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Cover image: Nabil Anani, Nostalgia, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 105 cm. Courtesy of Zawyeh Gallery and the artist.

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2 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI Graveyard of Clerics Reframed The Paranoid Style in Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia Anxieties of Power in the American Diplomacy Pascal Menoret Islamic Republic Oil and Arab Nationalism in Developed after World War II Narges Bajoghli Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt to encourage a society of docile, Iran Reframed offers unprecedented This book weaves together histories isolated citizens, Saudi suburbs access to those who wield power in of Arab nationalists, US diplomats, instead opened new spaces for Iran as they debate and define the and Western oil execs to tell the political action. Religious activists future of the Republic. Over ten parallel stories of the Iraq Petroleum in particular turned homes, schools, years, Bajoghli met with men in Company and the resilience of mosques, and summer camps into Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Ansar Iraqi society—and to expose the resources for mobilization. With Hezbollah, and Basij paramilitary origins of US intervention in the support of suburban grassroots organizations to investigate how Iraq over the arc of the twentieth networks, activists won local elections their media producers developed century. As American policymakers and found opportunities to protest strategies to court Iranian youth. inflated concerns about access to government actions—until they Readers come to know these and potential scarcity of oil, they faced a new wave of repression men—what the regime means to gave rise to a “paranoid style” in US under the current Saudi leadership. them and their anxieties about the foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt With this book, Menoret offers a future of their revolutionary project. deconstructs these policy practices cautionary tale: the ongoing repres- Contestation over how to define to reveal how they fueled decades sion from Saudi elites—achieved the regime underlies all their efforts of American interventions, and often with the complicity of the to communicate with the public. shines a light on those places that international community—is This book offers a multilayered America’s covert empire-builders shutting down grassroots political story about what it means to be might prefer we not look. movements with significant pro-regime in the Islamic Republic, consequences for the country, “The Paranoid Style in American challenging everything we think we Diplomacy is a gripping backstory and the world. know about Iran and revolution. that reveals the historical truths “A distinguished ethnographer, “Iran Reframed is incomparable. A of US-Iraqi relations. American Menoret excavates the Islamic must read on Iran’s media landscape cold warriors inherited Britain’s Awakening in Saudi Arabia with and paramount for anyone who imperial role but failed to stop great empathy and understanding, wants to understand Iran as it really Iraqis from pursuing natural bringing us face to face with the men is. Gripping and provocative.” resource sovereignty.” of the movement, and their rise and —Negar Mottahedeh, —Nathan J. Citino, demise in the Saudi state.” Duke University Rice University —Madawi al-Rasheed, 312 pages, June 2021 London School of Economics 176 pages, 2019 9781503627918 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503610293 Paper $22.00 $17.60 sale 264 pages, 2020 9781503612464 Paper $24.00 $19.20 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE 3 A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI Dear A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE 1948 WAR

Shay Hazkani

Dear Palestine The Optimist Waste Siege A Social History of the 1948 War A Social Biography of The Life of Infrastructure Shay Hazkani Tawfiq Zayyad in Palestine This book offers a new history Tamir Sorek Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins of the 1948 War, focusing on the Tawfiq Zayyad was a renowned Waste Siege depicts the environmen- people caught up in the conflict Palestinian poet and a dominant tal, infrastructural, and aesthetic and its transnational reverberations. figure in political life in . context in which are Through their letters home, the With this book, Sorek offers the obliged to forge their lives. Tracing young men and women who first biography of this charismatic their experiences of wastes over the fought the war come to life, writing figure. Zayyad’s life was one of past decade, Stamatopoulou-Robbins about everything from daily life to balance and contradiction— considers how multiple authorities nationalism, colonialism, race, and between his revolutionary governing the West Bank—including the character of their enemies. writings as Palestinian patriotic the Palestinian Authority, interna- Dear Palestine also examines how poet and his pragmatic political tional aid organizations, and Israel the architects of the conflict worked work in the Israeli public sphere. —rule by waste siege, whether to influence and indoctrinate key He was uncompromising in his intentionally or not. Her work ideologies in these ordinary protest of injustices against the challenges common formulations of soldiers, by examining battle Palestinian people, but always waste as “matter out of place,” by orders, pamphlets, army committed to a universalist vision suggesting instead that waste siege magazines, and radio broadcasts. of Arab-Jewish brotherhood. It be understood as an ecology of Through two narratives—the was this combination of traits “matter with no place to go.” Waste official and unofficial, the propa- that made Zayyad an exceptional siege thus not only describes a ganda and the personal letters— leader—and makes his biography stateless Palestine, but also becomes Dear Palestine reveals the fissures larger than the man himself to a metaphor for our besieged planet. between sanctioned nationalism offer a compelling story about “Taking the reader on a journey and individual identity. Palestinians and the state of Israel. through landfills and rubbish markets, “Hazkani makes a brilliant contri- “The Optimist is a deftly written encounters with bags of bread left bution to the literature on the 1948 biography. Sorek provides fresh hanging on the sides of dumpsters, Palestine War. Impeccably balanced insight into how someone can and the movement of sewage across and engagingly written, Dear maintain hope in a region too political barriers, Stamatopoulou- Palestine is a remarkable book.” often characterized as hopeless.” Robbins brilliantly excavates the ambient politics of waste.” —Eugene Rogan, —Maha Nassar, University of Oxford University of Arizona —Ilana Feldman, George Washington University 320 pages, April 2021 264 pages, 2020 9781503627659 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503612730 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 344 pages, 2019 9781503610897 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

