Duke Middle East Studies Center : Publications since January 2023

%% Ginsburg, Shai   
@article{fds375351,
   Author = {Ginsburg, S},
   Title = {IMAGE, WORD, LAND},
   Journal = {Hebrew Studies},
   Volume = {64},
   Pages = {255-268},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
   Doi = {10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
   Key = {fds375351}
}


%% Göknar, Erdag   
@article{fds167075,
   Title = {"The Turkish Novel: Modernity, Modernism, and
             Postmodernism"},
   Booktitle = {Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel},
   Year = {20010},
   Month = {Fall},
   Key = {fds167075}
}


%% Hasso, Frances S.   
@article{fds376132,
   Author = {Hasso, FS},
   Title = {Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care
             Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem},
   Journal = {Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
   Volume = {49},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {7-35},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/725840},
   Doi = {10.1086/725840},
   Key = {fds376132}
}


%% Heiss, Andrew T   
@article{Heiss:2012,
   Author = {Andrew Heiss},
   Title = {The Failed Management of a Dying Regime: Hosni Mubarak,
             Egypt's National Democratic Party, and the January 25
             Revolution},
   Journal = {Journal of Third World Studies},
   Volume = {28},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {155-171},
   Year = {2012},
   Month = {Spring},
   Key = {Heiss:2012}
}


%% Jentleson, Bruce W.   
@article{fds371305,
   Author = {Tama, J and Barma, NH and Durbin, B and Goldgeier, J and Jentleson,
             BW},
   Title = {Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and
             Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the
             Public},
   Journal = {International Studies Perspectives},
   Volume = {24},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {285-307},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {August},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekad003},
   Abstract = {In recent years, an array of initiatives has sought to
             bridge widely recognized gaps separating international
             studies scholars from policymakers and the public. While
             such gaps persist, changes in society, the media, and
             academia have altered the context for scholars seeking to
             make their research known to public and policy communities.
             On the one hand, the emergence on the public agenda of new
             policy concerns, proliferation of public-facing outlets
             seeking to feature scholarly expertise, and growing
             attention to diversity and inclusion have reduced some of
             the barriers to gap-bridging work. On the other hand, tenure
             and promotion standards continue to place limited weight on
             public engagement, political attacks on experts have raised
             new barriers to bridging, and social media often serve as
             sites of discrimination and harassment. We take stock of
             these shifts and use a scenario exercise to consider how the
             landscape for bridging the gap might evolve further in the
             years ahead. Focusing on potential changes in research
             funding models and the relationship between international
             studies scholarship and geopolitics, we highlight new
             bridging opportunities and challenges that may emerge over
             the next decade.},
   Doi = {10.1093/isp/ekad003},
   Key = {fds371305}
}

@article{fds373517,
   Author = {Jentleson, BW},
   Title = {Beyond the Rhetoric: A Globally Credible US Role for a
             “Rules-Based Order”},
   Journal = {Washington Quarterly},
   Volume = {46},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {83-102},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2023.2257967},
   Doi = {10.1080/0163660X.2023.2257967},
   Key = {fds373517}
}


%% Kadivar, Mohsen   
@book{fds352603,
   Author = {Kadivar, M},
   Title = {The illusion of Islamic Theocracy: The Transformation of
             Shi’ite Political Thought in the Islamic Republic of
             Iran},
   Publisher = {The University of North Carolina Press},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {December},
   Abstract = {Revisiting Shi’ite Political thoughts of the Islamic
             Republic of Iran},
   Key = {fds352603}
}

