Faculty Research
Recent books by our faculty
- Wendy Pearlman, The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora, (Liveright, 2024)
- Shayna M. Silverstein, Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria, (Wesleyan University Press)
- Emrah Yildiz, Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders, (University of California Press)
- Wendy Pearlman (and Muzoon Almellehan), Muzoon, (Random House Children's Books, 2023)
- Carl F. Petry, The Mamluk Sultanate: A History. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan), editors, Theologies of American Exceptionalism (Indiana University Press, 2021)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan), editors, At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2021)
- Rebecca C. Johnson, Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation (Cornell University Press, 2021)
- Brannon Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (University of California Press, 2018)
- Wendy Pearlman (and Boaz Atzili), Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors (Columbia University Press, 2018)
- Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (Custom House, 2017)
- Brannon Ingram (and J. Barton Scott and SherAli K. Tareen), editors, Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia (Routledge, 2016)
- Henri Lauzière, The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2015)
- Jessica Winegar (and Lara Deeb), Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2015)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton University Press, 2015)
- Hannah Feldman, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 (Duke University Press, 2014)
- İpek Yosmaoğlu, Blood Ties: Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908 (Cornell University Press, 2013)
- Carl Petry, The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society: Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under the Mamluks (Middle East Documentation Center, 2012)
- Hamid Naficy, A Social History of Iranian Cinema, 4 Volumes (Duke University Press, 2011-2012):
Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984
Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941 - Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
- Katherine E. Hoffman (and Susan Gilson Miller), editors, Berbers and Others: Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib (Indiana University Press, 2010)
Recent Articles, Book Chapters, and Exhibitions by our Faculty
2023
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "The Politics of International Religion Freedom," Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics, May 29, 2023
- Jessica Winegar, "Love and Disgust: Sovereignty Struggles in Egypt's Uprising," Duke University Press, February 17, 2023
- Michael Rakowitz, "The Waiting Gardens of the North," The Baltic, 2023
2022
- Emrah Yildiz, "Migrant Sexualities, Queer Travelers: Iranian Bears and the Asylum of Translation in Turkey," Differences, 33(1), 119-147, May 01, 2022
- Wendy Pearlman, "Putting Palestinian Agency First," Middle East Law and Governance, 14(3), 285-304, October 14, 2022
- Wendy Pearlman, “How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home, and Integration in the Syrian Case,” International Migration Review, April 14, 2022
- Jessica Winegar, “The Continued Search for Dignity and the Allure of Authoritarian Aesthetics,” Items (Social Science Research Council), February 22, 2022
2021
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "The Spirit of Populism: Political Theologies in Polarized Times," America Transcendent, November 02, 2021
- Jessica Winegar, "Review of Experiments in Decolonizing the University: Towards an Ecology of Study," Journal of Palestine Studies, 51(3), 76-77, 2021
- Wendy Pearlman, "“We Don’t Have the Luxury to Stop”—An Interview with Syrian Civil Society Activist Oula Ramadan," Middle East Report 301 (Winter 2021)
- Emrah Yıldız, “Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31 August 2021 (FirstView)
- Shayna Silverstein, “The ‘Barbaric’ Dabke: Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, review of Ussama Makdisi's book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World, H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-42, May 31, 2021
- Jessica Winegar, “The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Volume 48 Issue 1 (2021)
- Hamid Naficy, “Iranian Internet Cinema, A Cinema of Embodied Protest: Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global,” in Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space, edited by Alena Strohmaier and Angela Krewani (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
- Shayna Silverstein (and Darci Sprengel), “An (Un)Marked Foreigner: Race-Making in Egyptian, Syrian, and German Popular Cultures,” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, March 2021
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (and Nadia Marzouki), “Is There a Right to Heresy?” Boston Review, March 5, 2021
- Wendy Pearlman, “Identity as narrative: story-telling and self-making after the Arab Spring,” co-published by Al-Jumhuriya and Mada Masr, February 10, 2021 (published in English, Arabic, and Italian)
- Brannon Ingram, “Is Islam a ‘Religion’? Contesting Din-Religion Equivalence in Twentieth Century Islamist Discourse,” in Brannon Wheeler and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, eds. Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst (Sheffield: Equinox, 2021)
2020
- Shayna Silverstein, “Mourning the Nightingale’s Song: The Audibility of Networked Performances in Protests and Funerals of the Arab Revolutions,” Performance Matters, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020): Sound Acts, Part 1
- Rebecca C. Johnson, “The Mysteries of Translation in Stranger Fictions,” The Markaz Review, December 15, 2020
