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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Law of Desire explores an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. Drawing on rich...
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The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle...
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Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two...
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The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atatürk f...
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Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the...
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Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the ea...
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Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nati...
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Magic Carpet Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /In 1949-50 Operation Magic Carpetbrought the majority of the Jews of Yemen to Israel through secret co-operation between the Imam of Yemen, the Bri...
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Queer Beirut
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story o...
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Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...
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Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious ...
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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys' experiences of circumcision. In Turkey, circumcision is...
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Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople...
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Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition group...
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Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that offers new insig...
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Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that offers new insig...
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The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete comprises sixty short entries...
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Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war ...
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Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war ...
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The Everyday Violence of Forced Displacement: Memory, Community and Identity Politics among Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In the 1990s over a million Turkish Kurds were displaced from Southeastern Turkey. By focusing on the forced migrants' stories and on their mobiliz...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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