In case you missed it. ‘Webinar of the book launch of Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century (edited by Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, University of California Press, 2021). Presentations by Ahmed Kanna, Ahmad Shokr, Asef Bayat, Amro Ali, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Hamid Dabashi, John Tofik Karam, Khaled Fahmy, Laleh Khalili, Linda Herrera, Michael Frishkopf, Sami Zubaida, Ted Swedenburg, and Waleed Hazbun.’
Table of Contents
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