2015 Middle East Studies Catalog

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Palestinian Commemoration

in IsraelCalendars, Monuments, and

MartyrsTAMIR SOREK

Tis book considers the developmento collective memory and nationalcommemoration among the Palestin-ian citizens o Israel, commemorationsthat are uniquely tied to Palestinianencounters with the Israeli stateapparatus and with Jewish-Israelicitizens o Israel, and inormed bytheir position as Israeli citizensthemselves. Sorek charts the popularpoliticization o our key eventstheNakba, the Kar Qasim Massacre,the Land Day, and the October killing o thirteen Palestiniancitizens in Israelto investigate arange o commemorative sites, includ-ing memorial rallies, monuments,poetry, the education system, politicalsummer camps, and individual histori-cal remembrance. Ultimately, Sorekshows that Palestinian citizens havedeveloped commemorations thatreflect longstanding tensions betweenPalestinian citizens and the Israelistate, as well as growing pressuresacross Palestinian societies withinand beyond Israel. Teir collectivememory offers both moments oprotest and points o dialogue, bothcautious and circuitous.

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Digital Militarism

Israels Occupation in the SocialMedia Age

ADI KUNTSMAN ANDREBECCA L. STEIN

Israels occupation has been trans-ormed in the social media age. Vio-lent politics are interwoven with globalnetworking practices, protocols, andaesthetics. Israeli soldiers share mobileuploads in real-time. Official Israelimilitary spokesmen announce wars

on witter. And civilians encounterstate violence on their newseeds andmobile screens. Tis book traces therise o Israeli digital militarismboththe reach o social media into Israelimilitary theaters and the occupationsimpact on everyday Israeli socialmedia cultureto show how socialmedia unctions as a crucial theater inwhich the Israeli military occupationis supported and sustained.

Digital Militarismis a pioneering book,showing how inormation and com-munication technologies have turnedinto wartime arsenals, and the Internetand social networks into digital battle-fields. Just when one thinks that all hasbeen said about the Israeli/Palestinianconflict, a totally original perspectiveemerges. A must read.

Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University

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Culture and Religion ........... 13-15

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The One-State Condition

Occupation and Democracy inIsrael/Palestine

ARIELLA AZOULAY AND ADI OPHIR

Since the start o the occupation othe Palestinian territories in ,Israels domination o the Palestinianshas deprived an entire population oany political status or protection. Buteven decades on, most people speak othis ruleboth in everyday politicaldiscussion and in legal and academic

debatesas temporary, as a stateo affairs incidental and external tothe Israeli regime. In Te One-StateCondition, Ariella Azoulay and AdiOphir directly challenge this belie.Tey show that acknowledgement othe one-state condition is not only aprerequisite or considering a one- ortwo-state solution; it is a prerequisiteor advancing new ideas to movebeyond the trap o this alse dilemma.

One o the most remarkable books writ-ten so ar in this field.

Hassan Jabareen,General Director of Adalah, The Legal

Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel


Police Encounters

Security and Surveillance inGaza under Egyptian Rule

ILANA FELDMAN

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a resulto a war, a ailed effort to maintainArab Palestine. Troughout the twentyyears o its administration (), Egyptian policing o Gazaconcerned itsel not only with crimeand politics, but also with control osocial and moral order. Drawing on

a rich and detailed archive o dailypolice records, Police Encountersde-scribes an extensive security apparatusguided by intersecting concerns aboutnational interest, social propriety, andeveryday illegality.

In pursuit o security, Egyptianpolicing established a relatively saesociety, but also one that blockedindependent political activity. Terepressive aspects o the security

society that developed in Gaza underEgyptian rule are beyond dispute. Butrepression does not tell the entire storyabout its impact on Gaza. Policing alsoprovided opportunities or people tomake claims o government, influencetheir neighbors, and protect theiramilies.


