Middle East Studies New and Forthcoming Books 2018/2019

For Authors

We welcome proposals for scholarly monographs and general books concerning the Middle East and North Africa regions on a broad variety of topics including, but not limited to, Egyptology, eastern Mediterranean archaeology, art history, medieval and modern history, ethnography, environmental studies, migration, urban studies, gender, art and architectural history, religion, politics, political economy, and Arabic language learning.

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Modern and medieval history Biography and autobiography Political science Architecture Arabic language learning

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Egyptology Archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean Ancient history 2 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt Zar On the Peripheries of Society Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt

Alexandra Parrs Hager El Hadidi

Little is known about Egypt’s Gypsies, called Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of Dom by scholars, but variously referred to reconciliation rites between the spirits and their by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi, or human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible Hanagra. In this book, sociologist Alexan- world, the capricious spirits manifest their dra Parrs draws on two years of feldwork to anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which explore how Dom identities are constructed, require ritual reconciliation, a private sacri- negotiated, and contested in the Egyptian fcial rite practiced routinely by the afficted national context. With an eye to the pitfalls devotees. Originally spread from Ethiopia to and evolution of scholarly work on the vastly the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf through more studied European Roma, she traces the the 19th-century slave trade, in Egypt zar has scattered representations of Egyptian Dom, incorporated elements from popular Islamic from accounts of them by European Orien- Suf practices, including devotion to Christian talists to their portrayal in Egyptian cinema and Muslim saints. This ethnographic study of as belly-dancers in the 1950s and beggars zar in Egypt is based on the author’s feldwork and thieves more recently. She explores the and frsthand knowledge as a participant, and boundaries—religious, cultural, racial, linguis- her analysis of more than three hundred zar tic—between Dom and non-Dom Egyptians songs, allowing her to access levels of meaning and examines the ways in which the Dom that had previously been overlooked. The result position themselves within the limitations of is a comprehensive exposition of the history, media discourses about them and differentiate culture, and waning practice of zar in a mod- themselves from the dominant population. ernizing world.

Hardbound | 240pp. Hardbound | 176pp. | 13 color illus. 9789774168307 | Nov 2017 | $49.50 9789774166976 | Dec 2016 | $34.95 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 3

Women in Revolutionary Egypt Gender Justice and Legal Gender and the New Geographics Reform in Egypt of Identity Negotiating Muslim Family Law

Shereen Abouelnaga Mulki Al-Sharmani Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt This book takes the 25 January 2011 Egyptian examines the interplay between legal reform uprising as the point of departure for an explora- and gender norms and practices. It examines tion of how gender in post-Mubarak Egypt came the processes of advocating for, and contest- to be rethought, reimagined, and contested. It ing the khul‘ (no-fault judicial divorce law) examines key areas of tension between national and new family courts laws, shedding light and gender identities, including gender empow- on the agendas and strategies of the various erment through art and literature, particularly actors involved. It also examines the ways graffti and poetry, the disciplining of the body, in which women and men have made use of and the politics of history and memory. Shereen these legal reforms; how judges and other Abouelnaga shows how a new generation of court personnel have interpreted and imple- women is resisting, both discursively and visu- mented them; and how the reforms may have ally, the notion of a fxed or ‘authentic’ notion impacted women and men’s understandings, of Egyptian womanhood in spite of prevailing expectations, and strategies when navigating social structures and in face of all gendered marriage and spousal roles. politics of imagined nation.

Shereen Abouelnaga’s book is a beautifully written, original, and insightful contribution This is legal anthropology at its best. It is a “ that transcends existing analysis of the gen- fascinating and complex story, and it is told dered dimension of protest and revolutionary “ with authority and style.” struggle in Egypt.” —Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of —Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London London

Hardbound | 160pp. Hardbound | 224pp. 9789774167478 | May 2016 | $39.95 9789774167751 | Oct 2017 | $39.95 4 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States Occupied Lives Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank

Samson A. Bezabeh Nina Gren

Although the Horn of Africa was historically An ethnographic study of Palestinian refu- one of the earliest destinations for Yemeni gees in Dheisheh refugee camp, just south of migrants, it has been overlooked by scholars, Bethlehem, Occupied Lives looks closely at who have otherwise meticulously documented the attempts of the camp inhabitants to survive the Yemeni presence in the Indian Ocean and bounce back from the profound effects of region. This book draws on rich ethnographic political violence and Israeli military occupa- and historical research to examine the inter- tion on their daily lives. Nina Gren argues that action of the Yemeni diaspora in Djibouti and the political developments and experiences of Ethiopia with states and empires from the early extensive violence during the al-Aqsa Intifada 20th century. In doing so, it aims to counter caused many camp inhabitants to disengage a dominant perspective that regards migrants from traditional forms of politics. Instead, they across the region as by-products of personal became involved in alternative practices aimed networks and local oceanic systems, which at maintaining their sense of social worth and according to most scholarship led to cosmo- integrity, by focusing on processes to establish a politan spaces and hybrid cultures. ‘normal’ order, social continuity, and morality.

