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The Rise and Fall of Human RightsCynicism and Politics in Occupied PalestineLori AllenThis book provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been transformed into a public relations tool for political legitimization and state-making. In failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the human rights industry has become the object of cynicism. But far from indicating apathy, such cynicism generates a productive critique of domestic politics and Western interventionism. The book’s broad appeal lies in illuminating the successes and failures of Palestinians’ varied engagements with human rights in their quest for independence.

“This eye-opening book explores how, between the friction of disappointment and hope, human rights values might still generate more viable means to build a common world. A profound reflection on the dominant discourse of emancipation in our times.”

—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

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Life as PoliticsHow Ordinary People Change the Middle East Second EditionAsef BayatFirst published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action. The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran’s Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.

Praise for the first edition“[A] remarkable study. Life as Politics should be a mandatory read for any journalist, scholar or politician who has never been to the Middle East.”

—Arab News

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Back StoriesU.S. News Production and Palestinian PoliticsAmahl A. Bishara Amahl Bishara demonstrates how Palestinians play integral roles in producing U.S. news and how U.S. journalism in turn shapes Palestin-ian politics. U.S. objectivity is in Palestinian journalists’ hands, and Palestinian self-determination cannot be fully understood without atten-tion to the journalist standing off to the side, quietly taking notes. Back Stories examines news stories big and small to investigate urgent questions about objectivity, violence, the state, and the production of knowledge. This book reaches beyond the headlines into the lives of Palestin-ians during the second intifada to give readers a new vantage point on both Palestinians and journalism.

“Amahl Bishara breaks new ground in her exploration of Palestinian-Israeli-American dynamics of control, protest, and resistance. Her keen insights into the second intifada help us better understand two critical issues: what is happening on the ground in Palestine and how these events are being re-ported by the American media.”

—Rami Khouri

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Time in the ShadowsConfinement in CounterinsurgenciesLaleh Khalili Detention and confinement of combatants and large groups of civilians have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theorists and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisa-tion by arguing that such actions

“protect” populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these argu-ments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, “security walls,” and offshore prisons has come to be.

Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars to Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.

Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of incarceration—visible or invisible, offshore or inland, containing combatants or civilians—lib-eral states have consistently acted illiberally in their counterinsurgency confinements. As our tactics of war have shifted beyond slaughter to elaborate systems of detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit of asymmetric wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that as tactics of counterinsurgency have been rendered more “humane,” they have also increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage wars.

“Laleh Khalili’s Time in the Shadows is the ghostly other of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Deft and informative, the book provides a historical excavation of the imperatives of counterinsurgency doctrines—from the ideas that drove the European colonial wars in the dying days of those empires to the U.S. and Israeli states of warfare in our own times. A serious book that should be required reading.”

—Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

“Laleh Khalili’s magisterial volume is as welcome as it is timely, with useful discov-eries and wise interpretations of the distinctive problems posed by the rise of global securitocracy. If you want to understand how things came to be as bad as they are in an era characterized by apparently endless counterinsurgency warfare, this magnificent contribution supplies the answers.”

—Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics, author of After Empire


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Cover Photo: Alessandra Sanguinetti, Sadeel and Aboud, Aida refugee camp, Palestine, 2004.

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Is There a Middle East?The Evolution of a Geopolitical ConceptEdited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel GasperThis volume offers a diverse set of voices—from political and cultural historians, to social scientists, geog-raphers, and political economists—to debate the possible manifestations and meanings of the Middle East. At a time when geopolitical forces, so-cial currents, and environmental con-cerns have brought renewed attention to the region, this volume examines the very definition and geographic and cultural boundaries of the Middle East in an unprecedented way.

“The term ‘the Middle East’ has evoked anxieties and questions for over a century. This original volume illustrates that it is ultimately more fruitful to consider the effects of this unwieldy and profoundly political category than to debate its definition. A far-reaching book that presents new arguments on the production of the concept and the meanings associated with the Middle East.”

