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Protesting Jordan States of Subsistence Street-Level Governing Bread and Freedom Graveyard of Clerics Archive Wars
Geographies of Power and Dissent The Politics of Bread in Negotiating the State in Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia The Politics of History in
Jillian Schwedler Contemporary Jordan Urban Turkey Mona El-Ghobashy Pascal Menoret Saudi Arabia
This book considers how space José Ciro Martínez Elise Massicard This book argues that conceiving Developed after World War II Rosie Bsheer
and geography influence protests Despite the ubiquity of bread in This book is the first to investigate of a “Revolution” propelled by to encourage a society of docile, The production of history is premised
and repression, and offers the accounts of Middle East politics how muhtars, the lowest level revolutionaries is untenable—it isolated citizens, Saudi suburbs on the selective erasure of certain
first in-depth study of rebellion in and society, rarely do we consider elected political position in Turkey, is the uprising that made revolu- instead opened new spaces for pasts and the artifacts that stand
Jordan. Based on twenty-five years how it is prepared, consumed, carry out their role—not only tionaries and their opponents, not political action. Religious activists witness to them. From the elision of
of field research, it examines protests discussed, and circulated—and what they are supposed to do, but the other way around—and takes in particular turned homes, schools, archival documents to the demolition
as they are situated in the built what this represents. This book how they actually operate. It starts seriously the political conflicts mosques, and summer camps into of sacred and secular spaces, each
environment, bringing together considers the effects of the welfare from the premise that the seeming set into motion by the uprising. resources for mobilization. With act of destruction is also an act of
considerations of networks, spatial program that ensures bread’s “margin” of state administration is El-Ghobashy sifts through a docu- the support of suburban grassroots state building. Following the 1991
imaginaries, space and place- widespread availability. Drawing not peripheral at all, but instructive mentary record hidden in plain networks, activists won local elections Gulf War, political elites in Saudi
making, and political geographies on more than a year working as as to how it functions. Muhtars exist sight—party manifestoes, military and found opportunities to protest Arabia pursued these dual projects
at local, national, regional, and a baker in Amman, Martínez at the intersection of everyday life communiqués, open letters, government actions—until they faced of historical commemoration and
global scales. Schwedler considers probes the practices that under- and the exercise of power. Their constitutional contentions, protest a new wave of repression under the state formation with greater fervor
the impact of time and temporal- pin subsidized bread. Following position offers a personalized point slogans, parliamentary debates, and current Saudi leadership. With this to enforce their vision for state,
ity in the lifecycles of individual bakers and bureaucrats, he offers of contact between citizens and state court decisions—and reveals not a book, Menoret offers a cautionary nation, and economy. This book
movements. Through a mixed an immersive examination of institutions, enabling close oversight mythical unity undone by schisms, tale: the ongoing repression from shows how the Saudi state’s response
interpretive methodology, she social welfare provision. Martínez of the citizenry, yet simultaneously but hordes of new and old actors Saudi elites—achieved often with to postwar challenges, which mani-
illuminates the geographies of argues that the state is best projecting the sense of an accessible clamoring over the state’s material the complicity of the international fested in Riyadh and Mecca, served
power and dissent and the spatial understood as the product of state to individuals. Challenging and symbolic power. This book community—is shutting down grass- to historicize a secular national
practices of protest and repression, routine practices and actions, common theories of the state, rethinks how we study revolutions, roots political movements with space, territorialize this national
highlighting the political stakes of through which it becomes a stable Massicard outlines how the position looking past causes and conse- significant consequences for the history, and ultimately refract
competing narratives about Jordan’s truth in the lives of citizens. This of the muhtar throws into question quences to train its sights on the country, and the world. both through new modes of
past, present, and future. book not only describes logics of an assumed dichotomy between collisions of revolutionary politics. capital accumulation.
“A distinguished ethnographer,
“Protesting Jordan offers readers of rule in contemporary Jordan— domination and social resistance, “A rewarding read that challenges Menoret excavates the Islamic “Archive Wars is an instant classic.
Arab politics and contentious poli- and the place of bread within and suggests that considerations of everything you thought you knew Awakening in Saudi Arabia with With incredible insight, creativity,
tics alike a narrative of how protest them—but also unpacks how circumvention and accommodation about revolutionary uprisings. A great empathy and understanding, and courage, Bsheer tells us remark-
shapes how states reproduce their the state endures through forms, are normal attributes of state-society rare treat.” bringing us face to face with the men able new things about the exercise
power and, in turn, reshape protest.” sensations, and practices amidst functioning. of the movement, and their rise and and meaning of power in today’s
—Elizabeth F. Thompson,
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Showpiece City The Politics of Art Revolutions Aesthetic Media of the Masses Cleft Capitalism Paradoxes of Care
How Architecture Made Dubai Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy A Cultural History of Baʿthist Syria Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt The Social Origins of Failed Children and Global Medical
in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan Max Weiss Market Making in Egypt Aid in Egypt
Todd Reisz Andrew Simon
Hanan Toukan The coup that brought Hafiz Amr Adly Rania Kassab Sweis
In 1959, experts agreed that if This book investigates the social
Dubai was to become something This book considers the entangle- al-Asad to power fundamentally life of the cassette tape to offer a Egypt has undergone significant Billions are spent on global humani-
more than an unruly port, a plan ment of art and international transformed cultural production in multi-sensory history of modern economic liberalization, yet after tarian health initiatives intended to
was needed. Specifically, a town politics to understand the aesthetics Syria. An ensuing agonistic struggle Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, more than four decades of economic care for suffering bodies, especially
plan was prescribed to fortify the of material production within pitted official aesthetics of power cassettes became a ubiquitous pres- reform, the Egyptian economy still those of children living in poverty.