For all that has been written about them, Palestinians still remain unknown and misun- “ derstood particularly in the West. Nina Gren This fne study of Yemeni migration in the Horn provides a thoughtful and well-researched “ of Africa by a brilliant Ethiopian scholar should corrective to this shameful reality with her be a wake-up call for the entire feld of Indian study of daily life among refugee families in Ocean studies.” the Dheisheh refugee camp.” —André Wink, University of Wisconsin-Madison —Sara Roy, Harvard University

Hardbound | 272pp. | 6 b&w illus. Hardbound | 250pp. | 8 b&w illus. 9789774167294 | May 2016 | $49.50 9789774166952 | Nov 2015 | $70 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 5

American Universities Abroad Western Imaginings The Leadership of Independent The Intellectual Contest to Defne Transnational Higher Education Institutions Wahhabism

Edited by Ted Purinton and Jennifer Skaggs Rohan Davis

Across the globe, American-style and liberal Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest arts universities are being established. From the to Defne Wahhabism is an inquiry into how frst, the American University of Beirut, estab- Wahhabism has been understood and repre- lished in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions sented by Western intellectuals, particularly being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and those belonging to the neo-conservative and elsewhere in the 21st century, there is a clear liberal traditions. In contrast to the existing sense of the global desire for the American literature that treats Wahhabism as a histori- approach to higher education as a way of cal phenomenon or a monolithic theological counteracting traditional, more narrowly ideology, a literature often written by authors defned university educations. However, these keen to promote geopolitical interests or universities operate in a distinctive dynamic with ideological axes to grind, Davis’s work that must learn to bridge one culture with considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct another, and leadership of such institutions crafted and popularized by a Western intellec- must by its nature focus on such complexities tual elite. This study speaks to how and why and tensions. Throughout the chapters of this Western intellectuals have chosen to represent book, this unique element of these universities Wahhabism in specifc ways, ranging from an will be better understood through the stories analysis of the particular rhetorical techniques and experiences as presented by their presi- employed by these intellectuals to a consider- dents, provosts, and other academic leaders. ation of the religious and political beliefs that inspire and motivate their decisions.

Hardbound | 324pp. Hardbound | 232pp. 9789774168406 | Oct 2017 | $59.95 9789774168642 | March 2018 | $55 6 HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

The Greeks and the Making of Nasser’s Blessed Movement Modern Egypt Egypt’s Free Offcers and the July Revolution

Alexander Kitroeff Joel Gordon

This is the frst account of the modern Greek This essential book explores the early years of presence in Egypt from its beginnings during military rule following the Free Offcers’ coup the era of Muhammad Ali to its fnal days under of 1952. It shows how the offcers’ belief in a Nasser. It casts a critical eye on the reality and quick reformation by force was transformed myths surrounding the complex and ubiquitous into a vital, long-term process that changed the Greek community in Egypt by examining the face of Egypt. Although Nasser exerted con- Greeks’ legal status, their relations with the siderable personal infuence over the course country’s rulers, their interactions with both of events, his rise as a national and regional elite and ordinary Egyptians, their economic hero in the mid-1950s was preceded by a activities, their contacts with foreign commu- period in which he and his colleagues groped nities, their ties to their Greek homeland, and for direction, and in which many Egyptians their community life, which included a rich and disliked—even feared—them. Joel Gordon celebrated literary culture. analyzes the young regime, providing the most comprehensive account of the Egyptian A marvelously comprehensive historical study revolution to date. This edition includes a new of one of modern Egypt’s most important foreign Introduction that looks back at the post-1952 “ communities, as rich in detail as it is sensitive to period from a post-2011 perspective. the complex nature of the community’s internal structures, its adaptability in face of changing internal and external power relationships, and Elegantly written . . . a subtle and effective view the nostalgia with which its surviving members “ of the period . . . a new perspective that takes now remember its sojourn in a wondrous land.” the military success much less for granted.” —Roger Owen, Harvard University —Robert L. Tignor, Middle East Journal

Contesting Antiquity in Egypt Crowds and Sultans Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle Urban Protest in Late Medieval for Identities from World War 1 to Nasser Egypt and Syria

Donald Malcolm Reid Amina Elbendary

The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankha- During the 15th century, the Mamluk sultanate mun’s tomb, close on the heels of Britain’s that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249–50 declaration of Egyptian independence, acceler- faced a series of sustained challenges to its rule. ated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a Rather than tell this story solely from the point formal discipline and of ‘pharaonism’—popular of view of the Mamluk dynasty, Crowds and interest in ancient Egypt—as an inspiration in Sultans places the protests within the frame- the struggle for full independence. Emphasizing work of long-term transformations, arguing for the three decades from 1922 until 1952, this a more nuanced and comprehensive narrative compelling follow-up to Whose Pharaohs? of Mamluk state and society in late medieval looks at the ways in which Egypt developed Egypt and Syria. Reports of urban protest and its own archaeologies—Islamic, Coptic, and the ways in which alliances between different Greco-Roman, as well as the more dominant groups were forged allow us glimpses into how ancient Egyptian. populations in some medieval Arab societies resisted and renegotiated their positions in response to threats to their interests.

