Culture and Crisis in the Arab World

Richard Jacquemond is Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Language at Aix-Marseille University and Director of The Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim Worlds. He received his PhD in Arab Studies from the University Provence in 1999. He has published more than 40 articles, edited and written several books, and translated over 20 literary works from Arabic to French. He sits on the editorial board of Alif, Journal of Comparative Poetics, The Translator, and Arabica. Felix Lang is Research Fellow in the Department of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg. He received his PhD in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg in 2014. He is the author of The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma and Capital (2015).

• Introduction: Richard Jacquemond and Felix Lang~Beauty, Goodness, and Bombs. The Role of Political Crisis in Structuring the MENA Field of Cultural ProductionFelix LangRumour in Two Tunisian Artistic Fields: A Form of Legitimate SpeechAnnabelle Boissier and Mariem GuellouzThe Symbolic Power of Syrian Collective Memory since 2011Alexa Firat Committed Knowledge: Autonomy and Politicization of Research Institutions and Practices in Wartime Lebanon (1975-1990)Candice Raymond The Crisis as an Institutional Tool: Challenging Anti-Institutional Challenges in the Egyptian Cultural FieldElena Chiti The Algerian Literary Field in the ‘Black Decade’: Signs of Reinforced Polarization Tristan Leperlier Successive Shifts in the Yemeni Cultural Field 2011-2016Laurent Damesin Class and Creative Economies: The Culture Field in CairoIlka EickhofContemporary Art in Extremis: Gaza between Imprisonment and GlobalizationMarion Slitine Notes on the Contributors