{"product_id":"global-middle-east-into-the-twenty-first-century-volume-3-9780520295353","title":"Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century Volume 3","description":"Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both \"global-in\" and \"global-out.\" It delves into the region's scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsef Bayat\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRevolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRevolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWired Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCultures of Arab Schooling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378780803346,"sku":"9780520295353","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6cc682cd-74aa-464d-81a2-e66554cedf61.jpg?v=1728652223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/global-middle-east-into-the-twenty-first-century-volume-3-9780520295353","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}