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Being Human Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Fazil Moradi
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
January 2024 210pp 18 b&w images
9781978831698 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978831704 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
It is a work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality, infinite pursuit of justice, and acts of translation—testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorial and symbolic cemeteries in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
A Critical History
Burçe Çelik
The Geopolitics of Information
September 2023 272pp
9780252087394 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045257 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
De-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial predecessor. Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.
Divine Money
Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
Emanuel Schaeublin
Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society
October 2023 180pp 12 b&w illus.
9780253066572 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780253066565 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance.
Checkbook Zionism
Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
Eric Fleisch
January 2024 266pp 13 b&w images, 1 table
9781978819948 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978819955 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By delving into the history of American Jews’ philanthropic giving to Israelis, Fleisch assesses the core nature of power sharing between both sides of the Jewish diaspora to the United States through indepth contemporary case studies of the relationship between sixteen non-governmental organizations and their American Jewish donors.
Conflicts
The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel
Liron Mor
December 2023 288pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531505448 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531505431 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Conflicts engages Hebrew and Arabic literature to critically reassess the concept of conflict. Drawing on a diverse archive, ranging from the 1930s to the present and from prose and poetry to film and television, it reveals indigenous literary concepts that better theorize the region’s antagonisms and mediations, its colonial technologies and anticolonial practices.
Elastic Empire
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Lisa Bhungalia
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
December 2023 264pp
9781503637511 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503634527 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed— this book tells the story of how aid has also become war.
Empire of Refugees
North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
February 2024 336pp
9781503637740 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503636965 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations.
Gaza on Screen
Edited by Nadia Yaqub
August 2023 296pp 53 illus.
9781478020455 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478019992 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens—both large and small—as tools for mediation that are laden with power, the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility and confinement, and decolonization.
In Deadly Embrace
Arabic Hunting Poems
Ibn al-Muʿtazz
Encountering Palestine Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
Edited by Mark Griffiths & Mikko JoronenCultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
December 2023 294pp 15 photos
9781496237491 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781496232588 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Encountering Palestine offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel. The contributors utilize diverse theoretical frameworks to help us better understand the cultural making and unmaking of colonialism in Palestine.
How Sanctions Work Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
& Ali Vaez
February 2024 200pp
9781503637801 £20.99/ $24.00 PB
9781503637313 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling establishment, or to weaken its hold on power.
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation
Editedand
translated by James E. MontgomeryLibrary of Arabic Literature
September 2023 224pp
9781479853182 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.
in West Bank Settlements
Noam Shoked
Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
November 2023 400pp
9781477328545 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477327845 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, prominent architects, real estate developers, and Israelis who felt unserved by the housing system.
Islamic Ecumene Comparing Muslim Societies
Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo
November 2023 312pp 6 b&w
halftones, 2 maps
9781501772399 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501772382 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people who identify as Muslims.
My Brother, My Land A Story from Palestine
Sami Hermez,
Sawalha
March 2024 304pp
with Sireen
9781503628397 £23.99/ $28.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second Intifada, Sami Hermez, with Sireen Sawalha, crafts a rich story of intertwining voices, mixing genres of oral history, memoir, and creative nonfiction.
No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen
Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine
Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
October 2023 352pp
9781503636330 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through a close examination of archival materials in German, English, and Hebrew, including administrative records, personal documents, newspapers, and oral history interviews conducted by the author, this book follows Jewish migrants along their journey from Germany and into the workplaces, living rooms, and kitchens of their new homeland.
Jacqueline Kahanoff
A Levantine Woman
David Ohana
Perspectives on Israel Studies
November 2023 382pp 18 b&w photos
9780253066886 £38.00/ $42.00 PB
9780253066879 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on an extensive array of sources, ranging from interviews with Jacqueline Kahanoff's acquaintances and contemporaries to unpublished writings, Ohana explores her fascinating life and intellectual journey from Cairo to Tel Aviv. The encompassing vision of a Levantine Israel made Kahanoff the initiator of a different cultural possibility, more extensive than that offered in her time, and also, perhaps, than is offered today.
