Factsheets crafted by local experts to understand the region at a glance

Reading lists and bibliographies.

Click on any country to start understanding the region.

By Country

… No, we do not subscribe to methodological nationalism, but the production of knowledge is still structured around it.

  • · Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt, Alain Mikhail

    · Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood

  • · Pascal Menoret, The Saudi Enigma

  • Item description

  • · Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History. Fourth edition. Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

    · Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. California Series in Public Anthropology 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

    · Khaled, Leila, and George Hajjar. My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.

    · Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Paperback ed. London: Oneworld, 2007.

    · Said, Edward W. Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process. 1. ed. A Vintage Original. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.·

  • Item description

  • · The state and social transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980, Lisa Anderson

  • · A History of Modern Morocco, Susan Gilson Miller

    · The Moroccan Monarchy and the Struggle for Power, Maati Monjib

    · The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, Susan Slyomovics

    · Dette publique & impérialisme au Maroc, Adam Barbe

    · Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society, Fatima Mernissi

    · The state and social transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980, Lisa Anderson

  • · Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution, Willow Berridge, Raga Makawi, and Justin Lynch

    · Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan, Eve Troutt Powell

  • Item description

  • · Late Ottoman Empire, Şükrü Hanioğlu

    ·

  • Item description

By Theme

  • · Gender Trouble, Judith Butler

    · Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood

    · Sextarianism, Maya Mikdashi

    · Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi

  • · Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty

    · How to West Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

    · World Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein

  • · James C. Scott, Seeing like a State

    · The authoritarian origins of Democracy, Albertus

    · State of Exception, Girgio Agamben

    · Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe

  • · Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, Elizabeth F. Thompson

    · The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

    · The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Eric Hobsbawm