Description

This research by 2013 Transregional Research Postdoctoral fellow Magid Shihade is part of an initiative by the Social Science Research Council on ‘transregional inter-Asian connections and contexts that aims at reconceptualizing and rethinking Asia, in order to go beyond the territorial and conceptual fixities of area studies that divide the region into East, West, South, Southeast’, and which moreover exceptionalizes one part of Asia – The Middle East – with a name that has no connection to the geography of the region. This has also led some states to fall in the cracks between these regions and sub-regions, an issue that raises many questions Shihade explores in his research.