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TABLE OF CONTENTS History............................................2-7 Worlding the Middle East..... 8-9 Culture and Media.................. 10-11 Stanford Ottoman World Series................................... 11 Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures............................ 12-16 Politics........................................ 16-18 Religion............................................ 19 Cover image: Unknown photographer, tinted by George Kirkpatrick, The Dome of the Remnants The Horrors of Adana Rock and the Western Temple Wall, Jerusalem, between 1898-1946, Courtesy Embodied Archives of the Revolution and Violence in the of the Library of Congress, G. Eric and Armenian Genocide Early Twentieth Century Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Elyse Semerdjian Bedross Der Matossian O RDER ING In Remnants, tattooed and In April 1909, twin massacres shook scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger the province of Adana, killing more Use code S23MES to receive a history, as the lived trauma of than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 20% discount on all ISBNs listed in this catalog. Visit sup.org to order genocide is understood through Muslims. This book offers one of online. Books not yet published bodies, skin, and—in what remains the first close examinations of these or temporarily out of stock will of those lives a century afterward— events, analyzing sociopolitical and only be charged to your credit bones. Semerdjian offers a feminist economic transformations that culmi- card when they are shipped. reading of the Armenian Geno- nated in a cataclysm of violence. Der cide. She explores how the Otto- Matossian provides voice and agency @stanfordpress man Armenian communal body to all involved in the massacres—per- was dis-membered, disfigured, and petrators, victims, and bystanders. facebook.com/ stanforduniversitypress later re-membered by the survivor Drawing on primary sources in community. Gathering individual a dozen languages, he develops Stanfordupress memories and archival fragments, an interdisciplinary approach to she writes a deeply personal his- understand the rumors and emotions, Blog: stanfordpress. tory, and issues a call to break open public spheres and humanitarian typepad.com the archival record in order to interventions that together informed embrace affect and memory. Traces this complex event. Through con- EXAMINATION COPY POLICY of women and children rescued sideration of the Adana Massacres Examination copies of select titles during and after the war are in micro-historical detail, this book are available on sup.org. reconstructed to center the quietest offers an important macrocosmic voices in the historical record. This understanding of ethnic violence, To request one, find the book you daring work embraces physical and illuminating how and why ordinary are interested in and click Request archival remnants, the imprinted people can become perpetrators. Review/Desk/Examination Copy. You can request either a free negatives of once living bodies, as “A truly groundbreaking and highly digital copy or a physical copy a space of radical possibility within nuanced exploration of intercommunal, to consider for course adoption. Armenian prosthetic memory and sectarian, and nationalist violence in A nominal handling fee applies a necessary way to recognize the the late Ottoman Empire.” for all physical copy requests. absence that remains. —Ussama Makdisi, Rice University 424 pages, August 2023 9781503636125 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 360 pages, 2022 9781503631021 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 2 HISTORY
Losing Istanbul Famine Worlds In the Shadow of the Wall Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and Life at the Edge of Suffering in The Life and Death of Jerusalem’s the End of Empire Lebanon’s Great War Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 Mostafa Minawi Tylor Brand Vincent Lemire This book offers an intimate history The Great Famine was a catastrophe This book offers the first history of of empire, following the rise and fall for the lands that would become the Maghrebi Quarter—spanning of a generation of Arab-Ottoman Lebanon. The deadly crisis reshaped 800 years from its founding in 1187 imperialists. Minawi shows how society, killing untold thousands and through to its destruction in 1967. To these men and women negotiated transforming how people lived. Brand bring this vanished district back to their loyalties and guarded their draws on memoirs, diaries, and cor- life, Lemire gathers its now-scattered privileges through a microhis- respondence to explore how people documentation in the archives of torical study of the changing social, negotiated the famine and its traumas. Muslim pious foundations in Jeru- political, and cultural currents. But more than simply a chronicle of salem and the Red Cross in Geneva, He narrates lives lived in these the event, this book offers a profound in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and turbulent times, while focusing on meditation on what it means to live Israeli state archives. He engages the complex dynamics of ethnicity through collective trauma, and how testimonies of former residents and and race in an increasingly Turco- doing so shapes the character of a looks to recent archaeological digs centric imperial capital. An alterna- society. A crisis like the Great Famine that have resurfaced household tive history of the last decades of the not only reshapes the lives and social objects buried during the destruction. Ottoman Empire, Losing Istanbul worlds of those who suffer, it creates a Today, the Western Wall Plaza extends frames global pivotal events through particular rationality that touches the over the former Maghrebi Quarter. It the experiences of Arab-Ottoman most fundamental parts of our being, is one of the most identifiable places imperial loyalists who called down to the ways we interact with in the world—yet one of the most Istanbul home. each other. We often assume that if we occluded in history. This book offers a “A masterful and captivating were thrust into historic calamity that new point of entry to understand this account. Losing Istanbul teaches us we would continue to behave compas- consequential place. how to rescue late Ottoman history sionately. Famine Worlds questions “Lemire re-establishes the long-forgotten from Turkish nationalist narratives such confidence, providing a lesson Maghrebi Quarter of the Old City to its and gain a much richer understanding that could not be more timely. rightful place in history. A fascinating of global intellectual and political and timely narrative.” history of the high age of imperialism.” 272 pages, August 2023 9781503636163 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale —Roberto Mazza, —Cemil Aydin, University of Limerick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 352 pages, April 2023 9781503634206 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 326 pages, 2022 9781503634046 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale HISTORY 3
