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    Series series Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
    Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt ... Read more

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  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

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  • Women of the Midan

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    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

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    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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  • The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism

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    A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this pathbreaking ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

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    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
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    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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