THE ARAB WORLD GEOGRAPHER LE GÉOGRAPHE DU MONDE ARABE Vol. 16, No. 1 Spring / Printemps 2013 Special Issue: Interrogating Conventional Geopolitics of the Middle East Guest Editors Luke Struckman and Tristan Sturm Contents Acknowledgement / Remerciements Ghazi-Walid Falah and Virginie Mamadouh iii Articles Introduction: Interrogating Conventional Geopolitics of the Middle East Luke Struckman and Tristan Sturm 1 Are New Geographies of the Middle East Being Written?: Representations of the Arab Uprisings in the U.S. Print Media Luke Struckman Cartographies of Nation Building: Creating and Contesting the Egyptian Geo-body Karen Culcasi 44 Map-Making for Palestinian State-Making Christine Leuenberger 44 “A Danger to the Region”: Subaltern Geopolitics of Palestinians Detained in Israeli Prisons Ron Smith 44 Global Futures and Government Towns: Phosphates and the Production of Western Sahara as a Space of Contention Mark Drury 44 A Region in Fragments: The Middle East from Istanbul Timur Hammond 44 The Arab World Geographer ISSN 1480-6800 http://arabworldgeographer.metapress.com Editorial Office: Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-7904 United States of America Published four times a year, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Printed by Coach House for AWG Publishing © Copyright 2013 by AWG Publishing, Toronto, Canada