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A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut
Nadine A. Sinno
April 2024 320pp 16-page color insert, 85 b&w photos
9781477328743 £49.00 HB now £34.30
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In A War of Colors, Sinno examines how graffiti and street art have been used in postwar Beirut to comment on the changing social dynamics of the region. Through analyzing graffiti, makers can reclaim cityscapes that were damaged by militias during the war. Copiously illustrated with images, this book is a visually captivating journey of both scarred and polished walls in the city.
Bedouin Poets of the Nafûd Desert
Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Library of Arabic Literature
April 2024 300pp
9781479826155 £25.99 HB now £18.19
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book features poetry from three poets of the Ibn RashŅd dynasty–the highwater mark of Bedouin culture. The poems featured in Bedouin Poets of the Nafûd Desert vividly describe journeys on camelback, family stories, and beautiful nature scenes, offering a window into Bedouin society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dark Pasts
Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan
Jennifer M. Dixon
March 2024 276pp 3 b&w line drawings, 1 chart
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In recent decades, states have been called on to acknowledge and apologize for historic wrongs. Dixon unravels the complex and fraught processes through which state narratives of past atrocities are constructed, contested, and defended, focusing on Turkey's narrative of the Armenian Genocide and Japan's narrative of the Nanjing Massacre.
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
March 2024 288pp 10 b&w illus., 5 maps
9781477328774 £45.00 HB now £31.50
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Using a variety of documents in multiple languages, this book looks at the history of the ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints. Subrahmanyam examines how several cities grew and changed, when various powers interacted until famines and other disturbances upended the region in the seventeenth century.
Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets
Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973
Oz
Frankel
July 2024 344pp
9781503639522 £29.99 PB now £20.99
9781503636262 £125.00 HB now £87.50
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the 1960s, Israel became entwined with the United States as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture. Nevertheless, there remained lingering ambivalence and resistance to, American influences. Taking an expansive view of Israeli–American encounters, Frankel reveals their often unexpected consequences.
Independence and Politics
Crossroads in the Shaping of Israel's Political System
Meir Chazan
Perspectives on Israel Studies
April 2024 252pp
9780253068682 £29.99 PB now £20.99
9780253068675 £63.00 HB now £44.10
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book delves deeply into the political landscape of Israel during the years 1947–1949. Chazan's analysis and expert commentary offer an unparalleled understanding of the challenges faced by the State of Israel and the decisions that shaped its future.
Island and Empire
How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World
Uğur Z. Peçe
Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
June 2024 272pp
9781503639232 £23.99 PB now £16.79
9781503638723 £99.00 HB now £69.30
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. Peçe narrates a connected history of international intervention, mass displacement, and popular mobilization. He demonstrates how Cretan refugees became the engine of protest across the empire, sending ripples beyond imperial borders.
Making Space for the Gulf
Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East
Arang Keshavarzian
Worlding the Middle East
April 2024 312pp
9781503638877
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space; the roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region. Keshavarzian reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings of the region over the last two centuries.
My Brother, My Land
A Story from Palestine
Sami Hermez
With Sireen Sawalha
February 2024 328pp
9781503628397 £23.99 HB now £16.79
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.
Liminal Minorities
Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
Günes Murat Tezcür
Religion and Conflict
April 2024 270pp 14 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 4 charts
9781501774683 £27.99 PB now £19.59
9781501774676 £112.00 HB now £78.40
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they pose no political threat. Analyzing a variety of original sources, Tezcür reveals how ordinary people are motivated to participate in mass atrocities.
Mission Manifest
American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century
Matthew K. Shannon
The United States in the World June 2024 330pp 16 b&w halftones, 3 maps
9781501775949 £49.00 HB now £34.30
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US government officials, nongovernmental organizations, and their Iranian counterparts as political brokers.
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Risālah alShamsiyyah
An Edition and Translation with Commentary Tony Street
Library of Arabic Literature
May 2024 300pp
9781479827527 £67.00 HB now £46.90
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is a scholarly edition and translation of The Rules of Logic, with commentary and notes. Composed by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī, a scholar of the Shāfiʿī school of law, al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabicspeaking world.
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Aria Fani
Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
April 2024 264pp 14 b&w photos
9781477328811 £49.00 HB now £34.30
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The dynamic ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Reading across Borders demonstrates how Iran and Afghanistan as nation-states arose from their shared Persian heritage and cross-cultural exchange in the twentieth century.
Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period
Stéfan Winter & Zainab HajHasan
August 2024 368pp 13 b&w illus., 4 b&w maps, 1 b&w figure
9781487554408 £69.00 HB now £48.30
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This collection sheds light on different aspects of the history of the Kurds in Syria during the Ottoman period.
From 1st April 2024
The City as Anthology
Eroticism and Urbanity in Early
Modern Ishafan
Kathryn Babayan
March 2024 280pp
9781503640108 £25.99 PB now £18.19
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kathryn Babayan uses the household collections of seventeenth-century Isfahan to tell a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule.
Struggling for Time
Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/ Palestine
March 2024 336pp
9781503637726 £25.99 PB now £18.19
9781503636828 £108.00 HB now £75.60
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency.