Undesirables Wartime North Africa Diary of a Black A Holocaust Journey to A Documentary History, Jewish Messiah North Africa 1934–1950 The Sixteenth-Century Journey of Aomar Boum, Edited by Aomar Boum and David Reubeni through Africa, the Illustrated by Nadjib Berber Sarah Abrevaya Stein Middle East, and Europe This historical graphic novel This book offers the first-ever Alan Verskin follows one man’s journey, telling a collection of primary documents This book offers the first English lesser-known story of the traumas on North African and Holocaust translation of Reubeni’s diary, detail- wrought by the Holocaust. Hans history. Translated from French, ing his travels and personal travails. Frank is a Jewish journalist who flees Arabic, North African Judeo- In 1524, Reubeni appeared in Venice, Germany. Through connections with Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Moroccan claiming to be the ambassador of a transnational network of activists, Darija, Tamazight (Berber), Italian, a powerful Jewish kingdom that he lands in French Algeria. The and Yiddish, or transcribed from looked to deliver Jews to the Holy Vichy regime soon designates all their original English, these sources Land. He spent a decade shuttling foreign Jews as “undesirables,” and are like the dots of a pointillist between European rulers seeking Hans is detained by Vichy authorities painting. Taken together, these support. Reubeni’s grand ambitions and interned in camps in the deserts writings shed light on how war, were halted when he was turned over of Morocco and Algeria. Through occupation, race laws, internment, to the Inquisition and, in 1538, likely bold storytelling and illustration that and Vichy French, Italian fascist, burned at the stake. Written unlike convey the tension of the coming and German Nazi rule were expe- other literary works of the period, war and the grimness of the camps, rienced day by day across North Reubeni’s diary reveals the dramatic Boum and Berber capture the Africa. Though some selections desperation of Renaissance Jewish experiences of thousands of refugees are drawn from published books, communities and the struggles of the in the fictional Hans, and chronicle including memoirs, diaries, and diplomat, trickster, and dreamer who how the traumas of the Holocaust collections of poetry, most have wanted to save them. extended far beyond the borders never been published before, nor “Verskin has once again proven of Europe. previously translated into English. himself to be a master translator with “Connects the histories of Jews “Essential and groundbreaking. With this rendering of the Hebrew diary … and North Africans, of antisemitism great care and intelligence, Boum and no less a master storyteller who and racism, of the Holocaust and and draw an intimate picture of the vividly recreates the historical setting colonialism in innovative and region. This is a book as beautiful as of Reubeni’s activity in his detailed surprising ways. An eye-opening the people it portrays.” introduction, which is eminently book in the literal sense of the word.” —Laila Lalami scholarly yet fully accessible.” —Michael Brenner, 384 pages, 2022 —Norman A. Stillman, American University University of Oklahoma 9781503631991 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 112 pages, January 2023 212 pages, January 2023 9781503632912 Paper $20.00 $16.00 sale 9781503634435 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 4 HISTORY
The Oldest Guard A History of False Hope The Last Nahdawi Forging the Zionist Settler Past Investigative Commissions Taha Hussein and Institution Liora R. Halperin in Palestine Building in Egypt This book tells the story of Zionist Lori Allen Hussam R. Ahmed settler memory in and around the This book offers a provocative This book is the first biography of private Jewish agricultural colonies retelling of Palestinian political his- Taha Hussein in which his intellectual established in late nineteenth- tory through an examination of the outlook and public career are taken century Ottoman Palestine. Treating international commissions that have equally seriously. Examining Hussein’s the “First Aliyah” as a symbol investigated political violence and actions against the backdrop of his created and deployed only in human rights violations. Drawing complex relationship with the Egyp- retrospect, Halperin offers a richly on debates in the press, previously tian state, the religious establishment, textured portrait of commemorative unexamined UN reports, historical and the French government, Ahmed practices between the 1920s and archives, and ethnographic research, reveals modern Egypt’s cultural the 1960s. She demonstrates how Allen explores six key investigative influence in the Arab and Islamic private agriculturalists and their commissions over the last century. world. The Last Nahdawi offers both advocates in the Zionist center and She highlights how Palestinians’ a history of modern state formation, on the right celebrated and forged persistent demands for indepen- revealing how the Egyptian state came this past as a model of private dence have been routinely translated to hold such a strong grip over culture ownership, political impartiality, into the numb language of reports and education—and a compelling and hierarchical relations with and resolutions. These commissions, examination of the life of the country’s hired rural Palestinian labor. The Allen argues, operating as technolo- most renowned intellectual. Oldest Guard reveals the centrality gies of liberal global governance, “The Last Nahdawi is a breakthrough of settlement to Zionist collective yield no justice—only the oppressive biography of one of the most important memory and the politics and era- status quo. A History of False Hope figures of modern Arab thought. A mas- sures of Zionist settler “firstness.” issues a biting critique of the capti- terful, original, and important critical vating allure and cold impotence of assessment of this towering intellectual.” “In this extremely important work, Halperin’s insightful reading of international law. —Khaled Fahmy, the first Aliyah colonies unpacks University of Cambridge “Allen has produced a fascinating, the complex relationship between engaging, and innovative scholarly 312 pages, 2021 Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, and assessment of how international com- 9781503627956 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale Palestinians in the modern state missions have failed to deliver politi- of Israel.” cal results to the Palestinian people.” —Orit Bashkin, —Richard Falk University of Chicago 432 pages, 2020 368 pages, 2021 9781503614185 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503628700 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale HISTORY 5
