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2 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ Impossible Exodus Brothers Apart Hamas Contained Iraqi Jews in Israel Palestinian Citizens of Israel The Rise and Pacification of Orit Bashkin and the Arab World Palestinian Resistance Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Maha Nassar Tareq Baconi Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly When the state of Israel was Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of established Israeli state. Lacking the established in 1948, not all Palestinians the two million Palestinians who live resources to absorb them all, the became refugees: some stayed behind. there. Demonized in media and policy Israeli government resettled them But relegated to second-class status, debates, various accusations and critical in transit camps, relegating them Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut assumptions have been used to justify to poverty. Rather than returning off from those on the other side of extreme military action against Hamas. to a homeland as native sons, Iraqi the Green Line. Brothers Apart is the The reality of Hamas is, of course, far Jews were newcomers in a foreign first book to reveal how Palestinian more complex. Neither a terrorist group place. Impossible Exodus tells their intellectuals forged transnational nor a democratic political party, Hamas story. Faced with ill treatment and connections through written texts is a multifaceted liberation organization, discrimination from state officials, and engaged with contemporaneous one rooted in the nationalist claims Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined decolonization movements through- of the Palestinian people. Hamas Israeli political parties, demonstrated out the Arab word. Maha Nassar Contained offers the first history of the in the streets, and fought for the reexamines these intellectuals as group on its own terms. Drawing on education of their children, leading the subjects, not objects, of their interviews with organization leaders, a civil rights struggle whose legacy own history, and brings to life their as well as publications from the group, continues to influence contemporary perspectives on a fraught political Tareq Baconi maps Hamas’s thirty-year debates in Israel. Orit Bashkin environment. Her readings not only transition from fringe military sheds light on their everyday lives deprovincialize the Palestinians resistance towards governance. He and their determination in a new of Israel, but write them back into breaks new ground in questioning country, uncovering their long, Palestinian, Arab, and global history. the conventional understanding of painful transformation from “An outstanding work of social and Hamas and shows how the movement’s Iraqi to Israeli. cultural history. Maha Nassar intro- ideology ultimately threatens the “A marvelously clear-eyed and duces the resilient figures, who in the Palestinian struggle and, inadvertently, compassionate recovery of the face of concerted efforts to detach and its own legitimacy. erase Palestinian presence, somehow experience of Iraqi Jews. Orit Bashkin “Ground-breaking, rigorously gives these people voice, agency, managed to make a uniquely vibrant and engaged world of letters.” researched, and strikingly fair- and sympathetic understanding.” minded, Hamas Contained is —Roger Owen, —Elliott Colla, essential reading.” Harvard University Georgetown University —Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford 320 pages, 2017 288 pages, 2017 9781503602656 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9781503603165 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 336 pages, May 2018 9780804797412 Cloth $29.95 $23.96 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES 3 A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ Hotels and Highways Bureaucratic Intimacies Copts and the Security State The Construction of Modernization Translating Human Rights Violence, Coercion, and Theory in Cold War Turkey in Turkey Sectarianism in Begüm Adalet Elif M. BabÜl Contemporary Egypt The early decades of the Cold War With eyes worldwide trained on Laure Guirguis presented seemingly boundless Turkish politics and accession to Laure Guirguis considers how opportunity for the construction of the European Union underway, the Egyptian state, through its “laboratories” of American society Turkey’s human rights record is subjugation of Coptic citizens, abroad. With this book, Begüm a key indicator of governmental reproduces a political order based Adalet reveals how Turkey became legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies on religious identity and difference, both the archetypal model of shows how government workers while the leadership of the Coptic modernization and an active encounter human rights rhetoric Church has taken more political partner for its enactment. In tracking through training programs and stances, foreclosing opportunities the growth and transmission of articulates the perils and promises for secularization or common modernization as a theory and of these encounters for Turkish ground. In each instance, underlying in practice in Turkey, Hotels and governance. Drawing on participant logics articulate a fear of the Other Highways offers not only a specific observation of police officers, and are put to use to justify the history of a postwar development judges and prosecutors, healthcare expanding Egyptian security state. model that continues to influence workers, and prison personnel, Guirguis focuses on state discourses our world, but a widely relevant Elif M. Babül argues these training and practices throughout Hosni consideration of how theoretical programs do not always advance Mubarak’s rule, shows the trans- debates ultimately take shape in human rights. Translation of formation of the Orthodox Coptic concrete situations. human rights into a tool of good Church under Pope Chenouda III, “Hotels and Highways gives a clear governance leads to competing and considers what could be done understanding how U.S. hegemony understandings of what human to counter growing tensions and was conceived and implemented in rights should do, not necessarily to violence in Egypt. the aftermath of World War II and liberal, transparent, and account- “In this well-researched, rigorous, how thorough and decisive was its able governmental practices. domination in Turkey and other and theoretically informed book, similar places. Anybody interested “Elif Babül provides wonderful Laure Guirguis presents fresh, in twentieth-century experiences insight into the workings of nuanced thinking on the under- of modernity and U.S. power in bureaucracy confronted by studied case of Egypt’s Copts. the Middle East will need to read international expertise.” This is an important and profound study.” this book.” —Sally Engle Merry, —Reşat Kasaba, New York University —Lina Khatib, University of Washington Chatham House 248 pages, 2017 256 pages, 2016 304 pages, April 2018 9781503603172 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 9781503600782 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 9781503605541 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale

4 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ Imaginative Geographies Circuits of Faith Soundtrack of the Revolution of Algerian Violence Migration, Education, and The Politics of Music in Iran Conflict Science, Conflict the Wahhabi Mission Nahid Siamdoust Management, Antipolitics Michael Farquhar Music was one of the first casualties Jacob Mundy Circuits of Faith offers the first of the Iranian Revolution. Banned The massacres that spread across examination of the Islamic University in 1979, it crept back into Iranian Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked of Medina and considers the efforts culture and politics. Now, more the world, both in their horror and undertaken by Saudi actors and than thirty-five years on, both the in the international community’s institutions to exert religious influ- children of the revolution and their failure to respond. They have since ence beyond the kingdom’s borders. music have come of age. Soundtrack become a central case study in new Michael Farquhar draws on Arabic of the Revolution offers a striking theories of civil conflict and terrorism sources, as well as interviews account of Iranian culture, politics, after the Cold War. Such “lessons with former staff and students, to and social change to provide an of Algeria” now contribute to a explore the institution’s history alternative history of the Islamic diverse array of international efforts and faculty, the content and style Republic. Drawing on over five to manage conflict. With this book, of instruction, and the trajectories years of research in Iran, including Jacob Mundy raises a critical lens to and experiences of its students. He during the 2009 protests, Nahid these lessons. In questioning them, argues that the project undertaken Siamdoust closely follows the Mundy shows that today’s leading through the Islamic University is work of four musicians, each with strategies of conflict management more complex than just the one- markedly different political views are underwritten by, and so attempt way “export” of Wahhabism. and relations with the Iranian to reproduce, their own flawed Through transnational networks, government. These examinations of logic. Ultimately, what these policies this state-funded religious mission musicians and their music shed light and practices lead to is not a world also relies upon, and has in turn on Iran’s future and identity, changing made safe from war, but rather a been influenced by, far-reaching notions of religious belief, and the world made safe for war. circulations of persons and ideas. quest for political freedom. “A scathing critique of the internal “Circuits of Faith complicates “Nahid Siamdoust’s beautiful writing pathologies of neoliberal conflict our conventional wisdom with brings to life some of the most unique management. This book fills a major new interpretations and perspectives. and colorful characters in Iranian void in scholarship on post-indepen- Both critics and sympathizers with society today. An instant classic that dence Algeria, and will surely be a Wahhabiyya will find their stereo- will launch conversations on Iran and valuable resource.” types challenged.” contemporary popular music globally.” —Madawi Al-Rasheed, —Robert P. Parks, —Mark LeVine, Middle East Centre, University of California, Irvine Centre d’Études Maghrébines The London School of Economics en Algérie and Political Science 368 pages, 2017 280 pages, 2015 288 pages, 2016 9781503600324 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 9780804795821 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9780804798358 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES 5 A SERIES EDITED BY JOEL BEININ StanfordBRIEFS ESSAY-LENGTH BOOKS THAT ADDRESS THE ESSENCE OF A TOPIC

#iranelection Workers and Thieves Living Emergency Hashtag Solidarity and the Labor Movements and Popular Israel’s Permit Regime in the Transformation of Online Life Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt Occupied West Bank Negar Mottahedeh Joel Beinin Yael Berda The protests following Iran’s Since the 1990s, the Middle East In 1991, the Israeli government fraudulent 2009 Presidential election has experienced an upsurge of introduced emergency legislation took the world by storm. As the wildcat strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, canceling the general exit permit Green Revolution gained protestors, and other collective actions. How- that allowed Palestinians to enter #iranelection became the first ever, most observers have failed to Israel. Today, Israel’s permit regime long-trending international hashtag. recognize the importance of workers’ for Palestinians is one of the world’s Texts, images, videos, audio record- participation in the events of the most extreme and complex appara- ings, and links connected protestors Arab uprisings of 2011. In Workers tuses for population management. on the ground and netizens online, and Thieves, Joel Beinin argues With Living Emergency, Yael Berda all simultaneously transmitting that the Egyptian and Tunisian brings readers inside the permit and living a shared international uprisings—and, importantly, their regime, offering a first-hand account experience. #iranelection investigates vastly different outcomes—are best of how the Israeli secret service, how emerging social media understood within the context of the government, and military civil platforms developed international repeated mobilizations of workers administration control the solidarity and reveals the new and the unemployed since the 1970s. Palestinian population. online ecology of social protest. “We know the ‘thieves’ who plundered “Living Emergency is a groundbreaking “Elegant, passionate, and deeply Tunisia and Egypt, but few have con- analysis of the bureaucracy of occupa- committed. #iranelection brings a sidered the role of the workers. Joel tion. And in Yael Berda, this intricate much-needed historical perspective Beinin offers this necessary perspective, and obfuscated bureaucracy has met and non-Western viewpoint to the highlighting in this truly readable and its match: Her meticulous research vexed question of the interactions most useful account the clash of workers and brilliant insights call on us all of social media and social change. and thieves that shaped Tunisia’s to acknowledge the ways in which If you care about the history of the and Egypt’s recent history and will the contemporary rule of officials has present, you need to read this book.” determine their future.” developed across the globe.” —Nicholas Mirzoeff, —Gilbert Achcar, —Eyal Weizman, New York University SOAS, University of London University of London 152 pages, 2015 176 pages, 2015 152 pages, 2017 9780804795876 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale 9780804798044 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale 9781503602823 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale

