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Last Scene Underground

AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK IN
SPRING 2016

ROXANNE VARZI

The Woman Who Read

Too Much

An Ethnographic Novel of Iran

Leili could not have imagined that

arriving late to Islamic morals class
would change the course of her life.
But her arrival catches the eye of a
young man, and a chance meeting
soon draws Leili into a new circle of
friends and artists. Gathering in the
cafes of Tehran, these young college
students come together to create an
underground play that will wake up
their generation. They play with fire,
literally and figuratively, igniting a
drama both personal and political to
perform their playjust once. From
the wealthy suburbs and chic coffee
shops of Tehran to subterranean
spaces teeming with drugs and
prostitution to spiritual lodges and
saints tombs in the mountains high
above the city, Last Scene Underground
presents an Iran rarely seen.
Literary romance and ethnography
are joined in perfect dialogue in Last
Scene Underground. Roxanne Varzi
has written a rare, powerful book that
is both a whirlwind story of how it
feels to be young and idealistic during the time of the Green Movement,
and a pointed reckoning with the
state of censorship in Iran today.
Nahid Rachlin

288 pp., 2015

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A Novel

BAHIYYIH NAKHJAVANI

Gossip was rife in the capital about the

poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she
had been arrested for masterminding
the murder of the grand Mullah, her
uncle. Others echoed her words, and
passed her poems from hand to hand.
Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her
dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how
the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination
of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor,
and the murder of the Grand Vazir,
many wondered whether she was not
only reading history but writing it
as well. Was she herself guilty of the
crimes she was foretelling?
A mid-19th-century Persian poetess
clashes against old-world gender expectations, religious orthodoxy, and politics
in this exquisite tale, based on the actual life of poet and theologian Tahirih
Qurratul-Ayn . . . An ambitious effort
produces an expertly crafted epic.
Kirkus Reviews

336 pp., 2015

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BETTY S. ANDERSON

A HISTORY OF THE

MODERN MIDDLE EAST

RULERS, REBELS, AND ROGUES

Anthropologys Politics

Disciplining the Middle East

LARA DEEB AND JESSICA WINEGAR

This book is the first academic study

to shed critical light on the political
and economic pressures that shape
how U.S. scholars research and teach
about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and
Jessica Winegar show how Middle
East politics and U.S. gender and race
hierarchies affect scholars across their
careers. They detail how academia is
infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any
criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropologys Politics offers a complex portrait
of how academic politics ultimately
hinders the education of U.S. students
and limits the publics access to critical
knowledge about the Middle East.
Incisive, forthright, and necessary. This
unflinching account of the challenges
that confront anthropologists, and anthropologys institutions, when engaging
the politics of the Middle East is a must
read for scholars concerned with our
professional responsibilities and our
human obligations.
Ilana Feldman,
The George Washington University

288 pp., 2015

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Field Notes

The Making of Middle East Studies

in the United States

A History of the Modern

Middle East

Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues

ZACHARY LOCKMAN

BETTY S. ANDERSON

Field Notes reconstructs the origins

and trajectory of area studies in the
United States, focusing on Middle East
studies from the 1920s into the 1980s.
These new academic fields centered
around specific world regions were not
simply a product of the Cold War or
an instrument of the American national security state, but had roots in
shifts in the humanities and the social
sciences stretching back to the 1920s.

This textbook offers a comprehensive

assessment of the region, stretching
from the fourteenth century and the
founding of the Ottoman and Safavid
empires through to the present-day
protests and upheavals. Enriched
by the perspectives of workers and
professionals; urban merchants and
provincial notables; slaves, students,
women, and peasants alongside the
actions of political leaders, this book
maps their complex interrelationships
to describe the shifting shapes of
governance in the Middle East and
the trajectories of social change.
Discussion of areas typically left out
of Middle East historysuch as the
Balkansrestores the larger context
that influenced the regions cultural
and political development. Extensively
illustrated with drawings, photographs,
and maps, this book highlights the
complexity and variation of the region,
countering easy assumptions about
the Middle East, those who governed,
and those they governedthe rulers,
rebels, and rogues who shaped a
region.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how

the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and later
Ford foundations played key roles in
conceiving, funding, and launching
postwar area studies. He explores the
decision-making processes and visions
of knowledge production at the
foundations and the bodies charged
with guiding the intellectual and
institutional development of Middle
East studies. Ultimately, Field Notes
uncovers how area studies as an
academic field was actually builta
process replete with contention,
anxiety, dead ends, and consequences
both unanticipated and unintended.
392 pp., 2016
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Men of Capital

Kuwait Transformed

Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal

Leadership in Modern Jordan

A History of Oil and Urban Life

SHERENE SEIKALY

YOAV ALON

Men of Capital examines British-ruled

Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s
through a focus on economy. In a
departure from the expected histories
of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed
to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms
of free trade, profit accumulation, and
private property. It positions Palestine
and Palestinians in the larger world of
Arab thought and social life, moving
attention away from the limiting
debates of ZionistPalestinian conflict.
Ultimately, it shows that the economic
is as central to social management as
the political.

