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Connecting Modernity The Other Iraq
Pluralism and Culture
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Histories in Saint-Simonians and
Afghanistan the Civilizing Mission in Hashemite Iraq
Market Relations and in Algeria Orit Bashkin
State Formation on a Osama W. Abi-Mershed “A book written to explain an ear-
Colonial Frontier This study of the specialized
lier era sometimes takes on a new
and startling relevance in a later
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi military Offices of Arab Affairs
one.... Bashkin’s book not only an-
in Algeria during the formative
This work examines the Brit- ticipates many of the troubles en-
decades of French rule from
ish Indian colonial impact on countered in Iraq today, but it also
1830 to 1870 disputes the con-
the economy and society of supplies a vocabulary with which
ventional view that the doctrine
nineteenth-century Afghani- to talk about them and about the
of assimilation governed France’s
stan. Looking closely at com- breach between political theory
colonial policies and practices in
merce in and between Kabul, and political practice.”
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Gridlock
Labor, Migration,
and Human
Trafficking in Dubai
Pardis Mahdavi
The images of human traf-
ficking are all too often
reduced to media tales of
helpless young women
taken by heavily accented,
dark-skinned captors—but
the reality is a far cry from Consuming Desires
this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been ac- Family Crisis and
6 cused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, the State in the
however, draws a more complicated and more personal Middle East
picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant
Frances S. Hasso
workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone
Examines new forms of mar-
else, they make choices to better their lives, though the
riage emerging in Egypt and the
risk of ending up in bad situations is high. United Arab Emirates in reac-
tion, in part, to the governments’
Gridlock explores how migrants’ actual experiences in increasing attempts to control
Dubai contrast with the typical discussions—and global sexuality with shari`a law.
moral panic—about human trafficking. Sharing the “The personal is political ev-
migrants’ own stories and juxtaposing these experiences erywhere, but nowhere more
with interviews with U.S. policy makers, Mahdavi re- profoundly than in Arab societies
veals the gaping disconnect between policies on human undergoing rapid social change.
Hasso’s account of the ways in
trafficking and the realities of forced labor and migra- which marriage and intimacy in-
tion in the Persian Gulf. tersect with state policy and legal
systems in Egypt and the UAE is
“This is a gripping book on human trafficking in Dubai. timely, important, and insightful.
With impressive clarity, Mahdavi describes the complex Hasso rightly analyzes the chal-
problem of trafficked women, migrants, and foreign lenges and difficulties but also
reports on real gains.”
workers, and the role of the international community —Craig Calhoun,
and the host country in dealing with it.” New York University and the
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