J Gordon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16019 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Gordon |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Gordon |
| ASSINATURA | GORDON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-9411 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1923 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Hollywood on the Nile
By the 1940s, the Egyptian studio system, the bastion of Arabic-language film production derided by many as “Hollywood on the Nile,” drew viewers—and prospective stars—from across the Arab world. Prior to independence, strict censorship enforced prohibitions on depictions of social ills or national aspirations. During the pivotal Nasser years (1952–70), popular entertainment intersected with a new independent “revolutionary” ethos to produce soci…
Geographical Reality or Literary Fantasy
This article redefines the dualism of nekuomanteia’s real and imagined topographies via a novel analysis of the tertium quid that is “natural deathscapes.” This framework is applied to the case study of the nekuomanteion at Tainaron. Comparison between the literary descriptions and the archaeological record reveals numerous anomalies within this landscape’s presentation, including an imaginary grove, spring, and impossible localizations. While tr…
Egypt
The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence , edited by H. A. Hellyer and Robert Springborg. London: I. B. Tauris, 2023. 232 pages. $115 cloth, $39.95 paper, $103.50 e-book. Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, by Dina Heshmat. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 248 pages. $130 cloth, PDF; $24.95 paper, EPUB
Solving’ the Paradox of the Odyssean Ethiopians’ Twin Dual Localization
This paper considers the narrative significance of localization in Homer’s Odyssey , in particular singular places that are associated with multiple spaces (identified here as dual localization). Our reading posits that spatial features hold narrative significance and, once uncovered, this resolves ‘problematic’ issues that may arise from spatial paradoxes. The chosen case study is the Odyssean land of the Ethiopians with its twin dual localizati…
Sheikh Jackson (Feature by `Amr Salama, Muhammad Hifzi and Hani `Usama)
Sheikh Jackson Joel Gordon (bio) Feature, Starring Ahmad al-Fishawi and Magid al-Kidwani, 2017, 93 Minutes, Directed by ' Amr Salama, and Produced by Muhammad Hifzi and Hani 'Usama This is a movie that can no longer be watched without noting the release since its production of a critically acclaimed, albeit ever controversial documentary chronicling the accusations of child sexual abuse against the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson. I have not seen …
Dancing with the Pharaohs/Egypt's Modern Pharaohs
Dancing with the Pharaohs/Egypt's Modern Pharaohs: Nasser (Egypt). 2013. Color, Black and White, 58 min. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. Director: Jihan el-Tahri. Distributor: Films Media Group, https://www.films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=121782./Egypt's Modern Pharaohs: Sadat (Egypt). 2013. Color, Black and White, 57 min. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. Director: Jihan el-Tahri. Distributor: Films Media Group, ht…
No Exit
Viewing Backwards
The 1990s marked an important moment in Egyptian television, when the country turned its attention increasingly (although never monolithically) toward historical drama as a means of recreating and reinterpreting modern Egyptian history. Mahfouz Abd al-Rahman and Osama Anwar Okasha, in particular, scripted long multi-year series aired during Ramadan, the peak season for television viewing, that covered decades of the late ninteenth century and pre…
Pop Culture Roundup
Two decades ago I published an article in this journal about Egyptian biographical films. It was the first study published in IJMES about Arab/Middle East film and the first to feature photographic illustrations. The editor sent it to four reviewers, some presumably to check my history, others my cultural scope. Three approved wholeheartedly, but one protested that IJMES should not publish a piece that was not based upon “Arabic sources.” Admitte…
Isis
As I write this review ISIS is clearly on its heels. Its geographic expansion appears to have stalled, it has surrendered ground, many of its fighters have been killed; it has lost Palmyra and is s
Preaching Islamic Renewal
If the People One Day Decide They Want Life
The Naked Blogger of Cairo explores “creative insurgency” during the Arab Spring and in the face of renewed repression. Kraidy explores diverse manifestations of artistic dissent—graffiti, murals, street theater, social media postings, physical gestures, and chants—particularly related to the body, of rulers and ruled, with humor and rage, hope and despair. His focal points are Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria, but his gaze encompasses wider repercussio…