Citizen Strangers

Palestinians and the Birth ofIsraels Liberal Settler State

SHIRA ROBINSON

Following the war and the cre-ation o the state o Israel, PalestinianArabs comprised just fifeen percento the population but held a muchlarger portion o its territory. Offeredimmediate suffrage rights and, in time,citizenship status, they nonethelessound their movement, employment,

and civil rights restricted by a draco-nian military government put in placeto acilitate the colonization o theirlands. Citizen Strangerstraces how Jew-ish leaders struggled to advance theirhistoric settler project while orced bynew international human rights normsto share political power with the verypeople they sought to uproot.

Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstratesthat the treatment o Palestinian citizens

in Israel is a mirror o Israel itsel. Care-ully tracing the historical dynamics othe institutions that constructed Pales-tinian residents as both liberal citizensand colonial subjects, Robinson showshow these institutions also shaped Israelicitizenship, legal order, and society.

Gershon Shafir,University of California, San Diego



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Middle EastAuthoritarianisms

Governance, Contestation,and Regime Resilience in Syriaand Iran

EDITED BY STEVEN HEYDEMANNAND REINOUD LEENDERS

Te contributors to this volumeconsider the Syrian and Iranianregimeswhat they share in commonand what distinguishes them. oorequently, authoritarianism has beenassumed to be a generic descriptoro the region, and differences amongregimes have been overlooked. Butas the political trajectories o MiddleEastern states diverge in years ahead,with some perhaps consolidatingdemocratic gains while others remain-ing under distinct and resilient ormso authoritarian rule, understandingvariations in modes o authoritarian

governance and the attributes thatpromote regime resilience becomes anincreasingly urgent priority.

Tis book provides unparalleled insightinto how the Syrian and Iranianregimes use economic, social welare,judicial, and cultural policies to main-tain their rule.

Vickie Langohr,College of the Holy Cross

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The Reckoning of Pluralism

Political Belonging and theDemands of History in urkey

KABIR TAMBAR

Te urkish Republic was oundedsimultaneously on the ideal o universalcitizenship and on acts o extraordinaryexclusionary violence. oday, nearlya century later, the claims o minoritycommunities and the politics o plural-ism continue to ignite explosive debate.Te Reckoning o Pluralismcenters on

the case o urkeys Alevi community tooffer a critical appraisal o the tensionso democratic pluralism. Alevis haveseen their loyalties questioned andexperienced sectarian hostility, and yettheir community is also championed asbearers o the nations olkloric heritage.ambar ocuses on these orms o socialinequality that pluralism perpetuatesand on the political vulnerabilitiesto which minority communities arethereby exposed.

ambar explores in concrete terms the waysin which state authorized narratives o polit-ical belonging at once enable inclusion and

perpetuate the subordination o difference.Te ethnographic detail is illuminating; theargument subtle and nuanced.

Joan W. Scott,Institute for Advanced Study


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Shattered Dreams of

Revolution

From Liberty to Violence in theLate Ottoman Empire

BEDROSS DER MATOSSIAN

Te Ottoman revolution o is astudy in contradictionsa positivemaniestation o modernity intendedto reinstate constitutional rule, yetultimately a negative event thatshook the undamental structureso the empire, opening up ethnic,religious, and political conflicts. DerMatossian shows how the undoing othe revolutionary dreams could beound in the very oundations o therevolution itsel. Inherent ambiguitiesand contradictions in the revolutionsgoals and the reluctance o both theauthors o the revolution and theempires ethnic groups to come to acompromise regarding the new politi-cal ramework o the empire ultimatelyproved untenable.

Tis is a masterly account o the Youngurk Revolution. Few scholars havedevised such a stimulating and multi-vocal ramework. As such it representsa major contribution to the study o theYoung urk period and its impact on thenon-dominant ethno-religious groups.