Born in the 1880s during a time of

rapid modernization across the Ottoman Empire, Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz
led his tribe through World War I, the
development and decline of colonial
rule and founding of Jordan, the
establishment of the state of Israel and
the Arab-Israeli conflict that ensued,
and the rise of pan-Arabism.

Kuwait Transformed connects the citys

past and presentfrom its settlement
in 1716 to the twenty-first century
through the bridge of oil discovery.
It traces the relationships between
the urban landscape, patterns and
practices of everyday life, and social
behaviors and relations in Kuwait.
The history that emerges reveals how
decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded
a once open and tolerant society and
given rise to the insularity, xenophobia,
and divisiveness that characterize
Kuwaiti social relations today.

Men of Capital is a breathtaking study

of the complex work of making economy in pre-1948 Palestine, filled with
unforgettable characters striving for
economic renewal in commerce and in
the home. Sherene Seikaly gives us entirely new ways of thinking about Israel/
Palestine and colonialismall wrapped
up in an unstoppable read.
Julia Elyachar,
University of California, Irvine

272 pp., 2015

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The Shaykh of Shaykhs

Scarcity and Economy in

Mandate Palestine

HISTORY

In following Mithqals remarkable

life, this book explores how Mithqal
redefined the modern role of the
shaykh, and tribal leadership in the
modern Middle East more generally.
The support of Mithqals tribe to the
Jordanian Hashemite regime extends
back to the creation of Jordan in 1921
and has characterized its political
system ever since. The long-standing
alliances between such tribal elites
and the royal family explain, to a large
extent, the countrys relative stability
over the decades. Mithqal al-Fayizs
life and work as a shaykh offer a
notable individual story, as well as a
window into a social, political, and
cultural office as it evolved.
256 pp., 2016
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FARAH AL-NAKIB

The book makes a call for a restoration

of the city that modern planning
eliminated. But this is not simply a
case of nostalgia for a lost landscape,
lifestyle, or community. It is a claim
for a right to the citythe right of
all inhabitants to shape and use the
spaces of their city to meet their own
needs and desires.
296 pp., 2016
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Composing
E g ypt
Reading, Writing,
and the Emergence of a Modern Nation
18701930

hoda a. yousef

Violence and the City in the

Modern Middle East
EDITED BY NELIDA FUCCARO

This critical and timely volume offers

an important way to understand
the transformative powers of urban
violenceits ability to redraw the
boundaries of urban life, to create
and divide communities, and to affect
ruling strategies locally and globally.
Essays reflect the diversity of Middle
Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth
to the late twentieth centuries, from
the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and
Baghdad to the provincial towns of
Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil
settlements of Dhahran and Abadan.
In reconstructing the violent pasts
of cities, this book offers alternative
and complementary perspectives to
the making and unmaking of empires,
nations, and states.
Violence has long been a major feature of
social and political life in Middle Eastern
cities, but no single volume surveys so
much of the area in the way that this one
does. A truly path-breaking collection.
Peter Sluglett, Middle East Institute,
National University of Singapore

336 pp., 2016

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The Orphan Scandal

Christian Missionaries and the

Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
BETH BARON

Beth Baron provides a new lens through

which to view the rise of Islamic groups
in Egypt. Exploring the historical
aims of the Christian missions and the
early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Baron shows how the Muslim
Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist
associations developed alongside and
in reaction to the influx of missionaries.
Patterning their organization and social
welfare projects on the early success of
the Christian missions, the Brotherhood
launched their own efforts to provide
for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor.
In battling for Egypts children, Islamic
activists created a network of social
welfare institutions and a template for
social action across the countrythe
effects of which, we now know, would
only gain power and influence in the
decades to come.
A brilliant book. Beth Baron has identified a powerful incident that galvanized
the Muslim Brotherhood and fundamentally altered the place of Western
missionaries and officials in Egypt.
Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University