—Arang Keshavarzian, New York University

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GridlockLabor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in DubaiPardis MahdaviLegislators hoping to combat hu-man trafficking focus heavily on women and sex work, but there is real potential for abuse of both male and female migrants in a variety of areas of employment—whether on the street, in a field, at a restaurant, or at someone’s house. Gridlock explores how migrants’ actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discus-sions—and global moral panic—about human trafficking. Mahdavi power-fully contrasts migrants’ own stories with interviews with U.S. policy mak-ers, revealing the gaping disconnect between policies on human trafficking and the realities of forced labor and migration in the Persian Gulf.

“This is an extraordinarily well-re-searched and gripping book on human trafficking in Dubai. With impressive clarity, Mahdavi describes the complex problem of trafficked women, migrants, and foreign workers, and the role of the international community and the host country in dealing with it.”

—Haleh Esfandiari, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Consuming DesiresFamily Crisis and the State in the Middle EastFrances S. HassoAs Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. Looking closely at Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Frances Hasso explores the extent to which these new relationship forms are used and to what ends, as well as the legal and cultural responses to such innovations. She outlines what is at stake for the various groups—the state, religious leaders, opposition groups, young people, men and women of different classes and locations, and feminist organizations—in arguments for and against these relationship forms.

“Hasso brings much-needed critical at-tention to the topic of secret marriage in the Middle East. From the trend of focus-ing on male unruliness to the emerging idea that women may be choosing not to marry because they are not willing to compromise or put up with domination, this work delivers a number of novel arguments on a topic of intense interest and anxiety. An extremely original and striking book.”

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Revolutionary WomanhoodFeminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s EgyptLaura BierThe first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlight-ened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state feminism, and postcolonial state-building.

“Addresses a major void in the histori-cal literature on Egypt. Showing how gendered politics proved central to Nasserist attempts to modernize, the book broadens our understanding of state feminism, secularism, and the postcolonial period.”

—Beth Baron, The Graduate Center, CUNY


The Autumn of DictatorshipFiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under MubarakSamer SolimanOver the last thirty years, the Egyptian state has increasingly given its citizens less money and fewer social benefits while simultaneously demanding more taxes and resources. This has lead to a weakened state—deteriorating public services, low lev-els of law enforcement, poor opportu-nities for employment and economic development—while simultaneously inflated the security machine that had sustained the authoritarian regime. Studying the regime from the point of view of its deeds rather than its discourse, this book tackles the relationship between fiscal crisis and political change in Egypt.

“Tracing the authoritarian state’s pat-terns of extraction and allocation, [Soliman] helps us to understand not only the workings of that state, but its consequences for economic growth, including the possible fostering of capitalism.”

—Robert Springborg, Naval Postgraduate School

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Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North AfricaEdited by Joel Beinin and Frédéric VairelThe Middle East and North Africa have become places that almost everyone “knows” something about. Too frequently written off as culturally defined by Islam, strongly anti-Western, and uniquely susceptible to irrational political radicalism, authoritarianism, and terrorism—these regions are rarely considered as sites of social and political mobilization. This volume reveals a rich array of mobilizations and offers a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, and innovation in contentious action across the region.

“An altogether welcome addition to both the social movement literature and the growing body of work on contention in the Middle East and North Africa.”

—Doug McAdam, Stanford University

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Business Networks in SyriaThe Political Economy of Authoritarian ResilienceBassam HaddadCollusion between business com-munities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has con-tributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syria’s political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain the nation’s pattern of state intervention and prolonged economic stagnation.

“A courageous and sophisticated ac-count of the role of Syria’s crony capi-talist networks in the process of partial privatization after 1986. Revealed for the first time are the key relationships which define Syria’s economic per-formance over the last two and a half decades. This book could only have been written by someone with insider knowledge of Syria.”

—Roger Owen, Harvard University


Adaptable AutocratsRegime Power in Egypt and SyriaJoshua StacherThe decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. But from the seemingly rapid leadership turnovers in Tunisia and Egypt to the protracted stalemates in Yemen and Syria, there remains a common outcome: autocratic continuity. Joshua Stacher examines how executive power is structured in Egypt and Syria to show how these preexisting power configurations shaped the uprisings and, in turn, the outcomes. Examining the lead-up to the Egyptian and Syrian uprisings helps us unlock the complexity behind the protests and transitions. Without this understanding, we lack a roadmap to make sense of the Middle East’s most important political moment in decades.

“This is one of the best explorations of developments in Egyptian and Syrian politics. Stacher provides an original look at the inner workings and dynamics of two vitally important re-gimes and lays out the implications for the future of the significant differences between these two political systems.”

