Middle East Studies After September 11 : Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia

Middle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia will show the long-term implications of current approaches to Middle East scholarship on the internal transformation of Middle Eastern societies. It describes the complex relationship between American academia and state government: a relationship which has influenced and restructured the state, society and politics in the Middle East as well as in the United States. It engages the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, History and International Studies, while maintaining the epistemological, methodological, and ontological insights of a sociological approach to the Middle East. Contributors are: Beyazit H. Akman, Mahmoud Arghavan, Dunya D. Cakir, Emanuela C. Del Re, Babak Elahi, Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Merve Kavakci, Tugrul Keskin, Seyed Mohammd Marandi, Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel, Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Francesco L. Sinatora, Zeinab Ghasemi Tari Middle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Dedication......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 9 List of Illustrations......Page 11 Note on Contributors......Page 12 1 An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism (Theories and Praxis)......Page 17 2 At the Threshold of Iranian Studies......Page 40 3 A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image Lineage......Page 66 4 Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic......Page 97 5 Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A Battlefield of Orientalism......Page 116 6 The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East......Page 138 7 The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland......Page 166 8 Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism at Work in Turkish Politics......Page 189 9 (Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case Study of Contemporary Iranian Art......Page 210 10 Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel......Page 230 11 The Jasmine in the Fist: International Democratization Strategies in the Arab Spring and Beyond......Page 260 12 Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Post-Revolutionary Iran......Page 287 Index......Page 313