Table of Contents

Preface 1. Middle Eastern Societies and Ordinary People's Lives PART ONE. PRECOLONIAL LIVES 2. Assaf: A Peasant of Mount Lebanon 3. Shemsigul: A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo 4. Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: A Collective 5. Ahmad: A Kuwaiti Pearl Diver 6. Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber 7. Bibi Maryam: A Bakhtiyari Tribal Woman PART TWO. COLONIAL LIVES 8. The Shaykh and His Daughter: Coping in Colonial Algeria 9. Izz al-Din al-Qassam: Preacher and Mujahid 10. Abu Ali al-Kilawi: A Damascus Qabaday 11. M'hamed Ali: Tunisian Labor Organizer 12. Hagob Hagobian: An Armenian Truck Driver in Iran 13. Naji: An Iraqi Country Doctor PART THREE. POST-COLONIAL LIVES 14. Migdim: Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch 15. Rostam: Qashqa'i Rebel 16. An Iranian Village Boyhood 17. Gulab: An Afghan Schoolteacher 18. Abu Jamal: A Palestinian Urban Villager 19. Haddou: A Moroccan Migrant Worker PART FOUR. CONTEMPORARY LIVES 20. Nasir: Sa'idi Youth Between Islamism and Agriculture 21. Ghada: Village Rebel or Political Protestor? 22. Khanom Gohary: Iranian Community Leader 23. Nadia: "Mother of the Believers" 24. June Leavitt: West Bank Settler 25. Talal Rizk: A Syrian Engineer in the Gulf Glossary List of Contributors Index

About the Author

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor, with David Prochaska, of After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History and Theory (2005) and coeditor, with Ira M. Lapidus, of Islam, Politics, and Social Movements (California, 1990). David N. Yaghoubian is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.