- Wendy Pearlman, “Religion and Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising and War,” in The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies, edited by Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones (Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Wendy Pearlman, “Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany,” in Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe, edited by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann (Manchester University Press, 2020)
- İpek Yosmaoǧlu, “Aghia Sophia and a Reckoning with History,” Platform, July 27, 2020
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Defund the Border Police: Racial Justice and the American Border,” Canopy Forum (Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University), July 13, 2020
- Wendy Pearlman, “Syrian Views on Obama’s Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad,” Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 2 (Summer 2020)
- Emrah Yıldız, “Nested (In)Securities: Commodity and Currency Circuits in an Iran under Sanctions,” Cultural Anthropology, Volume 35 Number 2 (2020)
- Zekeria Ahmed Salem, “Rethinking the weak state paradigm in light of the war on terror: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,” in Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides, POMEPS Studies 40 (Project on Middle East Political Science), June 2020
- Wendy Pearlman, “On Field-Being,” in Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, edited by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely (Columbia University Press, 2020)
- Hamid Naficy, “Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark — the Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless,” in ReFocus: The Films of Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image, edited by Azadeh Fatehrad (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
- Jessica Winegar (and Lara Deeb), “When They Don’t Like What We Write: Criticism of Anthropology as a Diagnostic of Power,” in Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, edited by Carole McGranahan (Duke University Press, 2020)
- Emrah Yıldız, “What does Trump’s Celebration of the Resurgent Dollar Tell us about the International Monetary System?” CounterPunch April 17, 2020
- Wendy Pearlman, “Mobilizing From Scratch: Large-Scale Collective Action Without Preexisting Organization in the Syrian Uprising,” Comparative Political Studies (2020)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Islam in America,” Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2020
- Wendy Pearlman, “Host State Engagement, Socioeconomic Class, and Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany,” Comparative Politics, Volume 52, Number 2, January 2020
- Hannah Feldman, “Abstract anxieties, Algerian abstraction,” in Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s, edited by Lynn Gumpert and Suheyla Takesh (Grey Art Gallery, New York University and Hirmer Publishers, 2020)
2019
- Brannon Ingram, “A ‘Modern’ Madrasa: Deoband and Colonial Secularity,” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 44, 3 (2019): 206-25
- Wendy Pearlman, review of The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria by Salwa Ismail, Perspectives on Politics, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2019
- Hamid Naficy, “Collecting Pre- and Post-Revolution Iranian Movie Posters in the United States and in Iran,” in Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World, edited by Ruth E. Iskin and Britany Salsbury (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd & Brannon Ingram, “Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?” Rewire News, November 15, 2019
- Hannah Feldman, “What we talk about when we talk about time,” in Making New Time, edited by Omar Kholeif (Prestel Publishing, 2019)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The religion trap,” The Immanent Frame (Social Science Research Council), August 1, 2019
- Brannon Ingram discusses his book Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam, Jadaliyya, July 19, 2019
- Carl Petry, “Female Slaves and Transgression in Medieval Cairo and Damascus: Gendered Aspects of Bondage and Criminality in the Mamluk Period (648/1250-922/1517),” ORIENT: Journal of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 54 (2019)
- Wendy Pearlman, “Civil Action in the Syrian Conflict,” Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence, edited by Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Erica Chenoweth, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Katherine E. Hoffman, “Morocco,” in Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions, edited by Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller, Marie-Claude Najm (Springer/T.M.C. Asser Press, 2019)
- Shayna Silverstein, “Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music,” in Remapping Sound Studies, edited by Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes (Duke University Press, 2019)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Dangerous Logic at the Border: Religion and the Travel Ban,” Religion & Politics, July 2, 2019
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The Conflation of Antisemitism and Israel Criticism Isn’t Unique, But It Is a Problem,” Rewire News, March 19, 2019
- Wendy Pearlman, “5 ways the Syrian revolution continues,” The Conversation, March 15, 2019
- Wendy Pearlman, “How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters,” The Conversation, March 14, 2019
2018
- Jessica Winegar, “Resonant Bodies: The Performance Art of Adham Hafez,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2018) — special issue: Creative Dissent: The Visual Arts of the Arab World Uprisings
- İpek Yosmaoğlu, “Crimes and Misdemeanors: Everyday Lives of Gendarmes in Ottoman Macedonia ca. 1900” in Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by David W. Montgomery (Indiana University Press, 2018)