4 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI SCREEN SHOTS

STATE VIOLENCE ON CAMERA IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

REBECCA L. STEIN

Screen Shots The Politics of Art Banking on the State State Violence on Camera in Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy The Financial Foundations Israel and Palestine in , Palestine, and of Lebanon Rebecca L. Stein Hanan Toukan Hicham Safieddine This book studies state violence on This book considers the entangle- Banking on the State reveals how the camera in the context of Israel’s mili- ment of art and international financial foundations of Lebanon tary occupation. Stein investigates politics to understand the aesthetics were shaped by the standardization the wide range of communities and of material production within of economic practices and financial institutions—Palestinian activists, liberal economies. Toukan outlines regimes within the decolonizing Israeli and international human the political and social functions world. The system of central banking rights workers, Israeli military, and of transnationally connected that emerged was the product Jewish settlers—who have placed and internationally funded arts of a complex interaction of war, increasing value on photographic organizations and initiatives, and economic policies, international technologies and networked visuals reveals how the production of financial regimes, post-colonial as political tools. While these con- art within global frameworks can state-building, global currents of stituencies have dramatically diver- contribute to hegemonic structures technocratic knowledge, and private gent political aims, they all invested even as it is critiquing them—or business interests. It served rather in the same camera dream: that be counterhegemonic even when it than challenged the interests of the advances in photography of the first appears not to be. In so doing, an oligarchy of local bankers. digital age would not only capture Toukan proposes not only a new As Safieddine shows, the set of reality with greater fidelity, but also way of reading contemporary art arrangements that governed the deliver on their respective visions of practices as they situate themselves central bank thus was dictated by justice and accountability. Palestinian globally, but also a new way of dynamics of political power and and Israeli activists and human reading the domestic politics of financial profit more than market rights workers would painfully the region from the vantage point forces, national interest, or learn the lesson that even the most of art. economic sovereignty. “perfect” visual evidence of state “There are few books out there “A brilliant exploration of finance violence—even when shot from that bring together a deep, critical and banking. Hicham Safieddine multiple angles, or when visible knowledge of the arts in the Middle rewrites the history of a misunder- at the scale of the pixel—typically East with theoretical sophistication stood place. He challenges us to failed to persuade either the Israeli and shimmering ethnographic ob- rethink sectarianism, exceptionalism, justice system or the Israeli public servations. The Politics of Art does and civil strife.” of military wrongdoing. this abundantly.” —Sherene Seikaly, —Laleh Khalili, University of California, 256 pages, August 2021 Queen Mary Santa Barbara 9781503628021 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 272 pages, 2019 344 pages, June 2021 9781503609679 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503627758 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE 5 A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI BREAD AND FREEDOM 'S REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION

MONA EL-GHOBASHY

A Critical Political Economy Cleft Capitalism Bread and Freedom of the Middle East and The Social Origins of Failed Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation North Africa Market Making in Egypt Mona El-Ghobashy Edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Amr Adly Once celebrated as an awe-inspiring Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly Egypt has undergone significant irruption of people power, Egypt’s These cutting-edge essays illuminate economic liberalization, yet 2011 revolution is now often judged historical and contemporary after more than four decades of a tragic failure. Moving away from dynamics and contribute to political economic reform, the Egyptian such sweeping judgments, Bread economy debates from the vantage economy still fails to meet popular and Freedom argues that conceiv- point of the Middle East. Leading expectations for inclusive growth, ing of a ‘Revolution’ propelled by scholars, representing several disci- better standards of living, and revolutionaries is untenable—it is the plines, contribute both thematic and high-quality employment. Cleft uprising that made revolutionaries country-specific analyses, critically Capitalism offers a new explanation and their opponents, not the other examine major issues in political for why market-based development way around—and takes seriously economy—notably, the mutual can fail to meet expectations: small the political conflicts set into mo- constitution of states, markets, and businesses are not growing into tion by the uprising. El-Ghobashy classes; the co-constitution of class, medium and larger businesses. The sifts through a documentary race, and gender; varying modes of practical outcome of this missing record hidden in plain sight—party capital accumulation and the legal, middle syndrome is the continuous manifestoes, military communiqués, political, and cultural forms of their erosion of the economic and social open letters, constitutional conten- regulation; relations among local, privileges once enjoyed by the tions, protest slogans, parliamentary national, and global forms of capital, middle classes and unionized labor. debates, and court decisions. The class, and culture; technopolitics; With this book, Adly uncovers sources reveal not a mythical unity the role of war in the constitution of both an institutional explanation undone by schisms, but hordes of states and classes; and practices and for Egypt’s failed market making, new and old actors clamoring over cultures of domination and resistance. and sheds light on the key factors the state’s material and symbolic of arrested economic development power. On the tenth anniversary of “This new canonical text will open across the Global South. the Arab uprisings’ first wave, Bread pathways for research and make the and Freedom rethinks how we study job of educators infinitely easier by “Richly detailed, theoretically reasserting the enduring value of insightful, Cleft Capitalism is revolutions, looking past causes and political economy. A tour de force essential reading for anyone interested consequences to train its sights on the synthesis.” in the Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and collisions of revolutionary politics. —Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, other political economies.” 304 pages, July 2021 California State University, Stanislaus —Robert Springborg, 9781503628151 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale Naval Postgraduate School 328 pages, February 2021 9781503614475 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 336 pages, 2020 9781503612204 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