city from obscurity and disorder. liberal economies. Toukan outlines against alternative modes of creative ence in homes and stores. Enabling fails to meet popular expectations for But global medical aid can also
With the proverbial handshake, the political and social functions expression that could evade or an unprecedented number of inclusive growth, better standards unintentionally prolong the very
Dubai’s ruler hired British architect of transnationally connected and ignore the effects of the state. This people to participate in the crea- of living, and high-quality employ- conditions that hurt children and
John Harris to design Dubai’s internationally funded arts organi- book offers the first cultural and tion of culture and circulation of ment. Cleft Capitalism offers a new undermine local aid givers. This
strategy for capturing the world’s zations and initiatives, and reveals intellectual history of Baʿthist Syria, content, cassette players and tapes explanation for why market-based book illustrates how child aid
attention—and then its investments. how the production of art within from the coming to power of Hafiz soon informed broader cultural, development can fail to meet recipients and local aid experts
Reisz explores the overlooked global frameworks can contribute al-Asad through the Syria War, and political, and economic develop- expectations: small businesses are grapple with global aid’s shortcom-
history of a city that did not simply to hegemonic structures even as it reconceptualizes contemporary ments and defined “modern” not growing into medium and larger ings and its paradoxical outcomes.
rise from the sands. In the city’s is critiquing them—or be counter- Syrian politics, authoritarianism, Egyptian households. Drawing on businesses. The practical outcome of Sweis reveals how global aid fails to
earliest modern architecture, he hegemonic even when it first and cultural life. Engaging rich a wide array of audio, visual, and this missing middle syndrome is the “save” these children according to
finds the foundations of an urban appears not to be. In so doing, original sources—novels, films, textual sources that exist outside continuous erosion of the economic its stated aims, and often maintains
survival strategy of debt-wielding Toukan proposes not only a new and cultural periodicals—Weiss the Egyptian National Archives, and social privileges once enjoyed social disparities in children’s lives.
brinkmanship and constant pitch way of reading contemporary art highlights themes crucial to the Simon demonstrates how cassettes by the middle classes and unionized Foregrounding vulnerable children’s
making. Dubai became a testing practices as they situate themselves making of contemporary Syria: and cassette players did not simply labor. With this book, Adly uncovers responses, Sweis demonstrates how
ground for the global city—and globally, but also a new way of heroism and leadership, gender and join other twentieth century mass both an institutional explanation children manage their own bodies
prefigured how urbanization now reading the domestic politics of the power, comedy and ideology, sur- media like records and radio; they for Egypt’s failed market making, and lives, and engages with the
happens everywhere. region from the vantage point of art. veillance and the senses, witnessing were the media of the masses. and sheds light on the key factors question of what medical caregivers
and temporality, and death and the of arrested economic development and donors alike gain from such
“Gripping and insightful, Showpiece “There are few books out there that imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic “Simon’s masterful history of the
City is a much-needed history of the bring together a deep, critical knowl- cassette crystallizes the crucial im- across the Global South. global humanitarian transactions.
making and remaking of Dubai. A places front and center the struggle portance of technology. Important
edge of the arts in the Middle East “Richly detailed, theoretically “Sweis’s clear analysis demonstrates
must-read for anyone interested in with theoretical sophistication and around aesthetic ideology that has for historians of modern Egypt, and the inherent paradoxes of seeking to
been key to the constitution of state, insightful, Cleft Capitalism is essential
architecture and urban planning.” shimmering ethnographic observa- a stellar contribution to the history reading for anyone interested in the save the ‘vulnerable,’ while leaving un-
—Rosie Bsheer, tions. The Politics of Art does this society, and culture in Syria over the of new media.” Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and other changed the structural conditions that
Harvard University abundantly.” course of the past fifty years. —Walter Armbrust, political economies.” produce those very vulnerabilities.”
—Laleh Khalili, University of Oxford
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A Critical Political Economy Between Dreams and Ghosts The Paranoid Style in The Optimist Waste Siege Screen Shots
of the Middle East and Indian Migration and American Diplomacy A Social Biography of The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine State Violence on Camera in
Middle Eastern Oil Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq Tawfiq Zayyad Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Israel and Palestine
North Africa
Andrea Wright Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt Tamir Sorek Waste Siege depicts the environmental, Rebecca L. Stein
Edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam
Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly More than one million Indians travel This book weaves together histories Tawfiq Zayyad was a renowned infrastructural, and aesthetic context Stein investigates the wide range of
annually to work in oil projects in of Arab nationalists, US diplomats, Palestinian poet and a dominant in which Palestinians are obliged communities—Palestinian activists,
These cutting-edge essays illuminate to forge their lives. Tracing their Israeli and international human
the Gulf. This book follows their and Western oil execs to expose figure in political life in Israel. With
historical and contemporary experiences of wastes over the past rights workers, Israeli military, and
migration, across sites in India, the the origins of US intervention in this book, Sorek offers the first
dynamics and contribute to political decade, Stamatopoulou-Robbins Jewish settlers—who have placed
United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, Iraq over the arc of the twentieth biography of this charismatic figure.
economy debates from the vantage considers how multiple authorities increasing value on photographic
from villages to oilfields. Engaging century and tell the parallel stories Zayyad’s life was one of balance
point of the Middle East. Leading governing the West Bank—includ- technologies and networked visuals
the migrants themselves, the of the Iraq Petroleum Company and contradiction—between his
scholars, representing several disci- ing the Palestinian Authority, as political tools. While these
recruiting agencies that place them, and the resilience of Iraqi society. revolutionary writings as a Palestinian
plines, contribute both thematic and international aid organizations, and constituencies have dramatically
the government bureaucrats that American policymakers, who patriotic poet and his pragmatic
country-specific analyses, critically Israel—rule by waste siege, whether divergent political aims, they all
regulate their emigration, and the inflated concerns about access to political work in the Israeli public
examine major issues in political intentionally or not. Her work invested in the same camera dream:
corporations that hire them, Wright and potential scarcity of oil, gave sphere. He was uncompromising
economy—notably, the mutual challenges common formulations that the advances in photography
examines labor migration as a social rise to a “paranoid style” in US in his protest of injustices against
constitution of states, markets, and of waste as “matter out of place,” by of the digital age would not only
process, one deeply informed both foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt the Palestinian people, but always
classes; the co-constitution of class, suggesting instead that waste siege capture reality with greater fidelity,
by workers’ dreams for the future deconstructs these policy practices committed to a universalist vision
race, and gender; varying modes of be understood as an ecology of but also deliver on their respective
and the ghosts of colonial capital- to reveal how they fueled decades of Arab-Jewish brotherhood. It was
capital accumulation and the legal, “matter with no place to go.” Waste visions of justice and accountability.
