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ICT and Geographies of British Arab and Arab American Activism (with Lynn A. Staeheli), Global Networks-A Journal Of Transnational Affairs (2010)
Current literature on migrant transnationalism highlights the role of new information and communication technologies (ICT)...
Making Publics: Immigrants, Regimes of Publicity and Entry to 'the Public' (with Lynn A. Staeheli and Don Mitchell), Environment And Planning D-Society and Space (2009)
As groups struggle to gain visibility and voice in the public sphere and as new...
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space, by John R. Bowen, Cultural Geographies (2009)
A review of Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space,...
Rethinking Geographies of Assimilation, Professional Geographer (2009)
This commentary argues for a reconsideration of the concept of assimilation in geographical research. Whereas...
Rethinking Security: Perspectives from Arab-American and British Arab Activists (with Caroline R. Nagel), Antipode (2008)
In this article, we analyse the experience of securitization from the perspective of Arab-American and...
Being Visible and Invisible: Integration from the Perspective of British Arab Activists (with Lynn A. Staeheli), New Geographies of Race and Racism (2008)
Integration and the Negotiation of 'Here' and 'There': The Case of British Arab Activists (with Lynn A. Staeheli), Social & Cultural Geography (2008)
Immigrant-receiving societies are increasingly emphasizing the need for immigrants to integrate into mainstream life. In...
To Be or Not To Be 'British Muslim': British Arab Perspectives on Religion, Politics, and 'the Public' (with Lynn A. Staeheli), Muslims in Britain: Race, Place, Identities (2008)
Ummah, Locality, and In-Between: Muslim American Perspectives on Societal Membership, Arab World Geographer (2007)
Topographies of Home and Citizenship: Arab American Activists (with Caroline R. Nagel), Environment and Planning A (2006)
Home and citizenship carry contradictory and ambiguous meanings for immigrants as they negotiate lives ‘here’...
Skilled Migration in Global Cities from ‘Other’ Perspectives: British Arabs, Identity Politics, and Local Embeddedness, Geoforum (2005)
Migration scholars increasingly have turned their attention to skilled migration, focusing, in particular, on the...
Introduction to Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion, and Space, Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion, and Space (2005)
‘We’re Just Like the Irish’: Narratives of Assimilation, Belonging, and Citizenship Among Arab American Activists (with Lynn A. Staeheli), Citizenship Studies (2005)
This paper examines narratives of assimilation and belonging as activists attempt to position Arab-Americans as...
Citizenship, Identity, and Transnational Migration: Arab Immigrants to the US (with Lynn A. Staeheli), Space and Polity (2004)
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the changing relationships between identities, citizenship and...
Constructing Difference and Sameness: The Politics of Assimilation in London’s Arab Communities, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2002)
Contemporary migration has spurred reconsideration of the theoretical concepts used to explain immigrant-host society relationships....
Geopolitics by Another Name: Immigration and the Politics of Assimilation, Political Geography (2002)
In this introduction to the special issue on the geopolitics of migration, I discuss some...
Reconstructing Space, Re-creating Memory: Sectarian Politics and Urban Redevelopment in Post-war Beirut, Political Geography (2002)
For fifteen years Lebanon endured a civil war that transformed its capital city, Beirut, from...
Contemporary Scholarship and the Demystification—and Re-mystification—of ‘Muslim Women’ , Arab World Geographer (2001)
Hidden Minorities and the Politics of ‘Race’: The Case of British Arab activists in London, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001)
This paper uses a case study of activists in London's Arab communities to address the...
Nations Unbound? Migration, Culture, and the Limits of the Transnationalism-Diaspora Narrative, Political Geography (2001)
Ethnic Conflict and Urban Redevelopment in Downtown Beirut, Growth and Change (2000)
The concept of globalization has become almost ubiquitous in contemporaryaccounts of urban development and cultural...
Social Justice, Self-Interest, and Salman Rushdie: Re-assessing Identity Politics in Multicultural Britain, Geography and Ethics: Journeys in Moral Terrain (1998)
Farm Labourers and the ‘New Urban Politics’: Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide (with Caroline R. Nagel), Urban Geography (1997)
This paper examines the provision of services to farm labor as an extension of the...