Overviews The United States, the Middle East, and North Africa

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States

Nicholas Said

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Bashir Salau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sahara Desert ◽  
Insight Into

The two versions of the autobiography that Nicholas Said published offer insight into 19th-century conditions in five continents as well as insight into life as a child, slave, manservant, and teacher. As a child in the 1830s, Said was enslaved in Borno, marched across the Sahara Desert, and passed from hand to hand in North Africa and the Middle East. After serving as a slave in various societies, Said was freed by a Russian aristocrat in the late 1850s after accompanying the aristocrat in question to various parts of Europe. In the 1850s, Said also traveled as a manservant for a European traveler to South and North America. Ultimately he settled in the United States, where he authored two versions of his autobiography, served as a teacher and soldier, got married, and disappeared from sight. This article compares the two versions of the autobiography that Said published, provides an overview of Said’s life, charts the development of scholarly works on Said, and draws attention to the primary sources related to the study of Said and his autobiography.

17. Russia, China, and the Middle East

2019 ◽  
pp. 394-414
Author(s):  
Roland Dannreuther
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
East Russia ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter addresses the important relationships that are currently evolving between Russia, China, and the Middle East. Russia and China have emerged as increasingly powerful actors in the Middle East and their presence and influence in the region has grown significantly. While both states have had longstanding historical links with the region, the twenty-first-century panorama is a quite distinctive one, with new economic and geopolitical factors driving a return to Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In addition, significant Muslim populations in both countries add another dynamic to contemporary Russian and Chinese relations with MENA. The chapter then identifies the challenges this presents for the United States and the West, and how the states and peoples of the Middle East are responding to the resurgence of Russian and Chinese power in the region.

Question: How Have Middle East Scholars Contributed to the Broader Field of Gender and Women's Studies?

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Monograph Series

In August 2001, a conference on the state of Middle East women's studies took place at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy. Apart from the gorgeous surroundings, the conference was memorable for the breadth and scope of the high-quality papers presented by scholars teaching in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Many participants were active in the Association for Middle East Women's Studies. Some went on to establish the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Hawwa, and Brill's women and Islam monograph series. Most of us also publish in disciplinary journals and present papers at a variety of conferences.

Men and the Happiness Dance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Sellers-Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Belly Dance ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Definitive Role ◽  
Male Dancers

The solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle East, most often referred to as belly dance, have played a definitive role in the global social imaginary of masculine and feminine identity. This essay looks at the life of three male dancers, Mahmoud Reda, John Compton, and Tito Seif, and the position they have played in their social and historical contexts in Egypt and the United States.

State labor sponsorship: The role of nation state regulation in undermining migrant employment standards

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-319
Author(s):  
SaunJuhi Verma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Temporary Worker ◽  
The Impact

Temporary worker programs are on the rise both across the globe and particularly within the United States. Established research focuses upon the impact of immigration policies as well as outcomes for migrant communities within the labor market. In contrast, my work draws attention to the population of citizen-workers who participate in cyclical migration patterns within transnational labor markets. My multi-site ethnography, consisting of 109 interviews with US guest workers, oil industry employers, and Indian labor brokers, evaluates the impact of temporary worker programs on migration patterns from India to the Middle East to the United States. (In this article, I use the counter-naming of the Middle East as Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). I avoid use of colonial terminology such as Middle East to refer to the countries in the region of North Africa and West Asia. The language is archaic and perpetuates the historic referencing of Europe as the central geographic reference point.). In particular, the study evaluated a multi-country migrant recruitment chain to address the question: How does the non-citizen visa situate migrants as global labor within the transnational economy? Findings identify that non-citizen visa pathway is a contemporary mode of governance through which labor is traded among third parties. The article outlines the complicity of nation-state regulation in shaping limited economic outcomes for migrants within cyclical multi-country labor markets.

scholarly journals US Policy towards the Maghreb: An Arduous Combination of Strategic Interests and Economic Stakes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-47
Author(s):  
Belkacem Iratni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Economic Assets

The relations of the United States of America (USA) with the Maghreb States are ancient, though intermittent and not very substantial. Globally, the Maghreb does not constitute a vital region for US strategic concerns. It is included broadly in what the American policy makers depict as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) configuration and thus does not represent a specific or a peculiar zone for American involvement or responsibility.However, the Maghreb presents a relative importance in the US designs whether in terms of strategic concerns or economic assets, particularly with the worldwide emergence of terrorism. This care remains only provisory.Strategic alignments (Morocco and Tunisia) and energy resources (Algeria and Libya) have relatively attracted US attention to the Maghreb, but security matters, linked to the widespread of terrorism, have strengthened the relations between the two parties, without, however, upgrading their partnership to the level of vitally crucial dynamics, interdependent needs, and promising prospects.

The Study of Parties in Political Development in the Middle East and North Africa

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Scott D. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Subject

A concern on the part of Middle East specialists with an examination of political parties and groupings and related political processes represents a comparatively recent development. It is a development, of course, which has lagged behind the study of parties and political processes in the United States and Europe, although even there the subject largely was neglected until a quarter of a century ago.

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