Nasser's Republic
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt. 2016, Color, Available in two versions: Festival (82 minutes), Broadcast (56 minutes). In English. Director/Producer: Michal Goldman; Distributor: Icarus Films. - Volume 50 Issue 2
Nasser's Blessed Movement
This book explores the early years of military rule in Egypt following the Free Officers' coup d'etat of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and observers of the events, the book shows how the officers' belief in a quick reformation by force was transformed into a vital, long-term process that changed the face of Egypt. Under Gamal Abdel Nasser, the military regime launched an ambitious program of social, economic, and political reform. E…
When superman Smote Zeus
What does it mean to be a god? What is immortality? When compared with the ancient Greeks, modern popular culture offers a different perspective on these matters. In particular, violent deicide has recently emerged as a narrative possibility for interacting with ancient Greek myth. Here, I offer an examination and analysis of the earliest and most prominent examples of this trend within modern popular culture. In doing so, I question how deicide …
Three Tales of Obsession
By examining three classic neo‐realist films directed by three cineastes from three different countries between 1958 and 1970, I attempt to engage a dialogue across boundaries of Middle Eastern film. Each film has been discussed in contexts of national cinema traditions with references to Western and Third World film, but rarely if ever in the context of regional, multi‐lingual cinemas with which they share most in terms of theme and content. Rep…
The Age of the Efendiyya
The comment above, made by Ibrahim Shawkat to his brother-in-law Yasin, sons of the most famous family in Arabic literature, cuts to the heart of Lucie Ryzova's exploration of effendi identity formation in interwar Egypt. It also raises a plethora of questions, some of which she answers, others that she leaves dangling—no crime in that, to be sure—about the formative decades of a “liberal experiment” that has been sidetracked and sabotaged now fo…
Answering the Call
This book is long overdue. Even before their unprecedented electoral victory in 2012, the Muslim Brothers warranted a nuanced, dispassionate study of their re-emergence in Egypt in the 1970s. Abdullah al-Arian might have called his work ‘Pondering’ or ‘Reimagining’ the Call, because his story starts with the return to society—the ingathering of exiles and political prisoners—at a pivotal moment when the leaders of Egypt’s fractured Islamist movem…
“Stuck with Him”
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Contentious Comrades
Research Article| January 01 2014 Contentious Comrades: Egyptian Communism Reconsidered Ginat, RamiA History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2011), 431 pp. ISBN: 978-1-58826-759-7. Joel Gordon Joel Gordon University of Arkansas, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2014) 5 (1): 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1…
The Struggle for Egypt
Many Americans woke up in January 2011 to discover that Hosni Mubarak, steadfast friend and intractable opponent of forces that threatened American-Israeli interests, had suddenly been recast by me
Chahine, Chaos and Cinema
Youssef Chahine (1926–2008), Egypt’s most celebrated director, made forty-two films over six decades. His work, which runs the gamut from social realism to melodrama, musical comedy to grand historical spectacle, resisted easy compartmentalization. In his final film, Hiyya Fawda (Chaos, 2007), he returned to a favorite theme, Egypt’s national predicament, dispensing with his recent propensity to couch his criticism in allegorical/historical garb.…
Jesse Ferris. Nasser's Gamble
Journal Article Jesse Ferris. Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power. Get access Jesse Ferris. Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 342. Cloth $45.00, e-book $45.00. Joel Gordon Joel Gordon University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Nasser
'Abd al-Malik, who came to promience during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic empire from 692 until 705. Not only did he successfully suppress rebellion within the Muslim world and expand its frontiers, but in many respects he founded the empire itself. By about 700, the forms of a new realm which stretched from North Africa in the west to Iran in the east had taken clear shape with 'Abd al-Malik at its head. This book covers…
Revolutionary Melodrama
Introduction: We've Lost a Lot: Cinema and Longing Since Nasser 1. Playing to the People: Studios, Stars, and Social Texts 2. God and the Censor: History and Politics in Revolutionary Film 3. Revolutionary Melodrama: Torch Songs and Other Tropes 4. Free to be Bad: The Revolution's New Woman Onscreen 5. New Peasants, Old Ways: Tradition and Nation in Nasserist Cinema 6. Unhappy Endings: The Rise and Fall of Nasserist Cinema 7. Nostalgia in Black-a…
