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Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both global-in and global-out. It delves into the region's scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.

Table of Contents
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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 23/02/2021
      ISBN13: 9780520295339, 978-0520295339
      ISBN10: 0520295331
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both global-in and global-out. It delves into the region's scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.

      Table of Contents
      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

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