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Before World Literature
The Trickster Tales of al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512828870
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Forensic Fantasies
Doctors, Documents, and the Limits of Truth in Turkey
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827774
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
In Forensic Fantasies, anthropologist Başak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence.
A Break in the Future
Feeling Like an Activist After the Arab Uprisings
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828061
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
A Break in the Future considers the ways in which belief in political change is maintained after movements fail. Examining political activism in Lebanon in the decade between the Arab and Lebanese uprisings, Fuad Musallam explores the ebb and flow of political engagement in dialogue to better understand how political possibility endures.
Under the Same Sky
Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827712
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Under the Same Sky explores the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with Syria, showing how their shared social spaces sustain and transform religious differences. Seçil Daǧtaș offers a nuanced perspective on secularism, religious plurality, and interfaith relations in the Middle East, moving beyond identity-based politics.
No Place for Grief
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827934
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Through a detailed ethnographic account of the everyday lives of detainees' wives in the occupied Palestinian Territory, No Place for Grief reveals the ways in which the normalization of these women's distress is intrinsically and painfully linked to the collective struggle for freedom from the occupation.
Living Tangier
Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827927
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
The New Political Islam
Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826883
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters.
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.

Before World Literature
The Trickster Tales of al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512828870
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Forensic Fantasies
Doctors, Documents, and the Limits of Truth in Turkey
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827774
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
In Forensic Fantasies, anthropologist Başak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence.
A Break in the Future
Feeling Like an Activist After the Arab Uprisings
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828061
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
A Break in the Future considers the ways in which belief in political change is maintained after movements fail. Examining political activism in Lebanon in the decade between the Arab and Lebanese uprisings, Fuad Musallam explores the ebb and flow of political engagement in dialogue to better understand how political possibility endures.
Under the Same Sky
Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827712
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Under the Same Sky explores the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with Syria, showing how their shared social spaces sustain and transform religious differences. Seçil Daǧtaș offers a nuanced perspective on secularism, religious plurality, and interfaith relations in the Middle East, moving beyond identity-based politics.
No Place for Grief
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827934
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Through a detailed ethnographic account of the everyday lives of detainees' wives in the occupied Palestinian Territory, No Place for Grief reveals the ways in which the normalization of these women's distress is intrinsically and painfully linked to the collective struggle for freedom from the occupation.
Living Tangier
Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827927
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
The New Political Islam
Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826883
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters.
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.