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Book SynopsisMiddle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia will show the long-term implications of current approaches to Middle East scholarship on the internal transformation of Middle Eastern societies. It describes the complex relationship between American academia and state government: a relationship which has influenced and restructured the state, society and politics in the Middle East as well as in the United States. It engages the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, History and International Studies, while maintaining the epistemological, methodological, and ontological insights of a sociological approach to the Middle East.
Contributors are: Beyazit H. Akman, Mahmoud Arghavan, Dunya D. Cakir, Emanuela C. Del Re, Babak Elahi, Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Merve Kavakci, Tugrul Keskin, Seyed Mohammd Marandi, Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel, Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Francesco L. Sinatora, Zeinab Ghasemi Tari
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1 An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism (Theories and Praxis)
Tugrul Keskin
2 At the Threshold of Iranian Studies
Babak Elahi
3 A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image Lineage
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
4 Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Francesco L. Sinatora
5 Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A Battlefield of Orientalism
Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel
6 The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East
Dunya D. Cakir
7 The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland
Mahmoud Arghavan
8 Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism at Work in Turkish Politics
Merve Kavakci
9 (Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case Study of Contemporary Iranian Art
Staci Gem Scheiwiller
10 Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel
Beyazit H. Akman
11 The Jasmine in the Fist: The Otpor Model in the Arab Spring and Beyond
Emanuela C. Del Re
12 Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Post-revolutionary Iran
Seyed Mohammd Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari
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