Past Read: Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East

Sirageldin, Ismail. Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East. (New York: IB Taurus, 2002)

Past Read: The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World

Benthall, Jonathan and Jerome Bellion-Jourdan. The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World. (I. B. Tauris; Second Edition, 2009)

Tuesday's Read: Visual Culture: The Reader

Evans, Jessica, and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. (London: Sage, 1999)

Monday's Read: Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

Clifford, James, ed. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. (University of California Press, 1986)

Past Read: Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

Harvey, David. Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006)

Past Read: The Suffering of the Immigrant

Sayad, Abdelmalek. The Suffering of the Immigrant. (New York: Polity, 2004)

Past Read: Islam and Capitalism

Rodinson, Maxime. Islam and Capitalism. (Saqi Books, 2007)

Past Read: Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

 Hall, Stuart, ed. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. (London: Sage, 1997)

Saturday's Read: The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

Elsheshtawy, Yasser, ed. The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development. (New York: Routledge, 2008)

Friday's Read: Cities in the Developing World

Abu-Lughod, Janet. Third World Urbanization. (Maroufa, 1977)

Past Read: Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)

Thursday's Read: The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750

Masters, Bruce. The origins of western economic dominance in the Middle East: mercantilism and the Islamic economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750. (New York: New York University Press, 1988) 

Thursday's Read: Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean

Schumann, Christoph, ed. Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean, Late 19th Century until the 1960s. (Brill: Leiden, 2008)

Past Read: The Odyssey of Farah Antun

Reid, Donald. The Odyssey of Farah Antun: A Syrian Christian's Quest for Secularism. (Bibliotheca Islamica: Minneapolis, 1975)

Past Read: New Pespectives on the Transnational Right

Durham, Martin and Margaret Power, eds. New Perspectives on the Transnational Right. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Past Read: French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment

Rabinow, Paul. French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

Past Read Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation

Varisco, Daniel. Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Wednesday's Read: Arab Intellectuals and the West

  Sharabi, Hisham. Arab Intellectuals and the West: The Formative Years, 1875-1914. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970)

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Past Read: Publics and Counterpublics

Warner, Michael. Publics and Counterpublics. (New York: Zone, 2005)

Tuesday's Read: The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism

Damousi, Joy and Mariano Ben Plotkin, eds. The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 

Past Read: Modern Social Imaginaries

Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries. (Duke UP, 2003)

Past Read: Cultural Hybridity

Peter Burke. Cultural Hybridity. (New York: Polity, 2009)

Past Read: Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb

 Raymond, Andre. Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb. (Valorium, 2002)

Past Read: Orientalism

Said, Edward. Orientalism. (New York: Vintage, 1978)

Past Read: Writings On Cities

LeFebvre, Henri. Writings on Cities. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996)

Past Read: Finance and World Order: Financial Fragility, Systemic Risk, and Transnational Regimes

            Lucatelli, Adriano. Finance and World Order: Financial Fragility, Systemic Risk, and Transnational Regimes. (New York: Praeger, 1997)

Past Read: Persistent Permeability?: Regionalism, Localism, and Globalization in the Middle East

        Salloukh, Bassel F. and Rex Brynen, eds. Persistent permeability?: regionalism, localism, and globalization in the MiddleEast (Burlington, VT: Aldershot, 2004)