6 STANFORD BRIEFS Twilight HIBA BOU AKAR

Nationalism FOR THE WAR YET TO COME Politics of Existence PLANNING BEIRUT'S FRONTIERS at Life’s End

DANIEL MONTERESCU AND HAIM HAZAN

Twilight Nationalism Dwelling in Conflict For the War Yet to Come Politics of Existence at Life's End Negev Landscapes and the Planning Beirut’s Frontiers Daniel Monterescu and Boundaries of Belonging Hiba Bou Akar Haim Hazan Emily McKee Beirut is a city divided. Following the The official Jewish national tale This book offers the first study of Green Line of the civil war, dividing proceeds from exile to redemption land conflict and environment the Christian east and the Muslim and nation-building, while the within both Arab and Jewish west, today hundreds of such lines Palestinians’ is one of a golden age settings in the Negev. Emily McKee dissect the city. With unclear state cut short, followed by dispossession investigates the political charge of structures and outsourced public and resistance. The experiences of everyday interactions with environ- processes, urban planning Jaffa’s Jewish and Arab residents, ments and the ways in which basic has become a contest between however, reveal lives and nationalist understandings of people and religious-political organizations and sentiments far more complex. Twilight “their” landscapes drive political profit-seeking developers. For the Nationalism shares the stories of ten developments. While recognizing War Yet to Come examines urban of the city’s elders—women and men, deep divisions, McKee also takes planning in three neighborhoods of rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and seriously the social projects that Beirut’s southeastern peripheries, Christians—to radically deconstruct residents engage in to soften and revealing how these areas have been these national myths and challenge challenge socio-environmental developed to reproduce poverty, common understandings of belonging boundaries. Dwelling in Conflict displacement, and urban violence. and alienation. Through the stories highlights opportunities for Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighbor- told at life’s end, Daniel Monterescu boundary crossings, revealing both hoods are arranged according to the and Haim Hazan illuminate how contemporary segregation and the logic of “the war yet to come,” playing national affiliation ultimately gives possible mutability of these dividing on fears and differences, rumors of way to existential circumstances. lines in the future. war, and paramilitary strategies to Similarities in lives prove to be shaped organize everyday life. “A rare book. Emily McKee beautifully far more by socioeconomic class, age, reveals the underlying environmental “Fascinating, theoretically astute, and gender than national allegiance. imaginaries and discourses—among and empirically rich, For the War Yet In offering the real stories individuals both Jews and Bedouin—and shows to Come enriches our understanding tell about themselves, this book reveals the potential for more environmen- of fragile cities in the Middle East shared perspectives too long silenced tally friendly policies and more and beyond.” and new understandings of local peaceful, just relations in the Negev.” —Asef Bayat, University of Illinois at community previously lost in —Diana K. Davis, Urbana-Champaign University of California, Davis nationalist narratives. 288 pages, May 2018 264 pages, June 2018 264 pages, 2016 9781503605602 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9781503605633 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 9780804798303 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

POLITICS 7 RUMEE AHMED

SHARIA COMPLIANT

A USER’S GUIDE TO HACKING ISLAMIC LAW

Sharia Compliant Crossing the Gulf A User’s Guide to Hacking Witnesses of the Unseen Love and Family in Migrant Lives Islamic Law Seven Years in Guantanamo Pardis Mahdavi Rumee Ahmed Lakhdar Boumediene and Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of For over a thousand years, Muslim Mustafa Ait Idir the intimate lives of migrants in the scholars worked to ensure that Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Islamic law responded to the needs This searing memoir shares Lakhdar and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi of an evolving Muslim community Boumediene and Mustafa Ait reveals the interconnections and served as a moral and spiritual Idir’s time inside America’s most between migration and emotion, compass. They did this by “hacking” notorious prison. In 2001, they were between family and state policy, Islamic law in accordance with arrested in Bosnia, wrongly accused and shows how migrants can be changing times and contexts. Today, of participating in a terrorist plot, both mobilized and immobilized the process has stalled, and this book and were flown, blindfolded and by their family relationships and is designed to revitalize the hacking shackled, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. the bonds of love they share across tradition. Rumee Ahmed walks readers For seven years, they endured borders. The result is an absorbing through the process of Islamic legal torture, harassment, force-feedings, and literally moving ethnography change, vividly describing how and beatings. They had no opportunity that illuminates the mutually Muslim scholars have met evolving to argue their innocence until 2008, reinforcing and constitutive forces challenges on topics as diverse as when the Supreme Court issued a that impact the lives of migrants abolition, democracy, finance, gender, landmark ruling in their case, and their loved ones—and how human rights, and sexuality. He Boumediene v. Bush, confirming profoundly migrants are under- argues that through engagement and Guantanamo detainees’ constitutional served by policies that more often creativity, Islamic law can regain its right to challenge their detention. lead to their illegality, statelessness, intrinsic vitality and resume its role Weeks later, a federal judge, stunned deportation, detention, and abuse as a forward-looking source for good. by the absence of evidence against than to their aid. them, ordered their release. Now “This original and thought-provoking living in Europe and rebuilding “A path-breaking book that offers book shows how law and practice their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa a powerful and poignant analysis can interact to shape as well as reflect of women’s intimate lives lived a community’s collective wisdom. share a story that every American in migration.” It tackles with authority a highly ought to know. —Christine Chin, complex and contested set of concepts “An intense, important read for American University in Islamic law.” anyone interested in the American 216 pages, 2016 —Ziba Mir-Hosseini, government’s misguided efforts 9780804798839 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale University of London at Guantanamo.” ENCOUNTERING TRADITIONS —Kirkus Reviews 232 pages, April 2018 288 pages, 2017 97815303605701 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale 9781503601154 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale

