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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social History of Labor in the Ottoman Empire: 1800-1914 -- 3 The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis -- 4 Making History, but Not of Their Own Choosing: Workers and the Labor Movement in Iran -- 5 Labor in Syria: The Emergence of New Identities -- 6 The Labor Movement in Israel: Ideology and Political Economy -- 7 Reading from Left to Right: The Social History of Egyptian Labor -- 8 The History of Labor and the Workers' Movement in North Africa -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Events since 2011 replaced earlier discussions about authoritarian stability in the Middle East with new ones about the meaning of democracy and the nature of revolution. The experiences and debates of Egyptians in the last six years also raise important questions around citizenship and the nature of political community. Just as there have not always been nation-states, there have not always been feelings of membership, identification, and activity associated with them. Citizenship and political community are frequently discussed in relation to secularism and religion and relative to an argument that the affective claims of Islam are incompatible with the modern presumptively secular state. I argue, however, that the shoring up—or disintegration—of nationalism and citizenship are shaped by the imagination of everyday individuals and state elites.