Wednesday's Read: Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East

Chatty, Dawn. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010)

Past Read: Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf

 Rich, Paul. Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf. (Lexington, 2009)

Past Read: Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Lacroix, Stéphane. Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia. (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Past Read: Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

Davidson, Christopher. Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. (Columbia UP, 2009)

Tuesday's Read: Forced Migration and Global Politics

Betts, Alexander. Forced Migration and Global Politics. (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Friday's Read: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991)

Friday's Read: Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective

Cornelius, Wayne and Tsuda Takeyuki, eds. Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, 2nd ed. (Stanford UP, 2004)

Past Read: Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

Elshashtawy, Yasser. Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle. (New York: Routledge, 2009)

Friday's Read: The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media are Reshaping World Politics

Sieb, Philip. The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media are Reshaping World Politics. (Dulles: Potomac Books, 2008)

Past Read: Oman and Muscat: An Early Modern History

Risso, Patricia. Oman and Muscat: An Early Modern History. (Routledge, 1986)

Wednesday's Read: Arab Television Today

Sakr, Naomi. Arab Television Today. (London: I.B. Tauris 2007)

Tuesday's Read: Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

Mitchell, Timothy. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)

Tuesday's Read: Crosswinds: The Way of Saudi Arabia

Ajami, Fouad. Crosswinds: The Way of Saudi Arabia. (Hoover Institution Press, 2011)

Monday's Read: Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

Miriam and Bruce Lawrence, eds. Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop. (Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

Monday's Read: New Media in the Muslim World

Eickelman, Dale F. & Anderson, Jon W., eds. New Media in the Muslim World, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003)

Friday's Read: Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today

Lynch, Marc. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)

Thursday's Read: Endowments, Rulers and Community: Waqf Al-Haramayn in Ottoman Algiers

Hoexter, Miriam. Endowments, Rulers and Community: Waqf Al-Haramayn in Ottoman Algiers. (Brill, 1998)

Wednesday's Read: Waqfs and Urban Structures: The Case of Ottoman Damascus

Van Leeuwen. Waqfs and Urban Structures: The Case of Ottoman Damascus. (Leiden: Brill, 1999)

Tuesday's Read: Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life

 Kraidy, Marwan. Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Past Read: The Imamate Tradition of Oman

Wilkinson, John Craven. The Imamate Tradition of Oman. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Past Read: Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

Smith, Simon S. Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71. (New York: Routledge, 2004)