The Persian Prince The City as Anthology The Discovery of Iran The Rise and Resurrection of an Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Taghi Arani, a Imperial Archetype Modern Isfahan Radical Cosmopolitan Hamid Dabashi Kathryn Babayan Ali Mirsepassi With a title borrowed from This book tells a new history of This book examines the history of Machiavelli, Dabashi articulates Isfahan at the transformative Iranian nationalism afresh through a bold new idea of the Persian moment it became a cosmopolitan the life and work of Taghi Arani, the Prince—a metaphor of political center of imperial rule. Babayan founder of Donya, Iran’s first Marx- authority, a figurative ideal deeply reimagines an archive of antholo- ist journal. In his quest to imagine rooted in the collective memories gies to recover how residents shaped a future for Iran, Arani combined of multiple nations, and a literary their communities and crafted their Marxist materialism and a cosmo- construct that connected Muslim urban, religious, and sexual selves. politan ethics of progress. He and empires across time and space. Through them, we see the gestures, his contemporaries engaged vibrant Drawing on works from Classical manners, and sensibilities of a debates about national identity, his- Antiquity and the vast Persianate shared culture that configured their tory, and Iran’s place in the modern worlds from India to the Mediter- relations and negotiated the lines world. As Mirsepassi shows, Arani’s ranean, as well as the Hebrew Bible between friendship and eroticism. cosmopolitanism complicates the and European medieval mirrors These entangled acts of seeing conventional wisdom that racial for princes, Dabashi reveals the and reading, desiring and writing exclusivism was an insoluble feature construction of the Persian Prince converge to fashion the refined of twentieth-century Iranian na- as a potent archetype. He traces urban self through the sensual and tionalism. In exploring Arani’s short this archetype through its varied the sexual—and give us a new and but remarkable life and writings, historic gestations and finds it enticing view of the city of Isfahan. Mirsepassi challenges the image resurfacing in postcolonial political “The City as Anthology is a of Interwar Iran as dominated by thought as a rebel, a prophet, a poet, landmark of early modern history, the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile and a nomad. both a generative model for future intellectual spaces in which civic “A unique and formidable text scholars and among the best portals nationalism flourished. that encapsulates the brilliance, to understanding Iran for readers vivacity, and political ferocity of at any level.” “A powerful and engaging Dabashi’s mind.” —Shahzad Bashir, intellectual biography which weaves Brown University Taghi Arani’s life into the broader —Jeanne Morefield, tapestry of modern Iranian University of Oxford 280 pages, 2021 nationalism and modernism.” 9781503613386 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 328 pages, June 2023 —Stephanie Cronin, 9781503636231 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale University of Oxford 232 pages, 2021 9781503629141 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 6 HISTORY
Iran in Motion The Unsettled Plain Bedouin Bureaucrats Mobility, Space, and the An Environmental History of the Mobility and Property in the Trans-Iranian Railway Late Ottoman Frontier Ottoman Empire Mikiya Koyagi Chris Gratien Nora Elizabeth Barakat This book traces the contested This book studies agrarian life over This book examines how imaginations and practices of the course of the late nineteenth tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating mobility from the conception of and early twentieth centuries as the Bedouin engaged in processes of a trans-Iranian railway project dur- environmental transformation of the Ottoman state transformation on ing the nineteenth-century global Ottoman countryside became inter- local, imperial, and global scales. transport revolution to its early twined with migration and displace- As the “tribe” became a category of years of operation on the eve of ment. Drawing on both Ottoman Ottoman administration, Bedouin Iran’s oil nationalization movement Turkish and Armenian sources, in the Syrian interior used this in the 1950s. Weaving together Gratien brings rural populations into category both to gain political various individual experiences, the momentous events of the period: influence and to organize commu- Koyagi considers how the infra- Ottoman reform, Mediterranean nity resistance to maintain control structural megaproject reoriented capitalism, the First World War, and over land. Narrating the lives of the flows of people and goods. The Turkish nation-building. Through Bedouin individuals, Barakat railway project simultaneously the ecological perspectives of every- brings this population to the center brought the provinces closer to day people in Çukurova, he charts of modern state-making, while Tehran and pulled them away from how familiar facets of quotidian also placing the Syrian interior in it, thereby constantly reshaping life like malaria, cotton cultivation, a global context of imperial expan- local, national, and transnational labor, and leisure attained modern sion into regions formerly deemed experiences of space among manifestations. As the history of this marginal. She illuminates Ottoman mobile individuals. pivotal region reveals, the remark- state formation attempts and the able ecological transformation of unique trajectory of Bedouin “Koyagi transports us through the various stations that dotted late Ottoman society configured in Syria, who maintained their Iran’s path to modernity. Much the trajectory of the contemporary control over land. more than a narrative of the railway societies of the Middle East. “Bedouin Bureaucrats is a marvel. project, Iran in Motion reveals a It is necessary reading for anybody deep understanding of the mobility “Environmental history at its finest. Gratien tells the story of an empire, interested in the complexities of networks that connected and divided state-building, governance, and Middle Eastern communities. meticulously researched, exceptionally insightful—all grounded in the lives sovereignty. Nora Barakat has given A groundbreaking book.” us a book that will be debated and and lands of Çukurova.” —Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, admired for years to come.” University of Pennsylvania —Sam White, Ohio State University —Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford 296 pages, 2021 9781503613133 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 328 pages, 2022 344 pages, April 2023 9781503631267 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503635623 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale HISTORY 7
The Lives and Deaths of Transnational Palestine A House in the Homeland Jubrail Dabdoub Migration and the Right of Return Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Or, How the Bethlehemites before 1948 Ancestral Memory Discovered Amerka Nadim Bawalsa Carel Bertram Jacob Norris Tens of thousands of Palestinians Survivors of the Armenian This book tells the fantastical, yet migrated to the Americas in the final Genocide took refuge across the real, story of Jubrail Dabdoub, from decades of the nineteenth century globe, and the idea of returning to his childhood in rural Bethlehem and early decades of the twentieth. their homeland was unthinkable. to his travels as a merchant across This is the first book to explore the But decades later, some children Europe, East Asia, and the Americas, history of Palestinian immigration and grandchildren felt compelled culminating in a recorded miracle: to Latin America, the struggles to travel back. Hoping to satisfy in 1909, Jubrail was brought back Palestinian migrants faced to secure spiritual yearnings, this new genera- from the dead. To tell such a tale is to Palestinian citizenship in the inter- tion called themselves pilgrims—and delve into realms the historian rarely war period, and the ways in which their journeys, pilgrimages. Bertram treads. Through the story of Jubrail’s these challenges contributed to the joined scores of these pilgrims life, Norris explores the porous lines formation of a