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Sommario
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part One: Introduction
1 • Global Middle East
Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera
Part Two: Nations without Borders
2 • God
Ebrahim Moosa
3 • Algebra, Alchemy, Astronomy
Robert Morrison
4 • Rumi, the Bridge Builder
Fatemeh Keshavarz
5 • On Nations without Borders
Hamid Dabashi
Part Three: Home and the World
6 • Reflections on Exile
Edward Said
7 • Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody?
Amro Ali
8 • Gamal Abdel Nasser
Khaled Fahmy
Part Four: Food, Film, Fashion, Music
9 • Circuits of Food and Cuisine
Sami Zubaida
10 • Pictures in Motion
Kamran Rastegar
11 • Musical Journeys
Michael Frishkopf
12 • The Kufiya
Ted Swedenburg
Part Five: Geopolitics of Goods
13 • Water of Vulnerability
Jeannie Sowers
14 • Cycle of Oil and Arms
Timothy Mitchell
15 • Cotton, Made in Egypt
Ahmad Shokr
16 • Ports of the Persian Gulf
Laleh Khalili
Part Six: Human Flows
17 • Touring Exotic Lands
Waleed Hazbun
18 • Outsiders of the Oil States
Ahmed Kanna
19 • The Levant in Latin America
John Tofik Karam
Part Seven: Politics and Movements
20 • Global Tahrir
Asef Bayat
21 • Islamizing Radicalism
Olivier Roy
22 • Global Movement for Palestine
Ilana Feldman
23 • Human Rights, Indigenous and Imperial
Lori Allen
24 • Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla Benhabib
Linda Herrera
Contributors
Index
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Asef Bayat is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East and Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring.
Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet and coeditor of Wired Citizenship and Cultures of Arab Schooling.
Riassunto
Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both “global-in” and “global-out.” It delves into the region’s scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges.
Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.