[A] valuable reference to those studying symbols of national ideology as well as “[H]as the merit of revealing the complexity of “ ones scavenging for minute bibliographical urban societies in the pre-modern Middle East information on a great many twentieth-century “ and drawing attention to a topic that has been Egyptian cultural movers.” poorly researched until now.” —Arab Studies Quarterly —Anne Troadec, al-‘Usur al-Wusta

Hardbound | 516pp. | 93 b&w illus. Hardbound | 240pp. 9789774166891 | Nov 2015 | $59.95 9789774167171 | May 2016 | $49.95 8 HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

Marcus Simaika Neslishah Father of Coptic Archaeology The Last Ottoman Princess

Samir Simaika and Nevine Henein. Murat Bardakçı Introduction by Donald M. Reid

Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864–1944) was not a Born in Istanbul in 1921, Neslishah Sultan professional archaeologist, an excavator, or a was the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. specialist scholar of Coptic language and liter- In 1924, the entire imperial family, including ature. Rather, his achievement lies in his role Neslishah, was sent into exile. In 1940, on her as a visionary administrator who used his status marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of to pursue relentlessly his dream of founding a the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess Coptic Museum and preserving endangered of the Egyptian royal family. When in 1952 her monuments. This fascinating biography draws husband was appointed regent for Egypt’s infant upon Simaika’s unpublished memoirs as well king, she became the country’s frst lady, until as on other documents and photographs from the abolition of the monarchy in 1953. Exile the Simaika family archive to deepen our followed, this time from Egypt, after the royal understanding of several important themes couple faced charges of treason. Eventually of modern Egyptian history: the development Neslishah was allowed to return to Istanbul, of Coptic archaeology and heritage studies, where she died in 2012. This account of her Egyptian–British interactions during the colonial extraordinary life is also the story of the end of and semi-colonial eras, shifting balances in the two powerful dynasties thirty years apart. interaction of clergymen and the lay Coptic community, and the ever-sensitive evolution of relations between Copts and their Muslim countrymen. Neslishah, with her beauty and character, is a woman that you cannot forget.” “ —Lisa Kaaki, Arab News

Hardbound | 240pp. | 13 b&w illus. Hardbound | 336pp. | 105 b&w illus. 9789774168239 | Aug 2017 | $39.95 9789774168376 | Nov 2017 | $39.95 HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY 9

Farewell Shiraz Witness to War and Peace An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile Egypt, the October War, and Beyond

Cyrus Kadivar Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Cyrus Kadivar was just 16 years old when he Currently secretary general to the Arab League and his family were exiled from the fabled (2016– ) and formerly minister of foreign affairs city of Shiraz in the wake of the 1979 Iranian under Hosni Mubarak (2004–2011), Egyptian revolution. In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the diplomat Ahmed Aboul Gheit looks back in story of his family and childhood against the this memoir on the 1973 October War and the tumultuous backdrop of 20th-century Iran, diplomatic efforts that followed it. He describes from the 1905–1907 Constitutional Revo- the deliberations of Egypt’s political leadership lution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah in the run-up to the war, the secret communi- Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his cations between President Anwar Sadat and meetings with key witnesses to the Shah’s fall U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the people role of the Soviet Union, and the unfolding interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He also of the momentous events that took place and gives a personal account of the peacemaking the human drama behind them. that followed, including Sadat’s visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.

This riveting memoir . . . expresses the author’s feelings and efforts to overcome the pain of “ leaving his beloved country. Cyrus Kadivar gives us a fascinating account of the last days of Pahlavi rule in Iran.” —Lisa Kaaki, Arab News

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Yusif Sayigh Mapping My Return Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot: A Palestinian Memoir A Fractured Life Story

Edited by Rosemary Sayigh Salman Abu Sitta

An acclaimed economist and lifelong Pales- Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly tinian nationalist Yusif Sayigh (1916–2004) made available crucial mapping work on came of age at a time of immense political Palestine, was just 10 years old when the change in the Middle East. Born in al-Bassa, Nakba—the mass expulsion of Palestinians in near Acre in northern Palestine, he was 1948—happened, forcing him from his home in witness to the events that led to the loss of Beersheba. In this rich memoir, Abu Sitta evokes Palestine and his memoir therefore constitutes the vanished world of his family and home from a vivid social history of the region, as well as the late 19th century to the eve of the British a revealing frsthand account of the Palestin- withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war. ian national movement almost from its earliest He then chronicles his life in exile, from his inception. A single chapter on Palestinian family’s fight to Gaza and his teenage years in politics provides insights into his experiences Nasser’s Egypt to his life as a family man and of working as a consultant with the Palestine academic in Kuwait, all against the backdrop of Liberation Organization. seismic events in the region.

[Yusif Sayigh] gives us intimate insights into the “ tragedy of Palestine and the horrifc internal Abu Sitta’s memoir conveys a still burning pettiness and incompetence of some of its “ sense of outrage at the injustice of the most powerful leadership. There are lessons to dispossession of the Palestinians and the denial be learned from the life of this humble, loyal, of their rights—a personal and collective and brilliant patriot.” Nakba without end.” —Elaine C. Hagopian, Arab Studies Quarterly —Ian Black, The Guardian

Hardbound | 376pp. | 19 b&w illus. Paperback | 352pp. | 19 b&w illus., 4 maps 9789774166716 | May 2015 | $45 9789774168338 | Dec 2016 | $24.95 HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY 11

Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise Gayer-Anderson A Jihadist’s Own Story The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

Khaled al-Berry Louise Foxcroft Translated by Humphrey Davies

In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the Based on the personal journals of Robert author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Grenville Gayer-Anderson (nicknamed ‘Pum’; Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at frst by the 1881–1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, image of a radical Islamist group as “strong soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this Muslims,” his involvement develops until he candid and charming historical biography tells fnds himself deeply committed to its beliefs of Gayer-Anderson’s strange and eclectic life and implicated in its activities. This ends when, in the fnal days of the British empire. Drugs, as he leaves the university following a demon- race, class, family, sex, and selfhood are mixed stration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life in this tale of two wars, colonial life, medi- on the outside, and attending Cairo University cine, anthropology, and psychic phenomena. all lead to Khaled al-Berry’s eventual alienation His love of beauty is vividly embodied in the from radical Islam. Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo, which to this day houses his vast collection of carpets, furniture, and other curios.

