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This volume offers valuable critical perspectives on the complexities of cities in the Middle East and North Africa. Centering on the production of knowledge about the region, the authors address thorny topics, ranging from geopolitics to the continuing impact of colonial policies, memory, ethnicity, religion, everyday life, and violence. The Handbook is comprehensive, useful, and provocative. - Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA The many critical essays in this volume restore the status of the Middle Eastern cities on their own terms, instead of measuring them by the Western `model'. The critical approach and the wide-ranging issues discussed in the book-from space, culture, cosmopolitanism, to social movements, colonialism, and Tourism-offer a productive lens to understand the urban reality of the Middle East while engaging with the field of urban studies in general. A valuable resource book. - Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, USA

This volume offers valuable critical perspectives on the complexities of cities in the Middle East and North Africa. Centering on the production of knowledge about the region, the authors address thorny topics, ranging from geopolitics to the continuing impact of colonial policies, memory, ethnicity, religion, everyday life, and violence. The Handbook is comprehensive, useful, and provocative. - Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA The many critical essays in this volume restore the status of the Middle Eastern cities on their own terms, instead of measuring them by the Western 'model'. The critical approach and the wide-ranging issues discussed in the book-from space, culture, cosmopolitanism, to social movements, colonialism, and Tourism-offer a productive lens to understand the urban reality of the Middle East while engaging with the field of urban studies in general. A valuable resource book. - Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, USA

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Haim Yacobi is a Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing ""Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights"" and co-founded this NGO that deals with human rights and planning in Israel\Palestine. His research interest in relation to urban space are social justice, urban health, migration, and colonial planning. His latest books are Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity (2011 with Erez Tzfadia) and Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (2016). Mansour Nasasra is a lecturer in Middle East politics and international relations at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was a research fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant and has been a recipient of British Academy grants. Nasasra is the author of The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance (2017). He is also co-editor of The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (2015).

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