Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East

Contributors

357 Contributors Paul Amar is associate professor in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in comparative politics, international security studies, American studies, human geography, political sociology, global ethnography, theories of the state, and theories of gender, race, and postcolonial politics. He focuses on democratic transitions in the Middle East and Latin America, and traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the Global South. He has been interviewed regularly on radio and television and has contributed to Jadaliyya e-zine, Al Jazeera Online, Courrier International, Cairo Times, FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung, andotherinternationalnewspublications. His books include The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism; Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (edited with Diane Singerman); New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving LawEnforcement Politics; and Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries. Sheila Carapico is professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond and visiting professor at theAmerican University in Cairo. She is a contributing editor to Middle East Report and author of Political Aid: Paradoxes of Democracy Promotion in the Middle East and Civil Society in 358 Contributors Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia. A former Fulbright Scholar in Yemen and president of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, she has written extensively on Yemeni politics and society, Arab activism, and Middle East politics. Nouri Gana holds a joint appointment in comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received several awards, including a Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Rackham Faculty Research Grant from the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is writing a book on the affective politics of Arab contemporaneity and editing a collection of essays on the intellectual history and contemporary significance of the Arab novel in English. Toufic Haddad is coeditor of Between the Lines: Readings in Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. “War on Terror” and Towards a New Internationalism: Readings in Globalization, the Global Justice Movement, and Palestinian Liberation. His writings on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have been featured in print publications and online news sites, including The National, Al Jazeera English, Journal of Palestine Studies, Monthly Review Zine, Znet, CounterPunch, Jadaliyya, Al Akhbar, International Socialist Review, and Socialist Worker. He is a PhD candidate in development studies at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Adam Hanieh is a lecturer in development studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East and processes of state and class formation in the region. He is author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States and Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East. His research and commentary on the Middle East have been published in Journal of Palestine Studies, Capital & Class, Studies in Political Economy, Monthly Review, Middle East Report, Jadaliyya, and Znet. He is an editorial board member of the journal Historical Materialism. Toby C. Jones is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. He has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East, including several years in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. During 2008–9 he was a fellow at Princeton University’s Oil, Energy, and the Middle East project. From 2004 to early 2006 he worked as the Persian Gulf political analyst for the International Crisis Group. His research interests focus on the environment, energy, and the history of science and technology. He is author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged contributors 359 Modern SaudiArabia and is currently working on a book, America’s Oil Wars. He has written for International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of American History, Middle East Report, Raritan Quarterly Review, The Nation, TheAtlantic, Arab Reform Bulletin, and the New York Times. He is a member of the editorial committee for Middle East Report. Anjali Kamat is a producer/correspondent with Fault Lines, a current-affairs documentary show that airs onAl Jazeera English. Her films include Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention and Battle for the Sinai. From 2007 to 2011, she was a producer/correspondent for the independent television...