272 pp., 2014

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Composing Egypt

Reading, Writing, and the

Emergence of a Modern Nation,
18701930
HODA A. YOUSEF

Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of

literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at
the turn of the twentieth century. The
impact of new reading and writing
practices went well beyond the elites
and the newly literate of Egyptian
society, and Yousef reveals the increasingly ubiquitous reading and writing
practices of literate, illiterate, and
semi-literate Egyptians alike. Students
who wrote petitions, women who
frequented scribes, and communities
who gathered to hear a newspaper
read aloud, all used various literacies
to participate in social exchanges
and civic negotiations regarding
the most important issues of their
day. Composing Egypt illustrates how
reading and writing practices became
not only an object of social reform,
but also a central medium for public
exchange. Wide segments of society
could engage with new ideas about
nationalism, education, gender, and,
ultimately, what it meant to be part of
modern Egypt.
272 pp., 2016
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HISTORY

Recovering Armenia

A Memoir of the Armenian

Genocide

LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU

KARNIG PANIAN

Recovering Armenia offers the first

in-depth study of the aftermath of
the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the
Armenians who remained in Turkey.
Reading Armenian texts and images
produced in Istanbul from the close of
World War I through the early 1930s,
Lerna Ekmekcioglu gives voice to the
communitys most prominent public
figures, notably Hayganush Mark, a
renowned activist, feminist, and editor
of the influential journal Hay Gin.
The book explores a paradox: how
someone could be an Armenian and
a feminist in post-genocide Turkey
when, through various laws and regulations, the key path for Armenians to
maintain their identity was through
traditionally gendered roles.
With verve, passion, and wit, Lerna
Ekmekcioglu shows how central women
were to the restoration of the Armenian
community. Recovering Armenia is a
must-read for all students of the Great
War, and for anyone who wants to
understand the modern Middle East
and the roots of sectarian conflict.
Elizabeth Thompson,
University of Virginia

240 pp., 2015

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Goodbye, Antoura

The Limits of Belonging in PostGenocide Turkey

HISTORY

The history of World War I is steeped

in tragedy. But if one looks back at this
world conflict, a single word among
all others asserts its right to define the
underlying tragedy: genocide. Karnig
Panian (1910-1989) was a young child
when he was caught up in the Armenian Genocide. With heartbreaking and
yet affectingly poetic language, Panian
describes how, after surviving a death
march through a desert inferno that
claimed the rest of his family, he was
sent to an orphanage run by Turkish
administrators in the Lebanese town
of Antoura. What went on there was
a planned effort to destroy the faith,
culture, tradition, and the very identity
of Armenian children. This is a remarkable and unforgettable book. It is an
indispensable tool for awakening our
consciences and restoring our collective
sense of decency and our solidarity with
all those who have suffered the horrors
of genocide.
Vartan Gregorian

A harrowing but luminous story of

witness A literary gem.
Financial Times

216 pp., 2015

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Shattered Dreams of
Revolution

From Liberty to Violence in

the Late Ottoman Empire
BEDROSS DER MATOSSIAN

The Ottoman revolution of 1908 is a

study in contradictionsa positive
manifestation of modernity intended
to reinstate constitutional rule, yet
ultimately a negative event that shook
the fundamental structures of the
empire, opening up ethnic, religious,
and political conflicts. Bedross Der
Matossian shows how the undoing of
the revolutionary dreams could be
found in the very foundations of the
revolution itself. Inherent ambiguities
and contradictions in the revolutions
goals and the reluctance of both the
authors of the revolution and the
empires ethnic groups to come to a
compromise regarding the new political framework of the empire ultimately
proved untenable.
This is a masterly account of the Young
Turk Revolution. Few scholars have devised such a stimulating and multivocal
framework. As such it represents a major
contribution to the study of the Young
Turk period and its impact on the nondominant ethno-religious groups.
Eyal Ginio,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

264 pp., 2014

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THE OTTOMAN SCRAMBLE

FOR AFRICA
EMPIRE AND DIPLOMACY IN THE SAHARA AND THE HIJAZ

mostafa minawi

The Ottoman Scramble

for Africa

Empire and Diplomacy in the

Sahara and the Hijaz
MOSTAFA MINAWI

This is the first book to tell the story

of the Ottoman Empires expansionist
efforts during the age of high imperialism. Drawing on previously untapped
Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa
Minawi examines how the Ottoman
participation in the Conference of
Berlin and subsequent involvement in
an aggressive inter-imperial competition for colonial possessions in Africa
were part of a self-reimagining of this
once powerful global empire. In so doing, Minawi redefines the parameters
of agency in late nineteenth-century
colonialism to include the Ottoman
Empire and turns the typical framework of a European colonizer and a
non-European colonized on its head.
Most importantly, Minawi offers a
radical revision of nineteenth century
Middle East history by providing a
counternarrative to the Sick Man
of Europe trope, challenging the
idea that the Ottomans were passive
observers of the great European
powers negotiations over solutions to
the so-called Eastern Question.
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Partners of the Empire

