MIDDLE EAST Spring 2020
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Arabian Satire
Archive Wars
Poetry from 18th-Century Najd Hmedan al-Shwe’ir Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Foreword by Jane Tylus
The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia Rosie Bsheer
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 320pp 9781503612570 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503605183 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature April 2020 160pp 9781479885169 £11.99/$15.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the This is the first full translation of this remarkable increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi poet. The poet uses proverbs, maxims, and words state and how it manifested in assembling a of wisdom expressed plainly. national archive and reordering urban space in Excludes SE Asia & ANZ Riyadh and Mecca.
Argentina in the Global Middle East
Between Iran and Zion
Jewish Histories of TwentiethCentury Iran Lior B. Sternfeld
Lily Pearl Balloffet
June 2020 264pp 9781503613010 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503611740 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 208pp 9781503613638 £19.99/$24.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migrant-homeland ties, and international relations.
Home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel, Iran today has about 25,000 Jews. 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.
Beyond Exception
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire
New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard & Neha Vora
Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire Richard E. Antaramian
June 2020 240pp 9781503612952 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9781503611627 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 168pp 1 b&w halftone 9781501750304 £16.99/$19.95 PB 9781501750298 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire, Richard E. Antaramian presents a revisionist account of Ottoman reform, relating the contention within the Armenian community to broader imperial politics.
Across nearly two decades of fieldwork,reflects on the authors’ experiences, discussions about the region and its people, and cultural practices. Excludes ANZ
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Changing Qatar
Cleft Capitalism
Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization Geoff Harkness
The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt Amr Adly
July 2020 250pp 15 b&w halftones 9781479854820 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9781479889075 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 320pp 9781503612204 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503608917 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Beyond the headlines, provides perspective on modern-day life in the increasingly visible Gulf. After three years of immersive fieldwork and more than a hundred interviews, describes a country in transition, negotiating the fluid boundaries of culture, tradition, and modernity. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Under the auspices of the IMF, the World Bank, USAID, and the European Commission, the Egyptian economy still fails to meet popular expectations for inclusive growth, better standards of living, and high-quality employment.
Coming of Age in Iran
Disruptive Situations
Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity Manata Hashemi
Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut Ghassan Moussawi
Critical Perspectives on Youth May 2020 256pp 18 hts 9781479854820 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479876334 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 218pp 9781439918500 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9781439918494 £78.00/$94.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Excludes Asia Pacific
Looks at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis. First-hand accounts, of the young Iranian men and women known as the “burnt generation” who came of age after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Egypt’s Occupation
Exile and the Nation
Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism Aaron G. Jakes
June 2020 344pp 9781503612617 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503607194 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. It’s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt’s Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed.
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran Afshin Marashi June 2020 368pp 9781477320792 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Tracing the cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and the Parsi community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, how this interchange led to the collective reimagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity.
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Graveyard of Clerics
Impostures
al-Ḥarīrī Translated by Michael Cooperson Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia Pascal Menoret
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 248pp 9781503612464 £19.99/$24.00 PB 9780804799805 £69.00/$80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 534pp 1 map 9781479800841 £24.99/$29.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Takes up two global phenomena intimately linked in Saudi Arabia: urban sprawl and religious activism. Tells the stories of how people can organize and protest even amid increasingly intense police oppression.
Follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī —brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Iran and the Deccan
Israeli Foreign Policy
Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700 Edited by Keelan Overton
A People Shall Not Dwell Alone Uri Bialer
Perspectives on Israel Studies March 2020 440pp 9780253046215 £43.00/$50.00 PB 9780253046208 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 368pp 9780253048912 £29.99/$36.00 PB INDIANA 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.
The Deccan plateau of southwest India has been a place of significant cross-cultural exchange for thousands of years. Traces the history of Persianate arts of all kinds on the Deccan from the Brahmani period to the dissolution of the sultanates in the late 17th century.
Justice for Some
Kalima wa Nagham
Law and the Question of Palestine Noura Erakat
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 3 Nasser Isleem & Ghazi Abuhakema
April 2020 352pp 9781503613577 £17.99/$22.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2020 576pp 9781477319994 £39.00/$45.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 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.