Palestinian diaspora on over a dozen pilgrimages, and between history and fiction, the nor- and to the emergence of Palestinian amassed accounts from hundreds mal and the paranormal, the everyday national consciousness. Bawalsa more who made these journeys. In and the extraordinary. Drawing on considers the migrants’ strategies for telling their stories, this book docu- aspects of magical realism combined economic success in the diaspora, ments how pilgrims encountered with elements of Palestinian folklore, for preserving their heritage, and for the ancestral house or town as both Norris recovers the atmosphere of resisting British mandate legislation, real and metaphorical centerpieces late nineteenth-century Bethlehem including citizenship rejections of family history. These Armenian as scores of young men set off for meted out to thousands of Palestin- stories reflect the resilience of faraway lands, and offers an original ian migrants. diaspora in the face of trauma, approach to historical writing, “A significant contribution to the separation, and exile in ways that capturing a fantastic story of global history of Palestinian transnational each of us, whatever our history, encounter and exchange. activism. Bawalsa amplifies the can recognize. diasporic dimension of the ‘right “Bertram’s gifts of empathy and “A most original treatise on local of return.’ A must read for scholar- knowledge. Norris weaves an astute storytelling make for a book that is activists of the modern Middle East, at once heartbreaking and inspiring. combination of historical discourse inter-war politics, and national and magical realism.” Essential for anyone interested in liberation struggles.” place, memory, and mass violence.” —Salim Tamari —Sarah M.A. Gualtieri, University of Southern California —Heghnar Watenpaugh, 290 pages, January 2023 University of California, Davis 9781503633759 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 296 pages, 2022 312 pages, 2022 9781503632264 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503631649 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 8 WORLDING THE MIDDLE EAST
Western Privilege Years of Glory Maghreb Noir Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of The Militant-Artists of North Hierarchies in Dubai Justice in Wartime North Africa Africa and the Struggle for a Susan Gilson Miller Pan-African, Postcolonial Future Amélie Le Renard This book offers a rich biography Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no and a deeper understanding of the This book dives into the personal Emirati nationality. Le Renard complex currents that shaped Jewish, and political lives of the militant- explores how race, gender, and class North African, and world history over artists who collectively challenged backgrounds shape experiences the course of the Second World War. the neo-colonialist structures and of privilege, and investigates the The traumas of genocide, the struggle authoritarianism of African states. processes that lead to the formation for anti-colonial liberation, and the Drawing on Arabic, Spanish, of Westerners as a social group. eventual Jewish exodus from Arab Portuguese, French, and English Through an ethnography informed lands all take on new meaning when sources, as well as interviews with by postcolonial and feminist theory, reflected through the interstices of the artists themselves, Tolan-Szkilnik she reveals the diverse experiences Benatar’s life. A courageous woman expands our understanding of and trajectories of white and non- with a deep moral conscience and an Pan-Africanism geographically, white, male and female Westerners iron will, Nelly Benatar helped to lay linguistically, and temporally. This to understand the shifting and the groundwork for crucial postwar network of militant-artists argued contingent nature of Western- efforts to build a better world over for the creation of a new ideology of ness—and also its deep connection Europe’s ashes. continued revolution—one that was to whiteness and heteronormativity. “Years of Glory illuminates transnational, trans-racial, and in de- This book offers a singular look at major themes: that period’s refugee fiance of the emerging nation-states. the lived reality of structural racism crisis, resistance in Morocco to Maghreb Noir establishes the impor- in cities of the global South. the Vichy regime, a talented woman’s tance of North Africa in nurturing professional advancement in a these global connections—and “A must-read for those interested in traditional society, and the life of a race and racialization. Le Renard uncovers a lost history of grassroots once-vibrant Jewish community in collaboration among militant-artists shows us how these structuring North Africa. An exemplary categories are both integral to Gulf unearthing of the remarkable legal from across the globe. social hierarchies and have an career of Nelly Benatar.” “Maghreb Noir takes us from Rabat enduring global influence.” —Robert O. Paxton, to Algiers to Tunis to demonstrate how —Neha Vora, Columbia University 1960s North Africa was an epicenter Lafayette College of pan-African thought and Black 248 pages, 2021 radicalism. A meticulously researched, 256 pages, 2021 9781503628458 Cloth $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503629233 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale effortlessly transnational work.” —Hisham Aidi, Columbia University 288 pages, July 2023 9781503635913 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale WORLDING THE MIDDLE EAST 9
Arabic Glitch Alternative Iran Media of the Masses Technoculture, Data Bodies, Contemporary Art and Critical Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt and Archives Spatial Practice Andrew Simon Laila Shereen Sakr Pamela Karimi This book investigates the social This book explores an alternative Alternative Iran offers a unique life of the cassette tape to offer a origin story of twenty-first century contribution to the field of multisensory history of modern technological innovation in digital contemporary art, investigating Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, politics—one centered on the how Iranian artists engage with cassettes became a ubiquitous Middle East and the 2011 Arab space and site amid the pressures presence in Egyptian homes and uprisings. Developed from an of the art market and the state’s stores. Enabling an unprecedented archive of social media data col- regulatory regimes. Attending to number of people to participate in lected over the decades following nonconforming curatorial projects, the creation of culture and circula- the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, independent guerrilla installations, tion of content, cassette players Arabic Glitch interrogates how the escapist practices, and tacitly and tapes soon informed broader logic of programming technology subversive performances, Karimi cultural, political, and economic influences and shapes social move- discloses the push-and-pull between developments and defined “mod- ments. Sakr formulates a media the art community and the authori- ern” Egyptian households. Drawing theory that advances the concept ties, and discusses myriad instances on a wide array of audio, visual, and of the glitch as a disruptive media of tentative coalition as opposed to textual sources that exist outside the affordance. She employs data outright partnership or uncompro- Egyptian National