Introduction : American studies encounters the Middle East / Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy -- Diabolical enterprises and abominable superstitions : Islam and the conceptualization of finance in early American literature / Adam John Waterman -- Salim the Algerine: the Muslim who strayed into colonial Virginia / Judith E. Tucker -- "Race" and "blackness" in Moroccan rap : voicing local experiences of marginality / Cristina Moreno Almeida -- Call and response, radical belonging, and Arabic hip-hop in "the West" / Rayya El Zein -- The reception of U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution : between the popular and the official / Mounira Soliman -- Arab Spring, American autumn / Brian T. Edwards -- The uses of modernization theory : American foreign policy and mythmaking in the Arab world / Waleed Hazbun -- Travelling law: targeted killing, lawfare, and the deconstruction of the battlefield / Craig Jones -- Drone executions, urban surveillance, and the imperial gaze / Ashley Dawson -- Technology's borders : the U.S., Palestine, and Egypt's digital connections / Helga Tawil-Souri -- The counterrevolutionary year : the Arab Spring, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East / Osamah Khalil.
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