American studies encounters the Middle East /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lubin, Alex (Editor), Kraidy, Marwan M., 1972- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Subjects:	United States > Relations > Middle East. Middle East > Relations > United States. East and West.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: American studies encounters the Middle East / Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy
Diabolical enterprises and abominable superstitions: Islam and the conceptualization of finance in early American literature / Adam John Waterman
Salim the Algerine: the Muslim who strayed into colonial Virginia / Judith E. Tucker
"Race" and "blackness" in Moroccan rap: voicing local experiences of marginality / Cristina Moreno Almeida
Call and response, radical belonging, and Arabic hip-hop in "the West" / Rayya El Zein
The reception of U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution: between the popular and the official / Mounira Soliman
Arab Spring, American autumn / Brian T. Edwards
The uses of modernization theory: American foreign policy and mythmaking in the Arab world / Waleed Hazbun
Travelling law: targeted killing, lawfare, and the deconstruction of the battlefield / Craig Jones
Drone executions, urban surveillance, and the imperial gaze / Ashley Dawson
Technology's borders: the U.S., Palestine, and Egypt's digital connections / Helga Tawil-Souri
The counterrevolutionary year: the Arab Spring, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East / Osamah Khalil.