Archives, Simon analytics to analyze tweets, posts, mising resistance. Illustrated with demonstrates how cassettes and and blogs to describe the political more than 120 full-color images, cassette players did not simply join culture of social media, and per- this book provides entry into other twentieth century mass media forms the results under the guise unique artistic experiences without like records and radio; they were the of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ catering to voyeuristic curiosity media of the masses. Um Amel. This book teaches us around Iran’s often-perceived “Simon’s masterful history of the how a region under transforma- “underground” culture. cassette crystallizes the crucial tion became a vanguard for new “A fascinating analysis of the importance of technology. Important thinking about digital systems: the continuing cultural effervescence for historians of modern Egypt, and records they keep, the lives they observable in Iranian society.” a stellar contribution to the history impact, and how to create change of new media.” —Houchang Chehabi, from within. University of St. Andrews —Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford 224 pages, August 2023 452 pages, 2022 9781503635883 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503631809 Paper $35.00 $28.00 sale STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES 304 pages, 2022 9781503631441 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 10 CULTURE AND MEDIA
Unknown Past Recording History States of Cultivation Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Jews, Muslims, and Music across Imperial Transition and Star of Egypt Twentieth-Century North Africa Scientific Agriculture in the Hanan Hammad Christopher Silver Eastern Mediterranean Hammad writes a story centered If twentieth-century stories of Jews Elizabeth R. Williams on Murad’s persona and legacy, and Muslims in North Africa are The final decades of the Ottoman and broadly framed around a usually told separately, Recording Empire and the period of the French gendered history of twentieth- History demonstrates that we have mandate coincided with a critical pe- century Egypt. Murad was a Jew not been listening to what brought riod of transformation in agricultural who converted to Islam in the these communities together: Arab technologies and administration. shadow of the first Arab-Israeli music. Popular songs broadcast on This book examines the processes war. Her career blossomed under radio, performed in concert, and and effects of agrarian transformation the Egyptian monarchy, gave a circulated on disc carried with them as Ottoman, Syrian, Lebanese, and singing voice to the Free Officers the power to send Jewish-Muslim French officials grappled with these and the 1952 Revolution, and audiences into a frenzy—or French new technologies, albeit with differ- ended on the eve of the 1956 Suez colonial officials into a fury. With ent end goals. Williams investigates War. Egyptians have long told their this book, Silver provides the first the increasingly fragmented natures national story through interpreta- history of the music scene and produced by these contrasting priori- tions of Murad’s life, intertwining recording industry across Morocco, ties and the results of their intersec- the individual and Egyptian state Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers tion with regional environmental and society to better understand striking insights into Jewish-Muslim limits. Not only did post–World Egyptian identity. As Unknown relations through the rhythms that War I policies realign the economic Past recounts, there’s no life animated them. He recovers a world space of the mandate states, but they better than Murad’s to reflect the of many voices—of daring female shaped an agricultural legacy that tumultuous changes experienced stars, cantors turned composers, continued to impact Syria and Leba- over the dramatic decades of the and national and nationalist icons— non post-independence. Williams mid-twentieth century. whose music still resonates well into offers the first comprehensive account “Just as Layla’s life was bigger than our present. of the shared technocratic ideals the screen, this book goes beyond “Analyzing the silences, echoes, and that animated these policies and the the history of cinema to illuminate sounds of Jewish-Muslim relations, divergent imperial goals that not only questions about religion, society, this delightful book is a classic in reshaped the region’s agrarian institu- gender, and politics.” the making.” tions, but produced representations —Beth Baron, —Aomar Boum, of the region with repercussions well The Graduate Center, CUNY University of California, Los Angeles beyond the mandate’s end. 328 pages, 2022 320 pages, 2022 464 pages, July 2023 9781503629776 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503631687 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 781503634688 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale CULTURE AND MEDIA STANFORD OTTOMAN 11 WORLD SERIES
Colonizing Palestine Dear Palestine Screen Shots The Zionist Left and the Making A Social History of the 1948 War State Violence on Camera in Israel of the Palestinian Nakba Shay Hazkani and Palestine Areej Sabbagh-Khoury This book offers a new history Rebecca L. Stein Based on extensive empirical of the 1948 War, focusing on the Stein investigates the wide range of research in local colony and na- people caught up in the conflict communities and institutions— tional archives, this book offers a and its transnational reverbera- Palestinian activists, Israeli and microhistory of frontier interac- tions. Through their letters home, international human rights workers, tions between Zionist settlers the young men and women who Israeli military, and Jewish set- and indigenous Palestinians fought the war come to life, writing tlers—who have placed increasing within the British imperial field. about everything from daily life value on photographic technologies Even as left-wing kibbutzim of to nationalism, colonialism, race, and networked visuals as political Hashomer Hatzair helped lay the and the character of their enemies. tools. While these constituencies groundwork for settler colonial Dear Palestine also examines how have dramatically divergent political Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did the architects of the conflict worked aims, they all invested in the same not conceal the prior existence of to influence and indoctrinate camera dream: that the advances the Palestinian villages and their key ideologies in these ordinary in photography of the digital age displacement, which became the soldiers, by examining battle orders, would not only capture reality with subject of enduring debate in the pamphlets, army magazines, and greater fidelity, but also deliver on kibbutzim. Juxtaposing history radio broadcasts. Through two nar- their respective visions of justice and memory, examining events ratives—the official and unofficial, and accountability. Activists and in their actual time and as they the propaganda and the personal human rights workers would were later remembered, Sabbagh- letters—Dear Palestine reveals the painfully learn the lesson that even Khoury demonstrates that the fissures between sanctioned the most “perfect” visual evidence dispossession and replacement of nationalism and individual identity. of state violence typically failed to the Palestinians in 1948 was not a “Hazkani makes a brilliant persuade either the Israeli justice singular catastrophe, but rather a contribution to the literature on the system or the Israeli public of protracted process instituted over 1948 Palestine War. Impeccably military wrongdoing. decades. Colonizing Palestine traces balanced and engagingly written, “Screen Shots instructs as it unsettles. social and political mechanisms by Dear Palestine is a remarkable book.” Stein’s lucid account of photographic which forms of hierarchy, violence, —Eugene Rogan, encounters with Israeli state violence and supremacy that endure into the University of Oxford strikes precisely and pointedly at present were gradually created. 352 pages, 2021 witnessing that misses its mark.” 352 pages, July 2023 9781503627659 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale —Ann Stoler, 9781503602700 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale The New School 248 pages, 2021 9781503628021 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 12 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
