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2 Politics and Law
Te Rise and Fall of
Human Rights
Cynicism and Politics in
Occupied Palestine
Lori Allen
Tis book provides a groundbreaking
ethnographic investigation of the
Palestinian human rights world. Tough
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. Te books
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 refection on
the dominant discourse of emancipation
in our times.
Jean Comarof, Harvard University
Stanford Studies in Human Rights
288 pp., 2013
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Life as Politics
How Ordinary People
Change the Middle East
Second Edition
Asef Bayat
First 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. Te second edition includes
three new chapters on the Arab
Spring and Irans Green Movement
and is fully updated to refect 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 efecting transformation
through the discovery and creation
of new social spaces within which to
make their claims heard. Tis 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 frst 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
344 pp., 2013
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Back Stories
U.S. News Production and
Palestinian Politics
Amahl 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 of 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.
Tis 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
344 pp., 21 illustrations, 2012
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3 Politics and Law
Table of Contents
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History ........................................... 8- 12
Culture and Religion ............ 13-15
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Time in the Shadows
Confnement in
Counterinsurgencies
Laleh Khalili
Detention and confnement of
combatants and large groups of
civilians have become fxtures 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 ofshore 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, Guantnamo 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 pacifcation of Indochina and Algeria.
Khalili defly demonstrates that whatever the form of incarcerationvisible
or invisible, ofshore or inland, containing combatants or civilianslib-
eral states have consistently acted illiberally in their counterinsurgency
confnements. As our tactics of war have shifed beyond slaughter to
elaborate systems of detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit
of asymmetric wars. Ultimately, Khalili confrms that as tactics of
counterinsurgency have been rendered more humane, they have also
increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage wars.
Laleh Khalilis 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 Khalilis 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 magnifcent contribution supplies the answers.
Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics, author of After Empire
368 pp., 2012
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4 Politics and Law
Is Tere a
Middle East?
Te Evolution of a
Geopolitical Concept
Edited by Michael E. Bonine,
Abbas Amanat, and Michael
Ezekiel Gasper
Tis volume ofers a diverse set of
voicesfrom political and cultural
historians, to social scientists, geog-
raphers, and political economiststo
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 defnition 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 efects of this unwieldy
and profoundly political category than
to debate its defnition. 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
344 pp., 6 illustrations, 30 maps, 1 fgure, 2011
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Gridlock
Labor, Migration, and
Human Trafcking in Dubai
Pardis Mahdavi
Legislators hoping to combat hu-
man trafcking 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 employmentwhether on the
street, in a feld, at a restaurant, or at
someones house. Gridlock explores
how migrants actual experiences in
Dubai contrast with the typical discus-
sionsand global moral panicabout
human trafcking. Mahdavi power-
fully contrasts migrants own stories
with interviews with U.S. policy mak-
ers, revealing the gaping disconnect
between policies on human trafcking
and the realities of forced labor and
migration in the Persian Gulf.
This is an extraordinarily well-re-
searched and gripping book on human
trafcking in Dubai. With impressive
clarity, Mahdavi describes the complex
problem of trafcked 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
264 pp., 7 photographs, 2011
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Consuming Desires
Family Crisis and the State
in the Middle East
Frances S. Hasso
As 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 groupsthe
state, religious leaders, opposition
groups, young people, men and women
of diferent classes and locations, and
feminist organizationsin 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.
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
272 pp., 2010
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Revolutionary
Womanhood
Feminisms, Modernity, and
the State in Nassers Egypt
Laura Bier
Te frst 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
264 pp., 2011
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Te 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 benefts while simultaneously
demanding more taxes and resources.
Tis has lead to a weakened state
deteriorating public services, low lev-
els of law enforcement, poor opportu-
nities for employment and economic
developmentwhile simultaneously
infated 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 fscal crisis
and political change in Egypt.
Tracing the authoritarian states 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
224 pp., 26 fgures, 2011
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Social Movements,
Mobilization, and
Contestation in the
Middle East and
North Africa
Edited by Joel Beinin and
Frdric Vairel
Te Middle East and North Africa
have become places that almost
everyone knows something
about. Too frequently written
of as culturally defned 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. Tis volume
reveals a rich array of mobilizations
and ofers 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
328 pp., 3 tables, 2011
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now in paperback
Business Networks
in Syria
Te Political Economy of
Authoritarian Resilience
Bassam Haddad
Collusion between business com-
munities and the state can lead to
a measure of security for those in
power, but this kind of interaction
ofen 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 ofcials 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 ac-
count of the role of Syrias crony capi-
talist networks in the process of partial
privatization after 1986. Revealed for
the frst time are the key relationships
which defne Syrias 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
280 pp., 2011
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Adaptable Autocrats
Regime Power in
Egypt and Syria
Joshua Stacher
Te 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 confgurations
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 Easts 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 signifcant diferences
between these two political systems.
