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Shay Hazkani
S T A T E V I OL E N C E ON C A M E R A
IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
REBECCA L. STEIN
MONA EL-GHOBASHY
L IORA R. HALPERIN
8 HISTORY
The Sultan’s Communists The Jews of Ottoman Izmir Genetic Crossroads
Moroccan Jews and the Politics A Modern History The Middle East and the Science
of Belonging Dina Danon of Human Heredity
Alma Rachel Heckman Across Europe, Jews had been Elise K. Burton
The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the confronted with the notion that their Genetic Crossroads is an un-
history of Jewish radical involvement religious and cultural distinctiveness precedented history of human
in Morocco’s national liberation was somehow incompatible with genetics in the Middle East, from
project and examines how Moroccan the modern age. Yet the view from its roots in colonial anthropology
Jews envisioned themselves partici- Ottoman Izmir invites a different and medicine to recent genome
pating as citizens in a newly inde- approach. Danon argues that while sequencing projects. Early in the
pendent Morocco. The figures at the Jewish religious and cultural dis- twentieth century, technological
center of Heckman’s narrative stood tinctiveness remained unquestioned breakthroughs in human genetics
at the intersection of colonialism, in this late Ottoman port city, other coincided with the birth of modern
Arab nationalism, and Zionism. elements of identity emerged as sites Middle Eastern nation-states, who
Their stories unfolded in a country of tension, most notably poverty proclaimed that the region’s ancient
that upon independence allied itself and social class. Through the voices history as a cradle of civilizations
with the United States during the of beggars and mercantile elites, was preserved in the bones and
Cold War, while attempting to claim shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, blood of their citizens. Burton
a place for itself within the fraught rabbis and housewives, this book illuminates how scientists from
politics of the post-independence argues that it was new attitudes to Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran,
Arab world. This book contributes to poverty and class that most signifi- transformed genetic data into terri-
the growing literature on Jews in the cantly framed the Jewish encounter torial claims and national origin
modern Middle East and provides with the modern age. myths, and reveals the enduring
a new history of twentieth-century foundations of international
Jewish Morocco. “Dina Danon opens new windows
onto the changing socioeconomic scientific interest in Middle Eastern
“With meticulousness and fervor, realities and values of Jews in a major populations to this day.
Heckman offers a unique historical port city of the late Ottoman Empire.
entry to North Africa’s Jewish com- “Deeply researched and powerfully
Those interested in modern Jewish
munities. The Sultan’s Communists written, Genetic Crossroads is one
and Ottoman history alike have much
provides a new and refreshing of the most original books I have
to learn from this fascinating study.”
understanding of minority politics in read in a decade. A must-read for
colonial and post-colonial societies.”
—Julia Phillips Cohen, historians of all fields.”
Vanderbilt University
—Aomar Boum, —Eve M Troutt Powell,
University of California, Los Angeles STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH University of Pennsylvania
HISTORY AND CULTURE
STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
272 pages, 2020 360 pages, January 2021
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HISTORY 9
The Last Nahdawi Street Sounds Egypt’s Occupation
Taha Hussein and Institution Listening to Everyday Life in Colonial Economism and the
Building in Egypt Modern Egypt Crises of Capitalism
Hussam R. Ahmed Ziad Fahmy Aaron G. Jakes
Taha Hussein is one of Egypt’s This book offers the first historical The history of capitalism in Egypt
most iconic figures. A graduate of examination of the changing sound- has long been synonymous with
al-Azhar, Egypt’s oldest university, scapes of urban Egypt, highlighting cotton cultivation and dependent
a civil servant and public intel- the mundane sounds of street-life, development. Obscured in such
lectual, and ultimately Egyptian while “listening” to the voices of accounts, however, is Egypt’s
Minister of Public Instruction, ordinary people as they struggle emergence as a colonial laboratory
Hussein was an influential figure with state authorities for owner- for financial investment and
in Egypt during the parliamen- ship of the streets. Interweaving experimentation. Jakes offers
tary period. This book is the first infrastructural, cultural, and social a sweeping reinterpretation of
biography of Hussein in which history, Fahmy analyzes the sounds both the historical geography of
his intellectual outlook and of modernity, using sounded capitalism in Egypt and the role