The author’s refusal to demonize and his rela- “ tive objectivity in telling the story is precisely what makes this book authentic and extremely This is a fascinating study. Foxcroft . . . sees important. Above all it provides a rare and him plain, setting him vividly in the context of valuable insight into how easily the young “ his age. Stephen Spender described Pum as a idealist can become radicalized by sects who ‘rare and lovable personality’. On the evidence believe that truth has just one face.” of this book he was an absolute horror.” —The Huffngton Post —Piers Brendon, Literary Review

Paperback | 192pp. Hardbound | 272pp. | 29 b&w illus. 9789774168062 | May 2016 | $19.95 9789774168000 | Dec 2016 | $35 12 ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING

ALSO BY BAHAA ED-DIN OSAMA:

20 Egyptian Songs to Learn and Sing An Easy Way to Learn Musiqa al-Kalimat Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Modern Standard Arabic through Bahaa Ed-Din Osama Popular Songs: Intermediate to Advanced Tessa Grafen Paperback | 312pp. Songs are a great way to learn a language, 9789774167959 | June 2017 | $24.95 and popular songs can reveal much about the culture and traditions of a country where the language is spoken. 20 Egyptian Songs to Learn and Sing brings together twenty songs performed by popular Egyptian singers, from iconic twentieth-century diva Umm Kulthum to present-day singing sensation Amr Diab. Aimed at beginner learners of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and fans of Arab popular music, it builds a lively variety of language lessons around each song, accompanying them with notes on vocabulary, grammar and usage, and exercises.

Kilma Hilwa Egyptian Arabic through Popular Songs: Intermediate Level

Paparback | 240pp. Paperback | 180pp. 9789774169052 | Forthcoming 2019 | $24.95 9789774167089 | Feb 2016 | $22.95 ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING 13

Advanced Arabic through Discussion Yalla! 16 Lessons on Contemporary Topics with Let’s Learn Egyptian Colloquial Integrated Skills and Fluency-building Arabic Verbs Activities for MSA Learners Dina El Dik Nevenka Korica Sullivan Emad Iskandar Advanced Arabic through Discussion is a Mastering the conjugation of Egyptian classroom-tested Advanced Arabic course that Colloquial Arabic (ECA) verbs is an essen- uses an inquiry-based approach to challenge tial part of the student’s learning process, advanced learners of Arabic by engaging them and it is equally challenging for instructors in discussions about social, ethical, and legal to ensure that the student has internalized issues related to advertising, censorship, dress- them correctly. Yalla! Let’s Learn Egyptian codes, and other topics. The book is organized Colloquial Arabic Verbs is a practical tool to into sixteen chapters, each accompanied by help both students and teachers of Arabic in audio recordings of all reading and listening the classroom. The book presents the three texts. Learners are guided to expand their hundred most frequently used verbs in ECA, vocabulary, acquire complex structures, and each one categorized according to ECA verb discover the systematic relationships between patterns, which are based on those used in language form, function, and meaning. The Modern Standard Arabic.The verbs are fully course is designed to create an interactive conjugated in the present/imperfect and past/ classroom discussion; it also can be successfully perfect tenses in the affrmative and the neg- used with a tutor or for independent study. ative, each entry also listing imperatives and active participles. This resource focuses on pronunciation, rather than reading or writing, in order to help students gain fuency in spoken Egyptian Arabic. To this end, each verb in the book is spelled phonetically.

The Diaries of Waguih Ghali Protecting Pharaoh’s Treasures An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties My Life in Egyptology Volume 2: 1966–68

Edited by May Hawas Wafaa El Saddik. With Rüdiger Heimlich.

In 1968 Egyptian novelist and political exile Growing up in Egypt’s Nile Delta, Wafaa El Waguih Ghali committed suicide in the London Saddik was fascinated by the magnifcent fat of his editor, friend, and sometime lover, pharaonic monuments from an early age, and Diana Athill. Ghali left behind six notebooks of as a student she dreamed of conducting exca- diaries that for decades were largely inaccessi- vations herself and working in the Egyptian ble to the public. The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology An Egyptian in the Swinging Sixties, in two was dominated by men, especially those with volumes, is the frst publication of its kind of the close connections to the regime, she was journals, casting fascinating light on a likable determined to succeed, and secured grants to and highly enigmatic literary personality. study in Boston, London, and Vienna, eventually becoming the frst female general director of the country’s most prestigious museum.

