A sweeping, essential analysis of how, following 9/11, Middle Eastern Studies was transformed in the service of Empire

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1 An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism (Theories and Praxis)
Tugrul Keskin

2 At the Threshold of Iranian Studies
Babak Elahi

3 A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image Lineage
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

4 Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Francesco L. Sinatora

5 Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A Battlefield of Orientalism
Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel

6 The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East
Dunya D. Cakir

7 The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland
Mahmoud Arghavan

8 Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism at Work in Turkish Politics
Merve Kavakci

9 (Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case Study of Contemporary Iranian Art
Staci Gem Scheiwiller

10 Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel
Beyazit H. Akman

11 The Jasmine in the Fist: The Otpor Model in the Arab Spring and Beyond
Emanuela C. Del Re

12 Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Post-revolutionary Iran
Seyed Mohammd Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari

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