Eyal Ginio,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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6 HISTORY

Making History in Iran

Education, Nationalism, andPrint Culture

FARZIN VEJDANI

Tis enlightening book draws onpreviously unexamined primarysourcesincluding histories, schoolcurricula, pedagogical materials, peri-odicals, and memoirsto demonstratehow the social locations o historianswrit broadly influenced their inter-pretations o the past. Te relative

autonomy o these historians had adirect bearing on whether historyupheld the status quo or became aninstrument or radical change, and thewriting o history became central todebates on social and political reorm,the role o women in society, and thecriteria or citizenship and national-ity. Ultimately, this book traces howcontending visions o Iranian historywere increasingly unified as a central-ized Iranian state emerged in the early

twentieth century.

An illuminating contribution that beau-tiully captures the process by which therich cultural world o gunpowder em-

pire was ushered out by the historicistpedagogy o the modern nation statein Iran.

Yoav Di-Capua,The University of Texas at Austin

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Goodbye, Antoura

A Memoir of the ArmenianGenocide

KARNIG PANIAN

Te history o World War I is steepedin tragedy. But i one looks back at thisworld conflict, a single word amongall others asserts its right to define theunderlying tragedy: genocide. KarnigPanian (-) was a young childwhen he was caught up in the Arme-nian Genocide. With heartbreaking and

yet affectingly poetic language, Paniandescribes how, afer surviving a deathmarch through a desert inerno thatclaimed the rest o his amily, he wassent to an orphanage run by urkishadministrators in the Lebanese towno Antoura. What went on there wasa planned effort to destroy the aith,culture, tradition, and the very identityo Armenian children. Tis is a remark-able and unorgettable book. It is anindispensable tool or awakening our

consciences and restoring our collectivesense o decency and our solidarity withall those who have suffered the horrorso genocide.

Vartan Gregorian

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Sephardi Lives

A Documentary History,

JULIA PHILLIPS COHEN ANDSARAH ABREVAYA STEIN

Sephardi Livespresents an intimateview o how Sephardim experiencedthe major regional and world eventso the modern eranatural disasters,violence and wars, the transitionrom empire to nation-states, and theHolocaust. Offering a ground-break-

ing documentary history with morethan primary sources originallywritten in languages by or aboutSephardi Jews, the selections crossa vast range o materials, includingprivate letters rom amily collections,rabbinical writings, documents ostate, memoirs and diaries, courtrecords, selections rom the popularpress, and scholarship. Sephardi Livespreserves the cultural richness andhistorical complexity o a Sephardi

world that is no more.

Sephardi Livesis a book like no other.It is a work o staggering erudition anddeep empirical reach that the editorsdiscerning, creative, and intelligenthands deliver to the reader with defcare and smooth subtlety.

Alan Mikhail, Yale University

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH

HISTORY AND CULTURE


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The Great Social LaboratorySubjects of Knowledge in Colonialand Postcolonial Egypt

OMNIA EL SHAKRY

Te Great Social Laboratoryis a bril-liant study o the tension between impe-rial projects and nationalist imaginings.Examining the ways in which colonialEgypt became a site and object o socialscientific knowledge, Omnia El Shakryoffers a seminal contribution to debates

about the place o colonialism in the de-velopment o modern science.

Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University


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Juridical Humanity

A Colonial History

SAMERA ESMEIR

Juridical Humanity is an impressiveworkoriginal, soundly argued, andthought provoking. Although existing his-tories o law distinguish between colonialand pre-colonial periods, Esmeir arguespersuasively against the distinction. Tebook deserves to be widely read by every-one interested in the Middle East.

Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center


An Unpromising Land

Jewish Migration to Palestine inthe Early wentieth Century

GUR ALROEY

Gur Alroey has reocused the great Jew-ish migration o the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries, putting themigration to Palestine into its properperspective. By doing so, he expands ourunderstanding o not only that smallstream but its larger global scope. Bymaking the immigrants to Palestine just

like, but still different than, those to theUnited States, he both demystifies theormer and sheds light on the latter.

