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Politics........................................... 2-5
Stanford Studies in
Middle Eastern and
Islamic Societies
and Cultures............................... 5-9
Worlding the Middle East.....9-11
Culture and Media..................12-13
Stanford Ottoman
World Series..................................14
History........................................ 15-19

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Struggling for Time Crossing a Line My Brother, My Land
Environmental Governance Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to A Story from Palestine
and Agrarian Resistance in Palestinian Political Expression Sami Hermez
Israel/Palestine Amahl Bishara In 1967, Sireen Sawalha’s mother, with
Natalia Gutkowski Palestinians living on different sides her young children, walked back to
This book examines how time is used of the Green Line assert that they Palestine against the traffic of exile.
as a mechanism of control by the share a single political struggle for This book is the story of Sireen’s
Israeli state and a site of mundane national liberation. Yet, obstacles family in the decades that followed
resistance among Palestinian and geopolitical boundaries inhibit and their lives in the Palestinian
agriculture professionals. Gutkowski their ability to speak to each other village of Kufr Ra’i. From Sireen’s
unpacks power structures to show and as a collective. This book enters early life growing up in the shadow
how a settler society lays moral these distinct environments and of the ‘67 War, to the involvement of
claim on indigenous time through considers how Palestinian political her brother in armed resistance in the
agrarian environmental policies, expression is differently impacted by First and Second Intifada, Hermez
science, technologies, landscapes, dispossession, settler colonialism, and crafts a rich story of intertwining
and bureaucracy. Traveling across militarism. Bishara looks to varied voices, mixing genres of oral history,
both policymaking arenas and sites of political practice—journalism, memoir, and creative nonfiction.
Palestinian citizens’ agrarian fields, commemorations, demonstrations, This book confronts readers with the
Gutkowski follows the multiple social media, in prison—to analyze politics and complexities of armed
ways that state officials, agronomists, how Palestinians create collectivities. resistance and the ethical tensions and
planners, environmentalists, and Bishara illuminates how expression is contradictions that arise, as well as
agriculturalists use time as a tool of always grounded in place—and how with the dispossession and suffocation
collective agency. Through investiga- a people can struggle together for of people living under occupation and
tions of wetland drainage in Galilee, liberation even when they cannot join their ordinary lives in such times.
transformations in olive agriculture, together in protest. “A breathtaking display of literary
sustainable agrarian development, “Offering a sensitive reading of prowess that tells the story of an entire
and regulation of the shmita biblical Palestinian peoplehood and political homeland through the frame of one
commandment, the “year of release” difference, Crossing a Line brings woman’s life.”
for agricultural fields, this work social movement theory into critical —Hala Alyan
highlights how Palestinian citizens’ engagement with settler colonial and
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POLITICS 3
 How Sanctions Work Afterlives of Revolution Sufi Civilities
Iran and the Impact of Everyday Counterhistories in Religious Authority and Political
Economic Warfare Southern Oman Change in Afghanistan
Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Alice Wilson Annika Schmeding
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, This book considers the “social Afghanistan has a complex and
and Ali Vaez afterlives” of revolutionary values varied religious landscape where a
Sanctions, when imposed by a and networks in Oman where broad spectrum of religious belief
country with the influence of the veteran militants have used kinship vie for a place in society. This book,
United States, can induce clear and daily socializing to reproduce based on long-term ethnographic
shockwaves in the economy and networks of social egalitarianism field research among multiple Sufi
political culture of the targeted state. and commemorate the revolution communities, examines navigational
But do economic sanctions induce in unofficial ways. These afterlives strategies employed by Sufi leaders
the behavioral changes intended? highlight lasting engagement with to weather periods of instability
This book highlights Iran, the most revolutionary values, the agency of and persecution over the past four
sanctioned country in the world, former militants in postwar mod- decades. Schmeding shows how they
where comprehensive sanctions were ernization, and the limitations of have adapted in novel ways to chang-
meant to induce uprisings or pres- government patronage for eliciting ing conditions to craft Sufism as a
sures to weaken the ruling establish- conformity. Recognizing that those force in the civil sphere. This book
ment. But, after four decades, the typically depicted as coopted can offers a rare on-the-ground view into
opposite is true: sanctions strength- still reproduce counterhegemonic how Sufi leaders react to moments
ened the Iranian state, impoverished values, this book considers a condi- of transition within a highly insecure
its population, increased state repres- tion all too common across South- environment, and how humanity
sion, and escalated Iran’s military west Asia and North Africa: the shines through the darkness during
posture toward the US and its allies experience of defeated revolutionar- times of turmoil.
in the region. Instead of offering an ies living under the authoritarian “Through astute anthropological
‘alternative to war,’ sanctions have state they once contested. observation, Schmeding shows how
become a cause of war. This book “Advances a brilliant critique of Sufis became important players in the
reveals how necessary it is to under- reductionist perceptions that contests for religious authority that
stand how sanctions really work. often define revolutions merely emerged from the cultural whirligig of
with references to their success or a NATO-supported Islamic Republic.
“An indispensable book. This volume failure. Ethnographically rich and A major contribution.”
shifts our understandings of what theoretically sophisticated.” —Nile Green,
sanctions do—in Iran and beyond.” University of California, Los Angeles
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 A N N OU N C I N G N EW
SE R I E S E DI TO R S

STANFORD STUDIES
IN MIDDLE EASTERN
AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES

LALEH KHALILI
AND SHERENE SEIKALY,
SERIES EDITORS

SUP welcomes new series editors

to our long-standing book series.
