A richly interdisciplinary challenge to mainstream approaches to area studies through focus on the Middle East's relationship to West Asia
Rethinking the Middle East as West Asia reframes a region long constrained by Euro-American strategic narratives. By situating the Middle East within its relationships to wider Asia, the volume opens a fresh analytical lens on power, mobility, and connection across the continent. Moving beyond state-centric and siloed approaches, it illuminates the dense and rapidly evolving ties that bind East and West in new and consequential ways. Rethinking the Middle East as West Asia brings together a wide group of interdisciplinary scholars from the Middle East, China, and the West to rethink how knowledge about the region is produced. It offers a methodological invitation to question inherited geopolitical categories and to develop comparative and transregional approaches suited to the contemporary global landscape.
Contributors:
Lori Allen, SOAS, University of London, UK
Mohammed Alsudairi, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Holly Danzeisen, InterAsia Partnership, New York City, USA
Jiuzhou Duan, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Adam Hanieh, SOAS, University of London, UK
Marya Hannun, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Arang Keshavarzian, New York University, New York City, USA
Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Yi Liu, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Zachary Lockman, New York University, New York City, USA
Yue Ma, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China
Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Alam Saleh, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Seteney Shami, The Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon
Degang Sun, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Yuting Wang , American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Chuchu Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Rafeef Ziadah, Kings College London, UK
