For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the politics of id

Why have state-building projects across the MENA region proven to be so difficult for so long? Following the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, the c

Offering a fuller understanding of the complexities and particular patterns of state formation in regions where tribes have exercised a significant influence, t

Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and states system h

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, yo