This book series promotes work
that centers the Middle East and
Practicing Sectarianism Sextarianism
Archival and Ethnographic Sovereignty, Secularism, and the
North Africa as a site of social,
Interventions on Lebanon State in Lebanon political, economic, cultural, and
Edited by Lara Deeb, Maya Mikdashi racial formation. It showcases
Tsolin Nalbantian, and This book offers a new way to grounded knowledge produc-
Nadya Sbaiti understand state power, theorizing tion that is rigorous in method,
This book explores the imaginative how sex, sexuality, and sect shape empirically rich in sources, and
and contradictory ways that people and are shaped by law, secularism,
emanating from and through the
live sectarianism, and reveals the and sovereignty. Mikdashi shows
many ways sectarianism is used how political difference is entangled languages of the Middle East and
to exhibit, imagine, or contest with religious, secular, and sexual North Africa. Focusing on the
power. Essays analyze how people difference. She presents state power long twentieth century, from the
experience sectarianism, sometimes as inevitably contingent, focusing on
the regulation of religious conver- far west of Morocco to the far east
pushing back, sometimes evading it,
sometimes deploying it strategically, sion, the curation of legal archives, of Iran, the series is interested in
to a variety of effects and conse- state and parastatal violence, and the everyday lives of people and
quences. The collection advances secular activism. Sextarianism
locates state power in the experi- what they teach us about history,
an understanding of sectarianism
simultaneously constructed and ex- ences, transitions, uprisings, and the present, and the future.
perienced. Even as the book’s focus violence that people in the Middle
is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the East continue to live. Laleh Khalili is the Al-Qasimi
association of sectarianism with the “A tour de force by one of the Professor of Gulf Studies at the
nation-state and suggests possibili- most dynamic, iconoclastic, and University of Exeter, and author of
ties that can travel to other sites. original socio-political analysts of
the Arab world of this generation. Time in the Shadows: Confinement
“Provocative, incisive, grounded in Maya Mikdashi’s Sextarianism in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford,
lived realities, the book delivers a will transform the way Lebanon
powerful antidote to those who see 2013), among other books.
has been understood; more radically,
Lebanon simplistically through the it will force everyone to rethink
lens of religion. A necessary read.” how religious and sexual differences Sherene Seikaly is Associate
—Suad Joseph, work at/as the nexus of states Professor of History at the University
University of California, Davis and citizenship.” of California, Santa Barbara, and
258 pages, 2022 —Lila Abu-Lughod
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EASTERN AND ISLAMIC
SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
 The Incarcerated Modern Revolutions Aesthetic Colonizing Palestine
Prisons and Public Life in Iran A Cultural History of Ba’thist Syria The Zionist Left and the Making
Golnar Nikpour Max Weiss of the Palestinian Nakba
The prison system is a founda- This book offers the first cultural Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
tional institution of Iranian political and intellectual history of Ba’thist Based on extensive empirical
modernity. This book traces the Syria, from the coming to power research in local colony and national
transformation of Iran from a decen- of Hafiz al-Asad through the Syria archives, this book offers a microhis-
tralized empire with few imprisoned War, and reconceptualizes contem- tory of frontier interactions between
persons into a modern nation-state porary Syrian politics, authoritari- Zionist settlers and indigenous Pales-
with over a quarter million prisoners anism, and cultural life. Engaging tinians. Even as left-wing kibbutzim
today. Nikpour explores the interplay rich original sources—novels, films, of Hashomer Hatzair helped lay
between the concrete space of the and cultural periodicals—Weiss the groundwork for settler colonial
Iranian prison and the role of prisons highlights themes crucial to the Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did not
in producing new public cultures making of contemporary Syria: conceal the prior existence of the Pal-
and political languages—from prison heroism and leadership, gender and estinian villages and their displace-
writings of 1920s leftist prisoners power, comedy and ideology, sur- ment, which became the subject of
and communiqués of 1950s militant veillance and the senses, witnessing enduring debate. Examining events
Islamists, to paintings of 1970s and temporality, and death and the in their actual time and as they were
revolutionary guerrillas and mapping imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic later remembered, Sabbagh-Khoury
projects organized by contemporary places front and center the struggle demonstrates that the dispossession
dissident prisoners. In policing the around aesthetic ideology that has and replacement of the Palestinians
line between “bad criminal” and been key to the constitution of state, in 1948 was not a singular catastro-
“good citizen,” the carceral system society, and culture in Syria over the phe, but rather a protracted process
has shaped modern Iranian political course of the past fifty years. instituted over decades. She traces
movements and reshaped Iranian “Innovative, meticulous, and social and political mechanisms by
understandings of citizenship, free- brilliantly written, Revolutions which forms of hierarchy, violence,
dom, and political belonging. Aesthetic will serve as the standard and supremacy that endure into the
“The Incarcerated Modern is one bearer for studies on the modern present were gradually created.
of those exceptionally rare, original cultural history of the Arab world
books that transcends academic and the broader Middle East.” “A must-read for anyone who wants
disciplines and opens up myriad —Kamran Rastegar,
to understand exactly how tensions
terrains of inquiry.” Tufts University between socialism and Zionism
played out on the ground.”