The Crisis of the Ottoman Order

in the Age of Revolutions
ALI YAYCIOGLU

Partners of Empire offers a radical

rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in
the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Over this unstable period,
the Ottoman Empire faced political
crises, institutional shakeups, and
popular insurrections. This book
takes a holistic look at the era, not
simply at central reforms or regional
developments, but at their interactions.
Drawing on original archival sources,
Ali Yaycioglu uncovers the patterns
of political actionthe making and
unmaking of coalitions, forms of
building and losing power, and public
opinions. He shows that the Ottoman
transformation was not a linear
transition; rather, it involved many
crossing paths, as well as dead-ends,
all of which offered a rich repertoire of
governing possibilities to be followed,
reinterpreted, or ultimately forgotten.
This book not only fills an important
gap in early modern Middle Eastern
history, but it teaches a lesson about
writing world history. Ali Yaycioglu
offers the most conclusive corrective
to the still often-heard argument that
representative institutions are a foreign
import to the Middle East.
Baki Tezcan,
University of California, Davis

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The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the

Eighteenth-Century
Ottoman Levant
DANA SAJDI

This book is about a barber, Shihab alDin Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved
and coiffed, and probably circumcised
and healed, in Damascus in the
eighteenth century. The barber may
have been a nobody, but he wrote a
history book, a record of the events
that took place in his city during his
lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the
significance of this book, and offers
the first full-length microhistory of
an individual commoner in Ottoman
and Islamic history. In examining the
life and work of Ibn Budayr, she also
uncovers the emergence of a larger
trend of history writing by unusual
authors and a new phenomenon:
nouveau literacy.
The Barber of Damascus brings to life
a world of unexpected writers of history.
Ibn Budayr and his work as barber and
historian disrupt our notions of genre
and give us a marvelous portrait of Damascus in the eighteenth century.
Leslie Peirce, New York University

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HISTORY

Sephardi Lives

Making History in Iran

Days of Revolution

EDITED BY JULIA PHILLIPS COHEN

AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN

FARZIN VEJDANI

MARY ELAINE HEGLAND

This enlightening book draws on

previously unexamined primary
sourcesincluding histories, school
curricula, pedagogical materials,
periodicals, and memoirsto
demonstrate how the social locations
of historians writ broadly influenced
their interpretations of the past. The
relative autonomy of these historians
had a direct bearing on whether history upheld the status quo or became
an instrument for radical change, and
the writing of history became central
to debates on social and political
reform, the role of women in society,
and the criteria for citizenship and nationality. Ultimately, this book traces
how contending visions of Iranian
history were increasingly unified as a
centralized Iranian state emerged in
the early twentieth century.

Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province

of southwestern Iran lies Aliabad.
Mary Hegland arrived in this thensmall agricultural village of several
thousand people in the summer of
1978, unaware of the momentous
changes that would sweep this town
and this country in the months ahead.
Days of Revolution offers an insiders
view of how regular people were
drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution andas
Hegland returns to the region thirty
years laterits aftermath. Sharing
stories of conflict and revolution
alongside in-depth interviews, the
book sheds new light on this critical
historical moment.

A Documentary History, 17001950

Sephardi Lives presents an intimate
view of how Sephardim experienced
the major regional and world events
of the modern eranatural disasters,
violence and wars, the transition from
empire to nation-states, and the Holocaust. Offering a ground-breaking
documentary history with more than
150 primary sources originally written in fifteen languages by or about
Sephardi Jews, the selections cross
a vast range of materials, including
private letters from family collections,
rabbinical writings, documents of state,
memoirs and diaries, court records,
selections from the popular press, and
scholarship. Sephardi Lives preserves
the cultural richness and historical
complexity of a Sephardi world that is
no more.
Sephardi Lives is a book like no other.
It is a work of staggering erudition and
deep empirical reach that the editors
discerning, creative, and intelligent
hands deliver to the reader with deft
care and smooth subtlety.
Alan Mikhail, Yale University
STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE

480 pp., 2014

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HISTORY

Education, Nationalism, and

Print Culture

An illuminating contribution that beautifully captures the process by which the

rich cultural world of gunpowder empire was ushered out by the historicist
pedagogy of the modern nation state
in Iran.
Yoav Di-Capua,
The University of Texas at Austin

288 pp., 2014

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Political Unrest in an
Iranian Village

There are a great number of books on

the Islamic Revolution, but none have
accomplished what Mary Hegland has.
This is an exceptional study of modern
Iran, offering a detailed account of village life before, during, and after the
Islamic Revolution. A brilliant book
that deserves to be widely read.
Janet Afary,
University of California, Santa Barbara

352 pp., 2013

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Orkideh Behrouzan

Prozak
Diaries
p s yc h iat ry
an d
g e n e rat ional
m e mory
in iran

Prozak Diaries

#iranelection

Workers and Thieves

Hastag Solidarity and the

Transformation of Online Life

Labor Movements and Popular

Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

ORKIDEH BEHROUZAN

NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH

JOEL BEININ

By the close of the 1990s, a Persian

psychiatric vernacular had become
widespread in Iranian media, art,
literature, and blogs. Depreshen
became street slang among youth, as
did the Persianized catchall term for
antidepressants, prozk. People began
to speak publicly and commonly about
their medication, or of depreshen. But
there was more to this medicalization
of life than meets the eye. Psychiatry
seemed to provide a new legitimized
language for making sense of life and
talking about emotion and memory.
Prozak Diaries combines clinical
and anthropological perspectives to
analyze this significant cultural and
generational change in post 1990s
Iran and the ways in which people
articulate their individual, social, and
historical experiences in the adopted
language of psychiatry.

The protests following Irans fraudulent

2009 Presidential election took the
world by storm. As the Green Revolution gained protestors, #iranelection
became the first long-trending international hashtag. Texts, images, videos,
audio recordings, and links connected
protestors on the ground and netizens
online, all simultaneously transmitting
and living a shared international
experience. #iranelection investigates
how emerging social media platforms
developed international solidarity. As
the world turned to social media to
understand the events on the ground,
social media platforms also adapted
and developed to accommodate this
global activism. Provocative and eyeopening, #iranelection reveals the new
online ecology of social protest.

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has

experienced an upsurge of wildcat
strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, and
other collective actions. However,
most observers have failed to recognize the importance of workers
participation in the events of the
Arab uprisings of 2011, the ouster of
Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats, and
the political realignments after their
demise. In Workers and Thieves, Joel
Beinin argues that the Egyptian and
Tunisian uprisingsand, importantly,
their vastly different outcomesare
best understood within the context of
the repeated mobilizations of workers
and the unemployed since the 1970s.

Psychiatry and Generational

Memory in Iran

320 pp., 2016

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Elegant, passionate, and deeply committed. #iranelection brings a muchneeded historical perspective and
non-Western viewpoint to the vexed
question of the interactions of social
media and social change. If you care
about the history of the present, you
need to read this book.
Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University

HISTORY

We know the thieves who plundered

Tunisia and Egypt, but few have
considered the role of the workers to
understand why these countries led the
Arab Spring in 2011. Joel Beinin offers
this necessary perspective, highlighting
in this truly readable and most useful
account the clash of workers and thieves
that shaped Tunisias and Egypts recent
history and will determine their future.
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS,
University of London

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StanfordBRIEFS

StanfordBRIEFS

STANFORD BRIEFS

Dwelling in Conflict

Negev Landscapes and the

Boundaries of Belonging

Gaining Freedoms

Claiming Space in Istanbul

and Berlin

A Society of Young Women

Opportunities of Place, Power, and

Reform in Saudi Arabia

EMILY MCKEE

BERNA TURAM

AMLIE LE RENARD

Land disputes in Israel are most

commonly described as stand-offs
between distinct groups of Arabs
and Jews, and natural, immutable
divisions, both in space and between
people, are too frequently assumed
within these struggles. Dwelling in
Conflict offers the first study of land
conflict and environment based on
extensive fieldwork within both Arab
and Jewish settings in the Negev.
Emily McKee sensitively portrays
the impact that dividing linesboth
physical and socialhave on residents.
She investigates the political charge
of peoples everyday interactions
with their environments and the
ways in which basic understandings
of people and their landscapes
drive political developments. While
recognizing deep divisions, McKee
also takes seriously the social projects
that residents engage in to soften
and challenge socio-environmental
boundaries. Ultimately, Dwelling in
Conflict highlights opportunities for
boundary crossings, revealing both
contemporary segregation and the
possible mutability of these dividing
lines in the future.

