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The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

Bassam Haddad

Business Networks in Syria

Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Joel Beinin and Frdric Vairel
The 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 terrorismthese 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. This volume juxtaposes Islamist activism with movements by workers, intellectuals, feminists, human rights activists, and others that dont get much attention in the West, but which present a fuller picture of political and social upheavals in the region.
Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Collusion between business communities 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 contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syrias political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain the nations pattern of state intervention and prolonged economic stagnation. a courageous and sophisticated account of the role of syrias crony capitalist networks in the process of partial privatization after 1986. Revealed for the first time are the key relationships which define syrias economic performance over the last two and a half decades. This book could only have been written by someone with insider knowledge of syria.
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Roger Owen, Harvard University

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Adaptable Autocrats
Joshua Stacher

Regime Power in Egypt and Syria

The Autumn of Dictatorship

Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak

Samer Soliman
Over 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 statedeteriorating public services, low levels of law enforcement, poor opportunities 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.

The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. To better understand the course of events across the region, we must take a closer look at how regimes have responded and adapted to challenges to their power. Contrasting Egypt and Syria, this book takes a novel approach to studying important patterns and differences in authoritarian rule. Examining how power is structured in each country, Joshua Stacher shows how the uprisings and outcomes have been shaped by preexisting power configurations, allowing certain autocratic systems to adapt more easily than others. Power structures, elite alliances, state institutions, and governing practices are seldom swept away entirelyeven following successful revolutions so it is vital that we examine the various contexts for regime survival to understand ongoing events in the Middle East.
This is one of the best, most concrete explorations of developments in egyptian and syrian politics over the last decade. stacher provides an original look at the inner workings and dynamics of two vitally important regimes in the arab world and lays out the implications for the future of the significant differences between these two political systems.
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University

Tracing the authoritarian states patterns 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

stacher delivers key insights into the paradox of the rapid fall of the strong executive in egypts highly centralized state in 2011, while syrias much more decentralized state hangs on to power. This timely work provides a rare window on elites and their alliances and struggles. It is a must read for those who wish to better understand whether the arab spring will lead to the redistribution of political and economic power by limiting executive authority, or merely replace one elite group with another.
Diane Singerman, American University

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The Lebanese Connection

Jonathan V. Marshall

Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic

Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the worlds greatest single transit port in the international traffic in narcotics. In the words of one American official, certain of the largest traffickers are so influential politically, and certain highly placed officials so deeply involved in the narcotic traffic, that one might well state that the Lebanese Government is in the narcotics business. Using previously secret government records, The Lebanese Connection uncovers for the first time the story of how Lebanon's economy and political system were corrupted by drug profitsand how, by financing its many ruthless militia, Lebanons drug trade contributed to the countrys 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.
Jonathan Marshall sheds new light on how the shadowy realms of drug cultivation, the international arms trade, institutionalized corruption, and organized crime tragically overlapped in the twentieth century Middle east. Hard-hitting and hard-boiled investigative journalism that is cinematic in scope, The Lebanese Connection has troubling implications that should stimulate lively debate and future research.
Max Weiss, Princeton University

Bazaar Politics

Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

Noah Coburn
Offering 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 ultimately contributed to the political unrest rather than resolved it. Though on first blush the potters of Istalif may seem far removed from international affairs, it is only through understanding politics, power, and culture on the local level that we can then shed new light on Afghanistans difficult search for peace.

few people have the knowledge necessary to decipher the central relevance of lebanese drug trafficking to Middle eastern politics, the games of intelligence agencies, and the history of international organized crime. Jonathan Marshall has produced an indispensable guide through this jungle.
Peter Dale Scott, author of American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan

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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Palestinian Village Histories

Geographies of the Displaced
Rochelle A. Davis
With an observant eye and a keen ear, Davis provides insightful reflections on how, in the process of colonial state building and the violent transformation of landscape, local forms of knowledge and ways of knowing place are carried into exile. a voluminous body of ethnographic and literary material provides poignant insight into how, in exile, Palestinians move between past and present, here and there, and then and now.
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Revolutionary Womanhood

Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nassers Egypt

Laura Bier

Julie Peteet, University of Louisville

The Logic of an Israeli Obsession

Haggai Ram
"by far the most insightful book about current-day Israel and the social psychology of its own fearful fantasies."
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Iranophobia

The 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 enlightened 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 historical 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.
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New Babylonians
Orit Bashkin

A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their communitywhich had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 yearswas 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. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the regionand the dominant narrative we have come to know.
This remarkable book examines the tragic modern history of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish community in the arab world. bashkin succeeds in avoiding the many pitfalls which confront an author dealing with such a charged topic by deploying empathy, careful historical analysis, and great rigor. This book should be welcomed by all those who seek to free themselves of the blinders imposed by different varieties of extreme nationalism, and as such should be welcomed by scholars everywhere.
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

The other Iraq

Orit Bashkin

A L S o B y o R I t BA S H k I N

Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq

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orit bashkins riveting new book is, without doubt, the first attempt at providing a full portrait of the rise and fall of the baghdadi Jewish community in the course of the eventful 20th century. Her narrative is a shining example of solid scholarship and, at the same time, a coherent account of the vicissitudes of the modern history of a dynamic arab-Jewish community the like of which is no more in evidence.
Sasson Somekh, author of Baghdad, Yesterday

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History

A City Consumed

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Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Nancy Reynolds

A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir

ordinary Juridical Humanity Egyptians

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Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown 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 merchandise were never so starkly drawn. sixty years before egypts 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 perspective on the economic and cultural changes that so profoundly reshaped the Middle east in the mid 20th century.
Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

Investigating the law, both on the books and in practice, Esmeir underscores the centrality of the human to Egyptian colonial history and argues that the production of juridical humanity was a constitutive force of colonial rule and subjugation. In a work of immensely creative theorization and superb historical scholarship, 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

Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

Ziad Fahmy

fahmy covers the rich topic of the colloquial media in egypt when khedives and then the british governed egyptian society, spotlighting those who wrote for newspapers, the theater, and the radio.
Eve Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania

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Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s

Confronting Fascism in Egypt

The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt

Hanan Kholoussy
exploring the marriage crisis in early 20th century egypt, Kholoussy contributes a richly documented and original study that engages vital debates on the construction of nationalism and gender.
Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown University

For Better, For Worse

Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski

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History

Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

Amit Bein
To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, 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 antireligious 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 political contingencies and the agency of historical figures, beins meticulous study complicates our understanding of the debates that swirled around Islams proper place and authority in ottoman and Turkish modernity. The books deft retrieval of the shadow histories of forgotten ulema and their successors is especially compelling.
David Commins, Dickinson College

ottoman Ulema, turkish Republic

The Margins of Empire

Janet Klein

Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

Michelle U. Campos

ottoman Brothers

At 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. Following the story of this militia, 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 officials were engaged in as their empire crumbled around them. she never loses sight of the broader implications of her work in this original, highly valuable look at a significant period in the history of the Middle east.
Resat Kasaba, University of Washington

an outstanding and pathbreaking work. Campos sheds new light on a crucial era in the evolution of the late ottoman empire, problematizing and deconstructing commonly accepted narratives, and shows that the mainstream Muslim, Christian, and Jewish population enthusiastically supported ottomanism. This extraordinary book serves as an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the modern shift from empire to nation and the origins of the arab PalestinianIsraeli conflict.
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University

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Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

Marc David Baer
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The Dnme

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History

Connecting Histor- Ghosts of ies in Afghanistan Revolution

Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. a brilliant revisionist study that argues that the conventional view of afghanistan as a model of resistance to colonial 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.

Gridlock

Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran

Shahla Talebi

Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai

Legislators hoping to combat human 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 someones house. Gridlock explores how migrants actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussionsand global moral panicabout human trafficking. Mahdavi powerfully contrasts migrants own stories with interviews with U.S. policy makers, revealing the gaping disconnect between policies on human trafficking and the realities of forced labor and migration in the Persian Gulf.

Pardis Mahdavi

Ghosts of Revolution is the forbidden and forgotten social history of Iran, the moral vindication of a people written from the vantage point of a political prisoner, from the bared life of a liberating conscience. Judiciously poetic, pulling no punches, but above all 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

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Apostles of Modernity

Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria

Osama W. Abi-Mershed

This provocative study breaks out of a long intellectual impasse by re-examining the Robert D. McChesney, bureaux arabes.
New York University

This is an extraordinarily wellresearched 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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Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona

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History |

Politics and Law

The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

Is There a Middle East?

Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper

Family Crisis and the State in the Edited by Michael E. Bonine, Middle East
Frances S. Hasso

Consuming Desires

The Challenge of Political Islam

Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State
Rachel M. Scott
Drawing on her extraordinary access to both Coptic and Muslim brotherhood intellectuals, Rachel scott provides a lucid and important study that transcends the posturing and the polemics. a must-read for anyone interested in Christian-Muslim relations in general and the issues being negotiated in egypt in particular.
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Georgetown University

Hasso brings much-needed This volume offers a diverse set of critical attention to the topic of voicesfrom political and culsecret marriage in the Middle tural historians, to social scientists, east and north africa. from the geographers, and political econtrend of focusing on male unrulomiststo debate the possible iness to the emerging idea that manifestations and meanings of women may be choosing not the Middle East. At a time when to marry because they are not geopolitical forces, social currents, willing to compromise or put and environmental concerns have up with domination, this work brought renewed attention to the delivers a number of novel arguregion, this volume examines the ments on a topic of intense invery definition and geographic and terest and anxiety. an extremely cultural boundaries of the Middle original and striking book. East in an unprecedented way. Lila Abu-Lughod,
Columbia University

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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 farreaching book that presents new arguments on the production of the concept and the meanings associated with the Middle east.

Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

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Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism

Cihan Tual
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Passive Revolution

Asef Bayat
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Islamism

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Contested Perspectives on Political Islam

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Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry

Khaled Furani

Silencing the Sea

In the time of oil

Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
Mandana E. Limbert
a thoroughly refreshing exploration of a Gulf communitys experiences of the sudden changes that come with the discovery of oil, and its uncertainties about the future, given the knowledge the wells will one day run dry. limbert skillfully shows how everyday understandings of an affluent presentwhat may be a dream timerely on diverging conceptions of the past. beautifully written and cogently argued, In the Time of Oil presents an insightful analysis of the impact of oil on the form and content of social relations.
Beth Baron, CUNY Graduate Center

Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how todays secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all that we see, hear, feel, and say. a book for anyone interested in thinking about the different dimensions of secular experience.
Talal Asad, City University of New York

Burying the Beloved

Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran

Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature and examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Amy Motlagh

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Contested Conversions to Islam

Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

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Gender and Islam in Africa

Rights, Sexuality, and Law
Edited by Margot Badran
Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves and their societies. African women have promoted the ideals and practices of equality, human rights, and democracy within the framework of Islamic thought, challenging conventional conceptualizations of the religion as gender-constricted and patriarchal.
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Tijana Krsti
Rejecting both nationalist preoccupations and a purely Islamic framework, Krsti 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 ottoman empire. she also engages issues of reading, texts, and knowledge that are almost entirely unexplored in the ottoman context.
Molly Greene, Princeton University

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 interested in gender questions in contemporary Iran.
Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego

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Reconfiguring Islamic tradition

Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
Samira Haj
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Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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Cultural Memory in the Present

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