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Elastic Empire Between Dreams and Ghosts Unruly Labor
Refashioning War through Aid Indian Migration and Middle A History of Oil in the
in Palestine Eastern Oil Arabian Sea
Lisa Bhungalia Andrea Wright Andrea Wright
This book traces how foreign aid, More than one million Indians travel In the mid-twentieth century, the
on which much of the Palestinian annually to work in oil projects in the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key
population is dependent, has Gulf. This book follows their migra- site of oil production. International
multiplied the sites and means tion, across sites in India, the United companies recruited workers from
through which Palestinian life Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from across the Middle East and Asia to
is regulated, surveilled, and villages to oilfields. Engaging the staff their expanding oil projects.
policed—this book tells the story migrants themselves, the recruiting This book considers the working
of how aid has also become war. agencies that place them, the govern- conditions, hiring practices, and
The US war chronicled here is not ment bureaucrats that regulate their worker actions and strikes at these
one of tanks, grenades, and guns, emigration, and the corporations oil projects. Wright highlights the
but a quieter one waged through that hire them, Wright examines increasing associations between oil,
the interlacing of aid and law. It labor migration as a social process, governance, and racialized manage-
emerges in the infrastructures of one deeply informed both by work- ment practices to map how labor
daily life and indelibly transfigures ers’ dreams for the future and the was increasingly depoliticized.
lives. Situated in a landscape where ghosts of colonial capitalism. Placing From the 1940s to 1971, citizenship
the lines between humanitarianism migrants at the center of global became both an avenue for workers
and the global war on terror are capital, Wright shows how migrants to advocate for their rights, while
increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire are not passive bodies at the mercy simultaneously, a way to limit other
reveals the shape-shifting nature of of abstract forces—and reveals a solidarities. Examining the interests
contemporary imperial formations, new understanding of contemporary of workers, government officials,
their realignments and reformula- resource extraction, governance, and and oil company managers alike,
tions, their haunted sites, and their global labor. Wright offers a new history of
obscured but intimate forms. “A landmark contribution that Middle Eastern oil and twentieth-
“Essential reading for anyone pushes our understanding of oil, century capitalism—a history that
interested in the intimacies of US labor, and migrant lives in new and illuminates how labor management
empire and the topological tentacles unexpected directions.” and national security concerns
of counterterrorism law.” —Adam Hanieh, have shaped state governance and
—Alison Mountz, SOAS University of London economic policy priorities.
Wilfrid Laurier University
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 On Salafism Street-Level Governing States of Subsistence
Concepts and Contexts Negotiating the State in The Politics of Bread in
Azmi Bishara Urban Turkey Contemporary Jordan

On Salafism offers a compelling new Elise Massicard José Ciro Martínez

understanding of this phenomenon, This book is the first to investigate Despite the ubiquity of bread in
both its development and contempo- how muhtars, the lowest level accounts of Middle East politics and
rary manifestations. Bishara critically elected political position in Turkey, society, rarely do we consider how
deconstructs claims of continuity carry out their role. Muhtars exist it is prepared and consumed—and
between early Islam and modern mili- at the intersection of everyday life what this represents. This book
tancy and makes a counterargument: and the exercise of power. Their considers the welfare program that
Salafism is a wholly modern construct position offers a personalized point ensures bread’s widespread avail-
informed by specific sociopolitical of contact between citizens and state ability. Following bakers and bureau-
contexts. He distinguishes reformist institutions, enabling close oversight crats, Martínez offers an immersive
from regressive Salafism, and exam- of the citizenry, yet simultaneously examination of social welfare provi-
ines patterns of modernization in the projecting the sense of an accessible sion. He argues that the state is best
development of contemporary Islamic state to individuals. Challenging understood as the product of routine
political movements and associations. common theories of the state, Mas- practices and actions, through which
In deconstructing the assumptions sicard outlines how the position of it becomes a stable truth in the
of linear continuity between tradi- the muhtar throws into question lives of citizens. This book not only
tional and contemporary movements, an assumed dichotomy between describes logics of rule in contempo-
Bishara details various divergences in domination and social resistance, rary Jordan—and the place of bread
both doctrine and context of modern and suggests that considerations of within them—but also unpacks how
Salafisms, plural. circumvention and accommodation the state endures through forms,
“A timely, erudite account. Bishara are normal attributes of state- sensations, and practices.
provides important correctives to society functioning. “States of Subsistence sets aside
recent scholarly approaches, and “One of the most interesting and dominant questions of bread riots,
forcefully demonstrates that modern original recent books I have read on food security, regime survival, and
articulations of Salafism are contemporary Turkey. Massicard economic reforms to craft a uniquely
facets of ideological projects, not gives us a vivid and up-close account important and absolutely fascinating
natural culminations of classical of the muhtarlık in the context of look into the political meaning of the
Islamic traditions.” state-society relations.” lived experience of subsidized bread.”
