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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 ..

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..

The Arab uprisings of the early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structures and better living conditions for millions in the region.

The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is part of a series of acts I have engaged in since 2017, which together explore if something anew can emerge out of ruins. 

The inspiration for this book came from a desire to better understand the often controversial role that sexualities play in the context of MENA politics, religions, peoples, and lived experiences, including prejudices and discriminations. As much an effort of s..

The accelerating pace of innovation has been a defining theme in my research and professional journey, shaping how I understand and approach challenges in the Arab Gulf states. Innovation has not only transformed industries, economies, and societies globally bu..

Paris is known for the richness of its cinema landscape: it has, by some counts, the most cinemas and cinema screens of any city in the world. After moving here some years ago, I gradually became conscious of a distinct lack of Indian films being screened, espe..

In graduate school, as I was preparing to head to the archives, I felt like histories of Arabia and the Gulf were missing stories of everyday life, as well as the voices of people who could slip between official frameworks.

In writing this book, I took on monuments that I kept seeing in France and Algeria, ubiquitous presences that made me stop and look. For example, in 1990 when I first came to Oran, Algeria’s second largest city, I lived near the magnificent monument to the mart..

Özge Yaka, Fighting for the River: Gender, Body and Agency in Environmental Struggles (University of California Press, 2023).

My motivation for writing this book comes from the fact that Tunisian exiles are still not recognized as full political actors, either in France or in Tunisia. Through investigating Tunisian political activism in France since the 1980s, I wanted to show that mi..