Asef Bayat is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East and Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring.  Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet and coeditor of Wired Citizenship and Cultures of Arab Schooling.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart One: Introduction1 • Global Middle EastAsef Bayat and Linda HerreraPart Two: Nations without Borders2 • GodEbrahim Moosa3 • Algebra, Alchemy, AstronomyRobert Morrison4 • Rumi, the Bridge BuilderFatemeh Keshavarz5 • On Nations without BordersHamid DabashiPart Three: Home and the World6 • Reflections on ExileEdward Said7 • Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody?Amro Ali8 • Gamal Abdel Nasser Khaled FahmyPart Four: Food, Film, Fashion, Music9 • Circuits of Food and CuisineSami Zubaida10 • Pictures in MotionKamran Rastegar11 • Musical JourneysMichael Frishkopf12 • The KufiyaTed SwedenburgPart Five: Geopolitics of Goods13 • Water of VulnerabilityJeannie Sowers14 • Cycle of Oil and ArmsTimothy Mitchell15 • Cotton, Made in EgyptAhmad Shokr16 • Ports of the Persian GulfLaleh KhaliliPart Six: Human Flows17 • Touring Exotic LandsWaleed Hazbun18 • Outsiders of the Oil StatesAhmed Kanna19 • The Levant in Latin AmericaJohn Tofik KaramPart Seven: Politics and Movements20 • Global TahrirAsef Bayat21 • Islamizing RadicalismOlivier Roy22 • Global Movement for PalestineIlana Feldman23 • Human Rights, Indigenous and ImperialLori Allen24 • Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla BenhabibLinda HerreraContributorsIndex