6 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI Paradoxes of Care Between The Universal Enemy Children and Global Medical Religious Difference in Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge Aid in Egypt Iraqi Kurdistan of Solidarity Rania Kassab Sweis J. Andrew Bush Darryl Li Paradoxes of Care examines how Between Muslims provides an No contemporary figure is more prominent global aid organizations ethnographic account of Iraqi demonized than the Islamist attempt to care for vulnerable Kurdish Muslims who turn foreign fighter. Spreading violence, children in Egypt through bio- away from devotional piety yet disregarding national borders, and medical interventions and global remain intimately engaged with rejecting secular norms, so-called healthcare programs. Focusing on Islamic traditions and with other jihadists seem opposed to universalism two main child recipients—street Muslims. Bush offers a new way to itself. In a radical departure from children and out-of-school village understand religious difference in conventional wisdom, The Universal girls—this in-depth ethnographic Islam, rejecting simple stereotypes Enemy argues that transnational study reveals how global aid fails to about ethnic or sectarian identi- jihadists are engaged in their own “save” these children according to ties. Integrating textual analysis form of universalism: these fighters its stated aims, but rather produces of poetry, sermons, and Islamic struggle to realize an Islamist vision paradoxes of care for children and history into accounts of everyday directed at all of humanity, transcend- local aid workers. In capturing life in Iraqi Kurdistan, Between ing racial and cultural difference. medical humanitarian encounters Muslims illuminates the interplay Li highlights the parallels between in real time, Paradoxes of Care of attraction and aversion to Islam transnational jihads and other uni- illustrates how child recipients among ordinary Muslims. versalisms such as the War on Terror. Developed from more than a decade and local aid experts grapple with “A refreshing departure from the of research with former fighters in a global aid’s shortcomings and its focus on nationalist identity in paradoxical outcomes in Egypt. studies of Iraqi Kurdistan, Between half-dozen countries, The Universal By foregrounding vulnerable Muslims is a beautifully written Enemy explores the relationship children’s responses to global and original work on the dynamics between jihad and American empire medical aid, Sweis moves past of Islamic traditions. Bush subtly to shed critical light on both. an unquestioned benevolence of explores how ‘fractures of difference’ are lived in everyday intimate “Original, authoritative, and broad in global health in the Middle East relationships.” significance. This remarkable achieve- to demonstrate how children —Sara Pursley, ment is anchored in Darryl Li’s unique manage their bodies and lives both combination of skills and sensibilities, with and without the assistance of which are at once ethnographic, 240 pages, 2020 lawyerly, and linguistic.” global medicine. 9781503614581 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale —Brinkley Messick, 208 pages, May 2021 9781503628632 Paper $26.00.00 $20.80 sale 384 pages, 2019 9781503610873 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURE 7 A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ AND LALEH KHALILI THE OLDEST GUARD

FORGING THE ZIONIST SETTLER PAST

LIORA R. HALPERIN

A History of False Hope Intoxicating Zion The Oldest Guard Investigative Commissions A Social History of Hashish in Forging the Zionist Settler Past in Palestine and Israel Liora R. Halperin Lori Allen Haggai Ram This book is a history of local This book offers a provocative Intoxicating Zion is the first book memory in and around the private retelling of Palestinian political to tell the story of hashish in agricultural colonies established by history through an examination of Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Jewish settlers in late nineteenth- the international commissions that Trafficking, use, and regulation; century Palestine. Though they have investigated political violence race, gender, and class; colonialism grew into the backbone of the wine and human rights violations. and nation-building all weave and citrus industries of Mandate Drawing on debates in the press, together in Haggai Ram’s social Palestine and Israel in the twentieth previously unexamined UN reports, history of the drug from the 1920s century, absorbed tens of thousands historical archives, and ethnographic to the aftermath of the 1967 War. of Jewish immigrants, and became research, Allen explores six key The hashish trade encompassed known retrospectively as the “first investigative commissions over the smugglers, international gangs, wave” (First Aliyah) of Zionist last century. She highlights how residents, law enforcers, and polit- settlement, the local history and Palestinians’ persistent demands for ical actors, and Ram traces these collective memory of these colonies independence have been routinely flows through the interconnected was later eclipsed by rise of col- translated into the numb language realms of cross-border politics, lectivist Zionist institutions such as of reports and resolutions. These economics, and culture. Hashish use kibbutzim. Drawing connections to commissions, Allen argues, operating was and is a marker of belonging memory practices in other settler as technologies of liberal global and difference, and its history offers societies, Halperin argues that these governance, yield no justice—only readers a unique glimpse into how communities’ ongoing commemo- the oppressive status quo. A History the modern Middle East was made. ration of their own past served to of False Hope issues a biting critique “Vividly written and drawing on a promote a narrative of that of the captivating allure and cold wide array of sources, Intoxicating appealed to an emerging array of impotence of international law. Zion is packed with colorful non-socialist forces that would seek characters. A fascinating and and increasingly claim a voice in “Allen has produced a fascinating, revelatory tale.” engaging, and innovative scholarly Zionist politics over the course of assessment of how international —Ted R. Swedenburg, the twentieth century. University of Arkansas commissions have failed to STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH deliver political results to the 272 pages, 2020 HISTORY AND CULTURE Palestinian people.” 9781503613911 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 312 pages, July 2021 —Richard Falk 9781503628700 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 400 pages, December 2020 9781503614185 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