An account of a daily struggle to avoid ‘sink- An inspiring and highly readable memoir of ing’, to fght the ‘cafard’, not to succumb to an Egyptian woman’s journey from a young “ ‘the disease’—all the different names Ghali “ village girl to a prominent Egyptologist and the fnds for his depression. His every romantic head of one of the most important museums relationship . . . is doomed by his terror of in the world. . . . An important read for those being humiliated and abandoned.” interested in Egypt’s cultural heritage and its —Ursula Lindsey, London Review of Books modern sociopolitical dynamics.” —Mohamed ElBaradei, former vice-president Hardbound | 224pp. of Egypt 9789774168123 | Aug 2017 | $35 Also available: Volume 1: 1964–66 Hardbound | 248pp. Hardbound | 280pp. | 61 b&w illus. 9789774167805 | Dec 2016 | $35 9789774168253 | March 2017 | $24.95 ART HISTORY & ARCHITECTURE 15

Arab Cinema Classic Egyptian Movies History and Cultural Identity: Revised 101 Must-See Films and Updated Edition

Viola Shafk Sameh Fathy

Since it was frst published, Viola Shafk’s Arab Concentrating on movie productions writ- Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has ten and produced entirely in Egypt, flm become an indispensable work for scholars of critic Sameh Fathy here selects the 101 most flm and the contemporary Middle East. Com- important movies to have come out of Cairo’s bining detailed narrative history—economic, famous studios over the last eighty years. From ideological, and aesthetic—with thought-pro- classic comedies like Salama Is Fine to social voking analysis, it provides a comprehensive dramas like The Second Wife, and from literary overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing adaptations like The Call of the Curlew to mas- the industry’s development from colonial times terpieces of the cinematic art like The Night to the present. Now updated to refect cultural of Counting the Years, the author introduces shifts in the last two decades, this revised us to each flm’s writers, producers, directors, edition contains a new afterword highlighting and stars, and explains the movie’s particular the latest developments in popular and in art- historical, cultural, or artistic signifcance. house flmmaking, with a special focus on Iraq, Illustrated throughout with posters and stills Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf States. from all the movies covered.

Beautifully conceived and long overdue— Intelligent, perceptive, and elegantly written, “ well written with an authoritative voice . . . . “ this volume deserves a broad readership. There is nothing else like this available for an Highly recommended. All readers, all levels.” English-reading audience.” —Choice —Joel Gordon, University of Arkansas

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The Dream Ibn Tulun A Diary of the Film His Lost City and Great Mosque

Mohammad Malas. Introduced by Tarek Swelim Samirah Alkassim

In 1980, Syrian flmmaker Mohammad Malas Ibn Tulun (835–84), the son of a Turkic slave, traveled to Lebanon to flm a documentary became the founder of the frst independent about the country’s Palestinian refugee camps, state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of during which time he kept a diary of his Egypt’s short-lived third capital of the Islamic impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is era, al-Qata’i‘ and its great congregational Malas’s haunting chronicle of his immersion mosque. After recounting the story of Ibn Tulun in the life of the camps, including Shatila, Burj and his successors, architectural historian Tarek al-Barajneh, Nahr al-Bared, and Ein al-Hel- Swelim presents a topographic survey of al- weh. It also describes the flmmaking process, Qata’i‘, a city lost since its complete destruction from the research stage to the flm’s unoffcial in 905. He then provides a detailed architec- release, in Shatila Camp, before it reached a tural analysis of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, which global audience. was spared the destruction and is now the oldest surviving mosque in Egypt and Africa.

The context in which these writings were made give Malas’ book a resonance beyond the mak- “ ing of a flm. It is a recollection of a community that would suffer the most infamous mass Commendably—and unusually—the author murder of Lebanon’s civil war. . . . Unexpect- takes the story right up to the present, showing edly, the interviews in this book became a “ how the ‘authentic’ mosque that tourists see memorial, the lives, dreams and frustrations of today is really the product of decades of re- a people devastated permeating its pages.” peated renovations and restorations.” —Marguerite Dabaie, The Electronic Intifada —Choice

Paperback | 184pp. Hardbound | 322pp. | 46 b&w and 107 color illus. 9789774167997 | Dec 2016 | $24.95 9789774166914 | Dec 2015 | $49.95 ART HISTORY & ARCHITECTURE ART HISTORY & ARCHITECTURE 17

Orientalist Lives Hassan Fathy Western Artists in the Middle East, An Architectural Life 1830–1920

James Parry Edited by Leïla el-Wakil

In one of the most remarkable artistic pilgrim- This fully illustrated volume represents the ages in history, the 19th century saw scores most comprehensive examination yet of the of Western artists heading to the Middle East. life and work of the great Egyptian architect Inspired by the allure of the exotic Orient, they Hassan Fathy (1900–89), and the regional and went in search of subjects for their paintings. international signifcance of his contribution James Parry traces these journeys of cultural to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian and artistic discovery. From the early pioneer and international scholars reveal the man, his David Roberts through the heyday of leading milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept stars such as Jean-Léon Gérôme and Frederick of social living and his fght for a humane Arthur Bridgman, to Orientalism’s post- model for affordable housing in tune with 1900 decline, he describes how these artists the environment, the application of these prepared for their expeditions, coped with concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, working in unfamiliar surroundings, engaged his relations with the establishment, the extent with local people, and then took home to their of his infuence, and the lasting legacy of his studios the memories, sketches, and collec- completed projects. Generously illustrated tions of artifacts necessary to create the works with archival and color photographs and the for which their audiences clamored. architect’s own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