The Politics of Art Revolutions Aesthetic Showpiece City Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in A Cultural History of Ba’thist Syria How Architecture Made Dubai Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan Max Weiss Todd Reisz Hanan Toukan This book offers the first cultural In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai This book considers the entangle- and intellectual history of Ba’thist was to become something more than ment of art and international politics Syria, from the coming to power an unruly port, a plan was needed. to understand the aesthetics of of Hafiz al-Asad through the Syria Specifically, a town plan was prescribed material production within liberal War, and reconceptualizes contem- to fortify the city from obscurity economies. Toukan outlines the porary Syrian politics, authoritari- and disorder. With the proverbial political and social functions of anism, and cultural life. Engaging handshake, Dubai’s ruler hired British transnationally connected and rich original sources—novels, films, architect John Harris to design Dubai’s internationally funded arts organiza- and cultural periodicals—Weiss strategy for capturing the world’s tions and initiatives, and reveals highlights themes crucial to the attention—and then its investments. how the production of art within making of contemporary Syria: Reisz explores the overlooked history global frameworks can contribute heroism and leadership, gender and of a city that did not simply rise from to hegemonic structures even as it is power, comedy and ideology, sur- the sands. In the city’s earliest modern critiquing them—or be counterhe- veillance and the senses, witnessing architecture, he finds the foundations gemonic even when it first appears and temporality, and death and the of an urban survival strategy of debt- not to be. Toukan proposes not only imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic wielding brinkmanship and constant a new way of reading contemporary places front and center the struggle pitch making. Dubai became a testing art practices as they situate them- around aesthetic ideology that has ground for the global city—and prefig- selves globally, but also a new way of been key to the constitution of state, ured how urbanization now happens reading the domestic politics of the society, and culture in Syria over the everywhere. region from the vantage point of art. course of the past fifty years. “Gripping and insightful, Showpiece “Toukan brilliantly reveals a critical, “Innovative, meticulous, and City is a much-needed history of the often hidden component of art-mak- brilliantly written, Revolutions making and remaking of Dubai. A ing in the Middle East: how powerful Aesthetic will serve as the standard must-read for anyone interested in political and economic interests have bearer for studies on the modern architecture and urban planning.” shaped what kinds of art are even cultural history of the Arab world —Rosie Bsheer, possible. A brave intervention and and the broader Middle East” Harvard University required reading.” —Kamran Rastegar, 416 pages, 2020 —Jessica Winegar, Tufts University 9781503609884 Cloth $30.00 $24.00 sale Northwestern University 456 pages, 2022 336 pages, 2021 9781503631953 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503627758 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES 13
Protesting Jordan States of Subsistence Street-Level Governing Geographies of Power and Dissent The Politics of Bread in Negotiating the State in Jillian Schwedler Contemporary Jordan Urban Turkey This book considers how space José Ciro Martínez Elise Massicard and geography influence protests Despite the ubiquity of bread in This book is the first to investigate and repression, and offers the accounts of Middle East politics and how muhtars, the lowest level elected first in-depth study of rebellion in society, rarely do we consider how political position in Turkey, carry Jordan. Based on twenty-five years it is prepared and consumed—and out their role. Muhtars exist at the of field research, it examines pro- what this represents. This book intersection of everyday life and the tests as they are situated in the built considers the welfare program that exercise of power. Their position environment, bringing together ensures bread’s widespread availabil- offers a personalized point of contact considerations of networks, spatial ity. Following bakers and bureaucrats, between citizens and state institu- imaginaries, space and placemaking, Martínez offers an immersive tions, enabling close oversight of the and political geographies at local, examination of social welfare provi- citizenry, yet simultaneously project- national, regional, and global scales. sion. He argues that the state is best ing the sense of an accessible state to Schwedler considers the impact understood as the product of routine individuals. Challenging common of time and temporality in the practices and actions, through which theories of the state, Massicard out- lifecycles of individual movements. it becomes a stable truth in the lines how the position of the muhtar She illuminates the geographies of lives of citizens. This book not only throws into question an assumed power and dissent, highlighting the describes logics of rule in contempo- dichotomy between domination and political stakes of competing nar- rary Jordan—and the place of bread social resistance, and suggests that ratives about Jordan’s past, present, within them—but also unpacks how considerations of circumvention and and future. the state endures through forms, accommodation are normal attributes “Superbly researched, Protesting sensations, and practices. of state-society functioning. Jordan provides a fascinating and “States of Subsistence sets aside “One of the most interesting and groundbreaking alternative history dominant questions of bread riots, original recent books I have read on of Jordan. Jillian Schwedler skillfully food security, regime survival, and contemporary Turkey. Massicard gives unpacks and challenges traditional economic reforms to craft a uniquely us a vivid and up-close account of accounts of state-making in Jordan as important and absolutely fascinating the muhtarlık in the context of state- a top-down process. An essential read look into the political meaning of the society relations.” for those seeking to better understand lived experience of subsidized bread.” —Resat Kasaba Kasaba, Jordan’s history and how protests University of Washington —Marc Lynch, maintain state power.” George Washington University 344 pages, 2022 —Janine Clark, 9781503631854 Paper $32.00 $25.60 sale University of Toronto 368 pages, 2022 9781503631328 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 392 pages, 2022 9781503631588 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 14 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
