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  • The I.B. Tauris Handbook to Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Arab World

    Edited by Hoda Elsadda, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series I B Tauris Handbooks
    In the last 20 years, feminist scholars have radicalised the historiography of the Arab world. Using gendered theorisations, they have rejected the mainstream histories that prioritise 'official' narratives, and they have highlighted the exclusionary effect of patriarchal systems and discourses. This handbook continues their work by using 'gender' as a mode of analysis to produce a new cultural ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

    From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures

    by Dina Taha, Hebatalla Taha, Andrew Delatolla, Samaa Elturkey, Dina Abdelnabi, Watfa Najdi, Mounir Saidani, Seteney Shami, Moushira Ellgeziri, Yassine Yassni, Yassni Youness, Adam Cherkawi, Mohamad Baker El Harake ...
    Series series Decolonization and Social Worlds
    How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region? What possibilities exist for decolonial futures?This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary explorations of the enduring colonial condition in the Arab-majority region, moving beyond reductive analyses and engaging deeply with a variety of histories, lived experiences, and theoretical tools. Across ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Seeing the World

    How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Seteney Shami, Mitchell Stevens ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Middle East Studies for the New Millennium

    Infrastructures of Knowledge

    Edited by Seteney Shami, Cynthia Miller-Idriss ...
    Series Book 4 - Social Science Research Council
    Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about the relationship between knowledge and power, the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Culture and Dignity

    Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

    by Laura Nader ...
    In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

    by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi, Kieko Obuse ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

    $169.19 USD

  • Urbicide in Syria

    A postcolonial understanding of civil war

    by Gabriel Garroum Pla ...
    Series series Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East
    This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between violence, urban space, and political subjectivity in Syria. It does so through an exploration of how urbicide, the violent destruction and alteration of the urban fabric, becomes a tool for the regime’s governmental and sovereign exercise of power, decisively redefining state-society dynamics and cementing political loyalty in ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

  • Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures

    by Gul Ozyegin ...
    A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a ’Muslim’ identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Women in the Middle East and North Africa

    Agents of Change

    Edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji ...
    Series series UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED)
    This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in development, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution

    Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings

    by Zaynab El Bernoussi ...
    Dignity, or karama in Arabic, is a nebulous concept that challenges us to reflect on issues such as identity, human rights, and faith. During the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, Egyptians that participated in these uprisings frequently used the concept of dignity as a way to underscore their opposition to the Mubarak regime. Protesting against the indignity of the poverty, lack of freedom and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Master Peace

    Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise

    by Nikolas Kosmatopoulos ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post–civil war LebanonBased on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as far as Switzerland and the United States, Master Peace examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence and practices of peacemaking in post–civil war Lebanon. ... Read more

    $29.29 USD