...Leila Ahmed Duke University Press 2006 A Border Passage: From Cairo to America — a Woman’s Journey Leila Ahmed will read two selections from my book A Border Passage: From Cairo to America — a Woman’s Journey, one from the very beginning, to give a sense of the book’s...

... Perspectives BCCI gave him access to hitherto untapped BCCI from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia documents, reports, and records. However, what is Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. meant by cricket here, especially...

...David Gutman Gutman’s article examines the attempts by the Ottoman state under Sultan Abdulhamid II to prevent large-scale Armenian migration to North America. It reveals how these efforts were hampered in practice by contradictions inherent within the state’s attempts to control and surveil...

...Charles B. Jones Duke University Press 2007 Marketing Buddhism in the United States of America: Elite Buddhism and the Formation of Religious Pluralism Charles...

...Christopher Breu Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express Brian T. Edwards Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005 376 pp., $84.95 (cloth), $23.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2007 Multiculturalism, Muslims, and Citizenship: given...

... the post-9/11 Americas as well. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Crossing...

..., and stereotyping in various (inter)national and local contexts. By comparing the Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese cases located in the Americas and Southeast Asia, this introductory article traces the spread of the global war on terror to different corners of the world and thus demonstrates how this war became a genuine...

...Michael O. West © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Crossing Boundaries: Research Notes on South Asians and Africans in Africa, the Americas and Europe Michael 0.West...

...James Dunkerley © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Americas Plural: Old Wine in New Bottles? James Dunkerley Properly the denomination “America” belongs to the entire hemisphere, as Jefferson recognized when he wrote to Alexander von Humboldt in 1813 that, “America has...

... markets only scratched by the limited print runs of the older wooden presses. Whereas the Gutenberg revolution was effectively confined to Europe and its settler communities in the Americas and Asia, this “Stanhope revolution” was truly global in scale, enabling printing to develop in Iran no less than...

...Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp Many Arab immigrants came to the Americas—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina (to name only a few countries)—primarily with the intent to make money quickly and return home. Their enduring presence, however, is marked by ambiguous categorizations of Arabs...

...Jamie Cross The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about...

... Zealand, Hawaii, Bolivia, and Native America. It begins with Linda Tuhiwai Smith's 1999 classic Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples and her judgment that “from the vantage point of the colonized . . . the term ‘research’ is inextricably linked to European imperialism...

...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...

...Elizabeth Saleh Abstract This article thinks ethnographically with phylloxera, an insect with a lethal proclivity for Vitis vinifera . The infamous louse traveled from North America to Eurasia during the nineteenth century. Fatefully, this tiny bug's journey to Lebanon overlapped with the Jesuit...

... and North America. The specific works examined and the new narratives of the veil they bring forward reorient the gaze. By displacing the veil, a site of cross-cultural mistranslation, they remap the world and uncover the possible spaces of transnational literacy and communication. This article...

...Laleh Khalili Abstract In this essay Khalili surveys the maritime as a space of commodification and of creation of new financial forms and instruments. Maritime transportation made possible the colonization of the Americas, Asia, and Africa and the enslavement and transoceanic commodification...

... environments connecting Europe, Africa, India, and China since prehistoric times. Indian Ocean ports grew in number, size, wealth, and permanence over the centuries and anchored the rise of seaborne empires connecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Modernity traveled among industrial port cities along...