—Samer Shehata, Georgetown University


Middle East AuthoritarianismsGovernance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and IranEdited by Steven Heydemann and Reinoud LeendersThe contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Iranian regimes—what they share in common and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descriptor of the region, and differences among regimes have been overlooked. But as the political trajectories of Middle Eastern states diverge in years ahead, with some perhaps consolidating democratic gains while others remain-ing under distinct and resilient forms of authoritarian rule, understanding variations in modes of authoritarian governance and the attributes that promote regime resilience becomes an increasingly urgent priority.

“This book provides unparalleled in-sight into how the Syrian and Iranian regimes use economic, social welfare, judicial, and cultural policies to main-tain their rule.”

—Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross

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The One-State ConditionOccupation and Democracy in Israel/PalestineAriella Azoulay and Adi OphirSince the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel’s domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates—as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief.

Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the rul-ing apparatus—the technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied Territories—Azoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights.

Though many Israelis, on both political right and left, agree that the occupation constitutes a problem for Israeli democracy, few ultimately admit that Israel is no democracy or question the very structure of the Israeli regime itself. Too frequently ignored are the lasting effects of the deceptive denial of the events of 1948 and 1967, and the ways in which the resulting occupation has reinforced the sweeping militarization and recent racialization of Israeli society. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgment of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma.

“A brilliant, deeply analytical, and thorough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. One of the most remarkable books written so far in this field.”

—Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

“ ’Neither democratic nor Jewish’: this is how Azoulay and Ophir provocatively de-scribe the current regime of the State of Israel. Perhaps deemed treason by some, utopia by others, this is a courageous and well-informed contribution to reopen-ing the future. The alternative is catastrophe.”

—Etienne Balibar, author of Politics and the Other Scene

“Eloquent and impassioned, Azoulay and Ophir acutely undermine the sterile indulgences of current Israeli politics and widen the horizon of debate for the political possibilities and future of Israel and Palestine.”

—Gabriel Piterberg, University of California, Los Angeles

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Palestinian Village HistoriesGeographies of the DisplacedRochelle A. DavisThrough a close examination of village memorial books and other commemorative activities, Palestin-ian Village Histories reveals how history is written, recorded, and contested, as well as the roles that Palestinian conceptions of their past play in contemporary life. This book analyzes individual and collective historical accounts of everyday life in pre-1948 Palestinian villages as composed today from the perspec-tives of these long-term refugees.

“With an observant eye and a keen ear, Davis provides insightful reflections on how, in the process of colonial state building and the violent trans-formation of landscape, local forms of knowledge and ways of knowing place are carried into exile. A volumi-nous body of ethnographic and liter-ary material provides poignant insight into how, in exile, Palestinians move between past and present, here and there, and then and now.”

—Julie Peteet, University of Louisville

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Bazaar PoliticsPower and Pottery in an Afghan Market TownNoah CoburnOffering the first long-term on-the-ground study since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Noah Coburn introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of local residents and stories of his own experiences. He reveals the ways in which the international community has misunderstood the forces driving local conflict and the insurgency, misunderstandings that have ul-timately contributed to the po-litical unrest rather than resolved it. Though on first blush the potters of Istalif may seem far removed from in-ternational affairs, it is only through understanding politics, power, and culture on the local level that we can then shed new light on Afghani-stan’s difficult search for peace.

“Coburn explores and explains a strange paradox in Afghan politics: that local communities appear to have the means to maintain stability even when the national government does not.”

—Thomas Barfield, Boston University

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The Emergence of Modern AfghanistanPolitics of Reform and ModernizationVartan GregorianIn this reissue, Vartan Gregorian offers a new introduction that places the key themes of the book in the context of contemporary events, addressing ques-tions of tribalism, nationalism, Islam, and modernization, as well as the legacies of the Cold War and the vari-ous exit strategies of occupying powers. The book remains as distinctive today as when it was first published. It is the only broad work on Afghan history that considers ethnicity as the defin-ing influence over the course of the country’s history, rather than religion. In light of today’s ongoing struggle to develop a coherent national identity, the question of Afghan nationalism remains a particularly significant issue.

