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Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328811
Pub Date: April 9th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477328774
Pub Date: March 19th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa.
Palestinian Rituals of Identity
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477326312
Pub Date: January 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
An innovative approach to modern Palestinian history as viewed through a study of the Prophet Moses festival from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
The Egyptian Labor Corps
Race, Space, and Place in the First World War
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477324547
Pub Date: December 14th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
This history sheds new light on Egypt’s involvement in World War I by telling the story of the Egyptian Labor Corps and how the treatment of these primarily rural workers influenced the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477320792
Pub Date: June 8th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Lightning through the Clouds
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477320563
Pub Date: May 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
Acting Egyptian
Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477319185
Pub Date: November 12th, 2019
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Putting the spotlight on theatrical performance and cultural identity in Cairo at the turn of the last century, a historian reveals new aspects of the transition from the Ottoman to the British regimes on Egypt’s path to self-rule.
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477311868
Pub Date: May 16th, 2017
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
The leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to shape the nation’s unique character.
A People Without a State
The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477311073
Pub Date: September 13th, 2016
Format: Paperback
188 Pages
This comprehensive history traces the complex development of Kurdish distinctiveness from the beginnings of Islam through the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Kurdish nationalism after World War I.
Practicing Transnationalism
American Studies in the Middle East
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477310731
Pub Date: September 6th, 2016
Format: Paperback
281 Pages
Practicing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between the United States and the region.

Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328811
Pub Date: April 9th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477328774
Pub Date: March 19th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Palestinian Rituals of Identity
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477326312
Pub Date: January 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
The Egyptian Labor Corps
Race, Space, and Place in the First World War
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477324547
Pub Date: December 14th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477320792
Pub Date: June 8th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Lightning through the Clouds
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477320563
Pub Date: May 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Acting Egyptian
Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477319185
Pub Date: November 12th, 2019
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477311868
Pub Date: May 16th, 2017
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
A People Without a State
The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477311073
Pub Date: September 13th, 2016
Format: Paperback
188 Pages
Practicing Transnationalism
American Studies in the Middle East
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477310731
Pub Date: September 6th, 2016
Format: Paperback
281 Pages