New Israeli Horror Local Cinema, Global Genre
Olga Gershenson
November 2023 222pp 6 color and 3 b&w images
9781978837843 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978837850 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre.
Political Theology and Islam
From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State
Paul L. Heck
November 2023 540pp
9780268207359 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Political Theology and Islam’s first section spells out the concepts and methods for the study of politics in Islam as a struggle for a moral order. Deftly moving in various political theaters and through a wide range of intellectual traditions, Heck’s book will emerge as a touchstone of scholarship in the field of Muslim politics and intellectual thought.
Politics in the Crevices
Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
Sarah El-Kazaz
November 2023 272pp 24 illus.
9781478025276 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020493 £94.00/ $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city.
Queer World Making Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
Andrew Gayed Series
Edited
by Laura KinaCritical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
February 2024 328pp 47 color illus.
9780295752297 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY
OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work in order to imagine a different present.
Reorienting the Middle East Film and Digital Media Where the
Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet
Precarious Lives Waiting and Hope in Iran
Shahram Khosravi
Contemporary Ethnography
November 2023 288pp 6 illus.
9781512825565 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Khosravi weaves together individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis of art and literature to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope. Precarious Lives is a vital work of contemporary anthropology that serves as a testament to the shared hardship and hope of the Iranian people.
Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery
Iran's Cinematic Archive
Parisa Vaziri
December 2023 368pp 48 b&w illus.
9781517914752 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517914745 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This book explores African enslavement in the Indian Ocean through the revelatory and little-known history of Iranian cinema. It shows that Iranian film reveals a resistance to facticity representative of the history of African enslavement in the Indian Ocean and preserves the legacy of African slavery’s longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination.
Revolution Squared
Tahrir, Political Possibilities,
and Counterrevolution in Egypt
Atef Shahat Said
January 2024 344pp 15 illus.
Edited
by Dale Hudson & Alia YunisDecember 2023 344pp 49 b&w illus.
9780253067579 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253067562 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Just as the Gulf is a fluid space where film and digital media reflect long-standing connections among the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, Reorienting the Middle East offers a way to analyze the oft-forgotten spaces between regions and disciplines and challenges the definition of film in the Middle East.
9781478025504 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020721 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the revolution, Said outlines the importance of Tahrir Square and other physical spaces as well as the role of social media and digital spaces.
Ruth Blau
A Life of Paradox and Purpose Motti Inbari
Perspectives on Israel Studies
July 2023 278pp 9 b&w photos
9780253065964 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9780253065957 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern Jewish history. Drawing on a trove of archival materials and interviews with those who knew Ruth, Motti Inbari offers a complex, multifaceted portrait of a woman undertaking a remarkable and influential journey through modern European and Middle Eastern history.
Strictly Observant
Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
January 2024 222pp 2 tables
9781978805217 £38.00/ $42.95 PB
9781978805224 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli UltraOrthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies.
The Divine Names
A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾ an
ʿ
Stories from Palestine
Narratives of Resilience Marda Dunsky
July 2023 268pp
9780268200343 £23.99/ $28.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary Palestinian society in the venues envisioned for a future Palestinian state. Dunsky has interviewed women and men from cities, towns, villages, and refugee. The narratives weave in quantitative data and historical background from a range of primary and secondary sources that contextualize Palestinian life under occupation.
Terracene
A Crude Aesthetics
Salar Mameni
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
September 2023 240pp 46 color illus.
9781478025061 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020066 £92.00/ $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene.
The Essence of Reality
A Defense of Philosophical Sufism
Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī
Edited and translated by Yousef Casewit
Library of Arabic Literature
October 2023 300pp
9781479826124 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʾ an including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. The book shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth.
ʿAyn al-Quḍāt
Translated by Mohammed
Rustom Foreword by Livia
Kohn
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2023 270pp
9781479826278 £12.99/ $15.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Consists of one hundred brief chapters interspersed with Qurʾanic verses, prophetic sayings, Sufi maxims, and poetry. The book takes readers on a philosophical journey, with lucid expositions of questions including the eternity of the world; the nature of God’s essence and attributes; the concepts of “before” and “after”; and the soul’s relationship to the body.