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University
256 pp., 2012
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Middle East
Authoritarianisms
Governance, Contestation,
and Regime Resilience in
Syria and Iran
Edited by Steven Heydemann
and Reinoud Leenders
Te contributors to this volume
consider the Syrian and Iranian
regimeswhat they share in common
and what distinguishes them. Too
frequently, authoritarianism has been
assumed to be a generic descriptor
of the region, and diferences 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
312 pp., 4 fgures, 2 tables, 2013
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Te One-State
Condition
Occupation and Democracy
in Israel/Palestine
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir
Since the start of the occupation of
Palestinian territories in 1967, Israels
domination of the Palestinians has
deprived an entire population of any
political status or protection. But even
decades on, most people speak of
this ruleboth in everyday political
discussion and in legal and academic
debatesas temporary, as a state
of afairs incidental and external to
the Israeli regime. In Te One-State
Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi
Ophir directly challenge this belief.
Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the rul-
ing apparatusthe technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the
General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied
TerritoriesAzoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/
Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation
of diferential rule over populations of difering status. Israeli citizenship is
shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights.
Tough many Israelis, on both political right and lef, 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 efects 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 feld.
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
328 pp., 1 map, 19 illustrations, 2012
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Palestinian Village
Histories
Geographies of
the Displaced
Rochelle A. Davis
Trough 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. Tis 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 refections
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
360 pp., 5 illustrations, 5 maps, 2010
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History
Bazaar Politics
Power and Pottery in an
Afghan Market Town
Noah Coburn
Ofering the frst 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 confict and the insurgency,
misunderstandings that have ul-
timately contributed to the po-
litical unrest rather than resolved it.
Tough on frst blush the potters of
Istalif may seem far removed from in-
ternational afairs, it is only through
understanding politics, power, and
culture on the local level that we can
then shed new light on Afghani-
stans difcult 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 Barfeld, Boston University
272 pp., 3 tables, 2 maps, 6 photos, 2011
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reissued with a new introduction
Te Emergence of
Modern Afghanistan
Politics of Reform and
Modernization
Vartan Gregorian
In this reissue, Vartan Gregorian ofers
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.
Te book remains as distinctive today
as when it was frst published. It is the
only broad work on Afghan history
that considers ethnicity as the defn-
ing infuence over the course of the
countrys history, rather than religion.
In light of todays ongoing struggle to
develop a coherent national identity,
the question of Afghan nationalism
remains a particularly signifcant issue.
Gregorian has produced a major work
of scholarship, which in one volume
provides us with what may well be the
defnitive survey of the rise of modern
Afghanistan . . . . No fner scholarship
combining a far-reaching and balanced
perspective with detailed and careful
scrutinycould have been asked for.
The American Historical Review
680 pp., 3 tables, 16 illustrations, 2 maps, 2013
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Te Lebanese
Connection
Corruption, Civil War,
and the International
Drug Trafc
Jonathan V. Marshall
Using previously secret government
records, Te Lebanese Connection
uncovers the story of how Lebanons
economy and political system were
corrupted by drug proftsand how,
by fnancing its many ruthless militia,
Lebanons drug trade contributed to
the countrys greatest catastrophe, its
ffeen-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 conficts.
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
280 pp., 2012
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9 History
Connecting Histories
in Afghanistan
Market Relations and State
Formation on a Colonial
Frontier
Shah Mahmoud Hanif
Looking 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 signifcant
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
288 pp., 6 tables, 10 illustrations, 5 maps, 2011
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New Babylonians
A History of Jews in
Modern Iraq
Orit Bashkin
Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves
as Iraqi patriots, their community
which 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.
Orit Bashkins riveting new book is,
without doubt, the frst 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
328 pp., 2012
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Apostles of Modernity
Saint-Simonians and
the Civilizing Mission
in Algeria
Osama W. Abi-Mershed
Tis study of the specialized military
Ofces of Arab Afairs in Algeria
during the formative decades of
French rule from 1830 to 1870
disputes the conventional view that
the doctrine of assimilation governed
Frances 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
344 pp., 15 tables, 4 fgures, 2 maps, 2010
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Tell Tis in My
Memory
Stories of Enslavement
from Egypt, Sudan, and the
Ottoman Empire
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Tell Tis 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. Te framework of racial identity
constructed through these stories
proves instrumental in explaining
how countries later confrontedor
notthe legacy of the slave trade.
Today, these vocabularies of slavery
live on for contemporary refugees
whose forced migrations ofen
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
264 pp., 2012
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Ordinary Egyptians
Creating the Modern Nation
through Popular Culture
Ziad Fahmy
Tis 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 shifs
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 feld is
indispensable.
