Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Bassam Haddad is Associate Professor at the Schar School for Policy and Government at George Mason University. Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Introduction-Joel Beinin1. Landed Property, Capital Accumulation, and Polymorphous Capitalism: Egypt-Kristen Alff2. State, Market, and Class: Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia-Max Ajl, Bassam Haddad, and Zeinab Abul-Magd3. Ten Propositions on Oil-Timothy Mitchell4. Regional Militaries and the Global Military-Industrial Complex-Shana Marshall5. Rethinking Class and State in the Gulf Cooperation Council-Adam Hanieh6. Capitalism in Egypt, Not Egyptian Capitalism-Aaron Jakes and Ahmad Shokr7. State, Oil, and War in the Formation of Iraq-Nida Alahmad8. Colonial Capitalism and Imperial Myth in French North Africa-Muriam Haleh Davis9. Lebanon Beyond Exceptionalism-Ziad M. Abu-Rish10. The US-Israeli Alliance-Joel Beinin11. Repercussions of Colonialism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories-Samia Al-Botmeh

"A thorough and timely collection of essays by some of the top practitioners of Middle East political economy, this book lays bare the human insecurity that is at the root of much of the discontent in the region."—James Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles "This new canonical text will open pathways for research and make the job of educators infinitely easier by reasserting the enduring value of political economy. For too long scholarship has been enchanted by the shibboleths of orientalism and modernization theory—now there is a better way. A tour de force synthesis."—Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, California State University, Stanislaus