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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.
Read more about the series
Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South is an interdisciplinary book series
published by the University of Texas Press. The series seeks to publish original research that moves beyond the conventional geo‐spatial conventions of the area studies paradigm of scholarship. This focus is designed to shift the focus of the series away from work that takes a single nation‐state, national history, or comparative study as its framework of inquiry. Therefore, instead of exploring these societies in relation to each other, the series seeks to study them through one another, that is, through connection, interaction, and encounter. Building on emerging scholarship shaped by “connected histories,” “transnationalism,” and “global history,” the series seeks to support research investigating the circulations of peoples, objects, texts, and ideas that link the societies of the Middle East to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Focusing primarily on the varied forms of these South‐South connections, the series will emphasize themes of mobilities, migration, diaspora, capital flows, pilgrimage, transregional subaltern connectivities, as well as networks of activism, culture, and ideology. While the focus of the series is primarily on the modern period, the series is also open to trans‐temporal scholarship that challenges the historiographic divide between the early modern and modern eras. Collectively, the books published in the series will highlight areas of research that have fallen outside, between, or at the margins of conventionally defined geographies of scholarship.
Forthcoming Titles
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
- Shaherzad Ahmadi, Bordering on War: A Social and Political History of Khuzistan
- Aria Fani, Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
A History of Decolonization and Transformation
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
Voices from the Diaspora
Palestinian Rituals of Identity
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America
Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
Race, Space, and Place in the First World War
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 1
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 3
Selected Poems
Stella, Identity, and the Modern State
Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930
An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
A Brief Introduction
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
Navigating the Margins of Respectability
Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations
Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space
Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate
Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean
A Subaltern History
Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism
The Marketing and Commodification of Piety
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 2
Saddam Hussein's Totalitarianism
Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan
Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
A History from Antiquity to the Present
Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland
From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship
Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Artistic Developments in the Muslim World
The American University of Beirut
Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
One Wannabe Bride’s Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights
Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City
Revised Edition
Women Shaping Berber Identity