@article{fds374475,
   Title = {The Institution of Marriage in Islam: A Case Study of the
             First Pillar of the Marriage Contract},
   Pages = {35-53},
   Booktitle = {Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and
             Sociological Approaches},
   Publisher = {AMI Press},
   Editor = {Lemons, K and Rooij, LD},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {November},
   ISBN = {9781915550033},
   Abstract = {The pillars of a legitimate marriage in Islam between two
             adult males and females are two: clear consent of the two
             parties themselves for marriage and binding an agreement so
             that they become husband and wife. ‘Non-verbal
             conventional marriage’ is a legitimate marriage because
             both pillars of marriage were observed in it. A written
             marriage contract and especially its submission in a legal
             center for marriage is closer to caution for a time of
             frequent disagreement. The Western style of partnership
             ‘cohabitation’ is not necessarily equivalent to
             non-verbal conventional marriage.},
   Key = {fds374475}
}

@article{fds374404,
   Title = {An Analysis of Shi’ite Political Thought},
   Pages = {3-38},
   Booktitle = {The Hawza and the State: The Shiite Islam, Question of
             Authority, Women and Geopolitics},
   Publisher = {Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Amman office},
   Editor = {Al-Taie, AM},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {November},
   ISBN = {978-9923-759-43-1},
   Abstract = {Ali Ibn Abi Talib recognized the mutual rights of the ruler
             and ruled, the sanctity of contracts, especially with the
             enemy, and freedom of speech as the cornerstones of Shite
             political philosophy. Understanding Shi’ite political
             thought is impossible without considering the doctrine of
             justice and its consequences such as the right to an
             uprising against unjust rulers, which is crystallized in
             al-Hussein b. Ali’s maxims and teachings. Ayatollah
             Khomeini’s political theory is in the absolute minority
             not only in the history of Shi’ite fiqh but also in
             contemporary Shi’ite fiqh.},
   Key = {fds374404}
}

@book{fds374476,
   Author = {Kadivar, M},
   Title = {The Punishment of Apostasy and the Freedom of Thought:
             Criticism of the punishment for apostasy and blasphemy
             according to the standards of demonstrative jurisprudence
             (Hadd al-Ridda wa Hurriyya al-‘Aqida: Naqd uqubat
             al-irtidad wa sabb al-nabi tibqan li-mawazn al-fiqh
             al-istidlali)},
   Volume = {1},
   Pages = {464 pages},
   Publisher = {Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {October},
   ISBN = {978-614-445-546-3},
   Abstract = {After the assassination of the Azerbaijani journalist Rafiq
             Taqi in 2011 under the fatwa of the Iranian jurist Muhammad
             Fadil Lankarani, who condemned him to death for a
             blasphemous news article in 2006, Mohsen Kadivar criticized
             this fatwa, condemned the assassination, and wrote a
             detailed open letter in Persian denying the ruling on
             apostasy and blasphemy in light of the deductive approach
             and evidence from the Qur’an and Prophetic Traditions as
             well as Shi’ite Imams Hadiths. Kadivar wrote a detailed
             introduction in English to the second edition of the book in
             which he presented the genealogy of the development of the
             rule of apostasy and blasphemy on one hand and religious
             freedom on the other hand among Sunni and Shiite Muslim
             jurists and thinkers. The Arabic translation of the book
             includes all of these texts and the author’s opinions on
             the issue of apostasy, blasphemy, and freedom of belief. The
             preface, entitled “Toward Removing the Punishment of
             Apostasy in Islam” is one of the features of the Arabic
             version.},
   Key = {fds374476}
}

@book{fds352602,
   Author = {Kadivar, M},
   Title = {Governance by Guardianship},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Editor = {Sadri, M},
   Year = {2023},
   Abstract = {Rule and Government in the Islamic Republic of
             Iran},
   Key = {fds352602}
}