Hasia Diner, New York University


HISTORY AND CULTURE

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Emissaries from the

Holy Land

Te Sephardic Diaspora and the

Practice of Pan-Judaism in theEighteenth Century

MATTHIAS B. LEHMANN

In this probing and timely study, Leh-mann brings to lie the effects o earlymodern globalization on the construc-tion o differences and solidarities acrossthe Jewish diaspora. It is a history richin paradoxes and consequences or howwe think about the ties between the di-aspora and modern-day Israel.

Francesca Trivellato, Yale UniversitySTANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH

HISTORY AND CULTURE

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HISTORY 9

The Business of Identity

Jews, Muslims, and Economic Lifein Medieval Egypt

PHILLIP I. ACKERMAN-LIEBERMAN

Te Cairo Geniza is the largest andrichest store o documentary evidenceor the medieval Islamic world. Tisbook seeks to revolutionize the wayscholars use that treasure trove. PhillipAckerman-Lieberman draws on legaldocuments rom the Geniza to recon-ceive o lie in the medieval Islamic

marketplace. In place o the sharedpractices broadly understood byscholars to have transcended cones-sional boundaries, he reveals howJewish merchants in Egypt employeddistinctive trading practices. Highlyinfluenced by Jewish law, these com-mercial practices served to maniesttheir Jewish identity in the medievalIslamic context. In light o thisdistinctiveness, Ackerman-Liebermanproposes an alternative model or

using the Geniza documents as a toolor understanding daily lie in themedieval Islamic world as a whole.

Tis is a landmark book, challengingprevalent misconceptions about Jew-ish history and offering remarkablyoriginal insights into the ormation ominority cultures.

Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College


HISTORY AND CULTURE

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Current Flow

Te Electrification of PalestineRONEN SHAMIR

Current Flowexamines the historyo electrification o British-ruledPalestine in the s, as it marked,affirmed, and produced social, politi-cal, and economic difference betweenArabs and Jews. Considering theinterplay o British colonial interests,the Jewish-Zionist leanings o a com-missioned electric company, and Arab

opposition within the case o the JaffaPower House, Ronen Shamir revealshow electrification was central inassembling a material inrastructure oethno-national separation in Palestinelong beore political partition planshad ever been envisioned.

In this strikingly original book, RonenShamir traces the electrification os Palestine by way o an expandinggrid o wires and poles, technicians andofficials, texts and images. How was itthat the enterprise designed to connect

Arabs and Jews in a single, all-Palestinesystem, ended up energizing those veryethno-national divides, anticipatingmore thoroughgoing separations toollow?

Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

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New Babylonians

A History of Jews in Modern IraqORIT BASHKIN

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselvesas Iraqi patriots, their communitywhich had existed in Iraq or morethan , yearswas displaced ol-lowing the establishment o the state oIsrael. New Babylonianschronicles thelives o these Jews, their urban Arabculture, and their hopes or a demo-cratic nation-state. It studies their

ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism,modernity, and reorm, ocusing onIraqi Jews who internalized narrativeso Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and onthose who turned to communism inthe s.

Te first attempt at providing a ull por-trait o the rise and all o the Baghdadi

Jewish community in the course o theeventul twentieth century. Bashkinsnarrative is a shining example o solidscholarship and, at the same time, acoherent account o the vicissitudes othe modern history o a dynamic Arab-

Jewish community the like o which isno more in evidence.

Sasson Somekh



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The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in theEighteenth-Century OttomanLevant

DANA SAJDI

Tis book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shavedand coiffed, and probably circumcisedand healed, in Damascus in theeighteenth century. Te barber mayhave been a nobody, but he wrote ahistory book, a record o the events

that took place in his city during hislietime. Dana Sajdi investigates thesignificance o this book, and offersthe first ull-length microhistory oan individual commoner in Ottomanand Islamic history. In examining thelie and work o Ibn Budayr, she alsouncovers the emergence o a largertrend o history writing by unusualauthors and a new phenomenon:nouveau literacy.

Te Barber o Damascusbrings to liea world o unexpected writers o history.Ibn Budayr and his work as barber andhistorian disrupt our notions o genreand give us a marvelous portrait o Da-mascus in the eighteenth century.