8 HISTORY The Sultan’s Communists The of Ottoman Izmir Genetic Crossroads Moroccan Jews and the Politics A Modern History The Middle East and the Science of Belonging Dina Danon of Human Heredity Alma Rachel Heckman Across Europe, Jews had been Elise K. Burton The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the confronted with the notion that their Genetic Crossroads is an un- history of Jewish radical involvement religious and cultural distinctiveness precedented history of human in ’s national liberation was somehow incompatible with genetics in the Middle East, from project and examines how Moroccan the modern age. Yet the view from its roots in colonial anthropology Jews envisioned themselves partici- Ottoman Izmir invites a different and medicine to recent genome pating as citizens in a newly inde- approach. Danon argues that while sequencing projects. Early in the pendent Morocco. The figures at the Jewish religious and cultural dis- twentieth century, technological center of Heckman’s narrative stood tinctiveness remained unquestioned breakthroughs in human genetics at the intersection of colonialism, in this late Ottoman port city, other coincided with the birth of modern Arab nationalism, and Zionism. elements of identity emerged as sites Middle Eastern nation-states, who Their stories unfolded in a country of tension, most notably poverty proclaimed that the region’s ancient that upon independence allied itself and social class. Through the voices history as a cradle of civilizations with the during the of beggars and mercantile elites, was preserved in the bones and Cold War, while attempting to claim shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, blood of their citizens. Burton a place for itself within the fraught rabbis and housewives, this book illuminates how scientists from politics of the post-independence argues that it was new attitudes to to , Egypt to Iran, Arab world. This book contributes to poverty and class that most signifi- transformed genetic data into terri- the growing literature on Jews in the cantly framed the Jewish encounter torial claims and national origin modern Middle East and provides with the modern age. myths, and reveals the enduring a new history of twentieth-century foundations of international Jewish Morocco. “Dina Danon opens new windows onto the changing socioeconomic scientific interest in Middle Eastern “With meticulousness and fervor, realities and values of Jews in a major populations to this day. Heckman offers a unique historical port city of the late Ottoman Empire. “Deeply researched and powerfully entry to North Africa’s Jewish com- Those interested in modern Jewish munities. The Sultan’s Communists written, Genetic Crossroads is one and Ottoman history alike have much of the most original books I have provides a new and refreshing to learn from this fascinating study.” understanding of minority politics in read in a decade. A must-read for —Julia Phillips Cohen, historians of all fields.” colonial and post-colonial societies.” Vanderbilt University —Aomar Boum, —Eve M Troutt Powell, University of California, Los Angeles STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH University of Pennsylvania HISTORY AND CULTURE STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH 360 pages, January 2021 HISTORY AND CULTURE 272 pages, 2020 9781503610910 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503614567 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 344 pages, November 2020 9781503613805 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

HISTORY 9 The Last Nahdawi Street Sounds Egypt’s Occupation Taha Hussein and Institution Listening to Everyday Life in Colonial Economism and the Building in Egypt Modern Egypt Crises of Capitalism Hussam R. Ahmed Ziad Fahmy Aaron G. Jakes Taha Hussein is one of Egypt’s This book offers the first historical The history of capitalism in Egypt most iconic figures. A graduate of examination of the changing sound- has long been synonymous with al-Azhar, Egypt’s oldest university, scapes of urban Egypt, highlighting cotton cultivation and dependent a civil servant and public intel- the mundane sounds of street-life, development. Obscured in such lectual, and ultimately Egyptian while “listening” to the voices of accounts, however, is Egypt’s Minister of Public Instruction, ordinary people as they struggle emergence as a colonial laboratory Hussein was an influential figure with state authorities for owner- for financial investment and in Egypt during the parliamen- ship of the streets. Interweaving experimentation. Jakes offers tary period. This book is the first infrastructural, cultural, and social a sweeping reinterpretation of biography of Hussein in which history, Fahmy analyzes the sounds both the historical geography of his intellectual outlook and of modernity, using sounded capitalism in Egypt and the role public career are taken equally sources as an analytical tool for ex- of political-economic thought seriously. Examining Hussein’s amining the past. Street Sounds also in the struggles that raged over actions against the backdrop of addresses the sensory class-politics its occupation. Even as British his complex relationship with of noise by demonstrating how the officials claimed that “economic the Egyptian state, the religious growing middle classes sensorially development” would be crucial to establishment, and the French distinguished themselves from the the political legitimacy of their rule, government, Ahmed reveals Egyptian masses. This book contex- Egypt’s early nationalists elaborated modern Egypt’s cultural influence tualizes sound and layers historical their own critical accounts of boom in the Arab and Islamic world. analysis with a sensory dimension, and bust. As Jakes shows, these The Last Nahdawi offers both a bringing us closer to the Egyptian Egyptian thinkers offered a set of history of modern state formation, streets as lived and embodied by sophisticated and troubling medita- revealing how the Egyptian state everyday people. tions on the deeper contradictions came to hold such a strong grip “Street Sounds brings the boisterous of capitalism and the very meaning over culture and education—and a soundscape of modernizing Egypt to of freedom in a capitalist world. compelling examination of the life life. Fahmy has an ear for the noise “Egypt’s Occupation is a rare of the country’s most renowned of history in motion. He allows us to synthesis: a finely crafted regional intellectual. hear an Egypt we might otherwise study that grasps the worldwide discount.” 328 pages, June 2021 movements of capital and empire 9781503627956 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale —Joel Gordon, at every turn.” University of Arkansas —Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University 312 pages, 2020 376 pages, 2020 9781503613034 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503612617 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