—Ahmad Dallal,
American University in Cairo —Resat Kasaba, —Marc Lynch,
University of Washington George Washington University
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Protesting Jordan Western Privilege Making Space for the Gulf
Geographies of Power and Dissent Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Histories of Regionalism and the
Hierarchies in Dubai Middle East
Jillian Schwedler
Amélie Le Renard Arang Keshavarzian
This book considers how space
and geography influence protests Nearly 90 percent of residents in This book offers a new history of
and repression, and offers the first Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati the Gulf that places Iran, Iraq, and
in-depth study of rebellion in Jor- nationality. Le Renard explores how the Arab Peninsula together within
dan. Based on twenty-five years of race, gender, and class backgrounds global processes. Keshavarzian con-
field research, it examines protests shape experiences of privilege, and nects moments more often treated
as they are situated in the built investigates the processes that lead as ruptures—the discovery of oil,
environment, bringing together to the formation of Westerners as a the Iranian Revolution, the rise
considerations of networks, spatial social group. Through an ethnography and decline of British empire, the
imaginaries, space and placemaking, informed by postcolonial and emergence of American power—and
and political geographies at local, feminist theory, she reveals the diverse crafts a narrative populated by a
national, regional, and global scales. experiences and trajectories of white diverse range of people—migrants
Schwedler considers the impact and non-white, male and female and ruling families, pearl-divers and
of time and temporality in the Westerners to understand the shifting star architects, striking taxi drivers
lifecycles of individual movements. and contingent nature of Western- and dethroned rulers, protectors of
She illuminates the geographies of ness—and also its deep connection to British India and stewards of global-
power and dissent, highlighting the whiteness and heteronormativity. This ized American universities. Tacking
political stakes of competing nar- book offers a singular look at the lived across geographic scales, he reveals
ratives about Jordan’s past, present, reality of structural racism in cities of how the Gulf has been globalized
and future. the global South. through transnational relations, re-
“Superbly researched, Protesting “A must-read for those interested in race gionalized as a geopolitical category,
Jordan provides a fascinating and and racialization. Le Renard shows us and cleaved along national divisions
groundbreaking alternative history how these structuring categories are and social inequalities. When un-
of Jordan. Jillian Schwedler skillfully both integral to Gulf social hierarchies derstood as a process, not an object,
unpacks and challenges traditional and have an enduring global influence.” the Persian Gulf reveals much about
accounts of state-making in Jordan —Neha Vora, how regions and the world have been
as a top-down process. An essential Lafayette College made in modern times.
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 The Lives and Deaths of Transnational Palestine A House in the Homeland
Jubrail Dabdoub Migration and the Right of Return Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of
Or, How the Bethlehemites before 1948 Ancestral Memory
Discovered Amerka Nadim Bawalsa Carel Bertram
Jacob Norris Tens of thousands of Palestinians Survivors of the Armenian
This book tells the fantastical, yet migrated to the Americas in the Genocide took refuge across the
real, story of Jubrail Dabdoub, final decades of the nineteenth globe, and the idea of returning to
from his childhood in rural Beth- century and early decades of the their homeland was unthinkable.
lehem to his travels as a merchant twentieth. This is the first book to But decades later, some children
across Europe, East Asia, and explore the history of Palestinian and grandchildren felt compelled to
the Americas, culminating in a immigration to Latin America, the travel back. Hoping to satisfy spiri-
recorded miracle: in 1909, Jubrail struggles Palestinian migrants faced tual yearnings, this new generation
was brought back from the dead. to secure Palestinian citizenship in called themselves pilgrims—and
To tell such a tale is to delve into the interwar period, and the ways in their journeys, pilgrimages. Bertram
realms the historian rarely treads. which these challenges contributed joined scores of these pilgrims
Norris explores the porous lines to the formation of a Palestinian on over a dozen pilgrimages, and
between history and fiction, the diaspora and to the emergence of amassed accounts from hundreds
normal and the paranormal, the Palestinian national consciousness. more who made these journeys. In
everyday and the extraordinary. Bawalsa considers the migrants’ telling their stories, this book docu-
Drawing on aspects of magical strategies for economic success in ments how pilgrims encountered
realism combined with elements the diaspora, for preserving their the ancestral house or town as both
of Palestinian folklore, Norris heritage, and for resisting British real and metaphorical centerpieces
recovers the atmosphere of late mandate legislation, including of family history. These Armenian
nineteenth-century Bethlehem citizenship rejections meted out to stories reflect the resilience of
as scores of young men set off thousands of Palestinian migrants. diaspora in the face of trauma,
for faraway lands, and offers an “A significant contribution to the separation, and exile in ways that
original approach to historical history of Palestinian transnational each of us, whatever our history,
writing, capturing a fantastic story activism. Bawalsa amplifies the can recognize.
of global encounter and exchange. diasporic dimension of the ‘right “Bertram’s gifts of empathy and
of return.’ A must read for scholar- storytelling make for a book that is
“A most original treatise on local activists of the modern Middle East,
knowledge. Norris weaves an astute at once heartbreaking and inspiring.
inter-war politics, and national Essential for anyone interested in
combination of historical discourse liberation struggles.”
and magical realism.” place, memory, and mass violence.”