public career are taken equally sources as an analytical tool for ex- of political-economic thought
seriously. Examining Hussein’s amining the past. Street Sounds also in the struggles that raged over
actions against the backdrop of addresses the sensory class-politics its occupation. Even as British
his complex relationship with of noise by demonstrating how the officials claimed that “economic
the Egyptian state, the religious growing middle classes sensorially development” would be crucial to
establishment, and the French distinguished themselves from the the political legitimacy of their rule,
government, Ahmed reveals Egyptian masses. This book contex- Egypt’s early nationalists elaborated
modern Egypt’s cultural influence tualizes sound and layers historical their own critical accounts of boom
in the Arab and Islamic world. analysis with a sensory dimension, and bust. As Jakes shows, these
The Last Nahdawi offers both a bringing us closer to the Egyptian Egyptian thinkers offered a set of
history of modern state formation, streets as lived and embodied by sophisticated and troubling medita-
revealing how the Egyptian state everyday people. tions on the deeper contradictions
came to hold such a strong grip “Street Sounds brings the boisterous of capitalism and the very meaning
over culture and education—and a soundscape of modernizing Egypt to of freedom in a capitalist world.
compelling examination of the life life. Fahmy has an ear for the noise “Egypt’s Occupation is a rare
of the country’s most renowned of history in motion. He allows us to synthesis: a finely crafted regional
intellectual. hear an Egypt we might otherwise study that grasps the worldwide
discount.” movements of capital and empire
328 pages, June 2021
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University of Arkansas —Jason W. Moore,
Binghamton University
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10 HISTORY
The Lived Nile Imperial Bodies The City as Anthology
Environment, Disease, and Empire and Death in Eroticism and Urbanity in
Material Colonial Economy Alexandria, Egypt Early Modern Isfahan
in Egypt Shana Minkin Kathryn Babayan
Jennifer L. Derr At the turn of the twentieth century, This book tells a new history of
This book follows the engineers, Alexandria was a transimperial Isfahan, at the transformative
capitalists, political authorities, port city, under nominal Ottoman moment it became a cosmopolitan
and laborers who built a new Nile and unofficial British imperial rule. center of imperial rule. For a
River through the nineteenth and Thousands of European subjects city with no extant state or civic
early twentieth centuries. The lived, worked, and died there. When archives, Babayan reimagines an
river helped to shape the future they died, the machinery of empire archive of anthologies to recover
of technocratic knowledge, and negotiated for space, resources, and how residents shaped their com-
transformed the bodies of those control with the nascent national munities and crafted their urban,
who inhabited rural communities. state. Imperial Bodies shows how religious, and sexual selves. She
As Derr argues, the Nile is not the mechanisms of death became highlights eight residents—from
a singular entity, but a set of a tool for exerting governance. king to widow, painter to religious
temporally, spatially, and materially Minkin investigates how French scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who
specific relations that structured and British power asserted itself anthologized their city, writing
experiences of colonial economy. through local consular claims their engagements with friends
From the microscopic to the within the mundane caring for dead and family, divulging their social,
regional, the local to the imperial, bodies, and reveals how European cultural, and religious spheres of
The Lived Nile recounts the history imperial powers did not so much life. Through them, we see the
and centrality of the environment claim Alexandria as their own, as gestures, manners, and sensibilities
to questions of politics, knowledge, they maneuvered, manipulated, and of a shared culture that configured
and the lived experience of the cajoled their empires into Egypt. their relations and negotiated the
human body itself. “Minkin offers the reader no less lines between friendship and eroti-
“A brilliant book, The Lived Nile than an entirely new reading of the cism. These entangled acts of seeing
captures the complexities and history of colonial Alexandria under and reading, desiring and writing
unintended consequences of experts British rule, and the reactions of its converge to fashion the refined
intervening in a river’s flow—and imperial subjects. Imperial Bodies urban self through the sensual and
the displaced and diseased bodies is an outstanding accomplishment, the sexual—and give us a new and
that result—in a most compelling innovative and insightful.” enticing view of the city of Isfahan.
