland where words have made political relationships possible, sustaining forms of national and kin attachments for decades. We show how, within post-1967 Syria, the Jawlān came to function as a discursive vessel for the state to address its citizenry outside…
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
Gimmicks of War
This essay examines three pivotal instances where late Ottoman maps served as “gimmicks of war.” Forgotten and reactivated, these visual artifacts gained renewed political significance years after their production on battlefields. The analysis focuses on three maps: an 1878 map of Eastern Anatolia delineating six Armenian provinces, a wall map of Palestine featured at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898, and a map of Lebanon that facilitated the …
Bibliography on the Nakba
Political science (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Joke (2 works) · Law (2 works)