Urban violence in the Middle East changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation state (Berghahn Books, 2015)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Urban violence in the Middle East changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation state / Claudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi, Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike Freitag -- Part I. Managing and employing violence -- Mapping and scaling urban violence : the 1800 insurrection in Cairo / Nora Lafi -- A capital challenge : managing violence and disorders in late Ottoman Istanbul / Noémi Levy-Aksu -- Gendered obscenity : women's tongues, men's phalluses and the state's fist in the making of urban norm in interwar Egypt / Hanan Hammad -- Part II. Symbolic politics of violence -- Urban violence, the Muharram processions and the transformation of Iranian urban society : the case of Dezful / Reza Masoudi Nejad -- Symbolic politics and urban violence in late Ottoman Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag -- Part III. Communal violence and its discontents -- The 1850 uprising in Aleppo : reconsidering the explanatory power of sectarian argumentations / Feras Krimsti -- The city as a stage for a violent spectacle : the massacres of Armenians in istanbul in 1895-96 / Florian Riedler -- Transforming the holy city : from communal clashes to urban violence : the Nebi Musa riots in 1920 / Roberto Mazza -- Part IV. Oil cities : spatiality and violence -- On lines and fences : labour, community and violence in an oil city / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Reading oil as urban violence : Kirkuk and its oil conurbation, 1927-1958 / Nelida Fuccaro -- Structural and physical violence in Saudi Arabian oil towns, 1953-1956 / Claudia Ghrawi -- Afterword: Urban injustice, urban violence and the revolution : reflections on Cairo / Khaled Adham