Hardbound | 304pp. | 7 b&w and 99 color illus. Hardbound | 412pp. | 325 color illus. 9789774168352 | Oct 2018 | $59.95 9789774167898 | Oct 2018 | $95 18 ART HISTORY & ARCHITECTURE

Nubian Gold The Tentmakers of Cairo Ancient Jewelry from Sudan and Egypt Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

Peter Lacovara and Yvonne J. Markowitz Seif El Rashidi and Sam Bowker

The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name In the crowded center of Historic Cairo lies a means ‘gold,’ was famous in ancient times for covered market lined with wonderful textiles its supplies of precious metal, exotic mate- sewn by hand in brilliant colors and intricate rial, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the patterns. This is the Street of the Tentmakers, adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces the home of the Egyptian appliqué art known of the jeweler’s art—marvels of design and as khayamiya. The Street of the Tentmakers construction rivaling, and often surpassing, brings together the stories of the tentmakers adornments made in Egypt and the rest of the and their extraordinary tents—from the huge ancient Mediterranean world. Although these tent pavilions, or suradeq, of the streets of unique treasures are among the most stunning Egypt, to the souvenirs of the First World War to have survived from antiquity, they remain and textile artworks celebrated by quilters little known. Richly illustrated with beautiful around the world. It traces the origins and aes- photographs of these exquisite items, many of thetics of the khayamiya textiles that enlivened them never before published, Nubian Gold the ceremonial tents of the Fatimid, Mamluk, places the jewelry within the cultural contexts and Ottoman dynasties, exploring the ways in in which it was manufactured and employed. which they challenged conventions under new It tells the story not only of the treasures them- patrons and technologies, inspired the paper selves but of the exciting tales of their discovery cut-outs of Henri Matisse, and continue to and the background of the exotic and remote preserve a legacy of skilled handcraft in an civilizations that produced them. age of relentless mass production.

Hardbound | 224pp. | 42 b&w and 179 color illus. Paperback | 256pp. | 30 b&w and 27 color illus. 9789774167829 | Forthcoming 2019 | $59.95 9789774168024 | Oct 2018 | $24.95 RELIGION 19

Jihad of the Pen Studies in Coptic Culture The Suf Literature of West Africa Transmission and Interaction

Rudolph Ware, Zakary Wright, Edited by Mariam Ayad and Amir Syed

Outsiders have long observed the contours of Coptic contributions to the formative theo- the fourishing scholarly traditions of African logical debates of Christianity have long Muslim societies, but the voices of the most been recognized. Less well known are other, renowned voices of West African Sufsm have equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the rarely been heard outside of their respective transmission and preservation of technical and constituencies. This volume brings together scientifc knowledge, and a full understanding writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), of how Egypt’s Copts survived and interacted Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. with the country’s majority population over the 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture attempts to Senegal), who, between them, founded the examine these issues from divergent perspec- largest Muslim communities in African history. tives. Through the careful examination of select Jihad of the Pen offers translations of Arabic case studies that range in date from the earliest source material that proved formative to the phases of Coptic culture to the present day, constitution of a veritable Islamic revival twelve international scholars address issues of sweeping West Africa in the 19th and 20th cultural transmission, cross-cultural perception, centuries. The authors have selected endur- representation, and inter-faith interaction. ingly relevant primary sources and richly contextualized them within broader currents of Islamic scholarship on the African continent.

Hardbound | 320pp. Hardbound | 288pp. | 25 b&w illus. 9789774168635 | Oct 2018 | $59.95 9789774167508 | Aug 2016 | $75 20 RELIGION

Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt Christianity and Monasticism in Two Communities, One Nation Northern Egypt Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta

Fikry Andrawes and Alison Orr-Andrawes Edited by Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla

For the most part of their shared history, Christianity and monasticism have long Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt fourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt have experienced bouts of sectarian tension and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the alternating with peaceful coexistence. This Mediterranean coast. The contributors to this engaging and highly readable book tells the volume, international specialists in Coptology story of Muslim–Christian relations in Egypt from around the world, examine various aspects through key points in Egyptian history, from of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt over the the coming of Islam in the 7th century to the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic aftermath of the January 2011 revolution. The art and archaeology, architecture, language, and authors argue that, even if they were occa- literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sites sionally attacked and persecuted, the Copts in the region is highlighted, attesting to their generally shared the fortunes of their Muslim important legacies. neighbors, and that religious difference in Egypt was frequently exploited by rulers, both internal and external, for political gain.

