"This volume offers valuable critical perspectives on the complexities of cities in the Middle East and North Africa. Centering on the production of knowledge about the region, the authors address thorny topics, ranging from geopolitics to the continuing impact of colonial policies, memory, ethnicity, religion, everyday life, and violence. The Handbook is comprehensive, useful, and provocative." Zeynep Ēelik, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
"The many critical essays in this volume restore the status of the Middle Eastern cities on their own terms, instead of measuring them by the Western model. The critical approach and the wide-ranging issues discussed in the bookfrom space, culture, cosmopolitanism, to social movements, colonialism, and Tourismoffer a productive lens to understand the urban reality of the Middle East while engaging with the field of urban studies in general. A valuable resource book." Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, USA
