Middle East Fall 2020
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A Bed for the King’s Daughter
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
Shahla Ujayli Translated by Sawad Hussain
Edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad & Sherene Seikaly
January 2021 60pp 9781477322284 £11.99 / $16.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures February 2021 328pp 9781503614475 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503613836 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli.
Offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.
A History of False Hope
Between Empire and Nation
Investigative Commissions in Palestine Lori Allen
Muslim Reform in the Balkans Milena Methodieva
December 2020 400pp 9781503614185 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503606722 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe January 2021 352pp 9781503613379 £54.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations.
Between Empire and Nation tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities.
Between Muslims
Conceiving Agency
Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan J. Andrew Bush
Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women Michal S. Raucher
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures September 2020 240pp 9781503614581 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503611436 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 226pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253050021 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9780253050014 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition.
Between Muslims provides an ethnographic account of Iraqi Kurdish Muslims who turn away from devotional piety yet remain intimately engaged with Islamic traditions and with other Muslims.
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Decolonizing Palestine
Dressed with Distinction
Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial Somdeep Sen
Garments from Ottoman Syria
Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood Introduction by Joanna Barrkman
December 2020 180pp 12 b&w hts. 9781501752742 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781501752735 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 80pp 72 color illus., 1 b&w illus, 1 chart, 1 map 9780990762690 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Examines the history of textile production in the Middle East during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, until political changes led to the dominance of Western-style commercially manufactured attire.
Rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized.
Genetic Crossroads
Global Jihad
The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity Elise K. Burton
A Brief History Glenn E. Robinson
November 2020 256pp 9780804760478 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9780804760461 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 360pp 9781503614567 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503611917 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout of human genetics in the Middle East, from its the Muslim world. But following the 1979 Soviet roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates invasion of Afghanistan, a new form of jihadism emerged - global jihad. Glenn E. Robinson how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to develops a compelling and provocative argument Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial about this violent political movement’s evolution. claims and national origin myths.
Intoxicating Zion
Israeli Community Action
A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel Haggai Ram
October 2020 272pp 9781503613911 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503613263 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Intoxicating Zion is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Palestine/Israel. Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; colonialism and nation-building all weave together in Haggai Ram’s social history of the drug from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 War.
Civic Associations and Community Resilience Paula Kabalo
Perspectives on Israel Studies December 2020 344pp 16 b&w
photos 9780253050793 £28.99 / $36.00 PB 9780253050755 £75.00 / $90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Paula Kabalo presents a vivid portrait of civilians left behind in the cities during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence who strove to help each other cope with the realities of war.
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My Heart Became a Bomb
Polymaths of Islam
Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia James Pickett
Ramy al-Asheq Translated by Levi Thompson
September 2020 320pp 2 b&w hts., 4 maps, 1 chart 9781501750243 £45.00 / $54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 80pp 9781477322260 £11.99 / $16.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poems take the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad’s prisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, where Al-Asheq is now creating a new home.
Demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks.
Return to Ruin
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia Zainab Saleh
Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran Niloofar Haeri
November 2020 272pp 9781503614116 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503607026 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 216pp 9781503614246 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503601772 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq.
Offers an ethnography of debates sparked by the 1979 Iranian revolutionon what it means to be a true Muslim, among a group of educated, middleclass women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam.
Showpiece City
Spacing Debt
Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine Christopher Harker
How Architecture Made Dubai Todd Reisz Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures October 2020 424pp 125 b&w illus. 9781503609884 £23.99 / $30.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 216pp 10 illus. 9781478010968 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009900 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai’s spectacular transformation through the 1970s.
Demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Traces the emergence of debt in Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization of the Palestinian economy under Israeli settler colonialism.
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The Colonizing Self
The Dangers of Poetry
Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine Hagar Kotef
Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq Kevin M. Jones
Theory in Forms December 2020 304pp 21 illus. 9781478011330 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478010289 £84.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 320pp 9781503613393 £58.00 / $70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of poetry in the modern Middle East. Moving beyond the analysis of poems as literary and intellectual texts, Kevin M. Jones shows how poems functioned as social acts that critically shaped the cultural politics of revolutionary Iraq.