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus

for global political change: everyday
urban contestation. Countering
common assumptions that Turkey is
strongly polarized between Islamists
and secularists, Berna Turam illustrates
how contested urban space encourages
creative politics, the kind of politics that
advance rights, expression, and representation shared between pious and
secular groups. Exceptional moments
of protest, like the Gezi protests that
bookend this study, offer clear external
signs of upheaval and disruption, but it
is the everyday contestation and interaction that forge alliances and inspire
change. Turam argues that the process
of democratization is not the reduction
of conflict, but rather the capacity to
form new alliances out of conflict.

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among

the most gender segregated in the
world. In recent years the Saudi
government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater
roles for women in society. Implicit in
these calls for reform, however, is an
assumption that the only real society
is male society. Little consideration
has been given to the rapidly evolving
activities within womens spaces. This
book joins young urban women in
their daily livesin the workplace, on
the female university campus, at the
mallto show how these women are
transforming Saudi cities from within
and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles.

256 pp., 2016

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Drawing on the life-worlds of Turkish citizens in Istanbul and Turkish

residents in Berlin, Gaining Freedoms
represents one of the best treatments of
the spatiality of politics in the context of
the Middle East.
Asef Bayat,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

264 pp., 2015

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This splendid ethnography shatters

many of the myths surrounding Saudi
women. Amlie Le Renard brilliantly
shows that women in Saudi Arabia
dont need to be saved from their culture
or religion and have invented creative
ways to talk back to power.
Pascal Menoret, Brandeis University

224 pp., 2014

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Crossing the Gulf

Love and Family in Migrant Lives

Losing Afghanistan

An Obituary for the Intervention

PARDIS MAHDAVI

NOAH COBURN

The lines between what constitutes

migration and what constitutes
human trafficking are messy at best.
State policies rarely acknowledge the
lived experiences of migrants and
their kin, and too often laws meant to
protect individuals ultimately increase
the challenges they face. Through
personal stories of migrants in Dubai,
Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait, Pardis Mahdavi considers the interconnections of
migration and emotion and of family
and policy. The result is an absorbing
and literally moving ethnography
of im/mobility that illuminates the
mutually reinforcing and mutually
constitutive forces impacting the lives
of migrants and their loved onesand
how profoundly they are underserved
by policies that more often lead to
their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse.

The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds,

and people on a level not seen since
World War II. Hundreds of thousands
of individuals and tens of billions of
dollars flowed in. And yet, its unclear
what was gained from this effortfor
Afghanistan or for the international community that footed the bill.
Through the stories of four individualsan ambassador, a Navy SEAL,
a young Afghan businessman, and
an engineer trying to promote wind
energyNoah Coburn weaves a vivid
account of the challenges and contradictions of life under the intervention.

A path-breaking book that offers a powerful and poignant analysis of womens

intimate lives lived in migration.
Christine Chin, American University

240 pp., 2016

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Losing Afghanistan provides a unique

window into the longest, most costly
U.S. and international intervention
since the Second World War. Having
spent over a decade researching and
writing about Afghanistan, Coburn
illuminates the chasm between what
ordinary Afghans think and want, and
what international actors assume and
do, and the frustration and disillusionment that resulted.
Michael Keating, Former UN Deputy
Envoy to Afghanistan, Kabul

264 pp., 2016

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Settlers in Contested Lands

Territorial Disputes and

Ethnic Conflicts

EDITED BY ODED HAKLAI AND

NEOPHYTOS LOIZIDES

Settlers feature in many protracted

territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts
around the world. Explaining the
dynamics of the politics of settlers in
contested territories ranging from the
West Bank, Kirkuk, and the Western
Sahara to Cyprus, East Timor, and
Sri Lanka, this book illuminates how
settler-related conflicts emerge, evolve,
and are significantly more difficult
to resolve than other disputes. Taken
together, the cases address interrelated
themes about the role of settlers in
conflicts in contested territoryrightsizing the state, mobilization and
violence, the framing process, and legal
principles versus pragmatism. They
also illuminate key differences in settler
mobilization and the impact these
differences can have on peace processes.
A significant contribution to the literature on ethnic and communal conflicts.
The outstanding introduction by the
editors should be required reading for
anyone examining the resolution of conflicts with a settlement dimension.
Adrian Guelke,
Queens University of Belfast

256 pp., 2015

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Citizen Strangers

Police Encounters

SHIRA ROBINSON

ILANA FELDMAN

Calendars, Monuments,
and Martyrs

Following the 1948 war and the

creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen
percent of the population but held a
much larger portion of its territory.
Offered immediate suffrage rights
and, in time, citizenship status, they
nonetheless found their movement,
employment, and civil rights restricted
by a draconian military government
put in place to facilitate the colonization of their lands. Citizen Strangers
traces how Jewish leaders struggled to
advance their historic settler project
while forced by new international
human rights norms to share political
power with the very people they
sought to uproot.