The Emergence of the Modern The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, Coptic Papacy 641–1517 The Popes of Egypt, Volume 3 The Popes of Egypt, Volume 2

Magdi Gurguis and Nelly van Doorn-Harder Mark N. Swanson

This third and fnal volume of The Popes of In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis Egypt spans the fve centuries from the arrival contended that the themes of “apostolicity, mar- of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present era. tyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological Hardly any scholarly work has been written resistance” were determinative for the cultural about the Copts during the Ottoman period. construction of Egyptian church leadership in Using court, fnancial, and building records, late antiquity. Volume 2, The Coptic Papacy as well as archives from the Coptic Orthodox in Islamic Egypt, shows that the medieval Patriarchate and monasteries, Magdi Guirguis Coptic popes (641–1517 CE) were regularly has reconstructed the authority of the popes portrayed as standing in continuity with their and the organization of the Coptic community saintly predecessors; however, at the same time, during this time. In the second part of the book, they were active in creating something new, Nelly van Doorn-Harder analyzes how with the the Coptic Orthodox Church, a community dawning of the modern era in the 19th century, that struggled to preserve a distinctive life and the leadership style of the Coptic popes nec- witness within the new Islamic world order. The essarily changed drastically. As Egypt’s social, present volume aims to show how portrayals of political, and religious landscape underwent the medieval popes provide a window into the dramatic changes, the Coptic Church experi- religious and social life of their community. enced a virtual renaissance, and expanded from a local to a global institution. Hardbound | 192pp. 9789774160936 | Sep 2010 | $29.95

Also available: The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity: The Popes of Egypt, Volume 1 by Stephen Davis Hardbound | 256pp. Paperback | 280pp. 9789774161032 | Dec 2011 | $29.95 9789774168345 | Sep 2017 | $24.95 22 POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt Egypt’s Desert Dreams Issues and Policymaking since 1952 Development or Disaster? (New Edition)

Khalid Ikram David Sims. Foreword by Timothy Mitchell

Drawing on Khalid Ikram’s extensive knowl- Egypt’s Desert Dreams is the frst attempt of its edge of economic policymaking at the highest kind to look at Egypt’s desert development in levels, The Political Economy of Reforms its entirety. It recounts the failures of gov- in Egypt lays out the enduring features of ernmental schemes, analyzes why they have the Egyptian economy and its performance failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt’s since 1952 before presenting an account of desert projects, as well as the underlying nar- policy-making, growth and structural change ratives and political necessities behind it, even under the country’s successive presidents to in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that the present day. all is not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could take. This fully updated paperback edition addresses the latest projects as well as the discourses relating to Egypt’s desert development since the publication of the hardcover edition nearly four years ago, This outstanding book puts Egypt’s economic particularly the scheme to built a gigantic history in the context of those of other devel- new capital east of Cairo. “ oping countries, comparing it to such histories in East Asia and Latin America. Ikram skillfully David Sims’ remarkable book stands as a weaves economic theory into his account of superb model for scholarship that will be Egyptian economic policies over the last half “ illuminating and richly useful for policymakers century and assesses the role and effectiveness and development experts, as well as social and of foreign aid.” environmental activists.” —John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs —Paul Amar, Journal of North African Studies

Judges and Political Reform in Egypt Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt

Edited by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron Dalia M. Gouda

Recent years have seen growing tensions in From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were Egypt between the judiciary and the execu- poured into irrigation improvement programs tive authority. In order to gain concessions, in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile judges went as far as to threaten to boycott the water management through the introduction supervision of the presidential and legislative of more water-effcient technology and by elections in the fall of 2005 and to organize placing management of the improved systems sit-ins in the streets. The struggle between the in the hands of local water user associations. two powers was in full swing in the spring of The premise of most of these programs was 2006, when a conference convened in Cairo in that such associations could rely on the revival early April on the theme of the role of judges of traditional forms of social capital—social in the process of political reform in Egypt and networks, norms, and trust—for their success. the Arab world. The conference was organized This book shows how the far-reaching social by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies changes wrought at the village level in Egypt (CIHRS) in cooperation with the Institut de through the 20th century rendered such a prem- Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). This ise implausible at best and invalid at worst. book is a collection of papers from the conference dealing with Egypt. They allow a better understanding of the role judges are playing in In the context of increasing water demand, and the process of democratic reform in Egypt as the uncertainly over water supplies worldwide, well as the limits of their struggle. “ this book makes a timely and valuable contribution to the debate about water management across the developing world.” —Stephen Connelly, University of Sheffeld

The Oslo Accords Sinai A Critical Assessment Egypt’s Linchpin, Gaza’s Lifeline, Israel’s Nightmare Edited by Petter Bauck and Mohammed Omer. Foreword by Desmond Tutu. Foreword by Mohannad Sabry Össur Skarphéðinsson

Twenty-fve years have passed since Israel and Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza the Palestine Liberation Organization concluded and Israel, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been the Oslo Accords, or Declaration of Principles the cornerstone of the Egyptian–Israeli peace on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for accords, yet its internal politics and security Palestine. It was declared “a political break- have remained largely under media blackout. through of immense importance.” Through a In this crucial analysis, Mohannad Sabry argues number of essays written by renowned scholars that Egypt’s shortsighted security approach has and practitioners, the years since the Oslo continually proven to be a failure. Decades Accords are scrutinized from a wide range of of fawed policies have exacerbated immense perspectives. Did the agreement have a rea- social and economic problems, and maintained sonable chance of success? What went wrong, a superfcial stability under which arms traffck- causing the treaty to derail and delay a real, ing, the smuggling tunnels, and militancy could workable solution? What are the recommen- silently thrive—and fnally prevail following the dations today to show a way forward for the overthrow of Mubarak. Israelis and the Palestinians?

