Check out these new publications by GMES faculty:
| Prof. Ian Straughn, of the Department of Anthropology, has a chapter in a newly published volume on the manuscripts of Timbuktu. Titled, Flecks of Timbuktu on the Skin: Excavating the Unbound Aspects of a Manuscript Collection," it appears in Engmann, R.A.A. (ed.) Timbuktu Unbound. Heritage Studies in the Muslim World, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The essays discusses aspects of the process of digitizing and organizing materials from the Infa Yattara Family Library, which houses a private collection from Timbuktu, but which has recently been relocated and re-established for its safety in the Malian capital of Bamako. The chapter can be found here. | |
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Mor, Liron, Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Israel-Palestine (Fordham University Press) is forthcoming in Fall 2023 |
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Mor, Liron. “Zionist Speculation: Colonial Vision and Its Sublime Turn,” Theory & Event, Vol. 26, no. 1, 2023, pp. 154-185. |
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2023 Sherine F. Hamdy, with Myra El-Mir, “Comics by Women and Genderqueer Artists in the Middle East Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Edited by Suad Joseph, Zeina Zaatari, Brill, 2023. |
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Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor. “Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran.” Iranian Studies 55, no. 2 (2022): 463–500. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iranian-studies/article/pictorial-modernity-and-the-armenian-women-of-iran/A211EDF1CF3C9EAD863BD9D14FE18A1F |
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Mark LeVine, We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World (California, 2022), the much-anticipated follow-up to 2008's Heavy Metal Islam (also republished in a new and updated edition, looks at how music across the Muslim world has reflected and shaped politics and social change in the region. Visit here for a Q&A about the book. |
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Mark LeVine, with Sune Haugbolle, Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World (Routledge, 2022), features leading scholars of Arab politics and society exploring changes to the functioning of Arab political systems since the eruption of the Arab Spring in 2010. Visit here for a Q&A about the book. |
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Mor, Liron. “Reorienting Visual Reading: From Colonial Visions to the Subtexts ‘Facing Us,’” Qui Parle, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, pp. 189-229. |
| 2022 Sherine F. Hamdy, with Soha Bayoumi, "Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-revolutionary Egypt" Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Special Issue on Power and Medicine in the Middle East, pp 1-25 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-022-09802-4 |