Presenting a new Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum, textbook that uniquely and simultaneously introduces Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and salient aspects of Educated Spoken Arabic (ESA) to students whose proficiency level is at least intermediate high.
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Landed Internationals
Lightning through the Clouds
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Burak Erdim
‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East Mark Sanagan
July 2020 360pp 9781477321218 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
May 2020 336pp 9781477320563 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Examines the international culture of postwar urban planning via the case of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. Draws on the language of the UN and its Technical Assistance Board to encompass the sprawling set of relationships from this endeavor.
This is the first English-language life-and-times biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent and controversial figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the Middle East.
Maqamat Abi Zayd alSaruji
Musical Ethics and Islam
al-Harīrī & Michael Cooperson
The Art of Playing the Ney Banu Senay
Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 352pp 9781479800896 £34.00/$40.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 240pp 9780252084881 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043024 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabiconly edition of the celebrated work by al-Harīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Documents the years-long training required to become a neyzen—a player of the ney. The process holds a transformative power that invites students to create a new way of living that involves alternative relationships with the self and others, changing perceptions of the city, and a dedication to craftsmanship.
My Shadow Is My Skin
Oilcraft
Voices from the Iranian Diaspora Edited by Katherine Whitney & Leila Emery
The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Robert Vitalis
March 2020 296pp 9781477320273 £28.99/$35.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
July 2020 240pp 9781503600904 £19.99/$24.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. Pulls back the curtain on a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.
Debunks the myth that U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to strategic resource of oil; that the “special” relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market, providing Washington enormous leverage over Europe.
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Persianate Selves
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism Mana Kia
Sa’ed Atshan
May 2020 304pp 9781503612396 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503609945 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 336pp 9781503611955 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503610682 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia. Sa’ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis.
Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality.
Regular Soldiers, Irregular War
Revolution and Disenchantment
Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada Devorah S. Manekin
Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation Fadi A. Bardawil
August 2020 282pp 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map, 3 charts 9781501750434 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Theory in Forms March 2020 288pp 4 illus. 9781478006756 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006169 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns. Excludes ANZ
Fadi A. Bardawil explores the hopes for and disenchantments with Marxism-Leninism in the writings and actions of revolutionary intellectuals within the 1960s Arab New Left.
Scents and Flavors
Street Sounds
A Syrian Cookbook Edited and translated by Charles Perry
Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Ziad Fahmy
Library of Arabic Literature March 2020 192pp 9781479800810 £11.99/$15.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 336pp 9781503613034 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503612013 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD 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
Interweaves infrastructural, cultural, and social history, analyzes the sounds of modernity, using sounded sources as an analytical tool for examining the past. Contextualizes sound, layering historical analysis with a sensory dimension, bringing us closer to the Egyptian streets as lived, embodied by everyday people.
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Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks
The American Passport in Turkey
Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide Marc David Baer
National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism Özlem Altan-Olcay & Evren Balta
Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies April 2020 368pp 9780253045416 £39.00/$45.00 PB 9780253045447 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism May 2020 240pp 9780812252156 £52.00 /$59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Explores the diverse meanings and values that Moral responsibility of descendants of the victims various people attribute to U.S. citizenship, while of one genocide to the descendants of another. residing in Turkey.
The Optimist
Unexpected State
A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad Tamir Sorek
British Politics and the Creation of Israel Carly Beckerman
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 256pp 9781503612730 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9780804797474 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies March 2020 264pp 9780253046413 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253046406 £60.00/$70.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cuts through assumptions about Britain’s support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in the creation of British Palestine, Beckerman explores why and how elite political battles in London inadvertently laid the foundations for the establishment of the State of Israel.
Offers the first biography of Zayyad (1929-1994), a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. Dominanat in political life in Israel, a local council member, mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli parliament.
A City in Fragments
In the Arab Spring and Beyond Edited by Rita Stephan & Mounira M. Charrad
Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem Yair Wallach
June 2020 432pp 33 hts, 3 figs 9781479801046 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479800001 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2020 312pp 9781503611139 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503610033 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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.
Essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Offers an understanding of an important movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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