—Sarah M.A. Gualtieri,
—Salim Tamari University of Southern California —Heghnar Watenpaugh,
University of California, Davis
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Years of Glory Maghreb Noir Monuments Decolonized
Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of The Militant-Artists of North Africa Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
Justice in Wartime North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Susan Slyomovics
Susan Gilson Miller Postcolonial Future
“Statuomania” overtook Algeria
This book offers a rich biography Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik beginning in the nineteenth century
and a deeper understanding of This book dives into the personal as the French affinity for monuments
the complex currents that shaped and political lives of the militant- placed thousands of war memorials
Jewish, North African, and world artists who collectively challenged across the French colony. Following
history over the course of the the neo-colonialist structures Algeria’s hard-fought independence
Second World War. The traumas of and authoritarianism of African in 1962, these monuments took on
genocide, the struggle for anti-co- states. Militant-artists argued for different meaning. This book follows
lonial liberation, and the eventual the creation of a new ideology of the afterlives of French-built war
Jewish exodus from Arab lands continued revolution—one that was memorials in Algeria and those taken
all take on new meaning when transnational, trans-racial, and in to France. Drawing on extensive
reflected through the interstices of defiance of the emerging nation- fieldwork in both countries and
Benatar’s life. A courageous woman states. Drawing on Arabic, Spanish, interviews with French and Algerian
with a deep moral conscience and Portuguese, French, and English heritage actors and artists, Slyomov-
an iron will, Nelly Benatar helped sources, as well as interviews with ics analyzes the colonial nostalgia,
to lay the groundwork for crucial the artists themselves, Tolan-Szkilnik dissonant heritage, and ongoing
postwar efforts to build a better expands our understanding of Pan- decolonization and iconoclasm
world over Europe’s ashes. Africanism geographically, linguisti- of these works of art. Monuments
cally, and temporally. She establishes emerge here as objects with a soul, of-
“Years of Glory illuminates major
themes: that period’s refugee the importance of North Africa in fering visual records of the colonized
crisis, resistance in Morocco to the nurturing global connections—and Algerian native, the European settler
Vichy regime, a talented woman’s uncovers a lost history of grassroots colonizer, and the contemporary
professional advancement in a collaboration among militant-artists efforts to engage with a dark colonial
traditional society, and the life of from across the globe. past. Richly illustrated with more
a once-vibrant Jewish community than 100 color images, Monuments
in North Africa. An exemplary “Maghreb Noir takes us from Rabat
to Algiers to Tunis to demonstrate how Decolonized offers a fresh aesthetic
unearthing of the remarkable
legal career of Nelly Benatar.” 1960s North Africa was an epicenter take on the increasingly global move
of pan-African thought and Black to fell monuments that celebrate
—Robert O. Paxton,
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Country of Words
A Transnational Atlas for
Palestinian Literature
Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Country of Words is a
digital-born project that seeks
to retrace and remap the global
story of Palestinian literature in Arabic Glitch Alternative Iran
the twentieth century, from the Technoculture, Data Bodies, Contemporary Art and Critical
Arab world to Europe, North and Archives Spatial Practice
America, and Latin America.
Laila Shereen Sakr Pamela Karimi
At the intersection of literary
history, periodical studies, and This book explores an alternative Alternative Iran offers a
digital humanities, this project origin story of twenty-first century unique contribution to the field
creates a networked meeting technological innovation in digital of contemporary art, investigating
place for the data and narrative politics—one centered on the Middle how Iranian artists engage with
fragments of a literature- East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. space and site amid the pressures
in-motion, weaving porous, Developed from an archive of social of the art market and the state’s
interrupted, disconnected, and media data collected over two regulatory regimes. Attending to
discontinuous fragments into decades, Arabic Glitch interrogates nonconforming curatorial projects,
an elastic, open-ended literary how the logic of programming independent guerrilla installations,
history. The story of Palestinian technology influences and shapes escapist practices, and tacitly
literature resembles the story social movements. Sakr formulates subversive performances, Karimi
of its people, one fragmented a media theory that advances the discloses the push-and-pull
across countries and continents. concept of the glitch as a disruptive between the art community and
As a case study, Palestinian media affordance, and employs data the authorities, and discusses
literary history invites us to analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and myriad instances of tentative
“read together” national and blogs to describe the political culture coalition as opposed to outright
exilic, encouraging a transna- of social media. This book teaches partnership or uncompromising
tional comparative perspective. us how a region under transforma- resistance. Illustrated with more
It offers new ways to write tion became a vanguard for new than 120 full-color images, this
nonlinear, nonconventional thinking about digital systems. book provides entry into unique
literary histories of displace- “Innovative and original, Arabic artistic experiences without
ment and movement, exposing Glitch interrupts the theoretical catering to voyeuristic curiosity
new constellations, networks, silence around Arab technocultures. around Iran’s often-perceived
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Media of the Masses Unknown Past Recording History
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Jews, Muslims, and Music across
Andrew Simon Star of Egypt Twentieth-Century North Africa
This book investigates the social life Hanan Hammad Christopher Silver
of the cassette tape to offer a multi- Hammad writes a story centered If twentieth-century stories of Jews and
sensory history of modern Egypt. on Layla Murad’s persona and Muslims in North Africa are usually
Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes legacy, and broadly framed around told separately, Recording History dem-
became a ubiquitous presence in a gendered history of twentieth- onstrates that we have not been listen-
homes and stores. Enabling an century Egypt. Murad was a Jew ing to what brought these communities
unprecedented number of people to who converted to Islam in the together: Arab music. Popular songs
participate in the creation of culture shadow of the first Arab-Israeli war. broadcast on radio, performed in
and circulation of content, cassette Her career blossomed under the concert, and circulated on disc carried
players and tapes informed broader Egyptian monarchy, gave a singing with them the power to send Jewish-
cultural, political, and economic voice to the Free Officers and the Muslim audiences into a frenzy—or
developments and defined “modern” 1952 Revolution, and ended on the French colonial officials into a fury.