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
264 pp., 8 tables, 1 fgure, 8 illustrations, 2011
9780804772129 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
9780804772112 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale
Juridical Humanity
A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir
Samera Esmeir ofers 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. Tis 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
384 pp., 2012
9780804781251 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
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11 History
A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the
Cairo Fire, and the Politics
of Decolonization in Egypt
Nancy Reynolds
Tough now remembered as an act
of anti-colonial protest leading to the
Egyptian military coup of 1952, the
Cairo fre that burned through down-
town stores and businesses appeared
to many at the time as an act of
urban self-destruction and national
suicide. Ofering a revised history,
Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades
leading up to the fre to show that the
lines between foreign and native in
city space and commercial merchan-
dise were never so starkly drawn.
Sixty years before Egypts Tahrir Square
exploded in protest against Hosni
Mubarak, Cairo burst into revolution
with the great fre 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
376 pp., 24 illustrations, 2 maps, 2012
9780804781268 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
For Better, For Worse
Te Marriage Crisis Tat
Made Modern Egypt
Hanan Kholoussy
For Better, For Worse explores
how marriage became the lens
through which Egyptians critiqued
larger socioeconomic and political
concerns. Delving into the vastly
diferent 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 ofers 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-
lorsnot single womenstoked 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
200 pp., 4 illustrations, 2010
9780804769600 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale
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12 History
Ottoman Brothers
Muslims, Christians, and
Jews in Early Twentieth-
Century Palestine
Michelle U. Campos
Ottoman 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 confict in Palestine was not
immanent, but rather it erupted
in tension with the promises and
shortcomings of civic Ottomanism.
Ottoman Brothers ofers 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 confict. Campos deliv-
ers a wonderfully rich contribution to
the study of the modern Middle East.
Charles Kurzman,
University of North Carolina
360 pp., 2 fgures, 20 illustrations, 5 maps, 2011
9780804770682 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
9780804770675 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale
Ottoman Ulema,
Turkish Republic
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 establish-
ment, the ulema, during the frst 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. Tis 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 fgures, 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
224 pp., 2011
9780804773119 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
Te Margins of Empire
Kurdish Militias in the
Ottoman Tribal Zone
Janet Klein
At the turn of the twentieth century,
the Ottoman state identifed 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 ofen attempt to
do so through state channels.
Klein sheds light on some of the most
important and complicated relations
and negotiations the Ottoman of-
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 signifcant period
in the history of the Middle East.
Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
288 pp., 2011
9780804775700 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
13 Culture and Religion
And Ten We Work
for God
Rural Sunni Islam in
Western Turkey
Kimberly Hart
Sunni Islam structures individual
lives through ritualsbirth, circum-
cision, marriage, military service,
deathand 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 purifed 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 zyrek,
University of California, San Diego
312 pp., 2013
9780804786607 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
9780804783309 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale
Mixing Musics
Turkish Jewry and the
Urban Landscape of a
Sacred Song
Maureen Jackson
Tis 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-frst centuries.
It focuses on the Jewish religious
repertoire, the Mafirim, which
developed in parallel with secular
Ottoman court music. Trough
memoirs, personal interviews, and
new archival sources, the book
explores areas ofen lef 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 fgures, 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 Culture
272 pp., 2013
9780804780155 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Contested Conversions
to Islam
Confessionalization and
Community in the Early
Modern Ottoman Empire
Tijana Krsti
Tis 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,
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 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, 2011
Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
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Ghosts of Revolution
Rekindled Memories of
Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi
In 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, frst under the Shah
and later by the Islamic Republic.
Writing about her own sufering and
survival and sharing the stories of her
fellow inmates, she details the painful
reality of prison life and ofers an inti-
mate look at a critical period of social
and political transformation in Iran.
This searing memoir of womens vis-
ceral pain, principled resilience, and
redemptive imagination in Irans 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, 2011
9780804772013 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale
Burying the Beloved
Marriage, Realism, and
Reform in Modern Iran
Amy Motlagh
Burying 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
fction read gender, Amy Motlagh
critically engages and highlights
the difculties 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., 2012
9780804775892 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
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 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. Te contributors
come from the felds 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 difcult and conten-
tious topic.
Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University
Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center
Press
336 pp., 2011
9780804774819 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
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In the Time of Oil
Piety, Memory, and Social
Life in an Omani Town
Mandana E. Limbert
Tis 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 resources future depletion.
Focusing on shifing 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 ofers 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
264 pp., 5 illustrations, 1 map, 2010
9780804756273 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale
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Silencing the Sea
Secular Rhythms in
Palestinian Poetry
Khaled Furani
Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian
poets debates about their craf as
they traverse multiple and competing
realities of secularism and religion,
expulsion and occupation, art, poli-
tics, immortality, death, fame, and
obscurity. Tis excursion ofers new-
found 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 wonderful ethnography of contem-
porary Arabic poetry. Khaled Furani
has made a signifcant 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 refected in
Arabic poetry. This not simply a book
for literary specialists, but for anyone
interested in thinking about the difer-
ent dimensions of secular experience.
Talal Asad, The City University of New York
312 pp., 2012
9780804776462 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
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