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'An innovative and exciting approach to the study of the exercise of power, its dynamics and its effects. ... All of the chapters contribute important empirical and conceptual insights into the study of prisons and policing in the Middle East. Indeed, the wealth of new empirical material presented here is very impressive.' - Dr Nichola Pratt, author of Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World 'Most of us acknowledge the importance of how we define and what we do with society's miscreants, yet few of us have the intellectual imagination or personal fortitude to examine the questions closely. This eye-opening collection offers new insights into the exercise and experience of power in the recent and contemporary Middle East on virtually every page. From nomads who transgress state borders to political activists who contest political limits, this book explores who drew those lines, who enforces them, and what happens to those whocross them. It is a fascinating, provocative and sobering treatment, and it merits the attention of anyone concerned with the intersection of political authority and daily life in the Middle East.' --Lisa Anderson, American University in Cairo

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LALEH KHALILI is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at SOAS, and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: the Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge, 2007). JILLIAN SCHWEDLER is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and most recently the author of Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge, 2006).

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