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Cross-Regional Approaches to Middle East Studies: Constructing and Deconstructing a Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Charles Kurzman
Charles Kurzman*
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The Middle East is deconstructing—that is, the concept of a coherent geographic entity with the label “Middle East.” A Thematic Conversation on this subject began at the 2005 MESA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., and will conclude at the 2007 meeting in Montréal. These discussions grow out of efforts in the 1990s to rethink area studies globally, spurred by programs at the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. A variety of scholars have taken up these issues with regard to the Middle East specifically over the past decade, including the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which organized this Thematic Conversation.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , June 2007 , pp. 24 - 29
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2007

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