In the first book-length study in English on Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the preeminent modernists of Arabic poetry, the author provides a comprehensive look at Yusuf's literary accomplishments and a coherent framework for understanding his body of work.
A new reading of the critical power struggle between the July 1952 revolutionary regime in Egypt and its adversaries through a close study of specific trials in the country's special courts and their role in shaping each side's public image.
Through a close analysis of events in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, the book argues that the three waves of violence against Christians in Anatolia were not spasmodic or distinct, but rather formed part of a larger and coherent plan of genocide, itself used as a model by Hitler for the Jews.
Weaving together drug trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; and colonialism and nation-building, the book uses hashish—a marker of belonging and difference in the region—to explore the inter-connected realms of cross-border politics, economics, and culture, and to offer new insights into how the modern Middle East was made. Co-winner of the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies Award.
Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the book diverges from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show that the conflict between the two countries is as much a product of shared cultural trajectories and entangled histories as it is of strategic concerns and political differences.
A new reading of the famous yet under-studied criminal trial of several senior Ottoman statesmen, including the Midhat Pasha, offers a new framework for understanding Ottoman legalism and its concept of the rule of law.
Employing a socio-legal approach, the book offers a fresh look at one of the most important milestones in the transition of the Ottoman Middle East into modernity during the late nineteenth century: the Nizamiye court system.
An exploration of the intricacies of both formal and informal agreements between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-independent Egyptian nation in 1922 until the 2011 uprising.
An investigation of the discrepancy between Egypt's swift economic growth in the 1970s and 80s and its social and cultural crises of the same period.
Using two detailed case studies—the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the martyred grandson of the Prophet) and the holy month of Rajab—the book explores the relationship between the sanctification of space and time in both individual and communal piety and religious literature.
Focusing on the mosques, cemeteries, and shrines of Syrian Muslims in the period of the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, the book uses religious rites and experiences, liturgical calendars, spiritual leadership, and perceptions of impiety and dissent to paint a complex yet intimate picture of the texture of medieval Islamic piety. Winner of the Tel Aviv Book Award in Middle Eastern Studies.
