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Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

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How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region? What possibilities exist for decolonial futures? This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary exp...
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  • 24 February 2026
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How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region? What possibilities exist for decolonial futures?

This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary explorations of the enduring colonial condition in the Arab-majority region, moving beyond reductive analyses and engaging deeply with a variety of histories, lived experiences, and theoretical tools. Across its chapters, the collection exposes how various structures and institutions operating at diverse sites and scales constitute a contemporary entangled coloniality, and offers pathways and resources towards moving beyond this from, for, and contra the region.

In the shadow of ongoing colonial violence, this collection is both an urgent critique and a hopeful call for new ways of knowing and reimagining the future of the Arab-majority region.

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Price: $135.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Series: Decolonization and Social Worlds
Publication Date: 24 February 2026
ISBN: 9781529240542
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Development studies, Sociology, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies
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‘This volume is sure to open up transdisciplinary and transregional conversations about the crucial meaning of the decolonial and its liberatory potential. Theoretically sophisticated and in touch with critical international thought, it is distinctive not just for its grounding in empirically rich analyses of the current colonial condition in what Kassem calls the Arab-majority region, but also for its hopeful offer to think both about and for the region.’ Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Introduction: Decolonization and Arab-Majority Region(s) - Ali Kassem

Part 1: The Colonial Condition: Structures and Concepts

1. A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and the Modern/Colonial State - Andrew Delatolla

2. Race as a Category for Analysing Social Inequalities in Contemporary Morocco: Making a Case - Yassine Yassni and Youness Yassni

3. Rethinking Israeli Development towards Palestinians of ’48: Economic Policies and Colonial Structures - Hebatalla Taha

4. Thinking Localization, Refugee Leadership, and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment or Systemic Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi

5. Identifying Colonial Power in Contemporary SRHR in Egypt: Reflections from the Field - Samaa Elturkey and Dina Hamouda

Part 2: Toward Decoloniality: Toward Decoloniality: Tensions, Resources, and Sites of Struggle

6. On Reclaiming Fanon: From and For the Arab Maghreb - Mounir Saidani

7. Knowledge Production in the Arab- Majority Region and Unlearning in the Field: Autoethnographic Reflections from Lebanon towards Alternative Research Politics - Ali Kassem

8. Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab- Majority Region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Dina M. Taha

9. (Re)Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward a Decolonial Political Ecology - Adam Cherkawi

10. Modernity’s Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through ’Irfan - Mohamad Baker Elharake

Part 3: Concluding Discussions

11. Thinking (alongside) the Arab Council for Social Sciences: Conversation with Seteney Shami and Moushira Elgeziri on Decoloniality, Knowledge, and Praxis, and/ in/ for the Arab Region - Ali Kassem, Seteney Shami, and Moushira Elgeziri

12. Decoloniality after Gaza, or toward a Global Intifada - Nelson Maldonado-Torres