As we kick off the spring 2013 semester, Jadaliyya would like to remind you of some of the most creative and groundbreaking works in Middle East studies that we have featured in our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page. Since we launched this page in 2011, we have had the opportunity to share with you unique interviews by authors and excerpts from their new and forthcoming publications.
Here you will find a list divided by topic of some of these texts that you may find particularly useful pedagogically. We encourage you to integrate these into your curricula during this semester and beyond. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section.
We wish you the best in the new semester!
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Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims
Arab Uprisings
Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
James Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know
Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish, The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order?
Egypt
Nezar AlSayyad, Cairo: Histories of a City
Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Mervat Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Gender
Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present
Nicola Pratt, “The Gender Logics of Resistance to the "War on Terror"
Iraq
Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar, We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
Iran
Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Islam
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women's Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion
Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam
Palestine/Israel
Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans
Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir, Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel
Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
Saudi Arabia
Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia
Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Torture and Detainment
Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber, Speaking about Torture
Lisa Hajjar, Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights
Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union
John M. Willis, Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past, 1857-1934