Egyptian households. Drawing eve of the 1956 Suez War. Egyptians With this book, Silver provides the first
on an array of audio, visual, and have long told their national story history of the music scene and record-
textual sources that exist outside the through interpretations of Murad’s ing industry across Morocco, Algeria,
Egyptian National Archives, Simon life, intertwining the individual and Tunisia, and offers striking insights
demonstrates how cassettes and and Egyptian state and society into Jewish-Muslim relations through
cassette players did not simply join to better understand Egyptian the rhythms that animated them. He
other twentieth-century mass media identity. There’s no life better recovers a world of many voices—of
like records and radio; they were the than Murad’s to reflect the tumul- daring female stars, cantors turned
media of the masses. tuous changes experienced over composers, and national and national-
“Simon’s masterful history of the the dramatic decades of the ist icons—whose music still resonates
cassette crystallizes the crucial im- mid-twentieth century. well into our present.
portance of technology. Important for “Just as Layla’s life was bigger than “Analyzing the silences, echoes, and
historians of modern Egypt, and a the screen, this book goes beyond sounds of Jewish-Muslim relations,
stellar contribution to the history of the history of cinema to illuminate this delightful book is a classic in
new media.” questions about religion, society, the making.”
—Walter Armbrust, gender, and politics.” —Aomar Boum,
University of Oxford University of California, Los Angeles
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 The Order and Disorder States of Cultivation Island and Empire
of Communication Imperial Transition and How Civil War in Crete Mobilized
Pamphlets and Polemics Scientific Agriculture in the the Ottoman World
in the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean Uğur Zekeriya Peçe
Ottoman Empire Elizabeth R. Williams In the 1890s, conflict erupted on
Nir Shafir The final decades of the Ottoman the Ottoman island of Crete. At the
The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire and the period of the heart of the Crete Question, as it
Empire was rife with polemical French mandate coincided with a came to be known around the world,
debate. Fueling these debates was a critical period of transformation were clashing claims of sovereignty
new style of writing circulating the in agricultural technologies and between Greece and the Ottoman
empire—the pamphlet. Through administration. This book examines Empire. Peçe narrates a connected
the example of the pamphlet, the processes and effects of agrarian history of international intervention,
Shafir investigates the political transformation as Ottoman, Syr- mass displacement, and popular
and cultural institutions used to ian, Lebanese, and French officials mobilization. The conflict drove a
navigate, regulate, and encourage grappled with these new technolo- wedge between the island’s Muslims
the circulation of information. He gies, albeit with different end goals. and Christians, quickly acquiring
sketches an ecology of books exam- Williams investigates the increasingly a character of civil war. Civil war
ining how books were produced, fragmented natures produced by in turn unleashed a humanitarian
the movement of texts regulated, these contrasting priorities and the catastrophe with the displacement of
education administered, reading results of their intersection with more than seventy thousand Muslims
conducted, and publics cultivated. regional environmental limits. She of- from Crete. In years following, many
Pamphlets invited both the well and fers the first comprehensive account of those refugees took to the streets
poorly educated to participate in of the shared technocratic ideals and became the engine of protest
public debates, thus expanding the that animated these policies and the across the empire from Salonica to
Ottoman body politic. They also divergent imperial goals that not only Libya, sending ripples farther afield
spurred an epidemic of fake authors reshaped the region’s agrarian institu- beyond imperial borders. This history
and popular forms of reading. tions, but produced representations that begins within an island becomes
Pamphlets became both the forum of the region with repercussions well a story about the end of an empire.
and the fuel for the polarization of beyond the mandate’s end. 272 pages, June 2024
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Empire of Refugees Bedouin Bureaucrats The Unsettled Plain
North Caucasian Muslims and the Mobility and Property in the An Environmental History of the
Late Ottoman State Ottoman Empire Late Ottoman Frontier
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky Nora Elizabeth Barakat Chris Gratien
This book reframes late Ottoman This book examines how This book studies agrarian life over
history through mass displacement tent-dwelling, seasonally migrat- the course of the late nineteenth
and reveals the origins of refugee ing Bedouin engaged in processes and early twentieth centuries as the
resettlement in the modern Middle of Ottoman state transformation on environmental transformation of
East. Hamed-Troyansky offers a local, imperial, and global scales. the Ottoman countryside became
historiographical corrective: the As the “tribe” became a category of intertwined with migration and
nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire Ottoman administration, Bedouin displacement. Drawing on both Otto-
created a refugee regime, predating in the Syrian interior used this man Turkish and Armenian sources,
refugee systems set up by the League category both to gain political influ- Gratien brings rural populations into
of Nations and the United Nations. ence and to organize community the momentous events of the period:
Grounded in archival research in over resistance to maintain control over Ottoman reform, Mediterranean
twenty public and private archives land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin capitalism, the First World War, and
across ten countries, this book individuals, Barakat brings this Turkish nation-building. Through the
contests the boundaries typically population to the center of modern ecological perspectives of everyday
assumed between forced and vol- state-making, while also placing the people in Çukurova, he charts how
untary migration, and refugees and Syrian interior in a global context of familiar facets of quotidian life like
immigrants, rewriting the history of imperial expansion. She illuminates malaria, cotton cultivation, labor, and
Muslim migration in the nineteenth Ottoman state formation attempts leisure attained modern manifesta-
and early twentieth centuries. and the unique trajectory of Bed- tions. As the history of this pivotal
“Magnificent and magisterial. ouin in Syria, who maintained their region reveals, the remarkable eco-
Empire of Refugees not only control over land. logical transformation of late Otto-
reveals the emergence of a new “Bedouin Bureaucrats is a marvel. man society configured the trajectory
template for refugee flows in It is necessary reading for anybody of the contemporary societies of the
the modern world, but captures interested in the complexities of Middle East.
the human experiences of the state-building, governance, and
refugees themselves: their sorrows, “Environmental history at its finest.
sovereignty. Nora Barakat has given Gratien tells the story of an empire,
hopes, failures, and successes. us a book that will be debated and
A prodigious achievement.” meticulously researched, exception-
admired for years to come.” ally insightful—all grounded in the
—Michael A. Reynolds, —Pekka Hämäläinen, lives and lands of Çukurova.”