8 POLITICS Anthropology’s Politics Field Notes A History of the Modern Disciplining the Middle East The Making of Middle East Studies Middle East Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar in the United States Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues This book is the first academic study Zachary Lockman Betty S. Anderson to shed critical light on the political Field Notes reconstructs the origins A History of the Modern Middle and economic pressures that shape and trajectory of area studies in the East offers a comprehensive how U.S. scholars research and United States, focusing on Middle East assessment of the region, stretching teach about the Middle East. Lara studies from the 1920s into the 1980s. from the fourteenth century and Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Drawing on extensive archival the founding of the Ottoman Middle East politics and U.S. gender research, Zachary Lockman shows and Safavid Empires through to and race hierarchies affect scholars how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and present-day protests and upheavals. across their careers. They detail how later Ford foundations played key roles Enriched by the perspectives of academia is infused with sexism, in conceiving, funding, and launching workers and professionals; urban racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist postwar area studies, expecting them merchants and provincial notables; obstruction of any criticism of the to yield a new kind of interdisciplinary slaves, students, women, and peas- Israeli state. Anthropology’s Politics knowledge that would advance the ants, as well as political leaders, this offers a complex portrait of how social sciences while benefiting textbook maps the complex social academic politics ultimately hinders government agencies and the interrelationships to describe the the education of U.S. students and American people. Lockman uncovers shifting shapes of governance and limits the public’s access to critical how area studies as an academic field the trajectories of social change. knowledge about the Middle East. was actually built—a process replete Discussion of areas typically left “Incisive, forthright, and necessary. with contention, anxiety, dead ends, out of Middle East history—such This unflinching account of the and consequences both unanticipated as the Balkans—restores the challenges that confront anthropo- and unintended. larger context that influenced the logists, and anthropology’s institutions, “Fair-minded, thorough, and region’s development. Extensively when engaging the politics of the thoughtful, Field Notes is essential illustrated, this book highlights the Middle East is a must-read for reading for scholars in Middle region’s complexity and variation, scholars concerned with our East studies who want to learn the professional responsibilities and countering easy assumptions origins and fate of their field. Zachary our human obligations.” about the Middle East, those Lockman has much to teach anyone who governed, and those they —Ilana Feldman, interested in the past, present, and The George Washington University future of international studies in the governed—the rulers, rebels, and 288 pages, 2015 United States.” rogues who shaped a region. 9780804781244 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale —David Engerman, 544 pages, 2016 Brandeis University 9780804783248 Paper $44.95 $35.96 sale 376 pages, 2016 9780804799065 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale

HISTORY 9

The Proper Order of Things Piracy and Law in the NOW IN PAPERBACK Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Mediterranean Partners of the Empire The Crisis of the Ottoman Order Ottoman Administrative Discourses Joshua M. White in the Age of Revolutions Heather L. Ferguson From the 1570s into the eighteenth Ali Yaycioglu The “natural order of the state” century, nowhere was more inviting was an early modern mania for to pirates than the Ottoman- Partners of Empire offers a radical the Ottoman Empire: the ideals dominated eastern Mediterranean. rethinking of the Ottoman Empire of proper order, stability, and This is the first book to examine in the eighteenth and early nine- social harmony were integral to the Mediterranean piracy from the teenth centuries, when the empire legitimization of Ottoman power. Ottoman perspective, focusing faced political crises, institutional As Ottoman territory grew, so too on the administrators, diplomats, shakeups, and popular insurrections. did its network of written texts used jurists, and victims who had to Drawing on original archival to define and supplement imperial contend most with maritime sources, Ali Yaycioglu uncovers the authority in the empire’s disparate violence. Pirates churned up a patterns of political action—the provinces. With this book, Heather sea of paper in their wake: letters, making and unmaking of coalitions, L. Ferguson studies how this textual petitions, court documents, legal forms of building and losing power, empire created a unique vision of opinions, ambassadorial reports, and public opinions. He shows that Ottoman legal and social order. travel accounts, captivity narratives, the Ottoman transformation was not The Proper Order of Things offers and vast numbers of decrees a linear transition; rather, it involved the story of an empire, told through attest to their impact on lives and many crossing paths, as well as the shifting written vocabularies livelihoods. Joshua M. White dead-ends, all of which offered a rich of power. Ferguson transcends the plumbs the depths of these un- repertoire of governing possibilities question of what these documents charted, frequently uncatalogued to be followed, reinterpreted, or said, revealing instead how their waters, revealing how piracy ultimately forgotten. formulation of the “proper order of shaped both the Ottoman legal “This book not only fills an important things” configured the state itself. space and the contours of the gap in early modern Middle Eastern “The Proper Order of Things invites Mediterranean world. history, but it teaches a lesson about us to rethink Ottoman empire- “Through his exhaustive examination writing world history. Ali Yaycioglu building with its capacity to codify, of the Ottoman legal strategies to offers the most conclusive corrective categorize, and monopolize symbolic confront violence at sea, Joshua White to the still often-heard argument violence. A brilliant book.” gives us the first cogent definition of that representative institutions are a foreign import to the Middle East.” —Ali Yaycioglu, the Ottoman Mediterranean in the Stanford University early modern period.” — Baki Tezcan, —Molly Greene, University of California, Davis 448 pages, May 2018 Princeton University 9781503603561 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale 368 pages, 2016 376 pages, 2017 9781503604209 Paper $29.95 $$23.96 sale 9781503602526 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

