Middle East Studies S24 Subject Catalogue

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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/ $55.00 HB

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

Khalaf Abū Zwayyid,ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd,ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl

Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek

Library of Arabic Literature

April 2024 300pp

9781479826155 £25.99/ $30.00 HB

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

9781501776052 £29.99/ $34.95 PB 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/ $50.00 HB

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/ $35.00 PB

9781503636262 £125.00/ $140.00 HB

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/ $35.00 PB

9780253068675 £63.00/ $70.00 HB 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.

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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/ $28.00 PB

9781503638723 £99.00/ $110.00 HB

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 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781503633346 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

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/ $28.00 HB

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/ $31.95 PB

9781501774676 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

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/ $54.95 HB

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/ $75.00 HB

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.

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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/ $55.00 HB

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 / $90.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

This collection sheds light on different aspects of the history of the Kurds in Syria during the Ottoman period.

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The City as Anthology Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Ishafan

Kathryn Babayan

March 2024 280pp

9781503640108 £25.99 / $30.00 PB

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 / $30.00 PB

9781503636828 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

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/ $28.00 PB

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/ $31.95 PB

9781501774355 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

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.

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The Color Black

Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

Beeta Baghoolizadeh

March 2024 248pp 33 illus., including 5 in color

9781478030249 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478026013 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

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 halftones

9781501775017 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781501774980 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

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

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Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī

Library of Arabic Literature

May 2024 200pp

9781479880249 £25.99/ $30.00 HB

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/ $16.00 PB

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 2024 416pp

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

9781503638952 £67.00/ $75.00 HB

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/ $35.00 HB

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.

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Unsettled

American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine

Oren Kroll-Zeldin

June 2024 304pp 6 b&w images

9781479821457 £29.99/ $35.00 HB

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.

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Checkbook Zionism

Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship

Eric Fleisch

January 2024 266pp 13 b&w images, 1 table

9781978819948 £27.99/ $32.95 PB

9781978819955 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Fleisch assesses the core nature of power sharing between both sides of the Jewish diaspora to the United States through in-depth contemporary case studies of the relationship between sixteen nongovernmental organizations and their American Jewish donors.

Elastic Empire

Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine

Lisa Bhungalia

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

December 2023 264pp

9781503637511 £21.99/ $26.00 PB

9781503634527 £76.00/ $85.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed— this book tells the story of

Violent Intimacies

The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

Asli Zengin

February 2024 296pp 22 illus.

9781478025627 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781478020882 £94.00/ $104.95 HB

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.

Divine Money

Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine

Emanuel Schaeublin

Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society

October 2023 180pp 12 b&w illus.

9780253066572 £21.99/ $25.00 PB

9780253066565 £54.00/ $60.00 HB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance.

Gaza on Screen

Edited by Nadia Yaqub

August 2023 296pp 53 illus.

9781478020455 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781478019992 £94.00/ $104.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Explores the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens—both large and small—as tools for mediation that are laden with power, the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility and confinement, and decolonization.

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How Sanctions Work

Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare

Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani & Ali Vaez

February 2024 200pp

9781503637801 £20.99/ $24.00 PB

9781503637313 £72.00/ $80.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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

November 2023 330pp

9781501772399 £29.99/ $34.95 PB

9781501772382 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

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.

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/ $34.95 PB

9781477327845 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

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 400pp

9781477328545 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781503636538 £99.00/ $110.00 HB

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.

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