Princeton University University of Oxford
—Sam White,
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 Losing Istanbul Remnants The Horrors of Adana
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and Embodied Archives of the Revolution and Violence in the
the End of Empire Armenian Genocide Early Twentieth Century
Mostafa Minawi Elyse Semerdjian Bedross Der Matossian
This book offers an intimate Foremost among the images of the In April 1909, twin massacres shook
history of empire, following the Armenian Genocide is the specter the province of Adana, killing more
rise and fall of a generation of of tattooed Islamized Armenian than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000
Arab-Ottoman imperialists. women. Among Armenians, the Muslims. This book offers one of
Minawi shows how these men and tattooed survivor was seen as a living the first close examinations of these
women negotiated their loyalties ethnomartyr or a national stain, and events, analyzing sociopolitical and
and guarded their privileges the bodies of women and children economic transformations that culmi-
through a microhistorical study figured centrally within humanitarian nated in a cataclysm of violence. Der
of the changing social, political, imaginary. In Remnants, these tat- Matossian provides voice and agency
and cultural currents. He narrates tooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal to all involved in the massacres—per-
lives lived in these turbulent times, a larger history, as the lived trauma petrators, victims, and bystanders.
while focusing on the complex of genocide is understood through Drawing on primary sources in
dynamics of ethnicity and race bodies, skin, and—in what remains a dozen languages, he develops
in an increasingly Turco-centric of those lives a century afterward— an interdisciplinary approach to
imperial capital. An alternative bones. Semerdjian writes a deeply understand the rumors and emotions,
history of the last decades of the personal history, exploring how public spheres and humanitarian
Ottoman Empire, Losing Istanbul the Ottoman Armenian communal interventions that together informed
frames global pivotal events body was dis-membered, disfigured, this complex event. Through con-
through the experiences of Arab- and ultimately re-membered by the sideration of the Adana Massacres
Ottoman imperial loyalists who survivor community. in micro-historical detail, this book
called Istanbul home. “A very ethical book, demonstrating to offers an important macrocosmic
“A masterful and captivating all of us how one can recover a violent understanding of ethnic violence,
account. Losing Istanbul teaches us past with professionalism and grace illuminating how and why ordinary
how to rescue late Ottoman history instead of rhetoric and partisanship. people can become perpetrators.
from Turkish nationalist narratives Remnants recovers and gives agency to
women who were silenced in history.” “A truly groundbreaking and highly
and gain a much richer under- nuanced exploration of intercommunal,
standing of global intellectual and —Fatma Muge Gocek, sectarian, and nationalist violence in
political history of the high age University of Michigan
the late Ottoman Empire.”
of imperialism.” 398 pages, 2023 —Ussama Makdisi,
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University of North Carolina
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The Afterlife of In the Shadow of the Wall Famine Worlds
Ottoman Europe The Life and Death of Jerusalem’s Life at the Edge of Suffering in
Muslims in Habsburg Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 Lebanon’s Great War
Bosnia Herzegovina Vincent Lemire Tylor Brand
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular This book offers the first history of The Great Famine was a catastrophe
This book examines how Bosnian the Maghrebi Quarter—spanning for the lands that would become
Muslims navigated the Ottoman 800 years from its founding in 1187 Lebanon. The crisis reshaped
and Habsburg domains follow- through to its destruction in 1967. To society, killing untold thousands
ing the Habsburg occupation of bring this vanished district back to and transforming how people lived.
Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 life, Lemire gathers its now-scattered Brand draws on memoirs, diaries,
Berlin Congress. Amzi-Erdoğdular documentation in the archives of and correspondence to explore
explores the enduring influence of Muslim pious foundations in Jeru- how people negotiated the famine
the Ottoman Empire during this salem and the Red Cross in Geneva, and its traumas. But more than
period—an influence perpetuated in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and simply a chronicle of the event, this
by the efforts of the imperial state Israeli state archives. He engages book offers a profound meditation
from afar, and by its former subjects testimonies of former residents and on what it means to live through
in Bosnia Herzegovina negotiating looks to recent archaeological digs collective trauma. A crisis like the
their new geopolitical reality. that have resurfaced household Great Famine not only reshapes
Tracing transregional connections, objects buried during the destruc- the lives and social worlds of those
imperial continuities, and multi- tion. Today, the Western Wall Plaza who suffer, it creates a particular
layered allegiances, this book tells extends over the former Maghrebi rationality that touches the most
the story of Muslims who redefined Quarter. It is one of the most identifi- fundamental parts of our being,
their place in both empires. able places in the world—yet one of down to the ways we interact with
the most occluded in history. This each other.
“Few works have been able to book offers a new point of entry to
scrutinize empire’s influence on the “A tour de force. Tylor Brand recovers
modern world with the rigor, focus understand this consequential place. the silenced cultural and economic
and brilliance displayed in this “Lemire re-establishes the history of the famine of Lebanon
remarkable monograph. A model for long-forgotten Maghrebi Quarter and makes it speak vitally to current
how to think about the lasting effects of the Old City to its rightful debates on mass trauma in Lebanon
of the old empires.” place in history. A fascinating and beyond.”