10 HISTORY The Ottoman Scramble When the War Came Home Recovering Armenia for Africa The Ottomans’ Great War and the The Limits of Belonging in Post- Empire and Diplomacy in the Devastation of an Empire Genocide Turkey Sahara and the Hijaz Yiğit Akın Lerna Ekmekcioglu Mostafa Minawi The Ottoman Empire was unprepared Recovering Armenia offers the first This is the first book to tell the for the massive conflict of World in-depth study of the aftermath of story of the Ottoman Empire’s War I. The empire’s statesmen the 1915 Armenian Genocide and expansionist efforts during the age placed unprecedented hardships the Armenians who remained in of high imperialism. It takes the onto the shoulders of the Ottoman Turkey. Reading Armenian texts reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from people: mass conscription, a state- and images produced in Istanbul, Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin and controlled economy, widespread Lerna Ekmekcioglu gives voice to to the Hijaz, turning the spotlight food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. the community’s most prominent on the Ottoman Empire’s expansionist When the War Came Home reveals public figures, notably Hayganush strategies. Drawing on previously the catastrophic impact of this Mark, a renowned activist, feminist, untapped Ottoman archival evidence, global conflict on ordinary Ottomans and editor of the influential journal Mostafa Minawi examines how and shows how the horrors of war Hay Gin. The book explores a nineteenth-century Ottomans brought home, paired with the paradox: how someone could be reimagined their once powerful empire’s growing demands on its an Armenian and a feminist in global empire. In so doing, Minawi people, fundamentally reshaped post-genocide Turkey when, through redefines the parameters of agency interactions between Ottoman various laws and regulations, the key in late-nineteenth-century colonialism civilians, the military, and the state path for Armenians to maintain their to include the Ottoman Empire, writ broadly. Ultimately Yiğit Akın identity was through traditionally and turns the typical framework of argues that even as the empire lost gendered roles. a European colonizer and a non- the war on the battlefield, it was “With verve, passion, and wit, European colonized on its head. the destructiveness of the Lerna Ekmekcioglu shows how central Ottoman state’s wartime policies women were to the restoration of the “Readers of The Ottoman on the home front that led to the Armenian community. Recovering Scramble for Africa are in for empire’s disintegration. Armenia is a must-read for all a treat.With an engaging story, students of the Great War, and for well-grounded in a number of “A critical breakthrough in the study anyone who wants to understand the archives, this book is a welcome of the First World War. The book’s modern Middle East and the roots of piece of the puzzle surrounding artful prose makes it an engaging sectarian conflict.” late Ottoman colonialism.” read for both students and scholars —Elizabeth Thompson, —Virginia Aksan, of the war.” University of Virginia McMaster University —Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgraduate School 240 pages, 2015 240 pages, 2016 9780804797061 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804799270 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 288 pages, March 2018 9781503604902 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale

HISTORY 11 The Charity of War Mandatory Separation Men of Capital Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and Religion, Education, and Mass Scarcity and Economy in World War I in the Middle East Politics in Palestine Mandate Palestine Melanie S. Tanielian Suzanne Schneider Sherene Seikaly Beirut did not see direct combat Mandatory Separation examines Men of Capital examines British- in World War I, yet the city was how colonial, Zionist, and ruled Palestine in the 1930s incontestably war-stricken. Palestinian-Muslim leaders developed and 1940s through a focus on The Charity of War tells how the competing views of religious economy. In a departure from the Ottoman home front grappled education during the formative expected histories of Palestine, with total war and how it sought period of British rule. The British this book illuminates dynamic to mitigate starvation and sickness Mandatory government supported class constructions that aimed to through relief activities: in Beirut’s religious education as a supposed shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms municipal institutions, in its philan- antidote to nationalist passions of free trade, profit accumulation, thropic and religious organizations, at the precise moment when the and private property. It positions in international agencies, and in administrative, pedagogic, and Palestine and Palestinians in the the homes of the city’s residents. curricular transformation of larger world of Arab thought This local history reveals a dynamic religious schooling rendered it a and social life, moving attention politics of provisioning that was vital tool for Zionist and Palestinian away from the limiting debates central to civilian experiences in the leaders. This study of their policies of Zionist–Palestinian conflict. war, as well as to the Middle Eastern and practices illuminates the tensions, Ultimately, it shows that the political landscape that emerged similarities, and differences among economic is as central to social post-war. Tracing these responses these diverse educational and political management as the political. philosophies, revealing the lasting to the conflict, Melanie S. Tanielian significance of these debates for “A breathtaking study of the demonstrates World War I’s thinking about religion and political complex work of making ‘economy’ immediacy far from the European identity in the modern Middle East. in pre-1948 Palestine, filled with trenches, in a place where war was unforgettable characters striving a socio-economic and political “Mandatory Separation sheds welcome for economic renewal in commerce process rather than a military event. light on a crucial aspect of the British and in the home. Sherene Seikaly Mandate for Palestine, education for gives us entirely new ways of “An important work that contributes mass politics among both Jews and thinking about Israel/Palestine to our broader understanding of the Muslims. Schneider exposes some of and colonialism—all wrapped origins of modern humanitarianism the essential foundation for the decades up in an unstoppable read.” of conflict in Palestine and Israel. An in the Middle East and beyond.” —Julia Elyachar, —Keith David Watenpaugh, important and timely work.” University of California, Irvine University of California, Davis —Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University 272 pages, 2015 368 pages, 2017 9780804796613 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9781503603523 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 304 pages, February 2018 9781503604155 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale

