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Monday, April 30, 2012

Monday's Read: Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions




















Amin, Samir, trans. Shane Mage. Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998)

Monday's Read: Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder


















Amin, Samir. Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder. (New York: Zed Books, 2004)

Monday's Read: Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach


















Flickers, Andreas and Catherine Johnson, eds. Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach. (New York: Routledge, 2012)


Sunday, April 29, 2012

Saturday's Read: The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World


















Amin, Samir. The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004)

Sunday's Read: The Arab Nation: Nationalism and Class Struggles



















Amin, Samir. The Arab Nation: Nationalism and Class Struggles. (New York: Zed Books, 1978)

Past Read: Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt




















Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. (University Of Chicago Press, 2004)

Sunday's Read: An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking























Naficy, Hamid. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001)

Friday, April 27, 2012

Friday's Read: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle





















Debord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, 3rd ed. (New York: Verso, 2011)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Wednesday's Read: The Society of the Spectacle



















Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. (New York: Black and Red, 2010 reprint of 2000 edition)

Tuesday's Read: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media














Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap, 2008 reprint)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Monday's Read: Society and economics in Islam: Writings and declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani





















Taleghani, Mahmud. Society and economics in Islam: Writings and declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani. (New Haledon, New Jersey: Mizan Press, 1982)

Sunday's Read: A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century


















Owen, Roger and Sevket Pamuk. A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century. (New York: IB Taurus, 1998)

Past Read: Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas






















Behdad, Sohrab and Farhad Nomani, eds. Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas (New York: Routledge, 2006)

Past Read: Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East

















Henry, Clement M. and Robert Springborg. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001).

Friday, April 20, 2012

Friday's Read: Middle East Economies in the 1970s: A Comparative Approach
















Askari, Hossein and John Thomas Cummings. Middle East Economies in the 1970s: A Comparative Approach. (London: Praeger, 1977)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Past Read: Islamic Finance: Current Legal and Regulatory Issues















Ali, S. Nazim. Islamic finance: Current Legal and Regulatory Issues. (Cambridge, Mass.: Islamic Finance Project, Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2005)

Wednesday's Read: Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice



















 el-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006)

Monday, April 16, 2012

Past Read: Beyond regionalism? Regional cooperation, Regionalism and regionalization in the Middle East














Matteo Legrenzi and Cilja Harders, eds. Beyond regionalism? Regional cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008)

Tuesday's Read: Islamic Finance in the Global Economy: Second Edition


















Werde, Ibrahim. Islamic Finance in the Global Economy: Second Edition. (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

Monday's Read: Islamic Finance: Instruments and Markets



















Islamic finance: instruments and markets. No author listed. (London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2010)

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Past Read: Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment




















Walton, John K. and David Seddon. Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1994)