Middle East Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

   By Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development. With...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. German Orientalism

   The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945

   By Ursula Wokoeck

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies. Drawing upon a comprehensive survey of thousands of German publications on the Middle East from this period, this book presents a detailed history of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

   Edited by Michael Kemper, Stephan Conermann

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

   Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

   By Pamela Karimi

   Series: Iranian Studies

   Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

   The Politics of the Turkish Novel

   By Erdag Göknar

   Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Change and Development in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays in honour of W.B. Fisher

   Edited by Clarke John, Bowen-Jones Howard

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title’s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Local Music Scenes and Globalization

   Transnational Platforms in Beirut

   By Thomas Burkhalter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Orientalism Revisited

   Art, Land and Voyage

   Edited by Ian Netton

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Arab Cultural Studies

   History, Politics and the Popular

   Edited by Anastasia Valassopoulos

   This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean

    Edited by Fatima Sadiqi

    Series: Routledge Advances in Mediterranean Studies

    Women in the Mediterranean have helped constitute new meanings of knowledge whilst simultaneously providing a wealth of material that is now part of the knowledge archive of the area. The inception of types of knowledge that differ from the conventional necessitates a re-definition of the concept...

    Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge