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Prof. Asef Bayat
ISIM Academic Director, and the ISIM Chair at Leiden University
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent, 1984) taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York, and the University of Oxford. His academic interests range from Political Sociology, Social Movements, to Urban Space and Politics, International Development, Contemporary Middle East, and Islam and the Modern World. He has conducted ethnographic research in the areas of popular mobilization in the Iranian Revolution; labor movements; politics of the urban poor; development NGOs; everyday cosmopolitanism; comparative Islamisms; and Muslim youth cultural politics, primarily in Iran and Egypt.

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Research programme
Agency and Change in Contemporary Muslim Societies

Selected Publications

2008

‘Is There a Future for Islamic Revolutions? Religion and Revolt in the Middle Eastern Modernity’. Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization and Modernity. John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic, eds. London: Routledge.

 

‘Cairo's Subaltern Cosmopolitans: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost’. The Other Global City. Shail Mayaram, ed. London: Routledge.

 

‘Feeling at Home on the Margin’. ISIM Review 21 (Spring): 5.

 

2007

Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

‘A Women's Non-Movement: What It Means to be a Woman Activist in an Islamic State’. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27 (1): 160-172.

 

'Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?' ISIM Paper Series: 8.

 

‘Islamism and the Politics of Fun’. Public Culture 19 (3): 433-459.

 

‘When Muslims and Modernity Meet’. Contemporary Sociology 36 (6): 507-511.

 

‘Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology?’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31 (3): 579-590.

 

‘Islamism against Empire: The Incongruous Nature of Islamist Anti-imperialism’. Global Flashpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. Special Issue of Socialist Register 2008. London: Merlin Press, 38-54.

 

2006

'Conspiracies and Theories' ISIM Review 18 (Autumn): 5.

 

2005

‘The Political Economy of Social Policy in Egypt’. Social Policy and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. M. Karshenas and Moghadam, eds. London: Palgrave.

 

‘Streets of Revolution’ (text of a photo-book on the Iranian Revolution by Akbar Nazemi). Unsent Dispatches from the Iranian Revolution. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery.

 

‘Islamism and Social Movement Theory’. Third World Quarterly 26 (6) (July): 891-908.

 

‘Transforming the Arab World: The Arab Human Development Report and the Politics of Change’. Development and Change 36 (6): 1225-1237.

 

‘What Is Post-Islamism?’ ISIM Review 16 (Autumn): 5.

2004
‘The Art of Presence.’ ISIM Newsletter 14 (June): 5.

‘Negotiating with Modernity.’ Social Science Monthly Review 7 (9) (July): 6–13.

 

Co-editor, Middle East Report 233, ‘Iran’s Clouded Horizons’ (Winter) [special issue].

 

‘Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary: Cairo and its Subaltern’. Tamass: Contemporary Art Representation 2 [special issue on Cairo in English and Arabic]. Reprinted in Politique Africaine 100 (December 2005).

2003 and earlier
'The ‘Street’ and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World'. Middle East Report 226 (Spring 2003).

'Piety, Privilege and Egyptian Youths'. ISIM Newsletter 10 (July 2002). 

'Activism and Social Development in the Middle East'. International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (1) (February 2002).

'Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively'. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2) (Winter 2001).

‘From 'Dangerous Classes' to Quiet Rebels: Politics of Urban Subaltern in the Global South’. International Sociology 15 (3): 533-557. Reprinted in Urban Informality: The Middle East, South Asia and Latin America in an Era of Globalization. Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. New York: Lexington Books, 2003. Reprinted again in Urban Communication: Production, Texts, Contexts. Timothy Gibson and Mark Lowes, eds. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

'Who is Afraid of the Ashwaiyyat? Urban Change and Politics in Egypt'. Environment and Urbanization (with Eric Davis) 12 (2): 185-199.

'Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamist Activism in Iran and Egypt'.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 40 (1) (Spring 1997).

Street Politics: Poor Peoples Movements in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

'Un-Civil Society: The Politics of the 'Informal People''. Third World Quarterly 18 (1) (1997).

'Cairo: Power, Poverty and Urban Survival'. Edited a special issue of Middle East Report 202 (January-February 1997).

'The Coming of a Post-Islamist Society'. Critique: Critical Middle East Studies 9 (Fall 1996).

Workers and Revolution in Iran. London: Zed Books, 1987.

ISIM Newsletter Announcement
ISIM New Academic Director - ISIM Newsletter 12 (page 5)

Editorial and Advisory Committees 

Last Updated: 20/02/2009