10 HISTORY The Lived Nile Imperial Bodies The City as Anthology Environment, Disease, and Empire and Death in Eroticism and Urbanity in Material Colonial Economy Alexandria, Egypt Early Modern Isfahan in Egypt Shana Minkin Kathryn Babayan Jennifer L. Derr At the turn of the twentieth century, This book tells a new history of This book follows the engineers, Alexandria was a transimperial Isfahan, at the transformative capitalists, political authorities, port city, under nominal Ottoman moment it became a cosmopolitan and laborers who built a new Nile and unofficial British imperial rule. center of imperial rule. For a River through the nineteenth and Thousands of European subjects city with no extant state or civic early twentieth centuries. The lived, worked, and died there. When archives, Babayan reimagines an river helped to shape the future they died, the machinery of empire archive of anthologies to recover of technocratic knowledge, and negotiated for space, resources, and how residents shaped their com- transformed the bodies of those control with the nascent national munities and crafted their urban, who inhabited rural communities. state. Imperial Bodies shows how religious, and sexual selves. She As Derr argues, the Nile is not the mechanisms of death became highlights eight residents—from a singular entity, but a set of a tool for exerting governance. king to widow, painter to religious temporally, spatially, and materially Minkin investigates how French scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who specific relations that structured and British power asserted itself anthologized their city, writing experiences of colonial economy. through local consular claims their engagements with friends From the microscopic to the within the mundane caring for dead and family, divulging their social, regional, the local to the imperial, bodies, and reveals how European cultural, and religious spheres of The Lived Nile recounts the history imperial powers did not so much life. Through them, we see the and centrality of the environment claim Alexandria as their own, as gestures, manners, and sensibilities to questions of politics, knowledge, they maneuvered, manipulated, and of a shared culture that configured and the lived experience of the cajoled their empires into Egypt. their relations and negotiated the human body itself. “Minkin offers the reader no less lines between friendship and eroti- “A brilliant book, The Lived Nile than an entirely new reading of the cism. These entangled acts of seeing captures the complexities and history of colonial Alexandria under and reading, desiring and writing unintended consequences of experts British rule, and the reactions of its converge to fashion the refined intervening in a river’s flow—and imperial subjects. Imperial Bodies urban self through the sensual and the displaced and diseased bodies is an outstanding accomplishment, the sexual—and give us a new and that result—in a most compelling innovative and insightful.” enticing view of the city of Isfahan. story. This is history at its best.” —Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University 296 pages, May 2021 —Beth Baron, 9781503613386 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale The Graduate Center, CUNY 224 pages, 2019 264 pages, 2019 9781503608924 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale 9781503609655 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale

HISTORY 11 Arab Routes Forging Ties, Iran in Motion Pathways to Syrian California Forging Passports Mobility, Space, and the Sarah M. A. Gualtieri Migration and the Modern Trans-Iranian Railway Sephardi Diaspora Los Angeles is home to the largest Mikiya Koyagi population of people of Middle Devi Mays This book traces the contested Eastern descent in the United This book explores the history imaginations and practices of States. Since the late nineteenth of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who mobility from the conception of a century, Syrian and Lebanese emigrated to the Americas—and trans-Iranian railway project dur- migration to Southern California especially, to Mexico—in the late ing the nineteenth-century global has been intimately connected to nineteenth and early twentieth cen- transport revolution to its early and through Latin America. Arab turies, and the complex relationships years of operation on the eve of Routes uncovers the stories of this they maintained to legal documenta- Iran’s oil nationalization movement Syrian American community to tion as they settled into new homes. in the 1950s. Weaving together reveal important cross-border and In the aftermath of World War I and various individual experiences, multiethnic solidarities in Syrian the Mexican Revolution, migrants Koyagi considers how the infra- California. Gualtieri reinscribes navigated new layers of bureaucracy structural megaproject reoriented Syrians into Southern California and authority amidst changing the flows of people and goods. The history through her examination political regimes. By making use of railway project simultaneously of images and texts, augmented commercial and familial networks brought the provinces closer to with interviews with descendants between formerly Ottoman lands, Tehran and pulled them away from of immigrants. Telling the story of France, the United States, Cuba, and it, thereby constantly reshaping how Syrians helped forge a global Mexico, these Sephardic migrants local, national, and transnational Los Angeles, Arab Routes counters maintained a geographic and social experiences of space among mobile a long-held stereotype of as mobility that challenged the physical individuals. outsiders and underscores their borders of the state and the concep- “Koyagi transports us through the longstanding place in American tual boundaries of the nation. various stations that dotted Iran’s culture and in interethnic coali- path to modernity. Much more than tions, past and present. “A sparkling work of social history a narrative of the railway project, that prompts larger questions over Iran in Motion reveals a deep “Sarah Gualtieri complicates and citizenship and its meanings.” understanding of the mobility net- revises our understanding of Arab —Stacy D. Fahrenthold, works that connected and divided immigration to the Americas. An University of California, Davis Middle Eastern communities. A expansive, cutting-edge, and much- groundbreaking book.” needed book.” STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE —Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, —Carol W.N. Fadda, 360 pages, 2020 University of Pennsylvania Syracuse University 9781503613218 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 224 pages, 2019 288 pages, April 2021 9781503610859 Paper $24.00 $19.20 sale 9781503613133 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