Singing the pulse of the Egyptian-Arab street
Veteran Egyptian shaabi singer Shaaban Abd al-Rahim recently attained superstar status as the 'interpreter of the pulse of the Egyptian-Arab street' due to a pop hit proclaiming his hatred for Israel. Shaaban's notoriety has been further enhanced by his abortive sponsorship of an 'indigenous' sandwich marketed in Egypt by McDonald's. Contracted by the fast food giant precisely because of his popularity, the singer was soon after dismissed in the …
The False Hopes of 1950
In January 1950, in the first free election held in nearly eight years, Egyptians went to the polls to return a Wafdist government to power. After having been banished from office for five years, Egypt's majority party assumed office aware that it shouldered a heavy burden of responsibility. Between October 1944, when the King dismissed the war-time government of Mustafa al-Nahhas, and January 1950, eight minority governments governed, or tried t…
The Slaps Felt Around the Arab World
This essay is an attempt to read popular melodrama as a reflection of changing societal appreciations of sentimentality, romance, family relations, and, ultimately, political authority over the course of a tumultuous decade in Egyptian and Middle Eastern history, the 1960s. I focus my gaze upon two particular films that were in their day popular hits, one of them an unprecedented blockbuster, and that remain genre classics. Both feature popular s…
Film, Fame, and Public Memory
Three years ago, the film Nasser 56 (1996), from Muhammad Fadil, a dramatic reenactment of the Suez crisis, set unprecedented attendance records in Egypt. Opening at the end of another disappointing year marked by a steady decline in studio film production and a dearth of high-quality offerings—and held back from public screening a full year by wavering government support—the film breathed new life into the movie industry and precipitated a natio…
Surveillance of attempted suicide among adolescents in Oregon, 1988
In January 1988, Oregon became the first state to require hospital-based reporting of attempted suicide (AS) in all adolescents less than 18 years old. From January to December 1988, 644 cases of AS were reported (annual rate of 214 per 100,000 population, ages 10 to 17 years). We compared these 644 cases of AS with all 137 Oregon adolescents less than 18 years old who committed suicide in Oregon during the 10-year-period 1979 through 1988, and f…
When superman Smote Zeus
What does it mean to be a god? What is immortality? When compared with the ancient Greeks, modern popular culture offers a different perspective on these matters. In particular, violent deicide has recently emerged as a narrative possibility for interacting with ancient Greek myth. Here, I offer an examination and analysis of the earliest and most prominent examples of this trend within modern popular culture. In doing so, I question how deicide …
Three Tales of Obsession
By examining three classic neo‐realist films directed by three cineastes from three different countries between 1958 and 1970, I attempt to engage a dialogue across boundaries of Middle Eastern film. Each film has been discussed in contexts of national cinema traditions with references to Western and Third World film, but rarely if ever in the context of regional, multi‐lingual cinemas with which they share most in terms of theme and content. Rep…
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Barbara Daly Metcalf. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xix. 264 pp., Illustrations, notes, works cited, contributors, Index
Becoming the image
Tarek ‘Allam is currently the most popular interview broadcaster in Egypt. An impromptu appearance last year on his widely‐watched program, “Word of Gold,” created instant celebrity for the author in Egypt, the Arab world, and among diaspora Arab communities that receive the Egyptian satellite channel. I suddenly became the image I study, simultaneously viewer and viewed, a participant in popular mass culture. The experience underscored the power…
Secular and Religious Memory in Egypt
The Myth of the Savior
greater part of the city's business district was set aflame. By evening, when authorities finally acted to restore order, some eight hundred buildings lay in ruins and twenty-five people, Egyptians and foreigners, lay dead. That night the Wafdist prime minister, Mustafa al-Nahhas, declared martial law. The following morning the king dismissed Egypt's only majority government in the post-war period. During the next six months three independent pol…
Animal bites in a large city--a report on Baltimore, Maryland
Animal bites in a large city--a report on Baltimore, Maryland. D R Berzon, R E Farber, J Gordon, and E B KelleyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.3.422 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Generalized Linear Perspective Treated with Special Reference to Photographic Land Surveying and Military Reconnaissance