Throughout the twenty years of its

administration (19481967), Egyptian
policing of Gaza concerned itself not
only with crime and politics, but also
with control of social and moral order.
Through surveillance, interrogation,
and a network of local informants,
the police extended their reach into
private life, seeing Palestinians as
both security threats and vulnerable
subjects who needed protection. Police
Encounters explores this paradox of
Egyptian rule. Drawing on a rich and
detailed archive of daily police records,
the book describes an extensive
security apparatus guided by intersecting concerns about national interest,
social propriety, and everyday illegality.
But repression does not tell the entire
story about policings impact on Gaza.
Policing also provided opportunities
for people to make claims of government, influence their neighbors, and
protect their families.

This book considers the development

of collective memory and national
commemoration among the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Tamir Sorek
charts the popular politicization of
four eventsthe Nakba, the 1956
Kafr Qasim Massacre, the 1976 Land
Day, and the October 2000 killing
of thirteen Palestinian citizens in
Israelto investigate a range of
commemorative sites, including
memorial rallies, monuments, poetry,
the education system, political summer camps, and individual historical
remembrance. Reflecting longstanding
tensions between Palestinian citizens
and the Israeli state, as well as growing pressures across Palestinian
societies within and beyond Israel,
these moments of commemoration
distinguish Palestinian citizens
not only from Jewish citizens, but
from Palestinians elsewhere.

Palestinians and the Birth of

Israels Liberal Settler State

Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates

that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself.
Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed
Palestinian residents as both liberal
citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also
shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order,
and society.
Gershon Shafir,
University of California, San Diego

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Security and Surveillance in

Gaza under Egyptian Rule

Exciting, lucid, profound, and sophisticated, Police Encounters is a must-read.

Paul Amar,
University of California, Santa Barbara

224 pp., 2015

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Palestinian Commemoration
in Israel

TAMIR SOREK

A pioneering, intriguing, and thoughtprovoking study. This book is a mustread for those interested in the distressing struggle of indigenous minorities
to protect their identity in the face of
nationalizing policies of ethnic states.
Amal Jamal, Tel Aviv University

328 pp., 2015

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Refugees of the Revolution

Experiences of Palestinian Exile

DIANA ALLAN

Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of

everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp
in Beirut. Diana Allan provides an
immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life
as well as inner lives, tracking how
residents relate across generations,
cope with poverty and marginalization,
and planpragmatically and speculativelyfor the future. Rethinking
the relationship between home and
homeland, Allan challenges common
assumptions about Palestinian identity
and nationalist politics and presents
new possibilities for the future of the
Palestinian community.
With analytical subtlety, empathy, and
political courage, Diana Allan raises
questions around the way that activists
and researchers working in Palestinian
refugee camps focus on the national
past. Her careful attention to the words
and lives of Shatila people has produced
a study that makes us think again.
Rosemary Sayigh

328 pp., 2013

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Digital Militarism

Israels Occupation in the

Social Media Age
ADI KUNTSMAN AND
REBECCA L. STEIN

The Reckoning of Pluralism

Political Belonging and the

Demands of History in Turkey
KABIR TAMBAR

Israels occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Violent politics are interwoven with global
networking practices, protocols, and
aesthetics. Israeli soldiers share mobile
uploads in real-time. Official Israeli
military spokesmen announce wars
on Twitter. And civilians encounter
state violence on their newsfeeds and
mobile screens. This book traces the
rise of Israeli digital militarismboth
the reach of social media into Israeli
military theaters and the occupations
impact on everyday Israeli social
media cultureto show how social
media functions as a crucial theater in
which the Israeli military occupation
is supported and sustained.
Digital Militarism is a pioneering book,
showing how information and communication technologies have turned
into wartime arsenals, and the Internet
and social networks into digital battlefields. Just when one thinks that all has
been said about the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict, a totally original perspective
emerges. A must-read.
Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University