Leslie Peirce, New York University

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Old Texts, New Practices

Islamic Reform in ModernMorocco

ETTY TEREM

In , al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, aprominent Moroccan Islamic scholarcompleted his massive compilationo Maliki atwas. An eleven-volumeset, it is the most extensive collectiono atwas written and published inthe Arab Middle East during the latenineteenth and early twentieth centu-

ries. In considering al-Wazzanis work,Etty erem challenges conventionalscholarship that represents Islamictradition as inimical to modernity andprovides a new ramework or concep-tualizing modern Islamic reorm. Herinnovative and insightul reorientationconstructs the origins o modern Islamas firmly rooted in the messy complex-ity o everyday lie.

Are Islamic law and modern social

needs compatible? In this thoughtuland engaging book, Etty erem providesrare insight into how one mans strugglewith this issue produced a body o workthat has great currency or the issuesnow conronting all those who will beimpacted by the Arab Spring.

Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University

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Memories of AbsenceHow Muslims Remember Jewsin Morocco

AOMAR BOUM

Memories o Absenceinvestigateshow our successive generations inMorocco remember the lost Jewishcommunity. Moroccan attitudestoward the Jewish population havechanged over the decades, and a newdebate has emerged at the center o

the Moroccan nation: Where does theJew fit in the context o an Arab andIslamic monarchy? Can Jews simulta-neously be Moroccans and Zionists?Drawing on oral testimony and stories,on rumor and humor, Aomar Boumexamines the strong shif in opinionand attitude over the generations andincreasingly anti-Semitic belies inyounger people, whose only exposureto Jews has been through internationalmedia and national memory.

Nothing short o extraordinary, Memo-ries o Absenceis theoretically sophis-ticated, empirically rich, and infinitelysensitive to its subjects. A necessaryand wonderul work or all invested inMuslim-Jewish relations, the cultures oNorth Arica, and the shaping o trans-

generational memory in the contempo-rary world.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein,University of California, Los Angeles


HISTORY


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SECOND EDITION

Life as PoliticsHow Ordinary People Change the

Middle East

ASEF BAYAT

First published just months beorethe Arab Spring swept across theregion, this timely and propheticbook sheds light on the ongoing actso protest, practice, and direct dailyaction. Te second edition includesthree new chapters on the Arab Spring

and Irans Green Movement and isully updated to reflect recent events.At its core, the book remains a studyo agency in times o constraint. Inaddition to ongoing protests, mil-lions o people across the MiddleEast are effecting transormationthrough the discovery and creationo new social spaces within whichto make their claims heard. Tiseye-opening book makes an importantcontribution to global debates over

the meaning o social movementsand the dynamics o social change.

Praise for the first edition

A brilliant alternative perspective on pub-lic lie by taking seriously the daily livesand the social agency o ordinary people.

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11POLITICS AND LAW

Gaining Freedoms

Claiming Space in Istanbuland Berlin

BERNA TURAM

Gaining Freedomsreveals a new locusor global political change: everydayurban contestation. Counteringcommon assumptions that urkey isstrongly polarized between Islamistsand secularists, uram illustrates howcontested urban space encouragescreative politics, the kind o politics

that advance rights, expression, andrepresentation shared between piousand secular groups. Exceptionalmoments o protest, like the recentGezi protests that bookend this study,offer clear external signs o upheavaland disruption, but it is the everydaycontestation and interaction that orgealliances and inspire change. Ulti-mately, uram argues that the processo democratization is not the reductiono conflict, but rather the capacity to

orm new alliances out o conflict.

Drawing on the lie-worlds o urkish citi-zens in Istanbul and urkish residents inBerlin, Gaining Freedomsrepresents oneo the best treatments o the spatiality opolitics in the context o the Middle East.