ism. Placing migrants at the center of American interventions, and this combination of traits that made
political, and cultural forms of their siege thus not only describes a Activists and human rights workers
of global capital, Wright shows how shines a light on those places that Zayyad an exceptional leader—and
regulation; relations among local, stateless Palestine, but also becomes would painfully learn the lesson
migrants are not passive bodies at America’s covert empire-builders makes his biography larger than the
national, and global forms of capital, a metaphor for our besieged planet. that even the most “perfect” visual
the mercy of abstract forces—and might prefer we not look. man himself to offer a compelling
class, and culture; technopolitics; the evidence of state violence typically
reveals a new understanding of story about Palestinians and the “Taking the reader on a journey
role of war in the constitution of states “The Paranoid Style in American failed to persuade either the Israeli
contemporary resource extraction, Diplomacy is a gripping backstory state of Israel. through landfills and rubbish markets,
and classes; and practices and cultures justice system or the Israeli public
governance, and global labor. that reveals the historical truths of “The Optimist is a deftly written encounters with bags of bread left
of domination and resistance. hanging on the sides of dumpsters, of military wrongdoing.
“A landmark contribution that US-Iraqi relations. American cold biography. Sorek provides fresh
“A timely collection from some of warriors inherited Britain’s insight into how someone can and the movement of sewage across
pushes our understanding of oil, political barriers, Stamatopoulou- “Screen Shots instructs as it un-
the top practitioners of Middle East labor, and migrant lives in new and imperial role but failed to stop maintain hope in a region too settles. Stein’s lucid account of
political economy, this book lays Iraqis from pursuing natural often characterized as hopeless.” Robbins brilliantly excavates the
unexpected directions.” ambient politics of waste.” photographic encounters with
bare the human insecurity that is resource sovereignty.” Israeli state violence strikes precisely
at the root of so much discontent —Adam Hanieh, —Maha Nassar,
—Nathan J. Citino, University of Arizona —Ilana Feldman, and pointedly at witnessing that
in the region.” SOAS University of London George Washington University
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Dear Palestine Intoxicating Zion The Oldest Guard A City in Fragments A History of False Hope Genetic Crossroads
A Social History of the 1948 War A Social History of Hashish in Forging the Zionist Settler Past Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem Investigative Commissions The Middle East and the Science
Shay Hazkani Mandatory Palestine and Israel Liora R. Halperin Yair Wallach in Palestine of Human Heredity

This book offers a new history Haggai Ram This book tells the story of Zionist A City in Fragments tells the Lori Allen Elise K. Burton
of the 1948 War, focusing on the Intoxicating Zion is the first book settler memory in and around the story of a city overwhelmed by its This book offers a provocative Genetic Crossroads is an un-
people caught up in the conflict to tell the story of hashish in private Jewish agricultural colonies religious and symbolic significance. retelling of Palestinian political precedented history of human
and its transnational reverbera- Mandatory Palestine and Israel. established in late nineteenth-century Wallach walked the streets of history through an examination of genetics in the Middle East, from
tions. Through their letters home, Trafficking, use, and regulation; Ottoman Palestine. Treating the Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, the international commissions that its roots in colonial anthropology
the young men and women who race, gender, and class; colonialism “First Aliyah” as a symbol created inscriptions, signs, and ephemera have investigated political violence and medicine to recent genome
fought the war come to life, writ- and nation-building all weave and deployed only in retrospect, that transformed the city over the and human rights violations. Drawing sequencing projects. Early in the
ing about everything from daily together in Haggai Ram’s social Halperin offers a richly textured late nineteenth and early twentieth on debates in the press, previously twentieth century, technological
life to nationalism, colonialism, history of the drug from the 1920s portrait of commemorative practices centuries. As these texts became unexamined UN reports, historical breakthroughs in human genetics
race, and the character of their to the aftermath of the 1967 War. between the 1920s and the 1960s. a tool in the service of capitalism, archives, and ethnographic research, coincided with the birth of modern
enemies. Dear Palestine also The hashish trade encompassed She demonstrates how private nationalism, and colonialism, the Allen explores six key investigative Middle Eastern nation-states,
examines how the architects of smugglers, international gangs, agriculturalists and their advocates affinities of Arabic and Hebrew commissions over the last century. who proclaimed that the region’s
the conflict worked to influence residents, law enforcers, and politi- on the Zionist center and right were forgotten. Looking at the She highlights how Palestinians’ ancient history as a cradle of
and indoctrinate key ideologies in cal actors, and Ram traces these celebrated and forged this past as a writing of—and literally on— persistent demands for independence civilizations was preserved in the
these ordinary soldiers, by exam- flows through the interconnected model of private ownership, political Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative have been routinely translated into bones and blood of their citizens.
ining battle orders, pamphlets, realms of cross-border politics, impartiality, and hierarchical rela- and expansive history of the city, the numb language of reports and Burton illuminates how scientists
army magazines, and radio broad- economics, and culture. Hashish tions with hired rural Palestinian a fresh take on modern urban resolutions. These commissions, from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to
casts. Through two narratives—the use was and is a marker of belong- labor. The Oldest Guard reveals texts, and a new reading of the Allen argues, operating as technolo- Iran, transformed genetic data
official and unofficial, the prop- ing and difference, and its history the centrality of settlement to Israel/Palestine conflict through gies of liberal global governance, into territorial claims and national
aganda and the personal letters offers readers a unique glimpse Zionist collective memory and its material culture. yield no justice—only the oppressive origin myths, and reveals the en-
—this book reveals the fissures into how the modern Middle East the politics and erasures of “Our understanding of the city’s status quo. A History of False Hope during foundations of international
between sanctioned nationalism was made. Zionist settler “firstness.” history will forever be changed by issues a biting critique of the capti- scientific interest in Middle Eastern
and individual identity. “Vividly written and drawing on a “In this extremely important work, this sensitive and lyrical description vating allure and cold impotence of populations to this day.
wide array of sources, Intoxicating Halperin’s insightful reading of the first of the city—sacred and profane, international law.
