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A House in the Homeland
Alternative Iran
Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice Pamela Karimi
Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory Carel Bertram
August 2022 432pp 9781503631809 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9781503630017 £84.00 / $105.00 HB
Worlding the Middle East April 2022 296pp 9781503631649 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503630208 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alterna�ve Iran offers a unique contribu�on to the field of contemporary art, inves�ga�ng how Iranian ar�sts engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, poli�cal, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's crea�ve class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bertram joined scores of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from 100s more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history.
Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Arabic Disclosures
April 2022 272pp 9781477324820 £36.00 / $45.00 HB
June 2022 472pp 9780268201647 £80.00 / $100.00 HB
The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a compara�ve analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical wri�ng. This book draws a map of Arab thought and culture in its mul�ple engagements with other cultures and will be useful for scholars and students of compara�ve literature, Arabic studies, and Middle Eastern studies, intellectual thought, and historical studies.
An account of the Amazigh people who took advantage of the Arab Spring to press poli�cal demands such as territorial and cons�tu�onal claims while rejec�ng official discrimina�on and neglect. Today the Amazigh ques�on looms larger than ever, as North African governments find they can no longer ignore the movement’s interests.
Architecture and Development
Crossing a Line
Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Amahl Bishara
Israeli Construction in SubSaharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 19581973 Ayala Levin
June 2022 384pp 9781503632097 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503631373 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2022 320pp 69 illus., incl. 16 page color insert 9781478017882 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478015260 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
Crossing a Line enters the dis�nct environments for poli�cal expression and ac�on of Pales�nians who carry Israeli ci�zenship and Pales�nians subject to Israeli military occupa�on in the West Bank, and considers how Pales�nians are differently impacted by dispossession, se�ler colonialism, and militarism
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diploma�c rela�ons in and throughout the con�nent from 1958 to 1973, this book charts the se�ler colonial imagina�on and prac�ces that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. 1
Familial Undercurrents
For the Love of Humanity
Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran Afsaneh Najmabadi
The World Tribunal on Iraq Ayca Cubukcu Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2022 240pp 7 illus. 9780812225235 £18.99 / $24.95 NIP
March 2022 184pp 51 illus. 9781478017776 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478015154 £76.00 / $94.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRESS
Najmabadi draws on her family history to tell a larger story of the transforma�ons of no�ons of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twen�ethcentury Iran. She chronicles the urban transforma�ons of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblema�c of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.
Based on two years of fieldwork with the transna�onal network of an�war ac�vists who cons�tuted the World Tribunal on Iraq, this book addresses the contemporary challenges and ambigui�es of forging global solidarity through an an�-imperialist poli�cs of human rights and interna�onal law.
Hamas Contained
Inventing the Berbers
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures May 2022 368pp 9781503632622 £17.99 / $24.00 NIP
The Middle Ages Series March 2022 312pp 4 illus. 9780812225242 £22.99 / $29.95 NIP
The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance Tareq Baconi
History and Ideology in the Maghrib Ramzi Rouighi
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Pales�nians who live there. Neither a democra�c poli�cal party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a mul�faceted libera�on organiza�on, one rooted in the na�onalist claims of the Pales�nian people. Hamas Contained offers the first history of the group on its own terms.
Examines the emergence of the Berbers as a dis�nct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home.
Land Law and Policy in Israel
Love, Death, Fame
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir Edited & translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
A Prism of Identity Haim Sandberg
Perspec�ves on Israel Studies July 2022 248pp 3 b&w photos, 3 b&w tables 9780253060457 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253060440 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature March 2022 400pp 9781479806577 £26.99 / $35.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how Israel's modern land system is the product of legisla�on from the O�oman period and the Bri�sh Mandate as well as the seventy-plus years of the State of Israel. By examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced iden�ty problems.
Features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the UAE. The tales included portray him as a wi�y, resourceful, scruffy poet, at �mes comba�ve and at �mes kindhearted. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
Media of the Masses Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Andrew Simon
Edited by Margaret S. Graves & Alex Dika Seggerman
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures April 2022 288pp 9781503631441 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503629431 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
May 2022 284pp 145 color illus. 9780253060341 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253060334 £60.00 / $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Inves�gates the social life of an everyday technology—the casse�e tape—to offer a mul�sensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 70s and 80s, casse�es became a ubiquitous presence in Egyp�an homes and stores.
Reveals how 19th-century ar�sts in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspec�ves. Contributors focus on the shi�ing methods of produc�on, reproduc�on, circula�on, and exchange ar�sts faced as they worked in fields such as photography, weaving, design and metalwork.
Oilcraft
Protesting Jordan
The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Robert Vitalis
Geographies of Power and Dissent Jillian Schwedler Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures JApril 2022 360pp 9781503631588 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503630376 £72.00 / $85.00 HB
March 2022 240pp 9781503632592 £16.99 / $22.00 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A bracing correc�ve to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diploma�c policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence. Robert Vitalis debunks the myths to reveal "oilcra�," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcra� than statecra�. Oil is a commodity like any other: bought, sold, and subject to market forces.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on 25 years of field research, Protes�ng Jordan examines protests as they are situated in the built environment, bringing together considera�ons of networks, spa�al imaginaries, space and placemaking, and poli�cal geographies at local, na�onal, regional, and global scales.