12 HISTORY Emptied Lands Desert Borderland Khartoum at Night A Legal Geography of Bedouin The Making of Modern Egypt Fashion and Body Politics in Rights in the Negev and Libya Imperial Sudan Alexandre Kedar, Matthew H. Ellis Marie Grace Brown Ahmad Amara, and Oren Yiftachel Desert Borderland investigates In the first half of the twentieth the historical processes that century, a pioneering generation of Since its establishment, the Jewish transformed political identity in the young women exited their homes and State has devoted major efforts easternmost reaches of the Sahara entered public space, marking a new to secure control over the land of Desert in the half century before era for women’s civic participation Israel. One example is the protracted World War I. Throughout these in northern Sudan. Khartoum at legal and territorial strife between decades, a heightened awareness Night is the first English-language the Israeli state and its indigenous of distinctive Egyptian and history of these women’s lives, Bedouin citizens over traditional Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres examining how their experiences of tribal land in the Negev. Emptied developed despite any clear-cut the British Empire from 1900–1956 Lands investigates this multifaceted boundary markers or cartographic were expressed on and through their land dispute, placing it in historical, evidence. National territoriality was bodies. It weaves together the threads legal, geographical, and comparative not imposed; rather, it developed of women’s education and activism, perspective. The authors provide through a complex and multilayered medical midwifery, urban life, the first legal geographic analysis of process of negotiation with local consumption, and new behaviors the “dead Negev doctrine,” which groups motivated by their own local of dress and beauty to reconstruct Israel has used to dispossess Bedouin conceptions of space, sovereignty, the worlds of politics and pleasure inhabitants. Through crafty use and political belonging. By the in which early twentieth-century of Ottoman and British laws, early twentieth century, distinctive Sudanese women lived. particularly the concept of “dead “Egyptian” and “Libyan” territorial land,” Israel has constructed its “Marie Grace Brown completely domains emerged—what would reorients the history of Sudan. own version of terra nullius. Yet, ultimately become the modern Exploring the nationalism and political the indigenous property system nation-states of Egypt and Libya. acumen of northern Sudanese women, still functions, creating ongoing she adds important, original insights of resistance to the Jewish state. This “Desert Borderland offers a the gendered history of Africa and the compelling challenge to conventional Middle East. Deeply researched and study examines several key land wisdom and complicates common claims and rulings and alternative gracefully written, Khartoum at Night understandings of the Egyptian is a brilliant work.” routes for justice promoted by nation-state. ” —Eve Trout Powell, indigenous communities and civil —Khaled Fahmy, University of Pennsylvania society movements. University of Cambridge 240 pages, 2017 344 pages, February 2018 296 pages, March 2018 9781503602649 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9781503603585 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale 9781503605008 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

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Composing Egypt The Shaykh of Shaykhs Kuwait Transformed Reading, Writing, and the Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal A History of Oil and Urban Life Emergence of a Modern Nation Leadership in Modern Jordan Farah Al-Nakib Hoda A. Yousef Yoav Alon Kuwait Transformed connects This book explores how literacy Born in the 1880s during a time the city’s past and present—from and its practices fundamentally of rapid modernization across the its settlement in 1716 to the altered the social fabric of Egypt Ottoman Empire, Shaykh Mithqal twenty-first century. It traces the at the turn of the twentieth al-Fayiz led his tribe through relationships between the urban century, revealing the increasingly World War I, the development landscape, patterns and practices ubiquitous reading and writing and decline of colonial rule and of everyday life, and social behav- practices of literate, illiterate, founding of Jordan, the establish- iors and relations. The history that and semi-literate Egyptians alike. ment of the state of Israel and the emerges reveals how decades of Students who wrote petitions, Arab–Israeli conflict that ensued, urban planning, suburbanization, women who frequented scribes, and the rise of pan-Arabism. As and privatization have eroded a and communities who gathered Mithqal navigated regional politics once open and tolerant society to hear a newspaper read aloud, over the decades, he redefined and given rise to insularity, all used various literacies to the modern role of the shaykh. In xenophobia, and divisiveness. The participate in social exchanges and following Mithqal’s remarkable life, book makes a call for a restoration civic negotiations. Reading and this book explores tribal leadership of the city that modern planning writing practices became not only in the modern Middle East more eliminated. But this is not simply an object of social reform, but generally. Mithqal al-Fayiz’s life a case of nostalgia. It is a claim for also a central medium for public and work as a shaykh offer a notable a “right to the city”—the right of exchange about what it meant to individual story, as well as all inhabitants to shape and use be part of “modern Egypt.” a window into a social, political, the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires. “Hoda Yousef offers an elegantly and cultural office as it evolved. written narrative, firmly anchored “An outstanding study of leadership “Farah Al-Nakib debunks some by rich, captivating documentation and authority in Bedouin society. tenacious myths about modernist of new uses of literacy in literary, Mithqal was one of the last great urban planning. Her superb book educational, and civic circles. Arab shaykhs, and in Yoav Alon is a hymn to everyday Kuwaities Historians of gender, nationalism, he found the perfect biographer. who, after sixty years of urban and the making of modernities will A remarkable achievement.” upheaval, struggle to reclaim the greatly appreciate this book.” —Eugene Rogan, right to their city.” —Judith Tucker, University of Oxford —Pascal Menoret, Georgetown University Brandeis University 240 pages, 2016 264 pages, 2016 9780804799324 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 296 pages, 2016 9780804797115 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 9780804798525 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

