Middle East Studies Association Virtual Exhibit

We are pleased to exhibit at the 2022 meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association in Montreal, Québec from November 2-5, 2023, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books on the people, history, politics, culture, and diaspora of the Middle East and North Africa. Browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Jim Burr, learn about our forthcoming Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South series, and more. Browse featured books below, and browse our course essentials here!

Apply the discount code UTXMESA during checkout to receive 30% off the full list price of any book for domestic orders, plus free domestic shipping. Offer begins November 1st and is valid through November 30, 2023. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included.

Forthcoming Series: Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South

Edited by Afshin Marashi and Houri Berberian

Submissions or queries may be directed to the series editors, Afshin Marashi at amarashi@ou.edu and Houri Berberian at houri.berberian@uci.edu, in addition to Acquisitions Editor Jim Burr at jburr@utpress.utexas.edu.

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France and Algeria

A History of Decolonization and Transformation

Phillip Naylor

Reading across Borders

Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism

Aria Fani

Across the Green Sea

Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

Noam Shoked

We Are All Armenian

Voices from the Diaspora

Aram Mrjoian

Palestinian Rituals of Identity

The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948

Awad Halabi

The Right Kind of Suffering

Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America

Rhoda Kanaaneh

Ibn Arabi's Small Death

Mohammad Hassan Alwan, William M. Hutchins

Making Levantine Cuisine

Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean

Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts, Vicki Valosik

The Egyptian Labor Corps

Race, Space, and Place in the First World War

Kyle J. Anderson

Egypt’s Football Revolution

Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

Carl Rommel

My Heart Became a Bomb

Ramy al-Asheq, Levi Thompson

A Bed for the King's Daughter

Shahla Ujayli, Sawad Hussain

Kalima wa Nagham

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 1

Nasser M. Isleem, Ghazi M. Abuhakema, Samah Kamel

The Mosquito Bite Author

Baris Biçakçi, Matthew Chonavec

Landed Internationals

Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Burak Erdim

Exile and the Nation

The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran

Afshin Marashi

Lightning through the Clouds

?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Mark Sanagan

My Shadow Is My Skin

Voices from the Iranian Diaspora

Katherine Whitney, Leila Emery

Kalima wa Nagham

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 3

Nasser M. Isleem, Ghazi M. Abuhakema

Wûf

Kemal Varol, Dayla Rogers

The Sky That Denied Me

Selected Poems

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Roger Allen, Huda Fakhreddine

Egypt's Beer

Stella, Identity, and the Modern State

Omar D. Foda

Acting Egyptian

Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930

Carmen M. K. Gitre

Ghady & Rawan

Fatima Sharafeddine, Samar Mahfouz Barraj, Sawad Hussain, M. Lynx Qualey

Poetic Justice

An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry

Deborah Kapchan

Believing Women in Islam

Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

Asma Barlas

Believing Women in Islam

A Brief Introduction

Asma Barlas, David Raeburn Finn

Moving In and Out of Islam

Karin van Nieuwkerk

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Navigating the Margins of Respectability

L. L. Wynn

Dying in a Mother Tongue

Roja Chamankar, Blake Atwood

The Iranian Diaspora

Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations

Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher

The Design of Protest

Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space

Tali Hatuka

Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam

Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti

The Mexican Mahjar

Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

Camila Pastor

Using Life

Ahmed Naji, Ayman Al Zorkany, Benjamin Koerber

Bad Girls of the Arab World

Nadia Yaqub, Rula Quawas

Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean

A Subaltern History

Odile Moreau, Stuart Schaar, Edmund Burke III

Industrial Sexuality

Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt

Hanan Hammad

About Antiquities

Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire

Zeynep Çelik

Connecting with the Enemy

A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

Sheila H. Katz

A People Without a State

The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism

Michael Eppel

Brand Islam

The Marketing and Commodification of Piety

Faegheh Shirazi

Kalima wa Nagham

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 2

Nasser M. Isleem, Ghazi M. Abuhakema

Islam and Popular Culture

Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, Martin Stokes

The Ba'thification of Iraq

Saddam Hussein's Totalitarianism

Aaron M. Faust

Muhammad in the Digital Age

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Randall Nadeau

Crescent over Another Horizon

Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA

Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona, Paulo G. Pinto, John Tofik Karam

Competitive Archaeology in Jordan

Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites

Elena D. Corbett

North Africa, Revised Edition

A History from Antiquity to the Present

Phillip Naylor

Kurdish Awakening

Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland

Ofra Bengio

Queer Beirut

Sofian Merabet

Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity

Kamran Scot Aghaie, Afshin Marashi

The Making of Arab Americans

From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship

Hani J. Bawardi

Iranians in Texas

Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity

Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher

Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater

Artistic Developments in the Muslim World

Karin van Nieuwkerk

The American University of Beirut

Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education

Betty S. Anderson

I Want to Get Married!

One Wannabe Bride’s Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights

Ghada Abdel Aal, Nora Eltahawy

Reconstructing Beirut

Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City

Aseel Sawalha

Year of the Elephant

Revised Edition

Leila Abouzeid, Barbara McKean Parmenter, Barbara Harlow

Amazigh Arts in Morocco

Women Shaping Berber Identity

Cynthia Becker