“Hazkani makes a brilliant contri- “Deeply researched and powerfully
Zion is packed with colorful Aliyah colonies unpacks the complex spiritual and material, Arab and
bution to the literature on the 1948 “Allen has produced a fascinating, written, Genetic Crossroads is one
characters. A fascinating and relationship between Ashkenazim, Jewish—and the fragmentary voices
Palestine War. Impeccably balanced engaging, and innovative scholarly of the most original books I have
revelatory tale.” Mizrahim, and Palestinians in the and lives of those who built it.”
and engagingly written, Dear assessment of how international read in a decade. A must-read for
Palestine is a remarkable book.” —Ted R. Swedenburg,
modern state of Israel.” —Michelle Campos, commissions have failed to historians of all fields.”
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The Last Nahdawi Street Sounds Unknown Past Recording History Wartime North Africa The Sultan’s Communists
Taha Hussein and Institution Listening to Everyday Life Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Jews, Muslims, and Music across A Documentary History, 1934-1950 Moroccan Jews and the
Building in Egypt in Modern Egypt Star of Egypt Twentieth-Century North Africa Edited by Aomar Boum and Politics of Belonging
Hussam R. Ahmed Ziad Fahmy Hanan Hammad Chris Silver Sarah Abrevaya Stein Alma Rachel Heckman
This book is the first biography This book offers the first historical This book recounts Layla Murad’s If twentieth-century stories of Jews This book, the first-ever collection The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the
of Taha Hussein in which his examination of the changing sound- extraordinary life—and the rapid and Muslims in North Africa are of primary documents on North history of Jewish radical involvement
intellectual outlook and public scapes of urban Egypt, highlighting political and sociocultural changes usually told separately, Recording African and Holocaust history, in Morocco’s national liberation project
career are taken equally seriously. the mundane sounds of street-life, she witnessed. Hammad writes a History demonstrates that we have gives voice to the diversity of those and examines how Moroccan Jews
Examining Hussein’s actions while “listening” to the voices of story centered on Murad’s persona not been listening to what brought involved—Muslims, Christians, and envisioned themselves participating
against the backdrop of his complex ordinary people as they struggle with and legacy, and broadly framed these communities together: Arabic Jews; women, men, and children; as citizens in a newly independent
relationship with the Egyptian state authorities for ownership of the around a gendered history of music. For decades, thousands of the unknown and the notable; Morocco. The figures at the center
state, the religious establishment, streets. Interweaving infrastructural, twentieth-century Egypt. Murad phonograph records flowed across locals, refugees, the displaced, and of Heckman’s narrative stood at the
and the French government, cultural, and social history, Fahmy was a Jew who converted to Islam North African borders and gave the interned; soldiers, officers, intersection of colonialism, Arab
Ahmed reveals modern Egypt’s analyzes the sounds of modernity, in the shadow of the first Arab- voice to a changing world. Popular bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and nationalism, and Zionism. Their
cultural influence in the Arab and using sounded sources as an analytical Israeli war. Her career blossomed songs broadcast on radio, performed the forcibly recruited. Translated stories unfolded in a country that upon
Islamic world. The Last Nahdawi tool for examining the past. Street under the Egyptian monarchy in concert, and circulated on disc from French, Arabic, North African independence allied itself with the
offers both a history of modern Sounds also addresses the sensory and later gave a singing voice to carried with them the power to send Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, United States during the Cold War,
state formation, revealing how the class-politics of noise by demonstrat- the Free Officers and the 1952 Jewish-Muslim audiences into a Moroccan Darija, Tamazight while attempting to claim a place for
Egyptian state came to hold such a ing how the growing middle classes Revolution. The definitive end of frenzy—or French colonial officials (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or itself within the fraught politics of the
strong grip over culture and educa- sensorially distinguished themselves her cinematic career came under into a fury. With this book, Silver transcribed from their original post-independence Arab world. This
tion—and a compelling examina- from the Egyptian masses. This book Nasser on the eve of the 1956 Suez provides the first history of the English, these sources are like the book contributes to the growing lit-
tion of the life of the country’s most contextualizes sound and layers War. Egyptians have long told their music scene and recording industry dots of a pointillist painting. Taken erature on Jews in the modern Middle
renowned intellectual. historical analysis with a sensory national story through interpreta- across Morocco, Algeria, and together, these writings shed light East and provides a new history of
“The Last Nahdawi is a break- dimension, bringing us closer to tions of Murad’s life, intertwining Tunisia, and offers striking insights on how war, occupation, race laws, twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.
through biography of one of the the Egyptian streets as lived and the individual and Egyptian state into Jewish-Muslim relations internment, and Vichy French, “With meticulousness and fervor,
most important figures of modern embodied by everyday people. and society to better understand through the sounds that animated Italian fascist, and German Nazi Heckman offers a unique historical
Arab thought. A masterful, original, “Street Sounds brings the boisterous Egyptian identity. As Unknown them. He recovers a world of many rule were experienced day by day entry to North Africa’s Jewish
and important critical assessment of soundscape of modernizing Egypt to Past recounts, there’s no life voices—of daring female stars, can- across North Africa. Though some communities. The Sultan’s Communists
this towering intellectual.” life. Fahmy has an ear for the noise better than Murad’s to reflect the tors turned composers, and national selections are drawn from published provides a new and refreshing under-
—Khaled Fahmy, of history in motion. He allows us tumultuous changes experienced and nationalist icons—whose music books, including memoirs, diaries, standing of minority politics in
University of Cambridge to hear an Egypt we might over the dramatic decades of the still resonates well into the present. and collections of poetry, most have colonial and post-colonial societies.”