Asef Bayat,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Sectarian Gulf

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and theArab Spring Tat Wasnt

TOBY MATTHIESEN

In theSectarian Gul, oby Matthiesenoffers the first assessment o the ArabSpring across the Gul States. Withfirst-hand accounts rom Bahrain,Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesentells the story o the early protests, andilluminates how the regimes quicklysuppressed these movements. Te

Shia threat has become the catchalljustification by regimes to reusedemands or democratic reorm andaccountability. While this strategyhas ensured regime survival in theshort term, Matthiesen warns o direconsequencesor the social abric othe Gul States, or the rise o transna-tional Islamist networks, and or theuture o the Middle East.

Tis short book will help readers put

into context developments across theregion, and understand the true signifi-cance o the resurgence o an alarmingnew orm o sectarian politics.

Marc Lynch,George Washington University

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12 POLITICS AND LAW

The Rise and Fall of

Human Rights

Cynicism and Politics inOccupied Palestine

LORI ALLEN

Tis book provides a groundbreakingethnographic investigation o thePalestinian human rights world.Tough human rights activity began asa means o struggle against the Israelioccupation, it has since been proes-sionalized and politicized, transormedinto a public relations tool or politicallegitimization and state-making. Inailing to end the Israeli occupation,protect basic human rights, or estab-lish an accountable Palestinian govern-ment, the human rights industry hasbecome the object o cynicism. But arrom indicating apathy, such cynicismgenerates a productive critique odomestic politics and Western inter-ventionism. Te books broad appeallies in illuminating the successes andailures o Palestinians varied engage-ments with human rights in their questor independence.

Tis powerully argued book constitutesa valuable contribution to the studyo both the global discourse o humanrights, and the worsening situation othe Palestinians.

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

STANFORD STUDIES IN HUMAN

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Time in the Shadows

Confinement inCounterinsurgencies

LALEH KHALILI

ime in the Shadowsinvestigates thetwo major liberal counterinsurgencieso our day: Israeli occupation oPalestine and the U.S. War on error.In rich detail, the book investigatesAbu Ghraib, Guantnamo Bay, CIAblack sites, the Khiam Prison, andGaza, among others, and links them to

a history o colonial counterinsurgen-cies rom the Boer War and the U.S.Indian wars, to Vietnam, the Britishsmall wars in Malaya, Kenya, Adenand Cyprus, and the French pacifica-tion o Indochina and Algeria.

Laleh Khalilis ime in the Shadows is theghostly other o Te U.S. Army/MarineCorps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.Def and inormative, the book providesa historical excavation o the imperatives

o counterinsurgency doctrinesrom theideas that drove the European colonialwars in the dying days o those empiresto the U.S. and Israeli states o warare inour own times. A serious book that shouldbe required reading.

Vijay Prashad, Trinity College


Islam in the Balance

Ideational Treats in Arab PoliticsLAWRENCE RUBIN

Islam in the Balanceoffers ananalysis o how political ideology canthreaten states and how states reactto ideational threats. Using compara-tive case studiesEgypt and SaudiArabiaLawrence Rubin advances ourunderstanding o how, why, and whenideology affects threat perception andstate policy. Rubin makes clear that

transnational ideologies may presenta greater and more immediatenational security threat than shifsin the military balance o power. Tebook has significant implicationsor international relations theoryand engages important debates incomparative politics about authoritari-anism and Islamic activism.

Tis groundbreaking book unitestheoretical innovation with area-based

insight. New conceptsideational se-curity dilemma and ideological balanc-ingexplain the dynamics o regional

politics in the Middle East.

Patrick James,University of Southern California

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13CULTURE AND RELIGION

A Society of Young Women

Opportunities of Place, Power, andReform in Saudi Arabia

AMLIE LE RENARD

Te cities o Saudi Arabia are amongthe most gender segregated in theworld. In recent years the Saudigovernment has elt increasing in-ternational pressure to offer greaterroles or women in society. Implicit inthese calls or reorm, however, is anassumption that the only real society

is male society. Little considerationhas been given to the rapidly evolvingactivities within womens spaces. Tisbook joins young urban women intheir daily livesin the workplace, onthe emale university campus, at themallto show how these women aretransorming Saudi cities rom withinand creating their own urban, proes-sional, consumerist liestyles.