Bread and Freedom Paradoxes of Care Between Dreams and Ghosts Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation Children and Global Medical Aid Indian Migration and Middle Mona El-Ghobashy in Egypt Eastern Oil Once celebrated as an awe-inspiring Rania Kassab Sweis Andrea Wright irruption of people power, Egypt’s Billions are spent on global More than one million Indians travel 2011 revolution is now often judged humanitarian efforts intended to annually to work in oil projects in the a tragic failure. Moving away from care for suffering bodies, especially Gulf. This book follows their migra- such sweeping judgments, Bread those of distressed children living tion, across sites in India, the United and Freedom argues that conceiv- in poverty. But global medical aid Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from ing of a “Revolution” propelled by can also unintentionally prolong the villages to oilfields. Engaging the revolutionaries is untenable—it is the very conditions that hurt children migrants themselves, the recruiting uprising that made revolutionaries and undermine local aid givers. agencies that place them, the govern- and their opponents, not the other This book illustrates how child aid ment bureaucrats that regulate their way around—and takes seriously recipients and local aid experts emigration, and the corporations the political conflicts set into motion grapple with global aid’s shortcom- that hire them, Wright examines by the uprising. El-Ghobashy sifts ings and its paradoxical outcomes. labor migration as a social process, through a documentary record Sweis reveals how global aid fails to one deeply informed both by work- hidden in plain sight to reveal not a “save” these children according to ers’ dreams for the future and the mythical unity undone by schisms, its stated aims, and often maintains ghosts of colonial capitalism. Placing but hordes of new and old actors social disparities in children’s lives. migrants at the center of global clamoring over the state’s mate- Foregrounding vulnerable children’s capital, Wright shows how migrants rial and symbolic power. This book responses, Sweis demonstrates how are not passive bodies at the mercy rethinks how we study revolutions, children manage their own bodies of abstract forces—and reveals a looking past causes and consequences and lives, and engages with the new understanding of contemporary to train its sights on the collisions of question of what medical caregivers resource extraction, governance, and revolutionary politics. and donors alike gain from such global labor. “A must-read for anyone concerned global humanitarian transactions. “A landmark contribution that with deeper conceptual questions “Sweis’ clear analysis demonstrates pushes our understanding of oil, surrounding the entanglement of the inherent paradoxes of seeking labor, and migrant lives in new revolution and democracy” to save the ‘vulnerable,’ while leaving and unexpected directions.” —Omnia El Shakry, unchanged the structural conditions —Adam Hanieh, University of California, Davis that produce those very vulnerabilities.” SOAS University of London 392 pages, 2021 —Sherine Hamdy, 288 pages, 2021 9781503628151 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale University of California, Irvine 9781503630109 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 208 pages, 2021 9781503628632 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES 15
The Paranoid Style in On Salafism Practicing Sectarianism American Diplomacy Concepts and Contexts Archival and Ethnographic Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq Azmi Bishara Interventions on Lebanon Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt On Salafism offers a compelling new Edited by Lara Deeb, Iraq has been the site of some of understanding of this phenomenon, Tsolin Nalbantian, and the United States’ most sustained both its development and contempo- Nadya Sbaiti military campaigns since the rary manifestations. Bishara critically This book explores the imaginative Vietnam War. This book weaves deconstructs claims of continuity and contradictory ways how sectari- together histories of Arab national- between early Islam and modern mili- anism, and reveals the many ways ists, US diplomats, and Western tancy and makes a counterargument: sectarianism is used to exhibit, imag- oil execs to expose the origins Salafism is a wholly modern construct ine, or contest power. Essays analyze of US intervention in Iraq over informed by specific sociopolitical how people experience sectarianism, the arc of the twentieth century contexts. He distinguishes reformist sometimes pushing back, sometimes and tell the parallel stories of the from regressive Salafism, and exam- evading it, sometimes deploying it Iraq Petroleum Company and ines patterns of modernization in the strategically, to a variety of effects the resilience of Iraqi society. development of contemporary Islamic and consequences. The collection American policymakers, who political movements and associations. advances an understanding of sec- inflated concerns about access to In deconstructing the assumptions tarianism simultaneously constructed and potential scarcity of oil, gave of linear continuity between tradi- and experienced. Even as the book’s rise to a “paranoid style” in US tional and contemporary movements, focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt Bishara details various divergences in the association of sectarianism deconstructs these policy practices both doctrine and context of modern with the nation-state and suggests to reveal how they fueled decades Salafisms, plural. On Salafism is a possibilities that can travel to other of American interventions, and crucial read for those interested in sites. Practicing Sectarianism argues shines a light on those places that Islamism, jihadism, and Middle East that sectarianism can only be fully America’s covert empire-builders politics and history. understood—and dismantled—if we might prefer we not look. “A timely, erudite account. Bishara first take it seriously as a practice. “The gripping backstory that reveals provides important correctives to recent “Provocative, incisive, grounded in the historical truths of US-Iraqi scholarly approaches, and forcefully lived realities, the book delivers a relations. American cold warriors demonstrates that modern articulations powerful antidote to those who see inherited Britain’s imperial role but of Salafism are facets of ideological Lebanon simplistically through the failed to stop Iraqis from pursuing projects, not natural culminations of lens of religion. A necessary read.” natural resource sovereignty.” classical Islamic traditions.” —Suad Joseph, —Ahmad Dallal, University of California, Davis —Nathan J. Citino, American University in Cairo Rice University 258 pages, 2022 246 pages, 2022 336 pages, 2021 9781503633865 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503630352 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale 9781503627918 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 16 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND POLITICS ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