@book{fds374477,
   Author = {Kadivar, M},
   Title = {The Rights of Mankind: Human Rights and Reformist Islam
             (Haqq al-Nas: Islam-e nowandish va hoquq-e
             bashar)},
   Pages = {532 pages},
   Publisher = {New Thoughts Press},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {978-3-948894-09-2},
   Abstract = {The book contains fourteen chapters in five sections: The
             Bases for Discussions on Islam and Human Rights; Islam and
             Human Rights; Freedoms of Belief, Religion, and Politics;
             Women’s Rights; and Other Debates in Human Rights. Its
             first edition was published in 2008. The translation of the
             critical and detailed introduction to the English version
             (2021) has been added to the new edition. Anything that we
             call ‘Islamic’ today must be reasonable, just, moral,
             and more functional according to the conventions of the
             present time. The main problem of traditional Islam is that
             it is living in the 21st century while breathing in the
             atmosphere of several centuries ago. It is possible to have
             a reading of the Qur’an and the Tradition of the Prophet
             and a methodology in ijtihad and jurisprudence that is
             consistent with the criteria of human rights.},
   Key = {fds374477}
}

@article{fds352581,
   Author = {Kadivar, M},
   Title = {Islam and the State from a Shi'ite Perspective},
   Volume = {23},
   Pages = {57-80},
   Booktitle = {Secularism in Comparative Perspective — Religion across
             Political Contexts},
   Publisher = {Springer},
   Editor = {Laurence, J},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {978-3-031-13309-1},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7_4},
   Abstract = {The article details the perspective of Ja’fari Shi’ite
             Muslims and delves into the history of Shi’ism, the
             separation of religious and profane affairs, the
             guardianship of the jurists, Shi’ism within a
             constitutionalist context, political Shi’ism in a secular
             context, and Islamic republic. The author’s thorough
             historical overview is followed by a discussion of political
             theories of Shi’ite authorities after constitutionalism
             and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
             specifically theories proposed by Khorasani and Khomeini,
             and how other Shi’ite scholars differ from these two
             groups of thought.},
   Doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7_4},
   Key = {fds352581}
}


%% Kirshner, Alexander   
@article{fds373551,
   Author = {Kirshner, AS and Spinner-Halev, J},
   Title = {Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust},
   Journal = {American Political Science Review},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423000898},
   Abstract = {Political philosophers and theorists make arguments about
             high-stakes problems. This article shows that those theories
             would be more credible if political philosophers ensured
             their work was robust: capable of withstanding reasonable
             changes to their assumptions and to the cases to which their
             arguments apply. The world is varied and inconstant. As a
             result, scientists and social scientists recognize the
             virtue of robustness. This article shows why political
             philosophers should also do so. It defines robustness,
             demonstrates its value, and shows how it can be evaluated.
             Illustrating the stakes of robustness, the article assesses
             prominent arguments concerning multiculturalism and open
             borders. Avoiding misunderstanding and confusion should be a
             central aim of political philosophy. To sidestep these
             outcomes and to reassure scholars that one's theory is not
             subject to concerns about its credibility, it will often be
             reasonable for philosophers to explicitly test their
             theories for robustness.},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0003055423000898},
   Key = {fds373551}
}


%% Kuran, Timur   
@article{fds369893,
   Author = {Enikolopov, R and Kuran, T and Li, H},
   Title = {Changes to JCE's board of associate editors},
   Journal = {Journal of Comparative Economics},
   Volume = {51},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {1},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2023.02.003},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.jce.2023.02.003},
   Key = {fds369893}
}


%% Lo, Mbaye   
@book{fds373586,
   Author = {Lo, M and Ernst, CW},
   Title = {I Cannot Write My Life Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar
             Ibn Said's America},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {9781469674674},
   Abstract = {"This work centers on the life and writing of Omar Ibn
             Said, born in 1770 in a border region between Senegal and
             Mauritania that played a significant role in Islamic
             nations.},
   Key = {fds373586}
}

@book{fds373587,
   Author = {Kamara, M},
   Title = {Sheikh Moussa Kamara's Islamic Critique of
             Jihadists},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {9781666933864},
   Abstract = {If peace is at the foundation of the Islamic message, then
             waging any types of jihad as a means of imposing change or
             gaining power will run counter to the nature of
             Islam.},
   Key = {fds373587}
}


