The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.

The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 39, no. 1 (May 2019)

This essay introduces a special section dedicated to examining the history and culture of automobility by considering the quartet of articles on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Algeria, and Syria that comprise the section. Jumping off from the work of Palestinian artist Jumana Manna to examine the motor vehicle as a multifaceted and ambiguous site of social experience and analytical possibility, the essay then sets the four essays that compose the section into the extant literature.

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