Sextarianism Crossing a Line The Contemporary Middle Sovereignty, Secularism, and the Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to East in an Age of Upheaval State in Lebanon Palestinian Political Expression Edited by James L. Gelvin Maya Mikdashi Amahl Bishara This book engages six themes to This book offers a new way to Palestinians living on different sides understand the contemporary understand state power, theorizing of the Green Line assert that they Middle East—the spread of sectari- how sex, sexuality, and sect shape share a single political struggle for anism, abandonment of principles and are shaped by law, secularism, national liberation. Yet, obstacles and of state sovereignty, the lack of a and sovereignty. Mikdashi shows geopolitical boundaries inhibit their regional hegemonic power, in- how political difference is entangled ability to speak to each other and as creased Saudi-Iranian competition, with religious, secular, and sexual a collective. Crossing a Line enters decreased regional attention to the difference. She presents state power these distinct environments and Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout as inevitably contingent, focusing considers how Palestinian political from the Arab uprisings—as well on the regulation of religious expression is differently impacted as offers individual country studies. conversion, the curation of by dispossession, settler colonialism, With analysis from historians, legal archives, state and parastatal and militarism. Bishara looks to sites political scientists, sociologists, and violence, and secular activism. of political practice—journalism, anthropologists, and up-to-date Sextarianism locates state power in commemorations, demonstrations, discussions of the Syrian Civil War, the experiences, transitions, upris- social media, in prison—to analyze impacts of the Trump presidency, ings, and violence that people in the how Palestinians create collectivities and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Middle East continue to live. in these varied circumstances. In Algeria, and Sudan, this book will “A tour de force by one of the considering different environments be an essential guide for anyone most dynamic, iconoclastic, and for political expression and action, seeking to understand the current original socio-political analysts of Bishara illuminates how expression state of the region. the Arab world of this generation. is always grounded in place—and Maya Mikdashi’s Sextarianism will “These essays are an indispensable how a people can struggle together guide to making sense of the Middle transform the way Lebanon has for liberation even when they cannot been understood; more radically, East’s current disorder and future join together in protest. direction. A must-read for academics, it will force everyone to rethink how religious and sexual differences “Offering a sensitive reading of policy makers, and informed work at/as the nexus of states Palestinian peoplehood and political general audiences.” and citizenship.” difference, Crossing a Line brings —Frederic Wehrey, —Lila Abu-Lughod, social movement theory into critical Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Columbia University engagement with settler colonial and native studies.” 368 pages, 2021 288 pages, 2022 —Rema Hammami, 9781503627697 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503631557 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale Birzeit University 376 pages, 2022 9781503632097 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale POLITICS 17
How to Make a Wetland Return to Ruin Afterlives of Revolution Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey Iraqi Narratives of Exile Everyday Counterhistories in Caterina Scaramelli and Nostalgia Southern Oman This book tells the story of two Zainab Saleh Alice Wilson Turkish coastal areas, both shaped With the US invasion of Iraq, This book considers the “social by ecological change and political Iraqis abroad, hoping to return afterlives” of revolutionary values uncertainty. Farmers, scientists, one day to a better Iraq, became and networks in Oman where fishermen, and families grapple uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin veteran militants have used kinship with livelihoods in transition, as tells the human story of this exile. and daily socializing to reproduce their environment is bound up in Focusing on debates among Iraqi networks of social egalitarianism national and international conserva- exiles about what it means to be an and commemorate the revolution tion projects. Scaramelli offers an Iraqi after years of displacement, in unofficial ways. These afterlives anthropological understanding Saleh weaves a narrative that draws highlight lasting engagement with of sweeping environmental and attention to a once-dominant, revolutionary values, the agency infrastructural change, and the vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape of former militants in postwar moral claims made on livability and and social and political shifts modernization, and the limitations materiality. Beginning from a moral among the diaspora after decades of government patronage for eliciting ecological position, she takes into of authoritarianism, war, and conformity. Recognizing that those account the notion that politics is occupation in Iraq. She illuminates typically depicted as coopted can not simply projected onto animals, how Iraqis continue to fashion a still reproduce counterhegemonic plants, soil, and water. Rather, sense of belonging and imagine a values, this book considers a condi- people make politics through future, built on the shards of these tion all too common across South- them. Scaramelli highlights the shattered memories. west Asia and North Africa: the aspirations, moral relations, and experience of defeated revolutionar- care practices in constant play in “In this outstanding book, we ies living under the authoritarian encounter the poignant life stories contestations and alliances over of Iraqis, stories too often reduced state they once contested. environmental change. to statistics and stereotypes when “Advances a brilliant critique “Scaramelli’s lucid ethnography is a they are visible at all. Return to of reductionist perceptions that crucial addition to studies of lived Ruin is an illuminating study of often define revolutions merely environments and environmental Iraqi diasporic subjectivities.” with references to their success or infrastructure—a refreshing new take —Sinan Antoon, failure. Ethnographically rich and on anthropocentric development New York University theoretically sophisticated.” processes in Turkey and beyond.” —Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, 280 pages, 2020 —Elif Babül, 9781503614116 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale Princeton University Mount Holyoke College 328 pages, May 2023 240 pages, 2021 9781503635784 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503615403 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 18 POLITICS
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