12 HISTORY Spiritual Subjects Brokers of Faith, Brokers Between Empire and Nation Central Asian Pilgrims and of Empire Muslim Reform in the Balkans the Ottoman Hajj at the End Armenians and the Politics of of Empire Reform in the Ottoman Empire Milena B. Methodieva Lâle Can Richard E. Antaramian This book tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim com- Spiritual Subjects examines the The Ottoman Empire enforced munity in modern Bulgaria during paradoxes of nationality reform imperial rule through its manage- a period of imperial dissolution, and pan-Islamic politics in late ment of diversity. Non-Muslim conflicting national and imperial Ottoman history. Can unravels how religious institutions, such as the enterprises, and the emergence of imperial belonging was wrapped up Armenian Church, were charged new national and ethnic identities. in deeply symbolic instantiations of with guaranteeing their flocks’ loyalty Methodieva explores how former religion, as well as prosaic acts that to the sultan. In so doing, Armenian Ottoman subjects, now under paved the way to integration into elites became powerful brokers Bulgarian rule, navigated between Ottoman communities. A complex between factions in Ottoman empire and nation-state, and system of belonging emerged—one politics—until the politics of sought to claim a place in the larger where it was possible for a Muslim nineteenth-century reform changed modern world. Using a wide array to be both, by law, a foreigner and these relationships. This book of primary sources and drawing a subject of the Ottoman sultan- presents a revisionist account of on both Ottoman and Eastern caliph. This panoramic story Ottoman reform, connecting internal European historiographies, Meth- informs broader transregional contention within the Armenian odieva approaches the question of developments, with important community to broader imperial Balkan Muslims’ engagement with implications for how we make sense politics. Reform afforded Armenians modernity through a transnational of subjecthood in the last Muslim the opportunity to recast themselves lens, arguing that the experience empire and the legacy of religion in as partners of the state, rather than of this Muslim minority provides the Turkish Republic. brokers among factions. And in the new insight into the nature of course of pursuing such programs, nationalism, citizenship, and state “A beautifully and imaginatively formation. crafted history of the hajj as a social, they transformed the community’s cultural, political, and spiritual role in imperial society. “This important new book is set phenomenon. Lâle Can humanizes “Antaramian provides a much-needed to redefine the entanglements of the Central Asian pilgrims, telling corrective to a historiography that modern history of Europe and the their stories with the same grace and often presents ‘Armenian’ and Middle East.” veneration that they showed in the —Cemil Aydin, ‘Ottoman’ as mutually exclusive University of North Carolina course of their spiritual journey.” categories. An empirically rich work.” STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL —Christine Philliou, AND EASTERN EUROPE University of California, Berkeley —İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu, Northwestern University 352 pages, January 2021 272 pages, 2020 224 pages, 2020 9781503613379 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 9781503611160 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 9781503612952 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale

HISTORY 13 The Contemporary Middle Global Jihad Oilcraft East in an Age of Upheaval A Brief History The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Edited by James L. Gelvin Glenn E. Robinson Robert Vitalis This book engages six themes to Most violent jihadi movements in understand the contemporary the twentieth century focused on There is a conventional wisdom Middle East—the spread of sectari- removing corrupt, repressive secular about oil—that US military presence anism, abandonment of principles regimes throughout the Muslim in the Gulf guarantees access to this of state sovereignty, the lack of a world. But following the 1979 Soviet strategic resource; that the “special” regional hegemonic power, in- invasion of Afghanistan, a new form relationship with Saudi Arabia is creased Saudi-Iranian competition, of jihadism emerged—global jihad— necessary to stabilize an otherwise decreased regional attention to the turning to the international arena as volatile market; and that these Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout the primary locus of ideology and assumptions provide Washington from the Arab uprisings—as well action. With this book, Robinson enormous leverage. Except, the as offers individual country studies. tells the story of four distinct jihadi conventional wisdom is wrong. With analysis from historians, waves, each with its own program Vitalis debunks the myths to reveal political scientists, sociologists, and for achieving a global end. He “oilcraft,” a line of magical thinking anthropologists, and up-to-date connects the rise of global jihad to closer to witchcraft than statecraft. discussions of the Syrian Civil War, other “movements of rage”—such He exposes the suspect fears of impacts of the Trump presidency, as the Nazi Brownshirts, White scarcity and conflict, and investigates and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, supremacists, Khmer Rouge, and the significant geopolitical impact , and , this book will Boko Haram—and develops a of these false beliefs. In particular, be an essential guide for anyone compelling and provocative Vitalis shows how we can reconsider seeking to understand the current argument about this violent the question of the US–Saudi rela- state of the region. political movement’s evolution. tionship. Freeing ourselves from the spell of oilcraft won’t be easy—but “These essays are an indispensable “Robinson has produced a masterful guide to making sense of the Middle book that is incisive, insightful, and the benefits make it essential. East’s current disorder and future comprehensive—a tour de force on “Vitalis has once again revealed that direction. A must-read for academics, the evolution of jihadism.” our conventional wisdom is filled policy makers, and informed —Mehran Kamrava, with empty, and often dangerous, self- general audiences.” delusions. This book is a triumph of —Frederic Wehrey, 264 pages, November 2020 clear-eyed and courageous criticism.” Carnegie Endowment for 9780804760478 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale —Lisa Anderson, International Peace Columbia University 344 pages, May 2021 240 pages, 2020 9781503627697 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503600904 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale

14 POLITICS ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK SERIES

WORLDING THE MIDDLE EAST

EDITED BY Emily Gottreich and Daniel Zoughbie

CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

This series investigates the The Movement and the Queer Palestine and the “worlding” of the Middle East and Middle East Empire of Critique the ever-changing, ever-becoming How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Sa’ed Atshan dynamism of the region. It seeks to Divided the American Left capture the ways in which the region Solidarity with Palestinians has Michael R. Fischbach become a salient domain of is reimagined and unmade through The Arab-Israeli conflict con- global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ flows of world capital, power, stituted a serious problem for Palestinians are themselves often and ideas. the American Left in the 1960s. subjected to an “empire of critique” The Movement and the Middle that has led to an emphasis within Complex historical and social East offers the first assessment of the movement on anti- phenomena require complex the controversial and ultimately over the struggle against homopho- analyses. We encourage studies not debilitating role of the conflict bia. With this book, Atshan asks only in traditional disciplines, but among activists. Fischbach draws how social movements can balance also those that push the boundaries on a deep well of original sources struggles for liberation along more into emerging areas of study. Books to present a story of the left-wing than one axis. He explores critical in this series will engage in three junctures in Palestinian LGBTQ responses to the question of broad areas of consideration: rule, Palestine and Israel. He shows how, activism, revealing a spirit of resilience, and religion. We have as the 1970s wore on, the cleavages agency, defiance, and creativity, emerging within the American Left despite daunting pressures and particular interest in studies that widened, weakening the Movement forces working to constrict it. consider ethnic and religious and leaving a lasting impact that Queer Palestine and the Empire of minority populations, as well as still affects progressive American Critique explores the necessity of works that embrace world places, politics today. connecting the struggles for networks, and communities that are Palestinian freedom with the “Fischbach boldly takes us into inextricably linked to the the vexed heart of debates on the struggle against homophobia. geographical region and its peoples. American Left over the Palestinian “Sa’ed Atshan brilliantly weaves struggle against the state of Israel. together ethnography and personal Spanning the modern period to His bracing message is of the perils of experience in thoughtful, engaging, the present, Worlding the Middle intransigence and the enduring abil- and emotionally captivating ways. ity of the Israel-Palestine debate to A tour de force and a remarkable East will showcase critical and further divide an already weakened book for both its theoretical and innovative books that develop new American Left.” empirical contributions.” ways of thinking about the region —Jeremy Varon, The New School —Amaney A. Jamal, and the wider world. 312 pages, 2019 9781503611061 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 296 pages, 2020 9781503612396 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

POLITICS 15 Persianate Selves A City in Fragments Pious Peripheries Memories of Place and Origin Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Before Nationalism Yair Wallach Afghanistan Mana Kia A City in Fragments tells the Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi For centuries, Persian was the story of a city overwhelmed by its Taliban made piety a business of the language of power and learning religious and symbolic significance. state, and thereby intervened in the across West and South Asia. This Wallach walked the streets of daily lives and social interactions book sketches the contours of this Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries Persianate world, historicizing place, inscriptions, signs, and ephemera examines women’s resistance origin, and selfhood through its that transformed the city over the through groundbreaking fieldwork tradition of proper form—adab. late nineteenth and early twentieth at a women’s shelter in Kabul, Proximities and similarities con- centuries. As these texts became home to runaway wives, daughters, stituted a logic that distinguished a tool in the service of capitalism, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. between people while simultaneously nationalism, and colonialism, the Whether running to seek marriage accommodating plurality. Adab was affinities of and Hebrew or divorce, enduring or escaping the basis of cohesion for self and were forgotten. Looking at the abuse, or even accused of singing community over the eighteenth writing of—and literally on— sexually explicit songs in public, century, as populations dispersed Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative “promiscuous” women challenge and centers of power shifted, and expansive history of the city, the status quo—and once marked disrupting the circulations that a fresh take on modern urban texts, as promiscuous, women have few interlinked Persianate regions. and a new reading of the Israel/ resources. Ahsan-Tirmizi explores Challenging the bases of proton- Palestine conflict through how these women negotiate ationalist community, Persianate its material culture. gendered power mechanisms and Selves seeks to make sense of a “Our understanding of the city’s create a new supportive community, transregional Persianate culture history will forever be changed by finding friendship and solidarity outside the anachronistic shadow this sensitive and lyrical description among the women who inhabit the of nationalisms. of the city—sacred and profane, margins of Afghan society. spiritual and material, Arab and “Few questions are more vexed in the “Pious Peripheries brings the reader study of early modern Asia than how Jewish—and the fragmentary voices and lives of those who built it.” into a diverse and opinionated world people identified before nationalism. of Afghan women. Ahsan-Tirmizi’s Persianate Selves is an invaluable —Michelle Campos, University of Florida willingness to step aside and allow vade mecum for navigating the these remarkable women to speak for transregional Persianate past.” 344 pages, 2020 themselves is a tremendous strength.” —Nile Green, 9781503611139 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale —Thomas Barfield, University of California, Los Angeles Boston University 336 pages, 2020 232 pages, May 2021 9781503611955 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sal 9781503614710 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale

16 CULTURE AND HERITAGE Say What Your Longing The Dangers of Poetry Return to Ruin Heart Desires Culture, Politics, and Iraqi Narratives of Exile Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran Revolution in Iraq and Nostalgia Niloofar Haeri Kevin M. Jones Zainab Saleh This book offers an elegant ethnog- This is the first book to narrate With the US invasion of Iraq, Iraqis raphy of religious debates among the social history of poetry in the abroad, hoping to return one day a group of educated, middle-class modern Middle East. Moving to a better Iraq, became uncertain women whose voices are often beyond the analysis of poems as exiles. Return to Ruin tells the muted in studies of Islam. Haeri literary and intellectual texts, Jones human story of this exile. Focusing follows them in their daily lives shows how poems functioned as on debates among Iraqi exiles about as they engage with the classical social acts that critically shaped the what it means to be an Iraqi after poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, cultural politics of revolutionary years of displacement, Saleh weaves illuminating a long-standing mutual Iraq. He narrates the history of a narrative that draws attention inspiration between prayer and three generations of Iraqi poets to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi poetry. She recounts how different who navigated the fraught relation- cultural landscape and social and forms of prayer may transform ship between culture and politics in political shifts among the diaspora into dialogues with God, and, in pursuit of their own ambitions and after decades of authoritarianism, turn, illuminates the ways in which agendas. Through this historical war, and occupation in Iraq. She believers draw on prayer and ritual analysis of thousands of poems illuminates how Iraqis continue acts as the emotional and intel- published in newspapers, recited to fashion a sense of belonging lectual material through which they in popular demonstrations, and and imagine a future, built on the think, deliberate, and debate. disseminated in secret whispers, shards of these shattered memories. this book reveals the overlooked “A work that deserves to be widely “In this outstanding book, we read by all who are interested in contribution of these poets to the encounter the poignant life stories understanding the different spirit of rebellion in modern Iraq. of Iraqis, stories too often reduced approaches to ‘authentic’ religion “Through beautiful translations and to statistics and stereotypes when that exist in the Muslim world. insightful commentary, The Dangers they are visible at all. Return to A rich and detailed account, and of Poetry demonstrates how poetic Ruin is an illuminating study of a valuable contribution to our works expressed the hopes, desires, Iraqi diasporic subjectivities.” knowledge of religious practice.” and anxieties of colonized subjects.” —Sinan Antoon, New York University —Talal Asad, —Orit Bashkin, The Graduate Center, CUNY University of Chicago 280 pages, 2020 9781503614116 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 224 pages, November 2020 320 pages, 2020 9781503614246 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 9781503613393 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale

CULTURE AND HERITAGE 17 How to Make a Wetland The Power of Deserts Whisper Tapes Water and Moral Ecology Climate Change, the Middle East, Kate Millett in Iran in Turkey and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era Negar Mottahedeh Caterina Scaramelli Dan Rabinowitz Kate Millett was already an icon of This book tells the story of two Hotter and dryer than most parts American feminism when she went Turkish coastal areas, both shaped of the world, the Middle East to Iran in 1979. She arrived just by ecological change and political could soon see climate change weeks after the Iranian Revolution, uncertainty. Farmers, scientists, fisher- exacerbate food and water shortages, to join Iranian women in marking men, and families grapple with aggravate social inequalities, and International Women’s Day. The livelihoods in transition, as their drive displacement and political event turned into a week of protests, environment is bound up in national destabilization. The Power of Deserts and Millett, armed with equipment and international conservation surveys regional climate models and to record everything around her, projects. Scaramelli offers an anthro- identifies the potential impact on found herself in the middle of pological understanding of sweeping socioeconomic disparities, population demonstrations for women’s rights. environmental and infrastructural movement, and political instability. Listening to the revolutionary change, and the moral claims made on Offering more than warning and soundscape of Millett’s audio tapes, livability and materiality. Beginning fear, however, the book highlights a Negar Mottahedeh offers a new from a moral ecological position, she potentially brighter future—a recent interpretive guide to Revolutionary takes into account the notion that shift across the Middle East toward Iran, its slogans, habits, and politics is not simply projected onto renewable energy. With his deep women’s movement. animals, plants, soil, and water. Rather, knowledge of the region and knack “Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately people make politics through them. for presenting scientific data with written, Whisper Tapes reignites a Scaramelli highlights the aspirations, clarity, Rabinowitz makes a sober long dormant conversation about moral relations, and care practices yet surprisingly optimistic investiga- the urgency of global feminism. in constant play in contestations and tion of opportunity arising from a This book is intensely relevant as we alliances over environmental change. looming crisis. continue to assess the aftermath of revolutions throughout the Middle “Scaramelli’s lucid ethnography is a “An important argument detailing East, and the ways they have been crucial addition to studies of lived how the Middle East could be fueled by women’s rage on the one environments and environmental devastated by the impact of climate hand and unfulfilled hope for gender infrastructure—a refreshing new change—or could generate huge equity on the other.” take on anthropocentric development amounts of renewable energy. A —Shilyh Warren, processes in Turkey and beyond.” provocative work.” University of Texas at Dallas —Elif Babül, —Steven Cohen, Mount Holyoke College Columbia University 224 pages, 2019 9781503609860 Paper $14.00 $11.20 sale 256 pages, March 2021 184 pages, 2020 9781503615403 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503609983 Paper $14.00 $11.20 sale

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