Recording History
Revolutions Aesthetic
June 2022 304pp 9781503631687 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503630567 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures June 2022 392pp 9781503631953 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503630581 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver
A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria Max Weiss
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into JewishMuslim rela�ons through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illumina�ng regional and transna�onal connec�ons.
A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and poli�cal project—a Ba'thist cultural revolu�on— sought to align ar�s�c endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Ba'thist Syria, from the coming to power of Hafiz al-Asad, through the transi�onal period under Bashar al-Asad, and con�nuing up through the Syria War. 3
Sextarianism
States of Subsistence
May 2022 288pp 9781503631557 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503628878 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures April 2022 360pp 9781503631328 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503630369 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon Maya Mikdashi
The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan José Ciro Martínez
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassa�on, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how poli�cal difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Drawing on more than a year working as a baker in Amman, Mar�nez probes the prac�ces that underpin subsidized bread. Following bakers and bureaucrats, he offers an immersive examina�on of social welfare provision.
Street-Level Governing
The Book of Charlatans
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures May 2022 336pp 9781503631854 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503628410 £76.00 / $95.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature May 2022 300pp 9781479813247 £11.99 / $16.00 PB
Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey Elise Massicard
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī Translated by Humphrey Davies Foreword by S. A. Chakraborty
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as prac�ced in the thirteenth century in the ci�es of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Covering everything from invisible wri�ng to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, this book opens a fascina�ng window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con ar�sts in the medieval Arab world.
Muhtars, the lowest level elected poli�cal posi�on in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administra�ve hierarchy. Street-Level Governing is the first book to inves�gate how muhtars carry out their role to provide an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
The Common Camp
The Essence of Reality
Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz
A Defense of Philosophical Sufism ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Edited & translated by Mohammed Rustom
May 2022 376pp 100 b&w illus., 6 maps 9781517907174 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9781517907167 £111.00 / $140.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature April 2022 350pp 9781479816590 £26.99 / $35.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spa�al instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and popula�ons. Focusing on the geopoli�cal complexity of Israel–Pales�ne, this book explores the region’s extensive networks of camps and their existence as both a tool of colonial power and a makeshi� space of resistance.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The text is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposi�on of mys�cism in the Islamic intellectual tradi�on. This important work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical Islamic philosophy and philosophical mys�cism. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
The Horrors of Adana
Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century Bedross Der Matossian
From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period Edited by D. G. Tor & Minoru Inaba
March 2022 320pp 9781503631021 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503608177 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2022 350pp 51 b&w illus., 38 maps 9780268202095 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
In April 1909, twin massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The Horrors of Adana offers one of the first close examina�ons of these events, analyzing sociopoli�cal and economic transforma�ons that culminated in a cataclysm of violence.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, poli�cal, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transi�on from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.
The Invisible Palestinians
The Struggle for Development in Iran
The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv Andreas Hackl
The Evolution of Governance, Economy, and Society Pooya Azadi, Mohsen B. Mesgaran & Matin Mirramezani
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa June 2022 256pp 4 b&w illus., 3 maps 9780253060839 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780253060822 £56.00 / $70.00 HB
May 2022 304pp 9781503630468 £40.00 / $50.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The past several decades in Iran have been a period of sluggish and noninclusive economic growth. This book provides a mul�dimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020, focusing on fundamentals, ins�tu�ons, and socioeconomic trends.
Grounded in the everyday lives of Pales�nians in Tel Aviv, this book offers an ethnographic cri�que of the city's self-proclaimed openness and liberalism.
The Unsettled Plain
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier Chris Gratien
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī Translated by Mario Kozah
March 2022 328pp 9781503631267 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503630895 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature May 2022 300pp 9781479813216 £11.99 / $15.00 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The founda�onal text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga prac��oners and students worldwide. Wri�en in a ques�on-andanswer format, this book deals with the theory and prac�ce of yoga and the psychological ques�on of the libera�on of the soul from a�achments. A brilliant cross-cultural interpreta�on of a key text of yoga philosophy.
The Unse�led Plain studies agrarian life in the O�oman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Chris Gra�en reconstructs the remaking of Çukurova, a region at the historical juncture of Anatolia and Syria, and illuminates radical changes brought by the modern state, capitalism, war, and technology.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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Thunderbird
Transnational Palestine
Book One Sonia Nimr Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 Nadim Bawalsa
March 2022 128pp 9781477325810 £11.99 / $16.00 PB
Worlding the Middle East July 2022 272pp 9781503632264 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503629110 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A fast-paced �me-traveling fantasy adventure centered on a Pales�nian girl who travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world. Noor begins her journey, through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
By 1936, an es�mated 40,000 Pales�nians lived outside geographic Pales�ne. Transna�onal Pales�ne is the first book to explore the history of Pales�nian immigra�on to La�n America as well as the struggles Pales�nian migrants faced to secure Pales�nian ci�zenship in the interwar period.
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