Middle East Studies Subject Catalogue - Fall 2021

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Arab Masculinities

Becoming Palestine

Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times Edited by Konstantina Isidoros & Marcia C. Inhorn

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future Gil Z. Hochberg October 2021 216pp 30 illus. 9781478014829 £20.99/ $24.95 PB 9781478013884 £80.00/ $94.95 HB

Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa January 2022 256pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253058911 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780253058928 £60.00/ $75.00 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examines how contemporary Pales�nian ar�sts, filmmakers, dancers, and ac�vists use the archive in order to radically imagine Pales�ne's future. She shows how ar�sts such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanna Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the iden�fica�on of the archive with the past.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious a�ermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. Challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa.

Between Dreams and Ghosts

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern

Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil Andrea Wright

The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman Amal Sachedina

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures November 2021 288pp 9781503630109 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503629516 £72.00/ $90.00 HB

September 2021 288pp 13 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501760020 £22.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501758614 £92.00/ $115.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cul�va�ng the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern na�on state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the rela�ons with the past that undergird the shi� in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern na�on state from 1970 onwards.

Over a million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few des�na�ons offering lucra�ve employment to men without formal educa�on. Demonstrates how migra�on is deeply informed both by workers’ dreams for the future and the legacies of colonial capitalism.

David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy

Defiance in Exile

Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan Waed Athamneh & Muhammad Masud Foreword by Ebrahim Moosa

Nir Kedar Translated by Haim Watzman

Perspec�ves on Israel Studies December 2021 272pp 9780253057464 £26.99/ $35.00 PB 9780253057471 £64.00/ $80.00 HB

September 2021 138pp 9780268201173 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780268201166 £80.00/ $100.00 HB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Offers a poignant study of the primary na�onal founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explica�on of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its ins�tu�onal-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings.

Presents for the first �me in a book-length format the opportunity to hear the refugee women’s own words about torment, struggle, and persecu�on—and of an enduring spirit that defies a difficult reality. Their stories speak of nearly insurmountable social, economic, physical, and emo�onal challenges, and provide a dis�nct perspec�ve of the Syrian conflict.

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From Europe's East to the Middle East

Ibn Arabi's Small Death

Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages Edited by Kenneth B. Moss, Benjamin Nathans & Taro Tsurumi

Mohammad Hassan Alwan Translated by William M. Hutchins February 2022 520pp 9781477324301 £22.99/ $30.00 PB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Jewish Culture and Contexts November 2021 464pp 9780812253092 £60.00/ $75.00 HB

A sweeping, inven�ve work of fic�on chronicling the life of the twel�h-century Sufi master and philosopher Ibn Arabi. Known in the West as “Rumi’s teacher,” he was a poet and mys�c who proclaimed that love was his religion. Alwan’s fic�onalized first-person narra�ve breathes life into a celebrated and polarizing figure.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Reveals how profoundly Zionism and Israel were shaped by the assump�ons of Polish na�onalism, Russian radicalism, and Soviet Communism; the unique ethos of the East European intelligentsia; and the poli�cal legacies of civil and na�onal strife in the East European "sha�er-zone."

Impostures

Kalīlah and Dimnah

al-Ḥarīrī Translated by Michael Cooperson Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito

Fables of Virtue and Vice Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ Edited by Michael Fishbein Translated by Michael Fishbein & James E. Montgomery

Library of Arabic Literature September 2021 542pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479810567 £11.99/ $15.00 NIP

Library of Arabic Literature November 2021 300pp 9781479806539 £22.99/ $30.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

An i�nerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning con�nents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new transla�on of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay, using fi�y different registers—from Chaucerian pas�che to Cockney rhyming slang.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

A collec�on designed for both the moral instruc�on and the entertainment of readers. The stories were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. Bilingual Arabic-English. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Listen to the Mourners

Making Levantine Cuisine

The Essential Poems of Nāzik AlMalā’ika Nāzik Al-Malā’ika Edited and translated by ‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a

Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean Edited by Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts & Vicki Valosik

November 2021 160pp 9780268200947 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780268200930 £80.00/ $100.00 HB

December 2021 288pp 1 map 9781477324578 £36.00/ $45.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Un�l now, very li�le of Al-Malā’ika’s poetry has been translated into English. Listen to the Mourners contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including Life Tragedy and a Song for Man, The Woman in Love with the Night, Sparks and Ashes, The Wave’s Nadir, The Moon Tree, and The Sea Alters Its Colours.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that comprise Levan�ne cuisine endure and transform— are unified but not uniform. This book brings muchneeded scholarly a�en�on to the region’s culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and kno�ed migra�ons of food. 2


Music in Arabia

The Discourses

Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation Edited by Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson & Anne K. Rasmussen

Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature— Volume One al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī Translated by Justin Stearns Foreword by Ayesha Ramachandran

September 2021 322pp 50 b&w illus., 4 b&w tables, 8 printed music items 9780253057532 £27.99/ $36.00 PB 9780253057549 £80.00/ $100.00 HB

Library of Arabic Literature October 2021 280pp 9781479810581 £11.99/ $15.00 NIP

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Looks at the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Presents fresh perspec�ves and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transna�onal communi�es.

Offers wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life from an author who speaks frankly about his rela�onships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners. English-language. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

The Discovery of Iran

The Egyptian Labor Corps

Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan Ali Mirsepassi

Race, Space, and Place in the First World War Kyle J. Anderson

December 2021 224pp 9781503629141 £52.00/ $65.00 HB

December 2021 288pp 10 b&w photos 9781477324547 £44.00/ $55.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

The history of Iranian na�onalism viewed afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya. Ali Mirsepassi shows that civic na�onalism flourished in cultural spaces like Donya, which hosted vibrant debates about na�onal iden�ty, history, and Iran's place in the modern world.