- Rebecca C. Johnson, “In Translation: Cosmopolitan Reading in the Nahda,” in Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation, edited by Michelle Hartman (Modern Language Association of America, 2018)
- Hannah Feldman, “Before the After There Was Then,” in On Photography in Lebanon: Stories & Essays, edited by Clémence Cottard Hachem (Kaph Books, 2018)
- Wendy Pearlman (with Boaz Atzili), “Israel-Hamas Fighting Erupts just as Negotiations Advanced. What started it and why does it matter?” The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), November 15, 2018
- Brannon Ingram, “Understanding the Deoband Movement,” Maydan, November 8, 2018
- Wendy Pearlman, “Becoming a Refugee: Reflections on Self-Understandings of Displacement from the Syrian Case,” Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 52, Issue 2 (November 2018)
- İpek Yosmaoğlu, “Ottoman Armenian Revolutionaries and the Dilemmas of Deliverance Through Violence” in To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905), edited by Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem, abd Henk de Smaele (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
- Carl Petry, “Gendered Nuances in Historiographical Discourses of the Mamluk Period: Muted Praise? Veiled Trivialization? Enigmatic Transgressions?” in Mamluk Historiography Revisted—Narratological Perspectives, edited by Stephan Conermann (Bonn University Press, 2018)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The Border President,” Boston Review, June 28, 2018
- Wendy Pearlman discusses her book We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, Jadaliyya, May 29, 2018
- Katherine E. Hoffman, “Navigating the Border: Amazigh Minorities from Libya in Tunisia during the 2011-2012 Uprisings,” in Mobility and Minorities in Africa, May 2018 (third volume in Nova Collectanea Africana, an edited collection on minorities in Africa published by the Centro di Studi Africani in Sardegna)
- Wendy Pearlman (and Loubna Mrie), “Life Under Assad’s Bombs in a Damascus Suburb,” TIME Magazine, March 1, 2018
2017
- Wendy Pearlman, “Does the Palestinian reconciliation deal make peace more likely?” The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), October 24, 2017
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Rohingya Crisis: Focus on ‘Intolerant Religion’ Disregards Complex Moral and Policy Challenges,” Economic and Political Weekly, September 23, 2017
- Rebecca C. Johnson, “Archive of errors: Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, literature, and the world,” Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume 20, Issue 1 (2017)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion,” The Immanent Frame (Social Science Research Council), October 12, 2017
- Henri Lauzière discusses his book The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century, Jadaliyya, March 29, 2017
- Wendy Pearlman, “Culture or Bureaucracy? Challenges in Syrian refugees’ initial incorporation in Germany,” in Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East, POMEPS Studies 25 (Project on Middle East Political Science), March 2017
- Wendy Pearlman, “Vetting Trump’s Vetting of Refugees,” in New Challenges to Public and Policy Engagement, POMEPS Studies 24 (Project on Middle East Political Science), March 2017
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Trump’s immigration order means bureaucrats have to decide who’s a ‘real’ Christian,” The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), February 8, 2017
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The Myth of the Muslim Country,” Boston Review, January 31, 2017
- Wendy Pearlman, “I interviewed 300 Syrian refugees. They are far from a security threat,” The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), January 30, 2017
2016
- Shayna Silverstein, “The Punk Arab: Demystifying Omar Souleyman’s Techno-Dabke,” Punk Ethnography: Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies, edited by Michael E. Veal and E. Tammy Kim (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)
- Shayna Silverstein, “Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance,” in Islam and Popular Culture, edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, and Martin Stokes (University of Texas Press, 2016)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “In Syria, Keeping the Faith,” Boston Review, May 23, 2016
- Jessica Winegar, “The US Must Stop Supporting Human Rights Violations in Egypt,” Truthout, March 12, 2016
- Wendy Pearlman, “Narratives of Fear in Syria,” Perspectives on Politics, Volume 14, Issue 1 (March 2016)
- Jessica Winegar, “‘I Still Have a Realistic Expectation of Better Prospects for Egypt’s Future’,” Middle East Report 281 (Winter 2016)
- Jessica Winegar, “4 Ways to Make Schools Safer for Muslim Students,” The Huffington Post, January 15, 2016
- Jessica Winegar, “Five Exciting Developments from Across the Middle East in 2015,” Middle East Report Online, January 06, 2016
2015
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “Don’t subject refugees to a religious test,” Al Jazeera America, November 17, 2015
- Jessica Winegar, “Presidential candidates must stop playing fantasy football in the Middle East,” The Hill, November 5, 2015
- Shayna Silverstein, “Cultural Liberalization or Marginalization? The Cultural Politics of Syrian Folk Dance during Social Market Reform,” in Syria from Reform to Revolt (Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion), edited by Leif Stenberg and Christa Salamandra (Syracuse University Press, 2015)
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “How international relations got religion, and got it wrong,” The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), July 9, 2015
2014
- Emrah Yıldız, “Alignments of Dissent and Politics of Naming: Assembling Resistance in Turkey,” in “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, edited by Anthony Alessandrini, Nazan Üstündağ, and Emrah Yıldız, JADMAG (Jadaliyya Magazine) Issue 1.4 (2014)