Middle East Studies New and Forthcoming Books 2019

Middle East Studies New and Forthcoming Books 2019 For Authors We welcome proposals for scholarly monographs and general books concerning the Middle East and North Africa regions on a broad variety of topics including, but not limited to, Egyptology, eastern Mediterranean archaeology, art history, medieval and modern history, ethnography, environmental studies, migration, urban studies, gender, art and architectural history, religion, politics, political economy, and Arabic language learning. Nadia Naqib Senior Commissioning Editor (Cairo) [email protected] Modern and medieval history Biography and autobiography Political science Architecture Arabic language learning Anne Routon Senior Acquisitions Editor (New York) [email protected] Anthropology Sociology Art history and cultural studies (including film, theater, and music) Nigel Fletcher-Jones Director [email protected] Egyptology Archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean Ancient history 2 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt Manhood Is Not Easy On the Peripheries of Society Egyptian Masculinities through the Life of Musician Sayyid Henkish Alexandra Parrs Karin van Nieuwkerk Little is known about Egypt’s Gypsies, called In this in-depth ethnography, Karin van Nieu- Dom by scholars, but variously referred to wkerk takes the autobiographical narrative of by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi, or Sayyid Henkish, a musician from a long family Hanagra. In this book, sociologist Alexan- tradition of wedding performers in Cairo, as a dra Parrs draws on two years of fieldwork to lens through which to explore changing notions explore how Dom identities are constructed, of masculinity in an Egyptian community over negotiated, and contested in the Egyptian the course of a lifetime. Situating his account national context. With an eye to the pitfalls within a growing body of literature on gender and evolution of scholarly work on the vastly that sees masculinity as a lived experience that more studied European Roma, she traces the changes and is negotiated over time, she shows scattered representations of Egyptian Dom, that the challenges faced by Henkish are not from accounts of them by European Orien- limited to his profession and that his story offers talists to their portrayal in Egyptian cinema profound insights into socioeconomic and as belly-dancers in the 1950s and beggars political changes in Egypt at large and the ways and thieves more recently. She explores the these transformations impact received notions boundaries—religious, cultural, racial, linguis- of masculinity. tic—between Dom and non-Dom Egyptians and examines the ways in which the Dom position themselves within the limitations of media discourses about them and differentiate themselves from the dominant population. Hardbound | 240pp. Hardbound | 220pp. | 18 b&w illus. 9789774168307 | Nov 2017 | $49.50 9789774168895 | Juy 2019 | $59.95 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 3 New in Paperback Women in Revolutionary Egypt Gender Justice and Legal Gender and the New Geographics Reform in Egypt of Identity Negotiating Muslim Family Law Shereen Abouelnaga Mulki Al-Sharmani Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt The 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising examines the interplay between legal reform shattered the notion of homogeneity that had and gender norms and practices. It examines characterized state representations of Egypt the processes of advocating for, and contest- and Egyptians since 1952. Concomitantly a ing the khul‘ (no-fault judicial divorce law) profusion of women’s voices arose to further and new family courts laws, shedding light challenge the state-managed feminism that had on the agendas and strategies of the various sought to define and carefully circumscribe actors involved. It also examines the ways women’s social and civic roles in Egypt. Women in which women and men have made use of in Revolutionary Egypt explores how gender these legal reforms; how judges and other in post-Mubarak Egypt came to be rethought, court personnel have interpreted and imple- reimagined, and contested. It examines key mented them; and how the reforms may have areas of tension between national and gender impacted women and men’s understandings, identities, including gender empowerment expectations, and strategies when navigating through art and literature, particularly graffiti marriage and spousal roles. and poetry, the disciplining of the body, and the politics of history and memory. Shereen Abouelnaga’s book is a beautifully written, original, and insightful contribution This is legal anthropology at its best. It is a “ that transcends existing analysis of the gen- fascinating and complex story, and it is told dered dimension of protest and revolutionary “ with authority and style.” struggle in Egypt.” —Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of —Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London London Paperback | 160pp. Hardbound | 224pp. 9789774169281 | Oct 2019 | $24.95 9789774167751 | Oct 2017 | $39.95 4 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY Tahrir’s Youth Cairo’s Ultras Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture Rusha Latif Ronnie Close January 25, 2011 was a watershed moment The history of Cairo’s football fans is one of for Egypt and a transformative experience for the most poignant narratives of the 25 January the young men and women who changed the 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and course of their nation’s history. Tahrir’s Youth the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to tells the story of the organized youth behind the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. and Zama- the mass uprising that brought about the lek F.C respectively, became embroiled in the spectacular collapse of the Mubarak regime. street protests that brought down the Mubarak Who were these activists? What did they want? regime. In the violent turmoil since, the Ultras How did the movement they unleashed shape have been locked in a bitter conflict with the them as it unfolded, and why did it fall short Egyptian security state. Tracing these social of its goals? Drawing on first-hand testimonies, movements to explore their role in the uprising this study offers rich insight into the hopes, and the political dimension of soccer in Egypt, successes, failures, and disillusionments of Ronnie Close provides a vivid, intimate sense of the movement’s leaders. the Ultras’ unique subculture. Rusha Latif follows the trajectory of the movement from the perspective of the This is a lively and authoritative account of Revolutionary Youth Coalition (RYC), the first the counter-culture of the Egyptian Ultras, revolutionary body to announce itself from “ full of richly detailed observations of their Tahrir Square. She argues that the existence collective behavior, their aesthetic, and their of the RYC and the political organizing performances. Ronnie Close succeeds in undertaken by its members before January 25 using this material to develop a convincing demonstrate that the uprising was not entirely and original argument about the force of the spontaneous, leaderless, or rooted in social aesthetic moment and of collective action to media, but led by young activists with a history challenge and to disrupt hegemonic power.” of engagement before the revolution. —Charles Tripp, SOAS, University of London Hardbound | 274pp. Hardbound | 256pp. | 21 b&w illus. 9789774168819 | Forthcoming 2020 | $35 9789774169212 | Oct 2019 | $24.95 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 5 American Universities Abroad Western Imaginings The Leadership of Independent The Intellectual Contest to Define Transnational Higher Education Institutions Wahhabism Edited by Ted Purinton and Jennifer Skaggs Rohan Davis Across the globe, American-style and liberal Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest arts universities are being established. From the to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how first, the American University of Beirut, estab- Wahhabism has been understood and repre- lished in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions sented by Western intellectuals, particularly being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and those belonging to the neo-conservative and elsewhere in the 21st century, there is a clear liberal traditions. In contrast to the existing sense of the global desire for the American literature that treats Wahhabism as a histori- approach to higher education as a way of cal phenomenon or a monolithic theological counteracting traditional, more narrowly ideology, a literature often written by authors defined university educations. However, these keen to promote geopolitical interests or universities operate in a distinctive dynamic with ideological axes to grind, Davis’s work that must learn to bridge one culture with considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct another, and leadership of such institutions crafted and popularized by a Western intellec- must by its nature focus on such complexities tual elite. This study speaks to how and why and tensions. Throughout the chapters of this Western intellectuals have chosen to represent book, this unique element of these universities Wahhabism in specific ways, ranging from an will be better understood through the stories analysis of the particular rhetorical techniques and experiences as presented by their presi- employed by these intellectuals to a consider- dents, provosts, and other academic leaders. ation of the religious and political beliefs that inspire and motivate their decisions. Hardbound | 324pp. Hardbound | 232pp. 9789774168406 | Oct 2017 | $59.95 9789774168642

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