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Book SynopsisSimon Mabon is Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University, UK, where he directs SEPAD and the Richardson Institute.
Sanaa Alsarghali is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at An-Najaj National University, Palestine, where she is the Director of the Constitutional Studies Center.
Adel Ruished is PhD Researcher in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Philosophy, Politics and Religion, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. States of Exception, Bare Life and Agamben in the Middle East
Simon Mabon, Lancaster University, UK 2. The Gulf Cooperation Council Police Imagined: The State of Exception and Transnational Policing
Staci Strobl, University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Simon Mabon, L
ancaster University, UK 3. Claiming Agency in the Iraqi State of Exception
Edith Szanto , University of Alabama, USA 4. Institutionalizing Authoritarianism: Egypt, Al Sisi and the State of Exception
Lucia Ardovini, Lancaster University, UK 5. A Forced Marriage? Palestine and the State of Exception
Sanaa Alsarghali, An-Najah National University, Palestine Chapter 6: States of Exception and Emergency in the Post Arab Uprisings Middle East
Lucia Ardovini, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden 6. Soverign Power in an Icy Climate: An Exploration of Violence, Environmental Challenges and Displacement in the Bekka Valley, Lebanon
Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Lancaster University, UK 7. Penal Portents, Penal Precedents and Spectacles of Unbearable Life
Madonna Kalousian, Lancaster University, UK 8. The Politics of Secular Cultural Property in East Jerusalem: The Case of Birket Hamam Al-Batrak
Adel Ruished, Lancaster University, UK 9. Biopolitics, Destituent Resistance and Power-Sharing in Post-War Lebanon John Nagle,
Queen’s University Belfast, UK Concluding Observations Index