%% McLarney, Ellen   
@article{fds371285,
   Author = {McLarney, E and Idris, S},
   Title = {Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism},
   Journal = {Black Scholar},
   Volume = {53},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {30-47},
   Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2023.2177948},
   Doi = {10.1080/00064246.2023.2177948},
   Key = {fds371285}
}


%% Mottahedeh, Negar   
@article{fds375361,
   Author = {Mottahedeh, N},
   Title = {Not Feminism, Human Solidarity: Qurrat al-'~Ayn Tahirih in
             Early Historical Drama},
   Journal = {Hawwa},
   Volume = {21},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {410-432},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341407},
   Abstract = {Qurrat al-'Ayn Tahirih has long been associated with
             feminism and early agitation for women’s rights in Iran
             and elsewhere. These articulations fly in the face of her
             repeated construction in the historical work of her
             contemporaries as the condition of the new. Qurrat al-'Ayn
             Tahirih was a dramatic and messianic player. And it was out
             of the messianism on which she acted that “the new” came
             into being. This essay studies her unveiling at the Badasht
             conclave in the work of her chroniclers as a sacred
             performance.},
   Doi = {10.1163/15692086-12341407},
   Key = {fds375361}
}


%% Stein, Rebecca L.   
@article{fds374511,
   Author = {Stein, R},
   Title = {The Visual Terms of State Violence in Israel/Palestine:
             Interview with Rebecca L. Stein},
   Journal = {Philosophy of Photography},
   Volume = {13},
   Number = {2},
   Publisher = {Intellect},
   Editor = {Levin, N and Fisher, A},
   Year = {2023},
   Abstract = {This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein,
             conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher, takes her recent
             book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and
             Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore
             issues of state violence and the militarization of social
             media in Israel/–Palestine. This book marks the
             culmination of a decade-long research project into the
             camera dreams introduced by digital imaging technologies and
             the fraught histories of their disillusionment. Stein
             discusses the way her research has critically conceptualized
             the recent history of hopes invested in the digital image in
             this geopolitical context, by the occupier as much as the
             occupied, and charts the failures and mistakes, obstructions
             and appropriations that characterize the conflicted visual
             cultures of Israel–Palestine},
   Key = {fds374511}
}

@misc{fds371290,
   Author = {Stein, R},
   Title = {How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Media, State Violence,
             Palestinian Testimony},
   Booktitle = {Gaza on Screen},
   Publisher = {Duke University Press},
   Editor = {Yaqub, N},
   Year = {2023},
   Abstract = {This essay studies the way that the traditional Israeli news
             media reported the Gaza war of 2008-2009 to their
             Jewish-Israeli target audience. My analysis pays particular
             attention to what the traditional Israeli media withheld
             from Jewish Israeli consuming publics during the course of
             the war -- namely, consistent depiction of the extent of
             Israeli inflicted violence upon Gazan people and
             infrastructure – and what it offered to Israeli media
             consumers as a wartime alternative. At the heart of this
             paper is a lethal incident of Israeli state violence in
             Gaza, querying its anomalous status as a Palestinian
             testimonial at a moment when Palestinian eye-witnesses
             accounts were largely absent from public Israeli view in
             media sources. The essay asks: how does one make sense of
             this scene of Palestinian trauma and the enormous attention
             it garnered among Israelis in the context of a national
             media that worked to systematically occlude the view of
             Israeli state violence and its Palestinian victims? In my
             conclusion, I will suggest ways this incident would
             anticipate the subsequent relationship between Israeli state
             violence and Palestinian visibility in the age of the
             smartphone witness.},
   Key = {fds371290}
}


%% Vengosh, Avner   
@article{fds369382,
   Author = {Vengosh, A and Wang, Z and Williams, G and Hill, R and Coyte, R and Dwyer,
             GS},
   Title = {Response to comments on Vengosh et al. (2022): The strontium
             isotope fingerprint of phosphate rocks mining.},
   Journal = {The Science of the Total Environment},
   Volume = {870},
   Pages = {161878},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161878},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161878},
   Key = {fds369382}
}


