Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa

Foreword
Nils A. Butenschøn

Introduction

SECTION 1. EMERGENCE OF MODERN CITIZENSHIP

• Peace to those of Faith: Political Affiliation and Belonging in Classical Islamic Thought
  Omar Farahat

• The Ottoman Citizen between Millet and Nation
  Bruce Masters

• Citizenship and Nationality in the French Colonial Maghreb
  Jessica M. Marglin

• Revolutionary Citizenship at the End of Empire
  Michelle U. Campos

• Colonial citizenship? Producing Sectarianism in the Interwar Middle East
  Laura Robson

• Citizenship and the Transition from Colonial to Authoritarian Pacts
  Roel Meijer

SECTION 2. FORMATION OF CITIZENSHIP FROM ABOVE

• Between Claims, Residence and Recognition: the Conceptual Unity of Jinsiyyah and Muwatanah
  Paul M. Esber

• Muwatana, Exclusion and Politics of Belonging in Modernizing Monarchies: the Cases of Kuwait and Morocco/Western Sahara
  James N. Sater

• Constitutions and Citizenship: Rights in Law and Practice in Jordan and the Arab Word
  Lillian Frost and Nathan J. Brown

• The Egyptian Middle Class and the Nasserist Social Contract
  Relli Shechter

• The Islamic Republic and Citizenship in Post-1979 Iran
  Shirin Saeidi

• The Islamic State’s Construction of Citizenship
  Mathilde Becker Aarseth

SECTION 3. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND FORMATION OF CITIZENSHIP FROM BELOW

• The Communist Movement and Citizenship in Arab Countries
  Manfred Sing

• New Islamist Movements and Concepts of Citizenship
  Emin Poljarevic

• Striking for Rights? Workers’ Political Agency and Revolutionary Crisis in the Middle East
  Anne Alexander

• The Politics of the Poor in the Middle East and North Africa: Between Contestation and Accommodation
  Cilja Harders

• Human Rights Movements and the Promotion of Citizenship in MENA
  Fateh Azzam

• The Ambiguity of Citizenship and the Quest for Rights in Morocco
  Driss Maghraoui

SECTION 4. MECHANISM OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

• Domestication or Transformation? Modern Amazigh Identity in the Shadow of the Authoritarian State
  Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

• The Struggle for Kurdish Citizenship
  Michael M. Gunter

• Supremacy Unleashed: the Ongoing Erosion of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
  Shira Robinson

• Patriarchal Nationality Laws and Femal Citizenship in the Middle East
  Rania Maktabi

• Why his Photograph Was not Taken: Reconsidering Membership in Lebanon
  Nadia Sonneveld and Joseph Alagha

• Trafficking in (non)-Citizenship in Kuwait and the UAE
  Zahra Albarazi and Yuona Kusmova

• The Christians of the Middle East: from Arab Christians to Marginalized Minorities

Heleen Murre-van den Berg

• Citizenship and Political Participation in Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Long and Winding Road to a New Social Contract
  Suliman Ibrahim

SECTION 5. MIGRATION AND REGULATION OF CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY

• Political Participation and the Middle East Migration State
  Gerasimos Tsourapos

• Economic Migrants and Citizenship in the GCC
  Zahra R. Babar

• The Middle East and North Africa and the Global Trend towards Multiple Citizenship
  Claire Beaugrand

• Migration and Citizenship in Modern Turkey
  Rusen Yasar

• Subjecthood and Citizenship in the Diaspora: Libyan and Syrian Voice before and after the Arab Spring
  Dana M. Moss

• Tunisian Migration to the EU: A Tale of Asymmetry
  Françoise De Bel-Air

Biography

Roel Meijer is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He is a historian and has edited numerous volumes, including Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement (2009), The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe (2012), and (with Nils A. Butenschøn) The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World (2017) and The Middle East in Transition: The Centrality of Citizenship (2018).

James N. Sater is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at the University of Malta. He is the author of Morocco: Challenges to Tradition and Modernity (Routledge 2010/16) and Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco (Routledge 2007). He has worked on sectarianism, citizenship, electoral politics, gender, marginalisation and migration with a focus on North Africa and Arab Gulf monarchies.

Zahra R. Babar is Associate Director at CIRS at Georgetown University in Qatar. She has published several articles on citizenship, including "Enduring ‘Contested’ Citizenship in the Gulf Cooperation Council" in The Middle East in Transition: The Centrality of Citizenship (2018); "The ‘Enemy Within’: Citizenship-Stripping in the Post-Arab Spring GCC" in Middle East Journal　(2017); and "The Cost of Belonging: Citizenship Construction in the State of Qatar" in Middle East Journal (2014). She served as editor for a special issue of the Middle East Journal titled "Citizenship" (2019).