312 pages, 2021 otherwise discount.” mid-twentieth century. never been published before, nor —Aomar Boum,
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Egypt’s Occupation The Unsettled Plain The Horrors of Adana Brokers of Faith, Brokers Spiritual Subjects Between Empire and Nation
Colonial Economism and the An Environmental History of the Revolution and Violence in the of Empire Central Asian Pilgrims and Muslim Reform in the Balkans
Crises of Capitalism Late Ottoman Frontier Early Twentieth Century Armenians and the Politics of the Ottoman Hajj at the End Milena B. Methodieva
Aaron G. Jakes Chris Gratien Bedross Der Matossian Reform in the Ottoman Empire of Empire
This book tells the story of the trans-
The history of capitalism in Egypt This book studies agrarian life over In April 1909, twin massacres shook Richard E. Antaramian Lâle Can formation of the Muslim community
has long been synonymous with the course of the late nineteenth the province of Adana, killing of more The Ottoman Empire enforced Spiritual Subjects examines the in modern Bulgaria during a period
cotton cultivation and dependent and early twentieth centuries as the than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 imperial rule through its management paradoxes of nationality reform and of imperial dissolution, conflicting
development. Obscured in such environmental transformation of Muslims. This book offers one of of diversity. Non-Muslim religious pan-Islamic politics in late Ottoman national and imperial enterprises,
accounts, however, is Egypt’s the Ottoman countryside became the first close examinations of these institutions, such as the Armenian history. Can unravels how imperial and the emergence of new national
emergence as a colonial laboratory intertwined with migration and dis- events, analyzing sociopolitical and Church, were charged with guarantee- belonging was wrapped up in deeply and ethnic identities. Methodieva
for financial investment and experi- placement. Drawing on both Ottoman economic transformations that culmi- ing their flocks’ loyalty to the sultan. symbolic instantiations of religion, explores how former Ottoman
mentation. Jakes offers a sweeping Turkish and Armenian sources, nated in a cataclysm of violence. Der In so doing, Armenian elites became as well as prosaic acts that paved the subjects, now under Bulgarian rule,
reinterpretation of both the histori- Gratien brings rural populations into Matossian provides voice and agency powerful brokers between factions in way to integration into Ottoman navigated between empire and
cal geography of capitalism in Egypt the momentous events of the period: to all involved in the massacres— Ottoman politics—until the politics of communities. A complex system nation-state, and sought to claim
and the role of political-economic Ottoman reform, Mediterranean perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. nineteenth-century reform changed of belonging emerged—one where a place in the larger modern world.
thought in the struggles that raged capitalism, the First World War, and Drawing on primary sources in these relationships. This book presents it was possible for a Muslim to be Using a wide array of primary sources
over its occupation. Even as British Turkish nation-building. Through a dozen languages, he develops a revisionist account of Ottoman both, by law, a foreigner and a subject and drawing on both Ottoman and
officials claimed that “economic the ecological perspectives of everyday an interdisciplinary approach to reform, connecting internal contention of the Ottoman sultan-caliph. This Eastern European historiographies,
development” would be crucial to people in Çukurova, he charts how understand the rumors and emotions, within the Armenian community panoramic story informs broader Methodieva approaches the question
the political legitimacy of their rule, familiar facets of quotidian life like public spheres and humanitarian to broader imperial politics. Reform transregional developments, with of Balkan Muslims’ engagement with
Egypt’s early nationalists elaborated malaria, cotton cultivation, labor, interventions that all informed this afforded Armenians the opportunity important implications for how we modernity through a transnational
their own critical accounts of boom and leisure attained modern manifes- complex event. Through consid- to recast themselves as partners of make sense of subjecthood in the lens, arguing that the experience of
and bust. As Jakes shows, these tations. As the history of this pivotal eration of the Adana massacres in the state, rather than brokers among last Muslim empire and the legacy this Muslim minority provides new
Egyptian thinkers offered a set of region reveals, the remarkable microhistorical detail, this book factions. And in the course of pursuing of religion in the Turkish Republic. insight into the nature of nationalism,
sophisticated and troubling medita- ecological transformation of late offers an important macrocosmic such programs, they transformed the citizenship, and state formation.
“A beautifully and imaginatively
tions on the deeper contradictions Ottoman society configured the understanding of ethnic violence, community’s role in imperial society. crafted history of the hajj as a social, “This important new book is set
of capitalism and the very meaning trajectory of the contemporary illuminating how and why ordinary cultural, political, and spiritual to redefine the entanglements of
of freedom in a capitalist world. societies of the Middle East. people can become perpetrators. “Antaramian provides a much-needed
corrective to a historiography that phenomenon. Lâle Can humanizes modern history of Europe and the
often presents ‘Armenian’ and the Central Asian pilgrims, telling Middle East.”
“Egypt’s Occupation is a rare synthe- “Environmental history at its finest. “A truly groundbreaking and highly
‘Ottoman’ as mutually exclusive their stories with the same grace and
sis: a finely crafted regional study that Gratien tells the story of an empire, nuanced exploration of intercommu- —Cemil Aydin,
categories. An empirically rich work.” veneration that they showed in the University of North Carolina
grasps the worldwide movements of meticulously researched, exception- nal, sectarian, and nationalist violence
course of their spiritual journey.”
capital and empire at every turn.” ally insightful—all grounded in the in the late Ottoman Empire.” —İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu, 344 pages, 2021
—Jason W. Moore, lives and lands of Çukurova.” —Ussama Makdisi, Northwestern University —Christine Philliou, 9781503613379 Cloth $65.00  $52.00 sale
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The City as Anthology Persianate Selves The Discovery of Iran Iran in Motion Arab Routes Forging Ties,
Eroticism and Urbanity in Memories of Place and Origin Taghi Arani, a Radical Mobility, Space, and the Pathways to Syrian California Forging Passports
Early Modern Isfahan Before Nationalism Cosmopolitan Trans-Iranian Railway Sarah M. A. Gualtieri Migration and the Modern
Kathryn Babayan Mana Kia Ali Mirsepassi Mikiya Koyagi Sephardi Diaspora
Los Angeles is home to the largest
This book tells a new history of For centuries, Persian was the This book examines the history of This book traces the contested population of people of Middle Devi Mays
Isfahan at the transformative language of power and learning Iranian nationalism through the imaginations and practices of mo- Eastern descent in the United This book explores the history
moment it became a cosmopolitan across West and South Asia. This life and work of Taghi Arani, the bility from the conception of a States. Since the late nineteenth of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who
center of imperial rule. Babayan re- book sketches the contours of this founder of Donya, Iran’s first Marxist trans-Iranian railway project during century, Syrian and Lebanese emigrated to the Americas—and
imagines an archive of anthologies Persianate world, historicizing place, journal. In his quest to imagine a the nineteenth-century global migration to Southern California especially to Mexico—in the late
to recover how residents shaped origin, and selfhood through its future for Iran, Arani combined transport revolution to its early has been intimately connected to nineteenth and early twentieth
their communities and crafted their tradition of proper form—adab. Marxist materialism and a cosmo- years of operation on the eve of and through Latin America. Arab centuries, and the complex relation-
urban, religious, and sexual selves. Proximities and similarities con- politan ethics of progress. He and Iran’s oil nationalization movement Routes uncovers the stories of this ships they maintained to legal
Through them, we see the gestures, stituted a logic that distinguished his contemporaries engaged vibrant in the 1950s. Weaving together Syrian American community to documentation as they settled
manners, and sensibilities of a between people while simultaneously debates about national identity, various individual experiences, reveal important cross-border and into new homes. In the aftermath
shared culture that configured their accommodating plurality. Adab history, and Iran’s place in the Koyagi considers how the infra- multiethnic solidarities in Syrian of World War I and the Mexican
relations and negotiated the lines was the basis of cohesion for self modern world. As Mirsepassi shows, structural megaproject reoriented California. Gualtieri reinscribes Revolution, migrants navigated new
between friendship and eroticism. and community over the eighteenth Arani’s cosmopolitanism complicates the flows of people and goods. The Syrians into Southern California layers of bureaucracy and authority
These entangled acts of seeing century, as populations dispersed the conventional wisdom that racial railway project simultaneously history through her examination amidst changing political regimes.
and reading, desiring and writing and centers of power shifted, disrupt- exclusivism was an insoluble feature brought the provinces closer to of images and texts, augmented By making use of commercial and
converge to fashion the refined ing the circulations that interlinked of twentieth-century Iranian nation- Tehran and pulled them away from with interviews with descendants familial networks between formerly
urban self through the sensual and Persianate regions. Challenging the alism. In exploring Arani’s short it, thereby constantly reshaping of immigrants. Telling the story of Ottoman lands, France, the United
the sexual—and give us a new and bases of protonationalist community, but remarkable life and writings, local, national, and transnational how Syrians helped forge a global States, Cuba, and Mexico, these
enticing view of the city of Isfahan. Persianate Selves seeks to make sense Mirsepassi challenges the image of experiences of space among mobile Los Angeles, Arab Routes counters Sephardic migrants maintained a
of a transregional Persianate culture Interwar Iran as dominated by the individuals. a long-held stereotype of Arabs as geographic and social mobility that
“The City as Anthology is a land-
mark of early modern history, both outside the anachronistic shadow Pahlavi state and uncovers fertile outsiders and underscores their challenged the physical borders
“Koyagi transports us through the
a generative model for future schol- of nationalisms. intellectual spaces in which civic various stations that dotted Iran’s longstanding place in American of the state and the conceptual
ars and among the best portals to nationalism flourished. path to modernity. Much more than culture and in interethnic coali- boundaries of the nation.
“Few questions are more vexed in the
understanding Iran for readers at study of early modern Asia than how a narrative of the railway project, tions, past and present.
any level.” “A powerful and engaging intellectual “A sparkling work of social history
people identified before nationalism. biography that weaves Taghi Arani’s Iran in Motion reveals a deep un-
“Sarah Gualtieri complicates and that prompts larger questions over
—Shahzad Bashir, Persianate Selves is an invaluable vade life into the broader tapestry of derstanding of the mobility networks
revises our understanding of Arab citizenship and its meanings.”
Brown University mecum for navigating the transre- modern Iranian nationalism that connected and divided Middle
immigration to the Americas. An
gional Persianate past.” and modernism.” Eastern communities. A ground- —Stacy D. Fahrenthold,
280 pages, 2021 expansive, cutting-edge, and much-
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Sextarianism Queer Palestine and the Crossing a Line The Movement and The Contemporary Middle Oilcraft
Sovereignty, Secularism, Empire of Critique Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks the Middle East East in an Age of Upheaval The Myths of Scarcity and Security
and the State in Lebanon to Palestinian Political Expression How the Arab-Israeli Conflict That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy
Sa’ed Atshan Edited by James L. Gelvin
Maya Mikdashi Amahl Bishara Divided the American Left Robert Vitalis
Solidarity with Palestinians has This book engages six themes to
Whether women or men, Muslims become a salient domain of Palestinians in Israel and those in Michael R. Fischbach understand the contemporary There is a conventional wisdom
or Christians, queer or straight, global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ the West Bank have long asserted The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted Middle East—the spread of sectari- about oil—that US military pres-
all people in Lebanon have one Palestinians are themselves often that they share a single political a serious problem for the American anism, abandonment of principles ence in the Gulf guarantees access
thing in common—they are subjected to an “empire of critique” struggle for national liberation. Left in the 1960s. The Movement of state sovereignty, the lack of a to this strategic resource; that the
biopolitical subjects forged through that has led to an emphasis within Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability and the Middle East offers the first regional hegemonic power, in- “special” relationship with Saudi
bureaucratic, ideological, and legal the movement on anti-imperialism to speak to each other and as a assessment of the controversial creased Saudi-Iranian competition, Arabia is necessary to stabilize
techniques of the state. This book over the struggle against homophobia. collective, and political boundaries and ultimately debilitating role decreased regional attention to the an otherwise volatile market; and
offers a new way to understand state With this book, Atshan asks how fragment Palestinians into ever of the conflict among activists. Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout that these assumptions provide
power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, social movements can balance smaller groups. This book draws on Fischbach draws on a deep well of from the Arab uprisings—as well Washington enormous leverage.