story. This is history at its best.” —Israel Gershoni,
Tel Aviv University 296 pages, May 2021
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The Graduate Center, CUNY
224 pages, 2019
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HISTORY 11
Arab Routes Forging Ties, Iran in Motion
Pathways to Syrian California Forging Passports Mobility, Space, and the
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri Migration and the Modern Trans-Iranian Railway
Sephardi Diaspora Mikiya Koyagi
Los Angeles is home to the largest
population of people of Middle Devi Mays This book traces the contested
Eastern descent in the United This book explores the history imaginations and practices of
States. Since the late nineteenth of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who mobility from the conception of a
century, Syrian and Lebanese emigrated to the Americas—and trans-Iranian railway project dur-
migration to Southern California especially, to Mexico—in the late ing the nineteenth-century global
has been intimately connected to nineteenth and early twentieth cen- transport revolution to its early
and through Latin America. Arab turies, and the complex relationships years of operation on the eve of
Routes uncovers the stories of this they maintained to legal documenta- Iran’s oil nationalization movement
Syrian American community to tion as they settled into new homes. in the 1950s. Weaving together
reveal important cross-border and In the aftermath of World War I and various individual experiences,
multiethnic solidarities in Syrian the Mexican Revolution, migrants Koyagi considers how the infra-
California. Gualtieri reinscribes navigated new layers of bureaucracy structural megaproject reoriented
Syrians into Southern California and authority amidst changing the flows of people and goods. The
history through her examination political regimes. By making use of railway project simultaneously
of images and texts, augmented commercial and familial networks brought the provinces closer to
with interviews with descendants between formerly Ottoman lands, Tehran and pulled them away from
of immigrants. Telling the story of France, the United States, Cuba, and it, thereby constantly reshaping
how Syrians helped forge a global Mexico, these Sephardic migrants local, national, and transnational
Los Angeles, Arab Routes counters maintained a geographic and social experiences of space among mobile
a long-held stereotype of Arabs as mobility that challenged the physical individuals.
outsiders and underscores their borders of the state and the concep- “Koyagi transports us through the
longstanding place in American tual boundaries of the nation. various stations that dotted Iran’s
culture and in interethnic coali- path to modernity. Much more than
tions, past and present. “A sparkling work of social history a narrative of the railway project,
that prompts larger questions over Iran in Motion reveals a deep
“Sarah Gualtieri complicates and citizenship and its meanings.” understanding of the mobility net-
revises our understanding of Arab —Stacy D. Fahrenthold, works that connected and divided
immigration to the Americas. An University of California, Davis Middle Eastern communities. A
expansive, cutting-edge, and much-
groundbreaking book.”
needed book.” STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE —Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,
—Carol W.N. Fadda, 360 pages, 2020 University of Pennsylvania
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12 HISTORY
Spiritual Subjects Brokers of Faith, Brokers Between Empire and Nation
Central Asian Pilgrims and of Empire Muslim Reform in the Balkans
the Ottoman Hajj at the End Armenians and the Politics of
of Empire Reform in the Ottoman Empire Milena B. Methodieva
Lâle Can This book tells the story of the
Richard E. Antaramian
transformation of the Muslim com-
Spiritual Subjects examines the The Ottoman Empire enforced munity in modern Bulgaria during
paradoxes of nationality reform imperial rule through its manage- a period of imperial dissolution,
and pan-Islamic politics in late ment of diversity. Non-Muslim conflicting national and imperial
Ottoman history. Can unravels how religious institutions, such as the enterprises, and the emergence of
imperial belonging was wrapped up Armenian Church, were charged new national and ethnic identities.