“Gregorian has produced a major work of scholarship, which in one volume provides us with what may well be the definitive survey of the rise of modern Afghanistan . . . . No finer scholarship—combining a far-reaching and balanced perspective with detailed and careful scrutiny—could have been asked for.”

—The American Historical Review

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The Lebanese ConnectionCorruption, Civil War, and the International Drug TrafficJonathan V. MarshallUsing previously secret government records, The Lebanese Connection uncovers the story of how Lebanon’s economy and political system were corrupted by drug profits—and how, by financing its many ruthless militia, Lebanon’s drug trade contributed to the country’s greatest catastrophe, its fifteen-year civil war from 1975 to 1990. In so doing, this book sheds new light on the dangerous role of vast criminal enterprises in the collapse of states and the creation of war economies that thrive in the midst of civil conflicts.

“Hard-hitting and hard-boiled investi-gative journalism that is cinematic in scope, The Lebanese Connection has troubling implications that should stimulate lively debate and future research.”

—Max Weiss, Princeton University

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Connecting Histories in AfghanistanMarket Relations and State Formation on a Colonial FrontierShah Mahmoud HanifiLooking at commerce in Kabul, Pe-shawar, and Qandahar, this book re-veals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. British colonial emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, this book challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much con-temporary discussion of Afghanistan.

“A brilliant revisionist study that argues that the conventional view of Afghani-stan as a model of resistance to colo-nial power is a myth and that in reality Afghanistan was from the outset a ‘colonial construct’ whose economic institutions were determined by policies over which it had little or no control. Students of Afghan history will never approach it in quite the same way again.”

—Robert D. McChesney, New York University

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New BabyloniansA History of Jews in Modern IraqOrit BashkinAlthough Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s.

“Orit Bashkin’s riveting new book is, without doubt, the first attempt at providing a full portrait of the rise and fall of the Baghdadi Jewish com-munity in the course of the eventful twentieth century. Her narrative is a shining example of solid scholarship and, at the same time, a coherent ac-count of the vicissitudes of the mod-ern history of a dynamic Arab-Jewish community the like of which is no more in evidence.”

—Sasson Somekh, author of Baghdad, Yesterday


Apostles of ModernitySaint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in AlgeriaOsama W. Abi-MershedThis study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France’s colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century.

“This important and timely book constitutes a major rethinking of nineteenth-century Algerian history, and also has important arguments to make about nineteenth century France, comparative colonial history in general, and the politics of colonial education in particular. Combining a detailed institutional and political his-tory with an intellectual and cultural history informed by critical-theoretical perspectives, Abi-Mershed provides a systematic, critical analysis of French colonial thought and practice.”

—James McDougall, Oxford University

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Tell This in My MemoryStories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman EmpireEve M. Troutt PowellTell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experi-ence. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the 19th century.

“Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing mul-tiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant.”

—Michael Gomez, New York University

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Ordinary EgyptiansCreating the Modern Nation through Popular CultureZiad FahmyThis book examines how, from the 1870s until the eve of the 1919 revolution, popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. It shifts the typical focus of study away from the intellectual elite to understand the rapid politicization of the growing literate middle classes and brings the semi-literate and illiterate urban masses more fully into the historical narrative. It introduces the concept of

“media-capitalism,” which expands the analysis of nationalism beyond print alone to incorporate audiovisual and performance media. It was through these various media that a collective camaraderie crossing class lines was formed and, as this book uncovers, an Egyptian national identity emerged.

“An excellent and original book. Fahmy deconstructs commonly held as-sumptions regarding the formation of nationalism, particularly in its early stages. Its contribution to the field is indispensable.”

—Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University

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Juridical HumanityA Colonial HistorySamera EsmeirSamera Esmeir offers a historical and theoretical account of the colonizing operations of modern law in Egypt. Investigating the law, both on the books and in practice, she underscores the centrality of the “human” to Egyptian legal and colonial history and argues that the production of “juridical humanity” was a constitutive force of colonial rule and subjugation. This original contribution queries long-held assumptions about the entanglement of law, humanity, violence, and nature, and thereby develops a new reading of the history of colonialism.

“In a work of immensely creative theo-rization and superb historical scholar-ship, Esmeir radically rethinks the relationship between modern law, the human, and violence, challenging the ascendancy of narratives in which the human is always chained to the law.”

—Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis

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A City ConsumedUrban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in EgyptNancy Reynolds Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo fire that burned through down-town stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and native in city space and commercial merchan-dise were never so starkly drawn.

“Sixty years before Egypt’s Tahrir Square exploded in protest against Hosni Mubarak, Cairo burst into revolution with the great fire of 1952. This book gives a vivid new explanation for how ordinary Egyptians turned shopping and commerce into politics. More broadly, its story opens a fresh per-spective on the economic and cultural changes that so profoundly reshaped the Middle East in the mid twentieth century.”

—Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

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For Better, For WorseThe Marriage Crisis That Made Modern EgyptHanan KholoussyFor Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns. Delving into the vastly different portrayals and practices of marriage in both the press and the Islamic court records, this innovative look at how Egyptians understood marital and civil rights and duties during the early twentieth century offers fresh insights into ongoing debates about nationalism, colonialism, gender, and the family.

“Kholoussy joins together Arabic press accounts and Islamic court docu-ments in union to present a portrait of marriage and its discontents in mod-ern Egypt. Demonstrating that bache-lors—not single women—stoked the anxiety of Egyptians, she persuasively connects the marriage crisis to con-cerns about national independence. For Better, For Worse establishes mar-riage as an engaging topic of historical inquiry. A blissful read.”—Beth Baron, The City University of New York

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Ottoman BrothersMuslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century PalestineMichelle U. CamposOttoman Brothers explores the development of Ottoman collective identity, tracing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews became impe-rial citizens together. In Palestine, even against the backdrop of the emergence of the Zionist movement and Arab nationalism, Jews and Arabs cooperated in local develop-ment and local institutions as they embraced imperial citizenship. As Michelle Campos reveals, the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was not immanent, but rather it erupted in tension with the promises and shortcomings of “civic Ottomanism.”

“Ottoman Brothers offers a startling new insight into a globally important case: for a brief period in the not-so-distant past, Palestine was consumed by civic activism and democratic co-existence, and was not necessarily headed to-ward inevitable conflict. Campos deliv-ers a wonderfully rich contribution to the study of the modern Middle East.”

—Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina

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Ottoman Ulema, Turkish RepublicAgents of Change and Guardians of TraditionAmit BeinTo better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establish-ment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey, the spread of secularist and anti-religious ideas had a major impact on the views and political leanings of the ulema. This book explores the intellectual debates and political movements of the religious establishment during this time.

“By underscoring the impact of politi-cal contingencies and the agency of historical figures, Bein’s meticulous study complicates our understanding of the debates that swirled around Islam’s proper place and authority in Ottoman and Turkish modernity. The book’s deft retrieval of the shadow histories of forgotten ulema and their successors is especially compelling.”

—David Commins, Dickinson College

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The Margins of EmpireKurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal ZoneJanet KleinAt the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Fol-lowing the story of this militia, Janet Klein explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate groups they ultimately aim to suppress and how groups who seek autonomy from the state often attempt to do so through state channels.

“Klein sheds light on some of the most important and complicated relations and negotiations the Ottoman offi-cials were engaged in as their empire crumbled around them. She never loses sight of the broader implica-tions of her work in this original, high-ly valuable look at a significant period in the history of the Middle East.”

—Resat Kasaba, University of Washington

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And Then We Work for GodRural Sunni Islam in Western TurkeyKimberly HartSunni Islam structures individual lives through rituals—birth, circum-cision, marriage, military service, death—and the expression of these traditions varies between villages. Kimberly Hart delves into the ques-tion of why some choose to remem-ber and keep alive the past, while others want to face a future unbur-dened by local cultural practices. Her answer speaks to global transforma-tions in Islam, to the push and pull between those who maintain a link to the past, even when these practices challenge orthodoxy, and those who want a purified global religion.

“In this poetic and powerfully written ethnography, Kimberly Hart shatters common assumptions about rural Islam in Turkey. And Then We Work for God not only reveals that there is no one traditional Islam, but thoughtfully uncovers how the practice of rural Is-lam is intimately connected to chang-ing visions of the state and religion in the rest of Turkey and the world.”

