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Introduction

Sharif S. Elmusa

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
The Changing Hydraulics of Conflict and Cooperation in the Nile Basin: The Demise of Egyptian-Sudanese Bilateralism

Ibrahim Elnur

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
On vicarious causation

Graham Harman

This article gives the outlines of a realist metaphysics, despite the continuing unpopularity of both realism and metaphysics in the continental tradition. Instead of the dull realism of mindless atoms and billiard balls that is usually invoked to spoil all the fun in philosophy, I will defend a weird realism. This model features a world packed full of ghostly real objects signaling to each other from inscrutable depths, unable to touch one another fully. There is an obvious link here with the tradition known as occasionalism, the first to suggest that direct interaction between entities is impossible. There is another clear link with the related sceptical tradition, which also envisions objects as lying side-by-side without direct connection, though here the objects in question are human perceptions rather than independent real things. Yet this article abandons the solution of a lone magical super-entity responsible for all relations (whether God for Malebranche and his Iraqi forerunners, or the human mind for sceptics, empiricists, and idealists), in favor of a vicarious causation deployed locally in every portion of the cosmos. While its strangeness may lead to puzzlement more than resistance, vicarious causation is not some autistic moonbeam entering the window of an asylum. Instead, it is both the launching pad for a rigorous post-Heideggerian philosophy, and a fitting revival of the venerable problem of communication between substances.
The Oil/Gas Reserces Problem

Robert Mabro

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
Fueling Conflict: The Role of Oil Policy in Violence in Iraq

Greg Muttitt

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
The War in Darfur: The Resource Dimension

Mohamed Suliman

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
Nile Basin Water Management: National Strategies and Prospects for Cooperation

Richard N. Tutwiler

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers resource problems in the Middle East. Contributors include: Amita Baviskar, Ana E. Cascao, Ibrahim Elnur, Robert Mabro, Greg Muttitt, MOhamed Suliman, Richard N. Tutwiler.
Bruno Latour and the Politics of Nature

Graham Harman

Bruno Latour describes his Politics of Nature as work of political ecology. Its subtitle, "How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy," suggests a specific and limited topic, albeit an interesting one. Yet what this book really offers is a full system of metaphysics, perhaps the first original system of the new millennium. Latour declares these large ambitions openly. In so doing, he is fully aware of the stones that might be showered upon his parade: he warns us jokingly of "a dreadful specter...the obligation to engage in metaphysics, that is to define in turn how the pluriverse is furnished and with what properties [its members] must be endowed." Here already we see what separates Latour from some of the better-known French thinkers of the preceding generation: Derrida, Foucault, Lacan. Like these other figures, Latour is usually pigeonholed as a "postmodernist"; unlike these others, no legitimate case can be made that Latour deserves this label. Owing much to Whitehead and nothing to Heidegger, Latour belongs to an invisible but effective tradition in contemporary philosophy that might be called "School X," for lack of a better name. School X has nothing to with either the analytic or continental schools, which are often taken to exhaust the field of possible contemporary philosophies. The endless duels and reconciliations of the analytics and the continentals, like those of Pepsi and Coke or Doritos and Tostitos, only distract us from their overarching shared features. Both schools remain too loyal to Kant's Copernican Revolution. Both continue to loiter in that narrow strip of philosophy that deals with the conditions of human access to the world rather than the world itself-for the simply reason that they assume from the start that philosophy has no legitimate right to do otherwise.
Why a Guide to Family Wealth in the Arab Region?

Barbara Ibrahim and Heba Abou Shnief

Families everywhere are feeling the pressures of life in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps no other place has experienced more rapid economic and social development than the Arab region. Over the last 40 years, family expectations for where adult children will live, whom they will marry, or the occupations they will follow have shifted dramatically
The Nationalization of Marriage in Monarchical Egypt

Hanan Kholoussy

This book presents new and often dismissed aspects of the constitutional monarchy era in Egyptian history. It demonstrates that many of the domestic and regional sociopolitical and cultural changes credited to the 1952 revolutionaries actually began in the decades before the July coup. Arguing against the predominant view of the pre-revolutionary era in Egypt as one of creeping decay, the volume restores understandings of the 1919–1952 years as integral to modern nation-state formation and social transformation. The book's chapters show that Egypt's real revolutions were long-term processes emerging over several decades prior to 1952. The leaders of the 1952 coup capitalized on these developments, yet earlier changes in Egyptian society fundamentally facilitated their actions and policies. This volume includes revisionist discussion of domestic political issues and foreign policy; the military, education, social reform, and class; as well as popular media, art, and literature. By introducing new approaches to these under-appreciated categories of analysis through exploration of untapped sources and by re-examining the political context of the time, this book proposes innovative methodologies for understanding this crucial period in Egyptian history, casting these years as fundamental to the country's twentieth-century trajectory.
Mulid Culture in Cairo: the Case of al-Sayyida 'Aisha

Maha Abdelrahman

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Watch for the Devil: Israel in Egyptian Movies and Soap Operas

Maha Abdelrahman

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Introduction

Maha Abdelrahman, Iman A. Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy, and Reem Saad

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Staying Hungry: Food Politics in Egypt and the Near East

Ray Bush

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Divine Consumption: "Islamic" Goods in Egypt

Madiha Doss

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Truth Claims in the Cartoon World of Nagui Kamel

Iman A. Hamdy

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Cultural Dynamics and Linguistic Practice in Contemporary Egypt

Lilia Labidi

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Transforming the Meaning and Value of Traditional Crafts in Egypt

Huda Lutfi

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Food Recipes and Kitchen Space: Constructing Social Identities and New Frontiers

Malak Rouchdy

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
A Culinary History of "National" Cuisine: Egypt and the Middle East

Sami Zubaida

The first and second volume of four issues. This volume discusses difference in modern Egyptian culture. Contributors include: Ray Bush, Sami Zubaida, Malak Rouchdy, Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Reem Saad, Lilia Labidi, Madiha Doss, Huda Lutfi.
Introduction

Sharif S. Elmusa

The first volume of four issues addressing nature and its cultural expression. Contributors include: J.R. McNeil, Sharif S. Elmusa, Robert Switzer, E.M. Sartain, Maysa Abou-Youssef Yayward
The Ax of Gilgamesh: Splitting Naure and Culture

Sharif S. Elmusa

The first volume of four issues addressing nature and its cultural expression. Contributors include: J.R. McNeil, Sharif S. Elmusa, Robert Switzer, E.M. Sartain, Maysa Abou-Youssef Yayward
Nature in Egyptian Literature: Male versus Female Writers

Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward

The first volume of four issues addressing nature and its cultural expression. Contributors include: J.R. McNeil, Sharif S. Elmusa, Robert Switzer, E.M. Sartain, Maysa Abou-Youssef Yayward
A Historical Introduction to Glocal Enviormental Change: The Role of Ideas Since 1900

J.R. McNeill

The first volume of four issues addressing nature and its cultural expression. Contributors include: J.R. McNeil, Sharif S. Elmusa, Robert Switzer, E.M. Sartain, Maysa Abou-Youssef Yayward
Female Family of Amenemhat II

Lisa Sabbahy Dr.

A collection of essays dedicated to Professor Fayza Haikal.