MER Article Choueiri, Arab History and the Nation-State Marxism in the United States developed on the margin of society. Shunned by organized labor, it has confronted this society as an outsider. Until the 1970s, the most successful American Marxist works of scholarship were macro studies by economists, written as if from a distance and emphasizing econo Peter Gran • 3 min read
MER Article Sharabi, Neopatriarchy Hisham Sharabi, Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Values in Arab Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.) Peter Gran • 3 min read
MER Article Michalak and Salacuse, Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East Laurence Michalak and Jeswald W. Salacuse, eds., Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East (Berkeley, CA: IIS, 1986). Peter Gran • 5 min read
MER Article Hill, Mahkama! Enid Hill, Mahkama! Studies in the Egyptian Legal System (London: Ithaca Press, 1980). Enid Hill has produced an unusual and important contribution to understanding the political economy of modern Egypt. Her book, clear and easy to follow, adopts an anthropological approach to the study of the Egyp Peter Gran • 1 min read