—Esra Özyürek, University of California, San Diego


Mixing MusicsTurkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred SongMaureen JacksonThis book traces the mixing of musi-cal forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire, the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with “secular” Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores areas often left out of those histories of the region that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives.

“By treating the private, discrete narra-tives of individual figures, this innova-tive book brings to life the nuances of daily existence and social accom-modation in the musical culture of modern Turkish Jews. This refreshing approach provides new insights on topics that have been left unsaid by more conventional narratives about this subject.”

—Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture272 pp., 20139780804780155 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Contested Conversions to IslamConfessionalization and Community in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireTijana Krstić This book explores the role of conver-sion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.

“Rejecting both nationalist preoccupa-tions and a purely Islamic framework, Krstić looks at Ottoman conversion narratives within their early modern context. Drawing on a breathtakingly wide range of sources, the author gives us a sense of what it meant to be a Muslim in the early modern Otto-man Empire. She also engages issues of reading, texts, and knowledge that are almost entirely unexplored in the Ottoman context.”

—Molly Greene, Princeton University

288 pp., 1 map, 2011Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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Ghosts of RevolutionRekindled Memories of Imprisonment in IranShahla TalebiIn this haunting account, Shahla Tale-bi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her husband, was imprisoned for nearly a decade, first under the Shah and later by the Islamic Republic. Writing about her own suffering and survival and sharing the stories of her fellow inmates, she details the painful reality of prison life and offers an inti-mate look at a critical period of social and political transformation in Iran.

“This searing memoir of women’s vis-ceral pain, principled resilience, and redemptive imagination in Iran’s brutal political prisons will leave you shaken, forever.”

—Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University

“Showing an abiding love for the people of a homeland that is now blessed to have her as its storyteller, Shahla Talebi reassures the world that the right and the beautiful are still triumphant.”

—Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

“A work of art in the fullest sense: a creation at the limits of life.”

—Stefania Pandolfo, University of California, Berkeley

224 pp., 12 illustrations, 20119780804772013 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale

Burying the BelovedMarriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern IranAmy MotlaghBurying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature and examines seminal works that foreground acute anxiet-ies about female subjectivity in Iran from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Focusing on marriage as the central metaphor through which both law and fiction read gender, Amy Motlagh critically engages and highlights the difficulties that arise as gender norms and laws change over time.

“Burying the Beloved brings a timely and distinct voice to current debates on marriage and modernity in Iran. Its new insights and radical perspective will be welcomed by readers inter-ested in gender questions in contem-porary Iran.”

—Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego

200 pp., 20129780804775892 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

Gender and Islam in AfricaRights, Sexuality, and LawEdited by Margot BadranGender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic con-cepts in order to empower themselves and their societies. African women, it argues, have promoted the ideals and practices of equality, human rights, and democracy within the frame-work of Islamic thought, challenging conventional conceptualizations of the religion as gender-constricted and patriarchal. The contributors come from the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, gender studies, religious studies, and law.

“This book both presents new and original work and provides a glimpse at the state of the art among scholars who have a sustained commitment to an extremely difficult and conten-tious topic.”

—Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University

Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press336 pp., 20119780804774819 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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In the Time of OilPiety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani TownMandana E. LimbertThis compelling historical ethnogra-phy explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the 1960s, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource’s future depletion. Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling, piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa, Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and gendered religiosity.

“ Limbert offers unusual insights into contemporary Arabian Peninsula soci-ety. She engages current thought on how memory and identity are forged and maintained in an era when both younger women and men have been

‘schooled’ by the state. This is an exem-plary book for a region in which such books are few and far between.”

—Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College

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Silencing the SeaSecular Rhythms in Palestinian PoetryKhaled FuraniSilencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets’ debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, poli-tics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. This excursion offers new-found understandings of how today’s secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all that we see, hear, feel, and say.

“A wonderful ethnography of contem-porary Arabic poetry. Khaled Furani has made a significant contribution to a relatively neglected territory in the study of the secular. Silencing the Sea enlarges our understanding of the way modern pressures and seductions have led to the undermining of older sensibilities and the formation of new, and of how this process is reflected in Arabic poetry. This not simply a book for literary specialists, but for anyone interested in thinking about the differ-ent dimensions of secular experience.”

—Talal Asad, The City University of New York

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