in deeply symbolic instantiations of with guaranteeing their flocks’ loyalty Methodieva explores how former
religion, as well as prosaic acts that to the sultan. In so doing, Armenian Ottoman subjects, now under
paved the way to integration into elites became powerful brokers Bulgarian rule, navigated between
Ottoman communities. A complex between factions in Ottoman empire and nation-state, and
system of belonging emerged—one politics—until the politics of sought to claim a place in the larger
where it was possible for a Muslim nineteenth-century reform changed modern world. Using a wide array
to be both, by law, a foreigner and these relationships. This book of primary sources and drawing
a subject of the Ottoman sultan- presents a revisionist account of on both Ottoman and Eastern
caliph. This panoramic story Ottoman reform, connecting internal European historiographies, Meth-
informs broader transregional contention within the Armenian odieva approaches the question of
developments, with important community to broader imperial Balkan Muslims’ engagement with
implications for how we make sense politics. Reform afforded Armenians modernity through a transnational
of subjecthood in the last Muslim the opportunity to recast themselves lens, arguing that the experience
empire and the legacy of religion in as partners of the state, rather than of this Muslim minority provides
the Turkish Republic. brokers among factions. And in the new insight into the nature of
course of pursuing such programs, nationalism, citizenship, and state
“A beautifully and imaginatively formation.
crafted history of the hajj as a social, they transformed the community’s
cultural, political, and spiritual role in imperial society. “This important new book is set
phenomenon. Lâle Can humanizes to redefine the entanglements of
“Antaramian provides a much-needed
the Central Asian pilgrims, telling modern history of Europe and the
corrective to a historiography that
their stories with the same grace and Middle East.”
often presents ‘Armenian’ and
veneration that they showed in the —Cemil Aydin,
‘Ottoman’ as mutually exclusive University of North Carolina
course of their spiritual journey.” categories. An empirically rich work.” STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL
—Christine Philliou, AND EASTERN EUROPE
University of California, Berkeley —İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu,
Northwestern University 352 pages, January 2021
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HISTORY 13
The Contemporary Middle Global Jihad Oilcraft
East in an Age of Upheaval A Brief History The Myths of Scarcity and Security
Glenn E. Robinson That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy
Edited by James L. Gelvin
Most violent jihadi movements in Robert Vitalis
This book engages six themes to
understand the contemporary the twentieth century focused on There is a conventional wisdom
Middle East—the spread of sectari- removing corrupt, repressive secular about oil—that US military presence
anism, abandonment of principles regimes throughout the Muslim in the Gulf guarantees access to this
of state sovereignty, the lack of a world. But following the 1979 Soviet strategic resource; that the “special”
regional hegemonic power, in- invasion of Afghanistan, a new form relationship with Saudi Arabia is
creased Saudi-Iranian competition, of jihadism emerged—global jihad— necessary to stabilize an otherwise
decreased regional attention to the turning to the international arena as volatile market; and that these
Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout the primary locus of ideology and assumptions provide Washington
from the Arab uprisings—as well action. With this book, Robinson enormous leverage. Except, the
as offers individual country studies. tells the story of four distinct jihadi conventional wisdom is wrong.
With analysis from historians, waves, each with its own program Vitalis debunks the myths to reveal
political scientists, sociologists, and for achieving a global end. He “oilcraft,” a line of magical thinking
anthropologists, and up-to-date connects the rise of global jihad to closer to witchcraft than statecraft.
discussions of the Syrian Civil War, other “movements of rage”—such He exposes the suspect fears of
impacts of the Trump presidency, as the Nazi Brownshirts, White scarcity and conflict, and investigates
and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, supremacists, Khmer Rouge, and the significant geopolitical impact
Algeria, and Sudan, this book will Boko Haram—and develops a of these false beliefs. In particular,
be an essential guide for anyone compelling and provocative Vitalis shows how we can reconsider
seeking to understand the current argument about this violent the question of the US–Saudi rela-
state of the region. political movement’s evolution. tionship. Freeing ourselves from the
“Robinson has produced a masterful spell of oilcraft won’t be easy—but
“These essays are an indispensable
guide to making sense of the Middle book that is incisive, insightful, and the benefits make it essential.
