Center Heads to Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

CCAS will be exhibiting and selling its publications and those of its faculty at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair March 15-20, 2011. This will be our first year at the Fair, and we hope that friends and interested parties will stop by our stand in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre — Hall 11, Stand F18. Publications on exhibit include: From CCAS: Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution (2009), edited by Jean-François Seznec and Mimi Kirk; Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation (2010), edited by Chris Toensing and Mimi Kirk By CCAS faculty: Apostles of Modernity: Saint Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria(2010), by Osama Abi-Mershed; Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity(2007), by Elliott Colla; Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (2010), by Rochelle Davis; Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt (2010), by Samer Shehata; Women in the Qur’an, Traditions, and Interpretation (1996), by Barbara Stowasser Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (2008), by Judith Tucker