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Middle East Studies New and Forthcoming Books 2020 THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS 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) Egyptology Archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean Ancient history 2 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY Migrant Dreams Women in Revolutionary Egypt Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States Gender and the New Geographics of Identity Samuli Schielke Shereen Abouelnaga What kind of dreams for a good or better life The 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising drives labor migrants? What does being a shattered the notion of homogeneity that had migrant worker do to one’s hopes and ambi- characterized state representations of Egypt tions? How does the experience of migration to and Egyptians since 1952. Concomitantly a the Gulf, with its attendant economic and legal profusion of women’s voices arose to further precarities, shape migrants’ particular dreams challenge the state-managed feminism that had of a better life? What do those dreams—be sought to define and carefully circumscribe they realistic and productive, or fantastic and women’s social and civic roles in Egypt. Women unlikely—do to the social worlds of the people in Revolutionary Egypt explores how gender who pursue them, and to their families and in post-Mubarak Egypt came to be rethought, communities back home upon their return? reimagined, and contested. It examines key Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork areas of tension between national and gender and conversations with Egyptian men from identities, including gender empowerment mostly low-income rural backgrounds who through art and literature, particularly graffiti migrated as workers to the Gulf, returned and poetry, the disciplining of the body, and the home, and migrated again over a period politics of history and memory. of about a decade, this fine-grained study explores and engages with these questions and A beautifully written, original, and insightful more, as the men reflect on their strivings and “ contribution that transcends existing analysis the dreams they hope to fulfill. of the gendered dimension of protest and rev- olutionary struggle in Egypt.”—Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Paperback | 154pp. Paperback | 160pp. 9789774169564 9789774169281 Apr 2020 | $19.95 | £16.95 | LE250 Oct 2019 | $24.95 | £19.95 | LE350 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 3 Creating Spaces of Hope The Muslim Brothers in Society Young Artists and the New Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Imagination in Egypt Islamism in Mubarak’s Egypt Caroline Seymour-Jorn Marie Vannetzel How have different types of artists—studio Based on long-term fieldwork among artists, graffiti artists, musicians and writers— grassroots networks and on interviews with responded personally and artistically to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) deputies, various stages of political transformation in members, and beneficiaries, this book shows Egypt since the January 25 revolution? What has how the MB operated on a day-to-day basis in the political or social role of art been in these society, through social brokering, constituent periods of transition and uncertainty? What are relations, and popular outreach. How did the aesthetic shifts and stylistic transformations ordinary MB members concretely relate to present in the contemporary Egyptian art world? local populations in the neighborhoods where Based on personal interviews with artists over they lived? What kinds of social services many years of research in Cairo, Caroline Sey- did they deliver? How did they experience mour-Jorn argues that in more recent years these belonging to the MB and what political young artists have turned their creative focus effects did their social action entail? This book increasingly inward, to examine issues having reveals the fragile balances on which the MB’s to do with personal relationships, belonging and political and social action was based and inclusion, and maintaining hope in harsh social, shows how these balances were disrupted political and economic circumstances. after the January 2011 uprising. The critique and approach employed by Thoroughly evidenced and elegantly “ the author attest to the fact that the 2011 “ crafted.”—Neil Ketchley, author of Egypt in a Revolution has radically subverted traditional Time of Revolution imagination systems.”—Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 208pp. | 20 b&w illus. Hardbound | 344pp. 9789774169748 9789774169625 Dec 2020 | $29.95 | £24.95 | LE300 Dec 2020 | $49.95 | £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 the Ronnie Close provides a vivid, intimate sense of movement’s leaders. the Ultras’ unique subculture. Close paints an evocative portrait of the varied and ambiguous roles sports can play in an “ autocracy, where a regime’s reliance on bread and circuses may eventually wear thin in the absence of genuine progress.”—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 274 pp. Hardbound | 256pp. | 21 b&w illus. 9789774167294 9789774169212 Oct 2020 | $35 | £29.95 | LE400 Oct 2019 | $24.95 | £24.95 | LE400 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY 5 Bounded Knowledge Western Imaginings Doctoral Studies in Egypt The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism Edited by Daniele Cantini Rohan Davis This book provides a fresh, historical analy- Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest sis of how doctoral studies evolved in Egypt to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how and an ethnographic inquiry into the actual Wahhabism has been understood and repre- conditions of knowledge production in the sented by Western intellectuals, particularly country’s public universities, with focus on the those belonging to the neo-conservative and humanities and social sciences. Although it is liberal traditions. In contrast to the existing commonplace to speak of international collab- literature that treats Wahhabism as a histori- orations in knowledge production, institutional cal phenomenon or a monolithic theological settings and material conditions are so uneven ideology, a literature often written by authors as to make the fiction of equality impossible keen to promote geopolitical interests or to sustain. This book looks closely at how with ideological axes to grind, Davis’s work such academic hierarchies are reinforced in considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct the international context. It also looks at how crafted and popularized by a Western intellec- notions of socially responsible research are tual elite. This study speaks to how and why translated in the particularly Egyptian context: Western intellectuals have chosen to represent how research topics are discussed, how doc- Wahhabism in specific ways, ranging from an toral studies are organized, and how society analysis of the particular rhetorical techniques thinks about research. employed by these intellectuals to a consider- ation of the religious and political beliefs that inspire and motivate their decisions. “A pioneering analysis of doctoral education in “ Egypt.”—Philip G. Altbach, Boston College Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 264pp. Hardbound | 232pp. 9789774169861 9789774168642 Feb 2021 | $59.95 | £45 | LE750 Mar 2018 | $55 | £39.95 | LE600 6 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY Constructions of Masculinity in Manhood Is Not Easy the Middle East and North Africa Egyptian Masculinities through the Life of Literature, Film, and