and sect shape and are shaped by struggles for liberation along more participant-observation, interviews, original sources to present a story as offers individual country studies. Except, the conventional wisdom is
law, secularism, and sovereignty. than one axis. He explores critical and analysis of public culture to of the left-wing responses to the With analysis from historians, wrong. Vitalis debunks the myths
Drawing on court archives, public junctures in Palestinian LGBTQ examine political expression of question of Palestine and Israel. He political scientists, sociologists, and to reveal “oilcraft,” a line of magical
records, and ethnography of the activism, revealing a spirit of agency, both Palestinians in Israel and shows how, as the 1970s wore on, anthropologists, and up-to-date thinking closer to witchcraft than
Court of Cassation, the highest defiance, and creativity, despite those in the West Bank. Bishara the cleavages emerging within the discussions of the Syrian Civil War, statecraft. He exposes the suspect
civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi daunting pressures and forces looks to specific sites of political American Left widened, weakening impacts of the Trump presidency, fears of scarcity and conflict,
shows how political difference is working to constrict it. Queer practice—journalism, historical the Movement and leaving a lasting and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, and investigates the significant
entangled with religious, secular, Palestine and the Empire of Critique commemorations, street demon- impact that still affects progressive Algeria, and Sudan, this book will geopolitical impact of these false
and sexual difference. She presents explores the necessity of connect- strations, social media, in prison, American politics today. be an essential guide for anyone beliefs. In particular, Vitalis shows
state power as inevitably contingent, ing the struggles for Palestinian and on the road—to analyze how seeking to understand the current how we can reconsider the ques-
like the practices of everyday life it Palestinians rebuild collectivities in “Fischbach boldly takes us into the tion of the US–Saudi relationship.
freedom with the struggle against vexed heart of debates on the state of the region.
engenders, focusing on the regulation homophobia. these circumstances. In considering American Left over the Palestinian Freeing ourselves from the spell
“A first-rate collection and essential
of religious conversion, the curation these different environments for struggle against the state of Israel. reading for anyone interested in of oilcraft won’t be easy—but the
“Sa’ed Atshan brilliantly weaves
of legal archives, state and parastatal together ethnography and personal political expression and action, His bracing message is of the perils how the Middle East has an has not benefits make it essential.
violence, and secular activism. experience in thoughtful, engaging, Bishara illuminates how political of intransigence and the enduring changed since the uprisings of 2011.” “Vitalis has once again revealed that
Sextarianism locates state power and emotionally captivating ways. expression is always grounded in ability of the Israel-Palestine debate our conventional wisdom is filled
—Jillian Schwedler,
in the experiences, transitions, A tour de force and a remarkable place and in the body. to further divide an already weak- Hunter College, CUNY with empty, and often dangerous, self-
uprisings, and violence that people book for both its theoretical and ened American Left.” delusions. This book is a triumph of
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The Power of Deserts How to Make a Wetland Global Jihad Pious Peripheries Between Muslims Say What Your Longing
Climate Change, the Middle East, Water and Moral Ecology A Brief History Runaway Women in Religious Difference in Heart Desires
and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era in Turkey Glenn E. Robinson Post-Taliban Afghanistan Iraqi Kurdistan Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Dan Rabinowitz Caterina Scaramelli Most violent jihadi movements in Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi J. Andrew Bush Niloofar Haeri
Hotter and dryer than most parts of This book tells the story of two the twentieth century focused on Taliban made piety a business of Between Muslims provides an This book offers an elegant ethnog-
the world, the Middle East could soon Turkish coastal areas, both shaped removing corrupt, repressive secu- the state, and thereby intervened ethnographic account of Iraqi raphy of religious debates among
see climate change exacerbate food by ecological change and political lar regimes throughout the Muslim in the daily lives and social interac- Kurdish Muslims who turn a group of educated, middle-class
and water shortages, aggravate social uncertainty. Farmers, scientists, world. But following the 1979 Soviet tions of Afghan women. Pious away from devotional piety yet women whose voices are often
inequalities, and drive displacement fishermen, and families grapple invasion of Afghanistan, a new Peripheries examines women’s remain intimately engaged with muted in studies of Islam. Haeri
and political destabilization. The with livelihoods in transition, as form of jihadism emerged—global resistance through groundbreaking Islamic traditions and with other follows them in their daily lives
Power of Deserts surveys regional their environment is bound up in jihad—turning to the international fieldwork at a women’s shelter in Muslims. Bush offers a new way to as they engage with the classical
climate models and identifies the national and international conserva- arena as the primary locus of ideol- Kabul, home to runaway wives, understand religious difference in poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi,
potential impact on socioeconomic tion projects. Scaramelli offers an ogy and action. With this book, daughters, mothers, and sisters of Islam, rejecting simple stereotypes illuminating a long-standing mu-
disparities, population movement, anthropological understanding Robinson tells the story of four the Taliban. Whether running to about ethnic or sectarian identi- tual inspiration between prayer and
and political instability. Offering of sweeping environmental and distinct jihadi waves, each with seek marriage or divorce, enduring ties. Integrating textual analysis poetry. She recounts how different
more than warning and fear, however, infrastructural change, and the its own program for achieving a or escaping abuse, or even accused of poetry, sermons, and Islamic forms of prayer may transform
the book highlights a potentially moral claims made on livability and global end. He connects the rise of of singing sexually explicit songs in history into accounts of everyday into dialogues with God, and, in
brighter future—a recent shift across materiality. Beginning from a moral global jihad to other “movements public, “promiscuous” women who life in Iraqi Kurdistan, Between turn, illuminates the ways in which
the Middle East toward renewable ecological position, she takes into of rage”—such as the Nazi Brown- challenge status quo—and once Muslims illuminates the interplay believers draw on prayer and ritual
energy. With his deep knowledge of account the notion that politics is shirts, White supremacists, Khmer marked as promiscuous, women of attraction and aversion to Islam acts as the emotional and intel-
the region and knack for presenting not simply projected onto animals, Rouge, and Boko Haram—and have few resources. Ahsan-Tirmizi among ordinary Muslims. lectual material through which they
scientific data with clarity, Rabinowitz plants, soil, and water. Rather, develops a compelling and provoca- explores how these women negotiate think, deliberate, and debate.