Operating Statistics as a Tool of Management
tails of his organization and handled them directly. The increased scope and complexity of management, associated with bigness, have changed the character of this supervision. The executive has been divorced from the details of operations under his general direction. He can no longer know each employee, his capacities, and how effectively he is doing his job. Problems of planning, control, and evaluation of over-all operations have come to the fo…
Use of work injury rate tables in estimating disabling work injuries
Use of work injury rate tables in estimating disabling work injuries. A Akman, M Brooks, and J GordonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.7.917 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Animal bites in a large city--a report on Baltimore, Maryland
Animal bites in a large city--a report on Baltimore, Maryland. D R Berzon, R E Farber, J Gordon, and E B KelleyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.3.422 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Old harbours in northern and western Scotland
History and surviving structure of 141 harbours from Inverness round to Inveraray. A R
The Myth of the Savior
greater part of the city's business district was set aflame. By evening, when authorities finally acted to restore order, some eight hundred buildings lay in ruins and twenty-five people, Egyptians and foreigners, lay dead. That night the Wafdist prime minister, Mustafa al-Nahhas, declared martial law. The following morning the king dismissed Egypt's only majority government in the post-war period. During the next six months three independent pol…
The False Hopes of 1950
In January 1950, in the first free election held in nearly eight years, Egyptians went to the polls to return a Wafdist government to power. After having been banished from office for five years, Egypt's majority party assumed office aware that it shouldered a heavy burden of responsibility. Between October 1944, when the King dismissed the war-time government of Mustafa al-Nahhas, and January 1950, eight minority governments governed, or tried t…
Political Opposition in Egypt
Surveillance of attempted suicide among adolescents in Oregon, 1988
In January 1988, Oregon became the first state to require hospital-based reporting of attempted suicide (AS) in all adolescents less than 18 years old. From January to December 1988, 644 cases of AS were reported (annual rate of 214 per 100,000 population, ages 10 to 17 years). We compared these 644 cases of AS with all 137 Oregon adolescents less than 18 years old who committed suicide in Oregon during the 10-year-period 1979 through 1988, and f…
The Communist Movement in Egypt 1920-1988
Revealing Reveiling
Baladi Women of Cairo
Urban Unrest in the Middle East
Sensitivity to change of health status measures in a randomized controlled trial
Nasser's Blessed Movement
William L. Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East (Boulder, Colo, and Oxford
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Secular and Religious Memory in Egypt
The Game of Forgetting
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Partner support as a mediator of intervention outcome
Following up on previous work demonstrating that an intervention with at-risk mothers made a positive impact on the quality of mothers' partner support, responsiveness to the needs of the child, the child's expectation of being cared for, and child's response to a brief separation, the present paper examines whether quality of the mother's partner support mediated the impact of the intervention on these outcomes
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Barbara Daly Metcalf. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xix. 264 pp., Illustrations, notes, works cited, contributors, Index
Becoming the image
Tarek ‘Allam is currently the most popular interview broadcaster in Egypt. An impromptu appearance last year on his widely‐watched program, “Word of Gold,” created instant celebrity for the author in Egypt, the Arab world, and among diaspora Arab communities that receive the Egyptian satellite channel. I suddenly became the image I study, simultaneously viewer and viewed, a participant in popular mass culture. The experience underscored the power…
Film, Fame, and Public Memory
Three years ago, the film Nasser 56 (1996), from Muhammad Fadil, a dramatic reenactment of the Suez crisis, set unprecedented attendance records in Egypt. Opening at the end of another disappointing year marked by a steady decline in studio film production and a dearth of high-quality offerings—and held back from public screening a full year by wavering government support—the film breathed new life into the movie industry and precipitated a natio…
War in the Land of Egypt
Book reviewed in this article: Houses Behind the Trees: Mohamed El‐Bisatie: Translated by Denys Johnson‐Davies
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