Tis splendid ethnography shatters

many o the myths surrounding Saudiwomen. Amlie Le Renard brilliantlyshows that women in Saudi Arabiadont need to be saved rom their cultureor religion and have invented creativeways to talk back to power.

Pascal Menoret,New York University Abu Dhabi


Live and Die Like a Man

Gender Dynamics in Urban EgyptFARHA GHANNAM

Over a period o nearly twenty years,Farha Ghannam lived and conductedresearch in al-Zawiya, a low-incomeneighborhood in northern Cairo.Detailing her daily encounters andongoing interviews, she develops liestories that reveal the everyday practicesand struggles o the neighborhoodover the years. Against this backdrop

o individual experiences, Ghannamdevelops the concept o masculinetrajectories to account or the variouspaths men can take to embody socialnorms. In showing how men work torealize a male ideal, she counters theprevalent dehumanizing stereotypes oMiddle Eastern men all too requentlyreproduced in media reports, and opensnew spaces or rethinking patriarchalstructures and their constraining effectson both men and women.

Farha Ghannam is ar ahead o theacademic curve, setting an imposing stan-dard or uture scholarship on the ArabSpring and gender across the Middle Eastand North Arica.

Mark LeVine,University of California, Irvine


Back Stories

U.S. News Production andPalestinian Politics

AMAHL A. BISHARA

Amahl Bishara demonstrates how Pales-tinians play integral roles in producingU.S. news and how U.S. journalism inturn shapes Palestinian politics. U.S.objectivity is in Palestinian journalistshands, and Palestinian sel-determina-tion cannot be ully understood withoutattention to the journalist standing offto the side, quietly taking notes. BackStoriesexamines new stories big andsmall to investigate urgent questionsabout objectivity, violence, the state,and the production o knowledge. Tisbook reaches beyond the headlinesinto the lives o Palestinians during thesecond intiada to give readers a newvantage point on both Palestinians andjournalism.

Amahl Bishara breaks new ground in

her exploration o Palestinian-Israeli-American dynamics o control, protest,and resistance. Her keen insights into thesecond intiada help us better understandtwo critical issues: what is happening onthe ground in Palestine and how theseevents are being reported by the Ameri-can media.

Rami Khouri



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Contested Conversions

to Islam

Narratives of Religious Changein the Early Modern OttomanEmpire

TIJANA KRSTI

Tis book explores how Ottoman Mus-lims and Christians understood thephenomenon o conversion to Islamrom the fifeenth to the seventeenth

centuries. Te Ottomans ruled overa large non-Muslim population andconversion to Islam was a contentioussubject or all communities, especiallyMuslims themselves. Ottoman Muslimand Christian authors sought to definethe boundaries and membership otheir communities while promotingtheir own religious and politicalagendas. ijana Krsti argues that theproduction and circulation o narra-tives about conversion to Islam was

central to the articulation o Ottomanimperial

Contested Conversionsbringssplendid insights into the religiousand political history o the Otto-man Empire and also suggests newways to think about the conessionalhistory o early modern Europe.

Natalie Zemon Davis,University of Toronto

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And Then We Work for God

Rural Sunni Islam in Westernurkey

KIMBERLY HART

Sunni Islam structures individual livesthrough ritualsbirth, circumcision,marriage, military service, deathandthe expression o these traditions

varies between villages. Kimberly Hartdelves into the question o why somechoose to remember and keep alive thepast, while others want to ace a uture

unburdened by local cultural practices.Her answer speaks to global transor-mations in Islam, to the push and pullbetween those who maintain a linkto the past, even when these practiceschallenge orthodoxy, and those whowant a purified global religion.

And Ten We Work or Godnot onlyreveals that there is no one traditionalIslam, but thoughtully uncovers howthe practice o rural Islam is intimately

connected to changing visions o thestate and religion in the rest o urkeyand the world.