Explores the cultural, political, spatial, and theoretical mechanisms that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people’s homes, showing how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one’s sense of self.
The Power of Deserts
The Star and the Scepter
Climate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a PostOil Era Dan Rabinowitz
A Diplomatic History of Israel Emmanuel Navon
November 2020 496pp 18 maps, 1 glossary 9780827615069 £28.99 / $36.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
August 2020 152pp 9781503609983 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity.
Surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. The book highlights a potentially brighter future—a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy.
When Blame Backfires
The Sultan’s Communists
Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging Alma Heckman
Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon Anne Marie Baylouny
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture November 2020 328pp 9781503613805 £54.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 264pp 9781501751516 £34.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the effects on Jordan and Lebanon of hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees. Exposes that many of the problems that might be associated with refugees are in fact endemic to the normal routine of citizens’ lives.
Uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco’s national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco.
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A City in Fragments
Between Iran and Zion
Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem Yair Wallach
Jewish Histories of TwentiethCentury Iran Lior B. Sternfeld
June 2020 344pp 9781503611139 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503610033 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 208pp 9781503613638 £18.99 / $24.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. Between Iran and Zion offers the first history of this vibrant community over the course of the last century, from the 1905 Constitutional Revolution through the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
Cleft Capitalism
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran Afshin Marashi
The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt Amr Adly
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 336pp 9781503612204 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503608917 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 328pp 36 b&w photos, 2 maps 9781477320792 £44.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Tracing the cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and the Parsi community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Marashi shows how this interchange led to the collective reimagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity.
Cleft Capitalism offers a new explanation for why market-based development can fail to meet expectations: small businesses in Egypt are not growing into medium and larger businesses.
Impostures
Israeli Foreign Policy
al-Harīrī, Translated by Michael Cooperson Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
A People Shall Not Dwell Alone Uri Bialer Perspectives on Israel Studies March 2020 370pp 9780253046215 £41.00 / $50.00 PB 9780253046208 £79.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 534pp 1 map 9781479800841 £23.99 / $29.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Uri Bialer lays a foundation for understanding the principal aspects of Israeli foreign policy from early days of the state’s existence to the Oslo Accords. He presents a synthetic reading of sources, many of which are recently declassified official documents, to cover Israeli foreign policy over a broad chronological expanse.
A groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work in Arabic literautre. Follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Justice for Some
Oilcraft
Law and the Question of Palestine Noura Erakat
The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Robert Vitalis
April 2020 352pp 9781503613577 £17.99 / $22.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 240pp 9781503600904 £18.99 / $24.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures—from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to present-day wars in Gaza—Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions.
A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence. Robert Vitalis debunks the myths to reveal "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft.
Regular Soldiers, Irregular War
Scents and Flavors
A Syrian Cookbook Edited & Translated by Charles Perry
Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada Devorah S. Manekin
Library of Arabic Literature March 2020 192pp 9781479800810 £11.99 / $15.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 264pp 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map, 3 charts 9781501750434 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collecting 635 meticulous recipes, this popular 13th-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns.
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks
Unexpected State
British Politics and the Creation of Israel Carly Beckerman
Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide Marc D. Baer
Middle East Studies March 2020 224pp 14 b&w illus. 9780253046413 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780253046406 £60.00 / $70.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies March 2020 360pp 9780253045416 £37.00 / $45.00 PB 9780253045447 £79.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book challenges current understanding on the history of British Mandate Palestine. Argues that key conditions that were necessary for the creation of Israel only occurred by accident, as British politicians muddled through their careers in public office and foreign policy.
This bold work takes on many of the myths of Ottoman tolerance of Jews. It links ties between Muslims and Jews in Turkey to the denial of the Armenian genocide.
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