CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Global Squire ii
3. CONTENTS v
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xi
6. Part One Introduction
7. 1 Global Middle East 1
8. Part Two Nations without Borders
9. 2 God 25
10. 3 Algebra, Alchemy, Astronomy 35
11. 4 Rumi, the Bridge Builder 49
12. 5 On Nations without Borders 60
13. Part Three Home and the World
14. 6 Reflections on Exile 77
15. 7 Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody 90
16. 8 Gamal Abdel Nasser 103
17. Part Four Food, Film, Fashion, Music
18. 9 Circuits of Food and Cuisine 119
19. 10 Pictures in Motion 133
20. 11 Musical Journeys 145
21. 12 The Kufiya 162
22. Part Five Geopolitics of Goods
23. 13 Water of Vulnerability 177
24. 14 Cycle of Oil and Arms 186
25. 15 Cotton, Made in Egypt 195
26. 16 Ports of the Persian Gulf 209
27. Part Six Human Flows
28. 17 Touring Exotic Lands 225
29. 18 Outsiders of the Oil States 240
30. 19 The Levant in Latin America 253
31. Part Seven Politics and Movements
32. 20 Global Tahrir 269
33. 21 Islamizing Radicalism 282
34. 22 Global Movement for Palestine 293
35. 23 Human Rights, Indigenous and Imperial 304
36. 24 Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla Benhabib 319
37. Contributors 331
38. Index 335