%% Weinthal, Erika S.   
@article{fds373566,
   Author = {Albright, EA and Coleman Flowers and C and Kramer, RA and Weinthal,
             ES},
   Title = {Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen
             participation, science, and community knowledge},
   Journal = {Local Environment},
   Volume = {29},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {135-142},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2267066},
   Abstract = {The United Nations has estimated that 2.8 billion
             individuals across the world will not have access to safely
             managed sanitation in 2030. In the accounting of global
             sanitation access, local inequities often are invisible to
             those counting, especially given that many of these counters
             are physically distant and often external to communities
             suffering from lack of access. Lowndes County, Alabama, a
             predominantly-Black county in rural Alabama (USA), provides
             a window into the social, racial, and environmental
             injustices that are present in the rural American South. Our
             survey of household sanitation access in Lowndes County,
             implemented by a collaboration of an academic institution, a
             local environmental justice organisation, and residents,
             shows that community members in the county are aware of the
             problems associated with failing septic systems. Producing
             data that can make publicly visible the lack of access to
             sanitation will, however, remain a challenge until
             institutional and structural barriers are
             overcome.},
   Doi = {10.1080/13549839.2023.2267066},
   Key = {fds373566}
}

@misc{fds371515,
   Author = {Patel, E and Weinthal, E},
   Title = {Rights, resilience, and water in turbulent
             times},
   Pages = {37-48},
   Booktitle = {Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent
             Era},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {March},
   ISBN = {9781802207132},
   Key = {fds371515}
}

@article{fds366697,
   Author = {Vengosh, A and Weinthal, E},
   Title = {The water consumption reductions from home solar
             installation in the United States.},
   Journal = {The Science of the total environment},
   Volume = {854},
   Pages = {158738},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158738},
   Abstract = {Installation of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar is expected
             to change the electricity landscape in the U.S. through
             reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating global
             warming, as well as eliminating environmental impacts from
             fossil fuels utilization. Given the high-water intensity of
             fossil fuels, nuclear, and hydropower, the transition to
             solar and wind energy has important implications for also
             reducing the water footprint of energy production. This
             study evaluates the reductions in the water footprint from
             the electricity sector at the statewide and household scales
             in the contiguous U.S., as well as the expected virtual
             water footprint of individual homes upon switching to
             rooftop PV solar. Through integration of the water
             consumption intensity of the different energy sources that
             contribute to the current grid electricity, the annual
             residential electricity consumption, and the number of
             households, we have established a baseline for the
             variations of current statewide and household water
             consumption in the contiguous 48 states. The average
             nationwide water consumption of the residential sector from
             the current grid electricity is estimated as 9.84 ×
             10<sup>9</sup> m<sup>3</sup>, while the household grid water
             consumption varies from 8 to 225 m<sup>3</sup>
             y<sup>-1</sup> (a nationwide average of 66
             m<sup>3</sup>y<sup>-1</sup>). We estimate the household
             water consumption upon installing roof solar PV (3-60
             m<sup>3</sup> y<sup>-1</sup>, a nationwide average of 4.7
             m<sup>3</sup> y<sup>-1</sup>) and the expected annual
             reduction in water consumption (210 %-1600 %) at the
             household level across the U.S. The current electricity
             production from rooftop solar PV in the U.S. is currently
             about 1.5 % of the total residential electricity
             consumption, which infers an overall annual saving of 374 ×
             10<sup>6</sup> m<sup>3</sup> based on the average national
             grid water consumption in the U.S. The transition to rooftop
             PV solar infers not only reductions in greenhouse gas
             emissions coupled with a major reduction in the overall
             water footprint, but also a transfer of the water footprint
             and associated environmental implications to countries
             overseas where most PV panels are manufactured.},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158738},
   Key = {fds366697}
}