1st Edition
The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East
1. Introduction: confronting the legacy and contemporary iterations of racial politics in the Middle East
Burcu Ozcelik
2. The Israel/ Palestine Racial Contract and the challenge of anti- Racism: a case study of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism
Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu- Laban
3. Palestine along the colour line: race, colonialism, and construction labour, 1918– 1948
Nimrod Ben Zeev
4. Anti- Muslim hate on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean: Lebanon, the Hijab, and modernity/ coloniality
Ali Kassem
5. Racial otherness, citizenship, and belonging: experiences of “not looking like a Turk”
Murat Ergin
6. Difference in difference: language, geography, and ethno- racial identity in contemporary Iran
Rasmus Elling and Kevan Harris
7. The racial politics of smart urbanism: Dubai and Beirut as two sides of the same coin
Özgün Eylül İşcen
Biography
Burcu Ozcelik holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where she held the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and is an affiliated lecturer. Her research explores conflict, peacebuilding and identity in the contemporary politics of the Middle East, with a focus on Turkey, Iraq, Syria and transnational movements.