14 HISTORY Violence and the City in Ungovernable Life Prozak Diaries the Modern Middle East Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft Psychiatry and Generational in Iraq Memory in Iran Edited by Nelida Fuccaro Omar Dewachi Orkideh Behrouzan This critical and timely volume offers an important way to under- Since the British Mandate, Iraqi Prozak Diaries is an analysis of stand the transformative powers of governments had invested in cultivat- emerging psychiatric discourses urban violence—its ability to re- ing Iraq’s medical doctors as agents in post-1980s Iran. It examines draw the boundaries of urban life, of statecraft. But in recent years, this a cultural shift in how people to create and divide communities, has been reversed as thousands of interpret and express their feeling and to affect ruling strategies Iraqi doctors have left the country states and shows how experi- locally and globally. Essays reflect in search of security and careers ences that were once articulated the diversity of Middle Eastern abroad. Ungovernable Life presents in the richly layered poetics of the urbanism from the eighteenth to the untold story of the rise and fall Persian language became, by the the late twentieth centuries, from of Iraqi “mandatory medicine—and 1990s, part of a clinical discourse the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and of the destruction of Iraq itself. on mood and affect. In asking Baghdad to the provincial towns It illustrates how imperial modes how psychiatric dialect becomes of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and of governance, from the British a language of everyday, the book the oil settlements of Dhahran Mandate to the U.S. interventions, analyzes cultural forms created by and Abadan. In reconstructing the have been contested, maintained, this clinical discourse, exploring violent pasts of cities, this book and unraveled through medicine individual, professional, and offers alternative and complemen- and healthcare. Omar Dewachi generational cultures of medi- tary perspectives to the making challenges common accounts of calization in various sites from and unmaking of empires, nations, Iraq’s alleged political unruliness clinical encounters and psychiatric and states. and ungovernability, bringing forth training, to intimate interviews, a deeper understanding of how works of art and media, and “Violence has long been a major feature of social and political life in medicine and power shape life. Persian blogs. Through the lens Middle Eastern cities, but no single “A remarkable and original analysis of of psychiatry, the book reveals volume surveys so much of the area the modern history of Iraq through its how historical experiences are in the way that this one does. A medical institutions and practices, from negotiated and how generations truly path-breaking collection.” their close involvement in state formation are formed. —Peter Sluglett, and function to the unraveling of Middle East Institute, National governance under wars, sanctions, “Full of brilliant unexpected insights, University of Singapore and invasions.” this is an indispensable text for —Sami Zubaida, understanding today’s Iran.” 312 pages, 2016 Birkbeck, University of London 9780804797528 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale —Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University 264 pages, 2017 9780804784450 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 328 pages, 2016 9780804799416 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale

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A Taste for Home Jewish Salonica The Merchants of Oran The Modern Middle Class in Between the Ottoman Empire A Jewish Port at the Ottoman Beirut and Modern Greece Dawn of Empire Toufoul Abou-Hodeib Devin E. Naar Joshua Schreier The “home” is a quintessentially Touted as “Jerusalem of the Balkans,” The Merchants of Oran weaves quotidian topic, yet one at the the Mediterranean port city of together the history of a center of global concerns. For Salonica was once home to the Mediterranean port city with the middle-class residents of late largest Sephardic Jewish community lives of Oran’s Jewish mercantile nineteenth- and early twentieth- in the world. The collapse of the elite during the transition to French century Beirut, these debates Ottoman Empire and the city’s colonial rule. As French policies took on critical importance. incorporation into Greece in began collapsing Oran’s diverse Drawing from rich archives—from 1912 provoked a major upheaval Jewish inhabitants into a single social advertisements and catalogs to that compelled Salonica’s Jews to category, they legally separated previously unstudied government reimagine their community and Jews from their Muslim neighbors, documents—A Taste for Home status as citizens of a nation-state. creating a racial hierarchy. Schreier places the middle-class home at Jewish Salonica is the first book to argues that France’s exclusionary the intersection of local and global tell the story of this tumultuous policy of “emancipation,” far more transformations. Transcending transition through the voices and than older antipathies, planted the class-based aesthetic theories and perspectives of Salonican Jews as seeds of twentieth-century ruptures static notions of “Westernization” they forged a new place for between Muslims and Jews. alike, this book offers a cultural themselves in Greek society. “An eloquent evocation of the era history of late Ottoman Beirut “Richly documented and a pleasure of French colonization of Algeria, that is at once global in the widest to read, this study offers a compelling revealing how Algeria’s cosmopolitan sense of the term and local enough account of how the Sephardic Jews of Jews were active agents in shaping to enter the most private of spaces. Salonica experienced the transition and transforming Jewish society.” from being subjects of the Ottoman —Daniel Schroeter, “Toufoul Abou-Hodeib illuminates Empire to living as a minority in the University of Minnesota the complex tensions between the Greek nation-state. A must-read for public and the private, taste and STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH anyone interested in the history of HISTORY AND CULTURE identity, consumption and ethics, this unique community.” the modern and the authentic. 216 pages, 2017 A fundamental contribution to the —Matthias Lehmann, 9780804799140 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale social history of the Middle East.” University of California, Irvine —A. Holly Shissler, STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH University of Chicago HISTORY AND CULTURE 400 pages, 2016 280 pages, 2017 9781503600089 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804799799 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

16 HISTORY Ninette of Sin Street Souffles-Anfas Transcolonial Maghreb A novella by Vitalis Danon A Critical Anthology from Imagining Palestine in the Era the Moroccan Journal of of Decolonization Edited with an introduction Culture and Politics by Lia Brozgal and Olivia C. Harrison Sarah Abrevaya Stein Edited by Olivia C. Harrison and Transcolonial Maghreb offers the Teresa Villa-Ignacio first thorough analysis of the ways Published in Tunis in 1938, in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Ninette of Sin Street is one of the Founded in 1966 and banned in Tunisian writers have engaged first works of Tunisian fiction 1972, Souffles-Anfas was one of the with the Palestinian question. in French. Ninette is an unlikely most influential literary, cultural, The book reframes the field of protagonist: Compelled by poverty and political reviews to emerge Maghrebi studies to account for to work as a prostitute, she dreams in postcolonial North Africa. The transversal political and aesthetic of a better life for her son. Plucky journal published texts ranging from exchanges across North Africa and and street-wise, she enrolls her son experimental poems, literary mani- the Middle East. Olivia Harrison in the local school and the story festos, and abstract art to political examines and contextualizes a unfolds as she narrates her life to tracts, open letters, and interviews wide range of materials that are, the school’s headmaster. Ninette’s by contributors from the Maghreb, for the most part, unavailable account is both a classic rags-to- the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and in English translation: popular riches tale and a subtle, incisive the Americas. This anthology of the theater, literary magazines, televi- critique of French colonialism. journal offers a unique window into sion series, feminist texts, novels, This first English translation the political and artistic imaginaries essays, unpublished manuscripts, includes a selection of Danon’s of writers and intellectuals from the letters, and pamphlets written letters and an editors’ introduction Global South and resonates with in the three main languages of to provide context for this corner- particular acuity in the wake of the the Maghreb—Arabic, French, stone of Judeo-Tunisian letters. Arab uprisings. and Berber. The result has wide “This brilliant and meticulously “Vitalis Danon’s Ninette seems implications for the study of almost too good to be true: a assembled collection is an essential part of the revolutionary cultural transcolonial relations across the pioneering, charming Franco- Global South. Tunisian novella that manages politics characterizing national and to present us with the voice of one global movements of the 1960s.” “Transcolonial Maghreb is timely indefatigable, unforgettable Jewish —Ammiel Alcalay, and greatly informative. An woman, and through her, the City University of New York important theoretical contribution complexities of Jewish life in a 304 pages, 2015 to postcolonial studies.” North African city.” 9780804796156 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale —Gil Hochberg, —Josh Lambert, University of California, Yiddish Book Center Los Angeles 144 pages, 2017 232 pages, 2015 9781503602137 Paper $24.95 $19.95 sale 9780804796828 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

CULTURE AND LITERATURE 17 EXAMINATION COPY POLICY Examination copies of select titles are avail- able on sup.org. To request one, find the book you are interested in and click Request Review/Desk/ Examination Copy. You can request either a free digital copy or a physical copy to consider for course adoption. A nominal handling fee applies for all physical copy Last Scene Underground requests. An Ethnographic Novel of Iran Us&Them Roxanne Varzi A Novel From the wealthy suburbs and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani chic coffee shops of Tehran to A story mirrored in fragmented spiritual lodges and saints’ tombs lives, Us&Them explores the in the mountains high above ludicrous and the tragic, the venal the city, Last Scene Underground and the generous-hearted aspects presents an Iran rarely seen. Written of Iranian life away from home. It in the hopeful wake of Iran’s Green is a story both familial and familiar Movement and against the long in its generational tensions and shadow of the Iran–Iraq war, this misunderstandings, its push and unique novel deepens our under- pull of obligations and expecta- standing of a country that is full of tions. Acclaimed author Bahiyyih misunderstood contradictions. Nakhjavani offers a poignant satire “Literary romance and ethnography about migration. are joined in perfect dialogue in Last Scene Underground. Roxanne “A glitteringly poignant novel. Varzi has written a rare, powerful Beautifully cadenced, drily acute book that is both a whirlwind story about human relationships, it of how it feels to be young and addresses one of the central topics idealistic during the time of the of our time: how to live within the Green Movement, and a pointed losses and suspensions of diaspora reckoning with the state of while grieving the dead, honoring censorship in Iran today.” the family, and being as honest as we can.” —Nahid Rachlin —Ruth Padel, author of Where the Serpent Lives “This beautifully written book captures the predicament of every “Bahiyyih Nakhjavani weaves Iranian artist who is conflicted threads of silk with her words. It is between one’s own creative a rare author who can write with imagination, personal and social such clarity of vision, compassion of responsibilities, and political reality.” heart and power of words and leave —Shirin Neshat us readers in awe of her wisdom at the end.” 288 pages, 2015 —Elif Shafak, 9780804796880 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale author of The Bastard of Istanbul 272 pages, 2017 9781503601581 Cloth $25.00 $20.00 sale

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