This is the kind of smart, independent jour- Insightful in assessing the context that drove “ nalism that Egypt needs to build a truly strong “ the Oslo Accords and the maneuvers of the future. . . . a reminder of what journalists do at so-called ‘peace process.’” their best.” —Arab Studies Quarterly —David Ignatius, The Washington Post

Paperback | 312pp. Hardbound | 320pp. 9789774167706 | Jan 2017 | $35 9789774167287 | Nov 2015 | $34.95 LITERARY CRITICISM 25

The Literary Life of Cairo Committed to Disillusion One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s Edited and with an introduction by Samia Mehrez David DiMeo

Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which Can a writer help to bring about a more just focuses on the literary geopolitics of the city- society? This question was at the heart of the scape, this companion volume immerses the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or commit- reader in the complex network of socioeco- ted literature, which claimed to dominate Arab nomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven writing in the mid-20th century. By the 1960s, chapters frst introduce the reader to represen- however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated tations of some of Cairo’s prominent profles, into disillusionment, producing agonized works both political and cultural, and their impact on that challenged the key assumptions of socially the city’s literary geography, before presenting engaged writing. Rather than a rejection of the a spectrum of readings of the city by its multi- idea, however, these works offered reinterpre- ethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers tation of committed writing that helped set the across class, gender, and generation. stage for activist writers of the present.

Mehrez’s The Literary Atlas and The Literary DiMeo not only delivers useful stand-alone “ Life of Cairo, prepared on the brink of the analyses of both major and less-studied works Egyptian thawra (revolution) of early 2011, “ by Mahfouz, Idris, and Ibrahim, but also offers consummate in critically important ways both a persuasive framework for the history of the storied history of a ‘city victorious’ and a committed literature in Egypt, exploring how critical account of its literary historiography.” artists have grappled with the realization that —Barbara Harlow, IJMES political art is often powerless to bring about political change.” Paperback | 400pp. —Margaret Litvin, author of Hamlet’s Arab 9789774167850 | Sep 2016 | $24.95 Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost Also available: The Literary Atlas of Cairo Paperback | 342pp. Hardbound | 272pp. 9789774167867 | Sep 2016 | $24.95 9789774167614 | July 2016 | $49.50 26 GENERAL INTEREST

Islamic Monuments in Cairo A Field Guide to the Street Names The Practical Guide: Updated 7th Edition of Central Cairo

Caroline Williams Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi

Cairo’s Islamic monuments are part of an unin- Who were ‘Abd el-Khaleq Sarwat Basha or terrupted tradition that spans over a thousand Yusef el-Gindi that they should have streets years of building activity. No other Islamic city named after them? Who was Nubar Basha and can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor why did his street move from the north of the trace its historical and architectural develop- city to its center in 1933? Why do older maps ment with such clarity. This new, fully revised show two squares called Bab el-Luq, while edition of a popular and handy guide contin- modern maps show none? A Field Guide to the ues to walk the visitor around two hundred of Street Names of Central Cairo lists more than the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. 450 current and three hundred former appella- It also keeps pace with recent restoration ini- tions. Current street names are listed in alpha- tiatives and newly opened monuments. betical order, with an explanation of what each commemorates and when it was frst recorded, followed by the same for its predecessors.

This book ought to be in the luggage of every visitor to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, “ lovers and students of Cairo’s architecture will fnd it a convenient and accurate quick reference as well as a cherished souvenir of many This guidebook is anything but ordinary . . . proftable and enjoyable rambles among the rekindles memories and brings to life the for- monuments of Cairo.” “ gotten streets, lanes, alleys, and passageways —Jonathan M. Bloom, Journal of the of Central Cairo.” American Research Center in Egypt —Lisa Kaaki, Arab News

Paperback | 360pp. | 38 b&w illus., 15 maps Paperback | 252pp. | 13 maps 9789774168550 | Sep 2018 | $29.95 9789774168567 | July 2018 | $29.95 GENERAL INTEREST 27

All Strangers Are Kin Jerusalem without God Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World Portrait of a Cruel City

Zora O’Neill Paola Caridi

Join O’Neill for a grand tour through the Jerusalem without God leads the reader Middle East as she sets out to master Arabic. through the streets, malls, suburbs, traffc jams, You will laugh with her in Egypt, delight in and squares of Jerusalem’s present moment, the stories she passes on from the United Arab into the daily lives of the men and women Emirates, and fnd yourself transformed by her who inhabit it. Caridi brings contemporary experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. She’s Jerusalem alive by describing it as a place packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense of sights and senses, sounds and smells, but of humor, and her talent for making fast friends she also shows us a city riven by the harsh of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined asymmetry of power and control embodied in streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, its lines, limits, walls, and borders. Jerusalem from families’ homes to local hotspots, she without God reveals a city that is as diverse brings a part of the world that is thousands of as it is complex, and ultimately, argues its miles away right to your door. author, one whose destiny cannot be tied to any single religious faith, tradition, or political ideology.

O’Neill masterfully weaves together vignettes, Not a complacent and lyrical description of linguistic musings, and a colorful cast of thou- Jerusalem. The author takes a hard look at the “ sands into an always-thoughtful, often hysterically “ city. Nothing escapes her blunt judgment. . . . funny paean to a part of the world about which Speaking her mind with an open heart, Caridi most Americans remain woefully ignorant.” gives the reader an in-depth look at a complex —Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: city and its daily dramas.” Bombay Lost and Found —Lisa Kaaki, Arab News

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