To prepare for writing this ethnography, Shehata (Arab Politics, Georgetown University) spent a year working as a winding machine operator in Egypt--experience that lends particular weight to this stu
With al-Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the subsequent "war on terror," much ink has been spilt on Islamism, or political Islam, but unfortunately much of the comm
For over three decades, Islamist politics, or political Islam, has been one of the most dynamic and contentious political forces in the Middle East. Although there is broad consensus on the importance
