List of Illustrations
Preface
Part One: Introduction
1 • Global Middle East
Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera
Part Two: Nations without Borders
2 • God
Ebrahim Moosa
3 • Algebra, Alchemy, Astronomy
Robert Morrison
4 • Rumi, the Bridge Builder
Fatemeh Keshavarz
5 • On Nations without Borders
Hamid Dabashi
Part Three: Home and the World
6 • Reflections on Exile
Edward Said
7 • Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody?
Amro Ali
8 • Gamal Abdel Nasser
Khaled Fahmy
Part Four: Food, Film, Fashion, Music
9 • Circuits of Food and Cuisine
Sami Zubaida
10 • Pictures in Motion
Kamran Rastegar
11 • Musical Journeys
Michael Frishkopf
12 • The Kufiya
Ted Swedenburg
Part Five: Geopolitics of Goods
13 • Water of Vulnerability
Jeannie Sowers
14 • Cycle of Oil and Arms
Timothy Mitchell
15 • Cotton, Made in Egypt
Ahmad Shokr
16 • Ports of the Persian Gulf
Laleh Khalili
Part Six: Human Flows
17 • Touring Exotic Lands
Waleed Hazbun
18 • Outsiders of the Oil States
Ahmed Kanna
19 • The Levant in Latin America
John Tofik Karam
Part Seven: Politics and Movements
20 • Global Tahrir
Asef Bayat
21 • Islamizing Radicalism
Olivier Roy
22 • Global Movement for Palestine
Ilana Feldman
23 • Human Rights, Indigenous and Imperial
Lori Allen
24 • Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla Benhabib
Linda Herrera
Contributors
Index
Asef Bayat is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational
Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author
of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East and
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab
Spring.
Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education
Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the Global Studies in
Education program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
She is author of Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The
Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet and coeditor
of Wired Citizenship and Cultures of Arab Schooling.
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