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As a scholar focused on political communication in my teaching and research, I had been concerned by the serious gap in critique of mainstream political communication scholarship in reference to the Middle East and North Africa.

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.

In the mid-1990s, I conducted an ethnographic study of the internationally celebrated Tissint Amazigh folk dance in southeastern Morocco, examining the politics of folklore as communities navigated the contours of local identity and national tourism. 

The first edition of this book appeared in 2010, on the eve of the momentous events that have since shaken the Arab region, from the massive popular revolts across countries to the Gaza war and the fall of the Assad regime. 

Immediately after 2013, I realized that the more Egypt took center stage as an economic and political partner from a Western perspective, and especially from EU member states, the more the game of political and diplomatic moral neoliberalism unfolded, while rea..

I see this collection as the antithesis of erasure. Sleeping in the Courtyard compiles creative work by contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. 

I wrote The Politics of Melodrama after realizing that Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s wildly popular romantic serials operated on two levels. At first glance, they were cliff‑hangers that boosted the circulation of Rose El Youssef<..

As I note in the Preface of my book, Stuart Schaar suggested I write a book about Edward Said similar to the book he had written about our mutual friend, the late Eqbal Ahmad. After this, I experimented with the idea through talks delivered at various universit..

This book is my attempt to correct a grave injustice by zooming in on a free, spiritual, inventive Moroccan woman filmmaker. While little known outside Morocco, there she is a cultural icon and a revered dame du cinéma.

I first traveled to Egypt in 2007 for an Arabic-language program. During that initial trip, I became well-acquainted with a Coptic Orthodox Christian family in Cairo’s Masakin Sheraton neighborhood. I experienced Orthodox liturgy for the first time with them, a..

This book stems from a reaction to the pervasive and acritical use of civilizational paradigms in the study of modern Arabic literature.

Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

This book is not so much edited as curated, by a team of Egyptian and international scholars, human rights defenders, and activists who came together in support of prisoners of conscience in Egypt.

I have been interested in ethnographies of labor since I became an anthropologist, and having decided to do my doctoral fieldwork in Israel, I settled on agriculture as the economic sector that is perhaps most closely implicated in the Zionist project.

The occult in the modern Arab world is an endlessly rich topic. It brings together questions of modernity, religion, science, performance, and identity in an unusual but compelling sub-culture, populated with some fascinating and eccentric—if not always endeari..

Republic of Dreams is written as narrative nonfiction and is told largely through the eyes of one young Kurdish man. The book developed out of my scholarly research on protest and campaigns for political change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where I ..

In late 2010 and early 2011 Tunisia was catapulted to the forefront of regional and international attention. The people of this small North African country had started a revolution, not only quickly bringing down a ruthless dictator but also setting off a trend..

Several factors motivated me to write this book. I will highlight three that address the larger questions it poses. First, my longstanding interest in Palestinian society since World War I drove me to explore how the Nakba and the forced m..