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contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Power and Knowledge in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa xiii Sherine Hafez and Susan Slyomovics pArt 1. Knowledge Production in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa 1. State of the State of the Art Studies: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa 3 Susan Slyomovics 2. Occluding Difference: Ethnic Identity and the Shifting Zones of Theory on the Middle East and North Africa 23 Seteney Shami and Nefissa Naguib 3. Anthropology’s Middle Eastern Prehistory: An Archaeology of Knowledge 47 Jon W. Anderson 4. The Pragmatics and Politics of Anthropological Collaboration on the North African Frontier 63 Paul A. Silverstein 5. The Post–Cold War Politics of Middle East Anthropology: Insights from a Transitional Generation Confronting the War on Terror 79 Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar viii pArt 2. Subjectivities: Youth, Gender, Family, and Tribe in the Middle Eastern and North African Nation-State 6. Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the State 105 Suad Joseph 7. The Memory Work of Anthropologists: Notes Toward a Gendered Politics of Memory in Conflict Zones—Sudan and Eritrea 125 Sondra Hale 8. Rejecting Authenticity in the Desert Landscapes of the Modern Middle East: Development Processes in the Jiddat il-Harasiis, Oman 145 Dawn Chatty 9. Notable Families and Capitalist Parasites in Egypt’s Former Free Zone: Law, Trade, and Uncertainty 165 Christine Hegel-Cantarella pArt 3. Anthropology of Religion and Secularism in the Middle East and North Africa 10. Will the Rational Religious Subject Please Stand Up? Muslim Subjects and the Analytics of Religion 187 Sherine Hafez 11. Defining (and Enforcing) Islam in Secular Turkey 203 Kim Shively 12. Shari'a in the Diaspora: Displacement, Exclusion, and the Anthropology of the Traveling Middle East 223 Susanne Dahlgren 13. A Place to Belong: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Contraceptive Practices in Morocco 239 Cortney L. Hughes [35.175.232.163] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 16:19 GMT) ix pArt 4. Anthropology and New Media in the Virtual Middle East and North Africa 14.“Our Master’s Call”: Mass Media and the People in Morocco’s 1975 Green March 261 Emilio Spadola 15. The Construction of Virtual Identities: Online Tribalism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond 285 Sebastian Maisel 16. Youth, Peace, and New Media in the Middle East 301 Charlotte Karagueuzian and Pamela Chrabieh Badine References 323 List of Contributors 367 Index 371 ...