East’s current disorder and future comprehensive—a tour de force on “Vitalis has once again revealed that
direction. A must-read for academics, the evolution of jihadism.” our conventional wisdom is filled
policy makers, and informed —Mehran Kamrava, with empty, and often dangerous, self-
general audiences.” Georgetown University delusions. This book is a triumph of
—Frederic Wehrey, 264 pages, November 2020 clear-eyed and courageous criticism.”
Carnegie Endowment for 9780804760478 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale —Lisa Anderson,
International Peace Columbia University
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14 POLITICS
ANNOUNCING
A NEW BOOK SERIES
WORLDING
THE
MIDDLE EAST
EDITED BY
Emily Gottreich
and Daniel Zoughbie
CENTER FOR
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY
POLITICS 15
Persianate Selves A City in Fragments Pious Peripheries
Memories of Place and Origin Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem Runaway Women in Post-Taliban
Before Nationalism Yair Wallach Afghanistan
Mana Kia A City in Fragments tells the Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
For centuries, Persian was the story of a city overwhelmed by its Taliban made piety a business of the
language of power and learning religious and symbolic significance. state, and thereby intervened in the
across West and South Asia. This Wallach walked the streets of daily lives and social interactions
book sketches the contours of this Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries
Persianate world, historicizing place, inscriptions, signs, and ephemera examines women’s resistance
origin, and selfhood through its that transformed the city over the through groundbreaking fieldwork
tradition of proper form—adab. late nineteenth and early twentieth at a women’s shelter in Kabul,
Proximities and similarities con- centuries. As these texts became home to runaway wives, daughters,
stituted a logic that distinguished a tool in the service of capitalism, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban.
between people while simultaneously nationalism, and colonialism, the Whether running to seek marriage
accommodating plurality. Adab was affinities of Arabic and Hebrew or divorce, enduring or escaping
the basis of cohesion for self and were forgotten. Looking at the abuse, or even accused of singing
community over the eighteenth writing of—and literally on— sexually explicit songs in public,
century, as populations dispersed Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative “promiscuous” women challenge
and centers of power shifted, and expansive history of the city, the status quo—and once marked
disrupting the circulations that a fresh take on modern urban texts, as promiscuous, women have few
interlinked Persianate regions. and a new reading of the Israel/ resources. Ahsan-Tirmizi explores
Challenging the bases of proton- Palestine conflict through how these women negotiate
ationalist community, Persianate its material culture. gendered power mechanisms and
Selves seeks to make sense of a “Our understanding of the city’s create a new supportive community,
transregional Persianate culture history will forever be changed by finding friendship and solidarity
outside the anachronistic shadow this sensitive and lyrical description among the women who inhabit the
of nationalisms. of the city—sacred and profane, margins of Afghan society.
“Few questions are more vexed in the spiritual and material, Arab and
Jewish—and the fragmentary voices “Pious Peripheries brings the reader
study of early modern Asia than how into a diverse and opinionated world
people identified before nationalism. and lives of those who built it.”
of Afghan women. Ahsan-Tirmizi’s
Persianate Selves is an invaluable —Michelle Campos, willingness to step aside and allow
vade mecum for navigating the University of Florida
these remarkable women to speak for
transregional Persianate past.” 344 pages, 2020 themselves is a tremendous strength.”
—Nile Green, 9781503611139 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale —Thomas Barfield,
University of California, Los Angeles Boston University
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Filming Revolution
Alisa Lebow
Filming Revolution investigates documentary and independent
filmmaking in Egypt since 2011, bringing together the collective
wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists,
activists, and archivists. Rather than merely building an archive
of video interviews, Lebow constructs a collaborative project,
joining her interviewees in conversation to investigate questions
about the evolving format of political filmmaking. The innovative
filmingrevolution.org constellatory interactive design of Filming Revolution makes an
aesthetic commentary about the experience of the revolution,
its fragmented development, and its shifting meanings, thereby
advancing arguments about political documentary via both
content and form.
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Shay Hazkani