This book comes out of two long-standing concerns of mine. On the one hand, I have been interested in the protracted process of global decolonization, especially in the Middle East, and the ways in which it succeeded or not.
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Cleft Capitalism: A Conversation with Amr Adly
Amr Adly talks about his latest book, Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt, with Marc Lynch. The book explores why market-based economic development failed to meet exp..
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Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (New Texts Out Now)
Towards the end of 2011, I had just finished the manuscript for Time in the Shadows, research for which had been devastating. For years, I had been speaking to torture and detention v..
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