Esra zyrek,University of California, San Diego


The Headscarf Debates

Conflicts of National BelongingANNA C. KORTEWEG ANDGKE YURDAKUL

Anna Korteweg and Gke Yurdakultranscend the usual discourse on Mus-lim womens headscarves and developinstead a debate best understood romthe situated gazes o various partici-

pantsa debate in which Muslim wom-en or women o Muslim origins needto be seen as equal participant subjects

and not just objects o the discussions.Nira Yuval-Davis,

University of East London


Pious Practice and Secular

Constraints

Women in the Islamic Revivalin Europe

JEANETTE S. JOUILI

Without doubt, Pious Practice and Sec-ular Constraintsis the best ethnograph-ic examination o gender and Islamic

practice in Western Europe. JeannetteJouili offers a thought-provoking, nu-anced exploration o Muslim piety andethics, tackling issues o broad interestto those engaged with debates surround-ing Muslims in Europe today.

John Bowen,Washington University in St. Louis



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The Reconstruction of

Religious Thought in IslamMUHAMMAD IQBAL WITH ANINTRODUCTION BY JAVED MAJEED

Te Reconstruction o ReligiousTought in Islam() is MuhammadIqbals major philosophic work: aseries o proound reflections on theperennial conflict among science,religion, and philosophy, culminatingin new visions o the unity o humanknowledge, o the human spirit, and

o God. Presented here with a newIntroduction by Javed Majeed, thisedition opens the teachings o Iqbal toa new readership. It will be essentialreading or all those interested inIslamic intellectual history, therenewal o Islam in the modern world,and political theory o Islams relation-ship to the West.

Given Iqbals indisputable significanceas a modern Muslim thinker, the Stan-ord edition o his Reconstructionwill

introduce his thought to a wide audi-ence both in academe and among the

general public in the West. It bids airto become a milestone in the history oIqbal studies.

Mustansir Mir,Youngstown State University

ENCOUNTERING TRADITIONS

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The Woman Who Read

Too MuchBAHIYYIH NAKHJAVANI

Gossip was rie in the capital about thepoetess o Qazvin. Some claimed shehad been arrested or mastermindingthe murder o the grand Mullah, heruncle. Others echoed her words, andpassed her poems rom hand to hand.Everyone spoke o her beauty, and herdazzling intelligence. But most alarm-ing to the Shah and the court was how

the poetess could read. As her warningsand predictions became propheciesulfilled, about the assassination o theShah, the hanging o the Mayor, andthe murder o the Grand Vazir, manywondered whether she was not onlyreading history but writing it as well.Was she hersel guilty o the crimes shewas oretelling?

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani grew up in Uganda,was educated in the United Kingdomand the United States, and now lives inFrance. She is the author o Te Saddle-bag and Paper.

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Nakhjavanis rich, poetic narrative is adelight to read and her words just danceacross the page, dazzling even the casualreader. A remarkable first novel thatexpands like the overlapping petals o aflower.

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Mixing Musics

urkish Jewry and the UrbanLandscape of a Sacred Song

MAUREEN JACKSON

Tis book traces the mixing o musicalorms and practices in Istanbul toilluminate multiethnic music-makingand its transormations across thetwentieth and twenty-first centuries. Itocuses on the Jewish religious reper-toire, the Mafirim, which developed inparallel with secular Ottoman court

music. Trough memoirs, personalinterviews, and new archival sources,the book explores areas ofen lef out othose histories o the region that ocusprimarily on Jewish communities inisolation, political events and actors, ornationalizing narratives.

By treating the private, discrete narra-tives o individual figures, this innovativebook brings to lie the nuances o dailyexistence and social accommodation in

the musical culture o modern urkishJews. Tis rereshing approach providesnew insights on topics that have been lefunsaid by more conventional narrativesabout this subject.

Edwin Seroussi,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


HISTORY AND CULTURE

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