Talking Back to the West
How Turkey Uses CounterHegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order Bilge
Yesil
Geopolitics of Information
June 2024 224pp 1 b&w photo, 4 tables
9780252087998 £23.99 PB now £16.79
9780252045899 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player. Yesil examines the AKP’s English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes and the implications of its activities.
The City Is Ours
Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey
Muna Güvenç
August 2024 258pp 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps
9781501776373 £27.99 PB now £19.59
9781501774355 £112.00 HB now £78.40
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer "wiggle room", turning oppression into chances and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical mobilizations.
The Color Black Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
Beeta Baghoolizadeh
March 2024 248pp 33 illus., including 5 in color
9781478030249 £22.99 PB now £16.09
9781478026013 £92.00 HB now £64.40
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Baghoolizadeh draws on photographs, architecture, theater, circus acts, newspapers, films, and more to document how the politics of visibility framed discussions around enslavement and abolition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this way, Baghoolizadeh makes visible the people and histories that were erased from Iran and its diaspora.
The Fragmentary City
Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar
Andrew M. Gardner
May 2024 198pp 17 b&w
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences.
The Rules of Logic
Edited and translated by Tony Street
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī
Library of Arabic Literature
May 2024 200pp
9781479880249 £25.99 HB now £18.19
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world. Building on the theories of Avicenna, al-Rāzī, and other pioneers of logic, al-Kātibī discusses the many pitfalls of building arguments and setting out unambiguous claims in natural language. This new translation brings something new to both an Arabic and English readership.
The Doctors' Dinner Party
Ibn Buṭlān
Translated by Philip F. Kennedy and Jeremy Farrell Foreword by Emily Gowers
Library of Arabic Literature
March 2024 250pp
9781479827480 £13.99 PB now £9.79
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from is invited to dinner with older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence, satirizing the hypocrisy of quack doctors whilst displaying deep technical knowledge of medical practice.
July
The Order and Disorder of Communication
Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Nir
Shafir
Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The 17th-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing. Shafir investigates the political and cultural institutions used to encourage the circulation of information in a society in which all books were copied by hand.
The Threshold of Dissent
A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Marjorie N. Feld
Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
July 2024 288pp
9781479829316 £29.99 HB now £20.99
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Threshold of Dissent, Feld shows that today’s vociferous arguments among American Jews over Israel and Zionism are but the newest chapter in a fraught history. At a time when American Jewish support for Israel has been diminishing, this book uncovers a deeper history of debate over Zionism.
Unsettled
American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine
Oren Kroll-Zeldin
June 2024 304pp 6 b&w images
9781479821457 £29.99 HB now £20.99
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions. The book explores how these activists address Israeli government policies of occupation and apartheid, and seek to transform American Jewish institutional support for Israel.
How Sanctions Work
Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani & Ali Vaez
February 2024 200pp
9781503637801
9781503637313 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling establishment, or to weaken its hold on power.
Islamic Ecumene
Comparing Muslim Societies
Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo
November 2023
CORNELL
Using the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people across the planet who identify as Muslims.
Violent Intimacies
The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World Asli Zengin
February 2024 296pp 22 illus.
9781478025627 £23.99 PB now £16.79
9781478020882 £94.00 HB now £65.80
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
Noam Shoked
Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
November 2023 400pp
9781477328545 £29.99 PB now £20.99 9781477327845 £94.00 HB now £65.80
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals,politicians, and Israelis who felt unserved by the country’s housing system.
The Labor of Hope Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt Harry Pettit
November 2023
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pettit follows young men as they engage a booming industry that sells the meritocratic promise that a good life is realizable for all. He considers the ways individuals cultivate distraction and hope for future mobility: education, migration, and consumption. Illuminating this emotional labor, Pettit shows how the capitalist economy continues to capture the attention of the very people harmed by it.
A Demon Spirit
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Abū Nuwās
Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 488pp
9781479834129 £29.99 HB now £20.99
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English.
September 2024 244pp
The Requirements of the Sufi Path
A Defense of the Mystical Tradition
Ibn Khaldūn
Translated by Carolyn Baugh
Foreword by Jesús R. Velasco
Library of Arabic Literature
9781479834198 £12.99 PB now £9.09
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book incorporates the wisdom of three of Sufism’s greatest voices as well as Ibn Khaldūn’s own insights, acquired through his intellectual encounters with Sufism and his broad legal expertise.a remarkable work of synthesis and analysis.
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ
Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Library of Arabic Literature
October 2024 320pp
9781479834167 £25.99 HB now £18.19
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, Marcel Kurpershoek vividly translates the deeds and verses of this Shāyiʿ’s, this compelling poet, based on recordings of late-twentieth century reciters, a testament to Shāyiʿ’s prominence as an embodiment of Bedouin virtue, courage, wiliness, and generosity.
Fate the Hunter Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Translated by James E. Montgomery
Foreword by Alice Oswald
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 184pp
989781479834259 £12.99 PB now £9.09
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through the eyes of the poet, the hunter’s pursuit of the quarry mirrors Fate’s pursuit of both humans and nonhumans and highlights the ambiguity of the encounter. With breathtaking descriptions of falcons, gazelles, and saluki gazehounds, the poems in Fate the Hunter capture the drama and tension of the hunt while offering meditations on Fate, mortality, and death.