Iran Reframed

Narges Bajoghli

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citizens... Lees meer

Business Networks in Syria

Bassam S a Haddad

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• This book examines how state officials and select businessmen come together informally to shape economic development in Syria. Lees meer

Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The fir... Lees meer

Screen Shots

Rebecca L Stein

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bys... Lees meer

Familiar Futures

Sara Pursley

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movem... Lees meer

Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Asef Bayat

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraord... Lees meer

Media of the Masses

Andrew Simon

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology--the cassette tape--to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over t... Lees meer

The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and mos... Lees meer

Street-Level Governing

Elise Massicard

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public... Lees meer

Iranophobia

Haggai Ram

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications. Iranophobia offe... Lees meer

The Reckoning of Pluralism

Kabir Tambar

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearl... Lees meer

The Politics of Art

Hanan Toukan

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, ... Lees meer

Citizen Strangers

Shira N Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much lar... Lees meer

Revolutions Aesthetic

Max Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideol... Lees meer

Palestinian Commemoration in Israel

Tamir Sorek

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Considers how Israeli citizenship shapes the collective memory of Palestinians and investigates the dilemmas and strategies inherent in national comme... Lees meer

The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and mos... Lees meer

Adaptable Autocrats

Joshua Stacher

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. But from the seemingly rapid leadership turnove... Lees meer

Revolutionary Womanhood

Laura Bier

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and politi... Lees meer

The Incarcerated Modern

Golnar Nikpour

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a de... Lees meer

The Universal Enemy

Darryl Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national... Lees meer

Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

Chiara de Cesari

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response t... Lees meer

Business Networks in Syria

Bassam S a Haddad

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits n... Lees meer

Bazaar Politics

Noah Coburn

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of K... Lees meer

The Lebanese Connection

Jonathan Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S... Lees meer