—Mark Mazower, and timely narrative.” —Elizabeth Thompson,
Columbia University —Roberto Mazza, American University
University of Limerick
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 Undesirables Wartime North Africa Diary of a Black
A Holocaust Journey to A Documentary History, 1934–1950 Jewish Messiah
North Africa Edited by Aomar Boum and The Sixteenth-Century Journey of
Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein David Reubeni through Africa, the
Illustrated by Nadjib Berber Middle East, and Europe
This book offers the first-ever
This graphic novel follows one Alan Verskin
collection of primary documents
man’s journey, telling a story of the on North African and Holocaust This book offers the first English
traumas wrought by the Holocaust. history. Translated from translation of Reubeni’s diary,
Hans Frank is a Jewish journalist French, Arabic, North African detailing his travels and personal
who flees Germany and lands in Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, travails. In 1524, Reubeni appeared
French Algeria. The Vichy regime Moroccan Darija, Tamazight in Venice, claiming to be the
soon designates all foreign Jews as (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or ambassador of a powerful Jewish
“undesirables,” and Hans is detained transcribed from their original kingdom that looked to deliver Jews
by Vichy authorities and interned English, these sources are like the to the Holy Land. He spent a decade
in camps in the deserts of Morocco dots of a pointillist painting. Taken shuttling between European rulers
and Algeria. Through bold storytell- together, these writings shed light seeking support. Reubeni’s grand
ing and illustrations that convey the on how war, occupation, race laws, ambitions were halted when he was
tension of the coming war and the internment, and Vichy French, turned over to the Inquisition and,
grimness of the camps, Boum and Italian fascist, and German Nazi in 1538, likely burned at the stake.
Berber capture the experiences of rule were experienced day by Reubeni’s diary reveals the dramatic
thousands of refugees in the fic- day across North Africa. Though desperation of Renaissance Jewish
tional Hans, and chronicle how the some selections are drawn from communities and the struggles of
traumas of the Holocaust extended published books, including the diplomat, trickster, and dreamer
far beyond the borders of Europe. memoirs, diaries, and collections who wanted to save them.
“Connects the histories of Jews of poetry, most have never been “Verskin has once again proven
and North Africans, of antisemitism published before, nor previously himself to be a master translator
and racism, of the Holocaust and translated into English. with this rendering of the Hebrew
colonialism in innovative and diary and no less a master storyteller
surprising ways. An eye-opening “Essential and groundbreaking.
With great care and intelligence, who vividly recreates the historical
book in the literal sense of setting of Reubeni’s activity in his
the word.” Boum and draw an intimate picture
of the region. This is a book as detailed introduction.”
—Michael Brenner, beautiful as the people it portrays.” —Norman A. Stillman,
American University University of Oklahoma
—Laila Lalami
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No Longer Ladies The Discovery of Iran The Persian Prince
and Gentlemen Taghi Arani, aRadical The Rise and Resurrection of an
Gender and the German-Jewish Cosmopolitan Imperial Archetype
Migration to Mandatory Palestine Ali Mirsepassi Hamid Dabashi
Viola Alianov-Rautenberg This book examines the history of With a title borrowed from
Drawing on archival materials in Iranian nationalism afresh through Machiavelli, Dabashi articulates
German, English, and Hebrew, the life and work of Taghi Arani, the a bold new idea of the Persian
including administrative records, founder of Donya, Iran’s first Marx- Prince—a metaphor of political
personal documents, newspapers, ist journal. In his quest to imagine authority, a figurative ideal deeply
and oral history interviews, this a future for Iran, Arani combined rooted in the collective memories
book follows Jewish migrants along Marxist materialism and a cosmo- of multiple nations, and a literary
their journey from Germany and politan ethics of progress. He and construct that connected Muslim
into the workplaces, living rooms, his contemporaries engaged vibrant empires across time and space.
and kitchens of their new homeland debates about national identity, his- Drawing on works from Classical
to provide a new perspective on tory, and Iran’s place in the modern Antiquity and the vast Persianate
everyday life in Mandate Palestine. world. As Mirsepassi shows, Arani’s worlds from India to the Mediter-
Alianov-Rautenberg tells the story cosmopolitanism complicates the ranean, as well as the Hebrew Bible
of German-Jewish migration as conventional wisdom that racial and European medieval mirrors
gender history. She argues that exclusivism was an insoluble feature for princes, Dabashi reveals the
migration was structured by gen- of twentieth-century Iranian na- construction of the Persian Prince
dered policies and ideologies and tionalism. In exploring Arani’s short as a potent archetype. He traces
experienced by men and women in but remarkable life and writings, this archetype through its varied
a gendered form—from the decision Mirsepassi challenges the image historic gestations and finds it
to immigrate through the outcomes of Interwar Iran as dominated by resurfacing in postcolonial political
for family life, body, self-image, the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile thought as a rebel, a prophet, a
and sexuality. intellectual spaces in which civic poet, and a nomad.
nationalism flourished. “A unique and formidable text
“Emphasizing the gender perspective,
this book is one of the best new works “A powerful and engaging that encapsulates the brilliance,
on the history of immigration.” intellectual biography which weaves vivacity, and political ferocity of
Taghi Arani’s life into the broader Dabashi’s mind.”
—Guy Miron,
Open University of Israel tapestry of modern Iranian —Jeanne Morefield,
nationalism and modernism.” University of Oxford
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