“A refreshing departure from the
makes a sober yet surprisingly opti- people make politics through them. tive argument about this violent gendered power mechanisms and focus on nationalist identity in
political movement’s evolution. “A work that deserves to be widely
mistic investigation of opportunity Scaramelli highlights the aspirations, create a new supportive community, studies of Iraqi Kurdistan, Between read by all who are interested in
arising from a looming crisis. moral relations, and care practices “Robinson has produced a masterful finding friendship and solidarity Muslims is a beautifully written understanding the different approaches
in constant play in contestations and book that is incisive, insightful, and among the women who inhabit the and original work on the dynamics to ‘authentic’ religion that exist in
“An important argument detailing of Islamic traditions. Bush subtly
how the Middle East could be alliances over environmental change. comprehensive—a tour de force on margins of Afghan society. the Muslim world. A rich and detailed
the evolution of jihadism.” explores how ‘fractures of difference’ account, and a valuable contribution
devastated by the impact of climate “Scaramelli’s lucid ethnography is a “Pious Peripheries brings the reader are lived in everyday intimate
change—or could generate huge to our knowledge of religious practice.”
crucial addition to studies of lived —Mehran Kamrava, into a diverse and opinionated world relationships.”
amounts of renewable energy. A environments and environmental Georgetown University of Afghan women. Ahsan-Tirmizi’s —Talal Asad,
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Constructing the Sacred

Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian
Necropolis of Saqqara
Elaine A. Sullivan
Utilizing 3D technologies, Constructing the Sacred addresses
ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective to examine
Alternative Iran The Dangers of Poetry Return to Ruin development at the complex, long-lived archaeological site of
Contemporary Art and Culture, Politics, and Iraqi Narratives of Exile Saqqara, Egypt. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the built and
Critical Spatial Practice Revolution in Iraq and Nostalgia natural environment affected burial rituals at the temple due to
constructingthesacred.org changes in visibility. Flipping the top-down view prevalent in
Pamela Karimi Kevin M. Jones Zainab Saleh archeology to a more human-centered perspective puts the focus
Drawing on spatial and temporal This is the first book to narrate With the US invasion of Iraq, Iraqis on the dynamic evolution of an ancient site that is typically viewed
turns that have animated Iranian art the social history of poetry in the abroad, hoping to return one day as static.
scenes since the 1980s, Alternative modern Middle East. Moving to a better Iraq, became uncertain
Iran illuminates the economic, beyond the analysis of poems as exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human Filming Revolution
political, and intellectual forces literary and intellectual texts, Jones story of this exile. Focusing on Alisa Lebow
that have driven Iran’s creative shows how poems functioned as debates among Iraqi exiles about
class toward increasingly original Filming Revolution investigates documentary and independent
social acts that critically shaped the what it means to be an Iraqi after
forms of artmaking not meant for filmmaking in Egypt since 2011, bringing together the collective
cultural politics of revolutionary years of displacement, Saleh weaves
museums or performance halls. wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists,
Iraq. He narrates the history of a narrative that draws attention
These artworks appear instead in activists, and archivists. Rather than merely building an archive
three generations of Iraqi poets to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi
private homes, non-commercial of video interviews, Lebow constructs a collaborative project,
who navigated the fraught relation- cultural landscape and social and
galleries, showrooms with “trusted” joining her interviewees in conversation to investigate questions
ship between culture and politics political shifts among the diaspora
audiences, dilapidated structures, about the evolving format of political filmmaking. The innovative
in pursuit of their own ambitions after decades of authoritarianism, filmingrevolution.org constellatory interactive design of Filming Revolution makes an
buildings under construction, and agendas. Through this historical war, and occupation in Iraq. She
unexpected urban spaces, and aesthetic commentary about the experience of the revolution,
analysis of thousands of poems illuminates how Iraqis continue
remote natural sites. Flouting the its fragmented development, and its shifting meanings, thereby
published in newspapers, recited to fashion a sense of belonging
conventions of the art market advancing arguments about political documentary via both
in popular demonstrations, and and imagine a future, built on the
negotiating the regime’s ideological content and form.
disseminated in secret whispers, shards of these shattered memories.
protocols, these loosely covert activi-
ties offer an enthralling inquiry into
this book reveals the overlooked “In this outstanding book, we en- When Melodies Gather
contribution of these poets to the counter the poignant life stories of Oral Art of the Mahra
what is commonly referred to as
spirit of rebellion in modern Iraq. Iraqis, stories too often reduced to
critical spatial practice. Throwing Samuel Liebhaber
“A valuable contribution to our statistics and stereotypes when they
into sharp relief Iran’s unusual art
understandings of the social and are visible at all. Return to Ruin The Mahra people of the southern Arabian Peninsula have
scenes, Karimi discloses anomalous is an illuminating study of Iraqi
instances when the state and other cultural history of modern Iraq.” no written language but instead possess a rich oral tradition.
diasporic subjectivities.”
powerful agents appropriate the —Elliott Colla, Liebhaber takes readers on a tour through their poetry, which he
Georgetown University —Sinan Antoon, collected in audio and video recordings over the course of several
spatial techniques of loose covertness New York University
to bring aspects of the alternative 320 pages, 2020 years. Based on this material, Liebhaber develops a blueprint
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to challenge the system from within. similarities between them and recapitulates how Mahri poets craft
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