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The Turkish Republic was founded

simultaneously on the ideal of
universal citizenship and on acts of
extraordinary exclusionary violence.
Today, nearly a century later, the
claims of minority communities and
the politics of pluralism continue to
ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning
of Pluralism centers on the case of
Turkeys Alevi community to offer a
critical appraisal of the tensions of
democratic pluralism. Alevis have
seen their loyalties questioned and
experienced sectarian hostility, and yet
their community is also championed
as bearers of the nations folkloric
heritage. Tambar focuses on these
forms of social inequality that pluralism perpetuates and on the political
vulnerabilities to which minority
communities are thereby exposed.
Tambar explores in concrete terms the
ways in which state authorized narratives of political belonging at once enable inclusion and perpetuate the subordination of difference. The ethnographic
detail is illuminating; the argument
subtle and nuanced.
Joan W. Scott,
Institute for Advanced Study

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Imaginative Geographies
of Algerian Violence

Official Stories

JACOB MUNDY

The national narratives surrounding

a countrys founding, identity, and
bases of unity can be powerful tools in
sustaining a ruling elite. Laurie Brand
examines more than six decades of
political, economic, and military
challenges in two of North Africas
largest countries: Egypt and Algeria.
Through a careful analysis of various
texts, Official Stories demonstrates
how leaderships have attempted to
reconfigure narratives to confront
challenges to their power. Brands
account also demonstrates how leaderships may miscalculate, thereby setting
in motion opposition forces beyond
their control.

Conflict Science, Conflict

Management, Antipolitics

The massacres that spread across

Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the
world, both in their horror and in the
international communitys failure to
respond. They have since become a
central case study in new theories of
civil conflict and terrorism after the
Cold War. Such lessons of Algeria
now contribute to a diverse array
of international efforts to manage
conflict. With this book, Jacob Mundy
raises a critical lens to these lessons. In
questioning them, Mundy shows that
todays leading strategies of conflict
management are underwritten by, and
so attempt to reproduce, their own
flawed logic. Ultimately, what these
policies and practices lead to is not a
world made safe from war, but rather a
world made safe for war.
A scathing critique of the internal
pathologies of Neoliberal conflict
management. This book fills a
major void in scholarship on postindependence Algeria, and will
surely be a valuable resource.
Robert P. Parks, Centre dtudes
Maghrbines en Algrie

Politics and National Narratives

in Egypt and Algeria
LAURIE A. BRAND

An imaginative re-conceptualizing
of competing political narratives in
the Arab worlds two most important
countries. Originally conceived and brilliantly defended, Laurie Brand carefully
deconstructs how embattled regimes
seek to sustain their legitimacy in the
face of political and economic crises.
John P. Entelis, Fordham University

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Souffles-Anfas

A Critical Anthology from the

Moroccan Journal of Culture
and Politics
EDITED BY OLIVIA C. HARRISON
AND TERESA VILLA-IGNACIO

This volume introduces and makes

available, for the first time in English,
an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa.
Founded in 1966 and banned in
1972, Souffles-Anfas was one of the
most influential literary, cultural,
and political reviews to emerge in
postcolonial North Africa. The journal
published texts ranging from experimental poems, literary manifestos, and
abstract art to political tracts, open
letters, and interviews by contributors
from the Maghreb, the Middle East,
Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
This anthology of the journal offers a
unique window into the political and
artistic imaginaries of writers and
intellectuals from the Global South
and resonates with particular acuity in
the wake of the Arab uprisings.
This brilliant and meticulously assembled collection is an essential part of the
revolutionary cultural politics characterizing national and global movements
of the 1960s. It palpably demonstrates
that true influence has nothing to do
with size.
Ammiel Alcalay,
City University of New York

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Transcolonial Maghreb

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OLIVIA C. HARRISON

Turkish Jewry and the Urban

Landscape of a Sacred Song

Imagining Palestine in the Era

of Decolonization

Transcolonial Maghreb offers the

first thorough analysis of the ways
in which Moroccan, Algerian, and
Tunisian writers have engaged with
the Palestinian question and the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the
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Gil Hochberg,
University of California, Los Angeles

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Mixing Musics

MAUREEN JACKSON

This book traces the mixing of musical

forms and practices in Istanbul to
illuminate multiethnic music-making
and its transformations across the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It
focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire, the Maftirim, which developed
in parallel with secular Ottoman
court music. Through memoirs,
personal interviews, and new archival
sources, the book explores areas often
left out of those histories of the region
that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events
and actors, or nationalizing narratives.
By treating the private, discrete narratives of individual figures, this innovative book brings to life the nuances of
daily existence and social accommodation 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,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE

272 pp., 2013

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