During World War I, Bri�sh authori�es reneged on their promise not to draw Egyp�ans into the war, enlis�ng half a million young men into the Egyp�an Labor Corps (ELC). Anderson tells the story of these young men and the essen�al part they came to play in the 1919 Egyp�an Revolu�on.

The Islamic Movement in Israel

Unfree

Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Tilde Rosmer

February 2022 240pp 1 map 9781477323540 £40.00/ $50.00 HB

October 2021 232pp 9781503629653 £17.99/ $24.00 PB 9781503614666 £64.00/ $80.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Since its establishment in the late 1970s, Israel’s Islamic Movement has grown from a small religious revivalist organiza�on focused on strengthening the faith of Muslim residents to a countrywide sociopoli�cal movement with representa�on in the Israeli legislature. Tilde Rosmer tells the story of the movement, its iden�ty, and its ac�vi�es.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In the UAE, there is an employment sponsorship system called the kafala in which migrant domes�c workers must solely work for their employer and cannot leave the country or terminate a job without their consent. Unfree shows how the system works, and argues against equa�ng it with human trafficking.

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Unknown Past

Vehicles of Decolonization

Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt Hanan Hammad

Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank Maryam S. Griffin

January 2022 328pp 9781503629776 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503629424 £72.00/ $90.00 HB

Cri�cal Race, Indigeneity, and Rela�onality November 2021 231pp 9781439920794 £24.99/ $32.95 PB 9781439920787 £83.00/ $104.50 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her movies were among the topgrossing in the box office. Unknown Past recounts Murad's extraordinary life—and the rapid poli�cal and sociocultural changes she witnessed.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Studies collec�ve movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Pales�nians assert a kind of Indigenous selfdetermina�on over mobility that Israeli se�ler colonialism seeks to undermine. Excludes Asia Pacific

Western Privilege

Years of Glory

Worlding the Middle East September 2021 256pp 9781503629233 £19.99/ $26.00 PB 9781503613843 £68.00/ $85.00 HB

Worlding the Middle East November 2021 272pp 9781503628458 £22.99/ $30.00 HB

Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai Amélie Le Renard

Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa Susan Gilson Miller

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar—a hero of the an�-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "last million" escaping the Second World War.

Nearly 90 percent of Dubai residents are foreigners. As in many global ci�es, those who hold Western passports share par�cular social and material advantages. Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class shape experiences of privilege, and inves�gates the forma�on of Westerners as a social group.

Disturbing Spirits

recent highlights

Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon Beverly A. Tsacoyianis

Dear Palestine

A Social History of the 1948 War Shay Hazkani

June 2021 370pp 9780268200725 £44.00/ $55.00 HB

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures April 2021 352pp 9781503627659 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503614659 £72.00/ $90.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Pales�ne. Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the conflict through soldiers’ le�ers home. 4

Inves�gates the psychological toll of conflict in the Middle East during the twen�eth century, including discussion of how spiritual and religious frameworks influence prac�ce and theory. blends social, cultural, and medical history research methods with approaches in disability and trauma studies to demonstrate that the history of mental illness in Syria and Lebanon since the 1890s is embedded in disparate ideas about legi�mate healing.


Kalima wa Nagham

Oil Money

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 1 Nasser Isleem & Ghazi Abuhakema With Samah Kamel

Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988 David M. Wight The United States in the World July 2021 360pp 10 b&w hal�ones, 7 charts 9781501715723 £40.00/ $49.95 HB

December 2020 656pp 9781477323243 £60.00/ $75.00 PB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Presen�ng a new Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that can be used in secondary and postsecondary educa�onal se�ngs, this is a textbook that uniquely and simultaneously introduces Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and salient aspects of Educated Spoken Arabic (ESA) to beginning language students.

In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East-US rela�ons during the 1970s and 1980s: the transforma�on of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars.

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Stories from Palestine Narratives of Resilience Marda Dunsky

Capital and State Building in the West Bank Kareem Rabie

March 2021 268pp 9780268200336 £26.99/ $35.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Stories from Pales�ne profiles Pales�nians engaged in crea�ve and produc�ve pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narra�ves emphasize the human dignity of Pales�nians pushing forward under extraordinary circumstances.

May 2021 272pp 31 illus. 9781478014096 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478011958 £80.00/ $99.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Kareem Rabie examines how Pales�ne's desire to fully integrate its economy into global markets through large-scale investment projects represented a shi� away from poli�cal state building with the hope that a thriving economy would lead to a free and func�oning Pales�nian state.

The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval

Visions of Beirut

May 2021 368pp 9781503627697 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503615069 £72.00/ $90.00 HB

June 2021 272pp 40 illus. 9781478010777 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478010449 £80.00/ $99.95 HB

The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure Hatim El-Hibri

Edited by James L. Gelvin

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Offers wide-ranging considera�ons of the characteris�cs, con�nui�es, and discon�nui�es of the region today, addressing topics from interna�onal poli�cs to poli�cal Islam, hip hop to human security. With up-to-date discussions of the Syrian Civil War, impacts of the Trump presidency, and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this book will be an essen�al guide for anyone seeking to understand the current state of the region.

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Ha�m El-Hibri explores how the crea�on and circula�on of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. Outlining how Beirut's urban space and public life intertwine with images and infrastructure, El-Hibri interrogates how media embody and exacerbate the region's poli�cal fault lines.


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