Global Middle East

Liat Kozma is Lecturer in the Deparment of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (2011).Cyrus Schayegh is Assistant Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches Middle East history. He is the author of Who is Knowledgeable is Strong: Science, Class and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950 (2009), and holds a PhD from Columbia University.Avner Wishnitzer is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ben Gurion University and teaches at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Ottoman Temporality and its Transformation in the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming).

'[T]his fine volume show[s] that the early wave of globalization between the 1870s and the 1940s affected the people in the Middle East in profound ways. The basic questions such as where people lived and moved, what they thought, what they liked and consumed and how they communicated were all shaped and reshaped by the forces of globalization during these decades - we learn that it was not only in the realm of politics but also in culture and society that this period was formative of the modern Middle East; and that far from being external or marginal to global processes, the region was centrally involved in them.' Professor Reshat Kasaba, Stanley D. Golub Chair and Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington 'A Global Middle East offers the first examination of how people, objects and ideas as diverse as bees and Islamic theology, and hailing from various Middle Eastern locales, were caught up in the flux of the first wave of globalization while at once putting it in motion. It - make[s] a compelling case about how the regional is anchored in the global and vice versa, never losing sight of how these scales are themselves moving targets. Focusing on movement rather than state, on becoming rather than being, this important volume gives a sensitive and multi-angled account of the dynamics of what its editors see as "globalization from below".' Dr On Barak, Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

• Introduction.Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner WishnitzerPart I: Global Networks, Local Networking1. Reading Gottlieb Schumacher’s The Jaulan (1888). Cyrus Schayegh2. The Emir and the Sea: The Rise and Fall of ‘Abdullahi Muhammad b. ‘Ali Abdashakur, Harär’s Last Emir. Avishai Ben DrorPart II: People on the Move3. Educational Mobility and Globalization: Universities in Cairo between Competition and Standardisation 1900-1950. Valeska Huber4. Urban change, migration and sex work in early nineteenth century Cairo. Francesca Biancani5. Jews on the Move during the Late Ottoman Period. Yaron Ben Naeh6. Global Migration into Late Ottoman Jaffa as reflected in the Arab-Palestinian newspaper Filastin (1911-13). Evi DierauffObjects and Related Practices on the Move7. Papers for Going, Papers for Staying: Identification and Documentation in the East Mediterranean. Will Hanley8. Travelling Substances, Travelling Meanings: Hashish-Related Activities and Attitudes in Mandatory Palestine. Haggai Ram9. On the Diffusion of ‘Small’ Western Technologies in the Middle East During the Era of the First Modern Globalization. Uri Kupferschmidt10. Bees on Camels: Technologies of Movement in Late Ottoman Palestine. Tamar NovickIdeas on the Move11. Muhammad ‘Abduh and His World: Re-imagining Islam in the Period of the First Modern Globalization. Johann Busseow12. Arab Printing, Publishing and Mass Reading: The Dawn of New Practices. Ami Ayalon13. The Movement of Feminist Ideas: The Case of Kad?nlar Dünyas?. Elife Bicher-Deveci14. Globalization and the Creation of Imagined Communities of Islam. Joachim Langer