DO COMPARATIVE AND REGIONAL STUDIES OF NATIONALISM INTERSECT?
The question behind this article evolved from two separate observations. While the expansion of comparative and cross-regional research has been actively promoted by leading scholars of the Middle East (and was later encouraged by such bodies as the Middle East Studies Association and this journal), so has the incorporation of scholarly insights from area studies been urged by leading political scientists as a prerequisite for revitalizing all of the discipline's subfields and institutionally endorsed by the American Political Science Association. Viewed as interrelated, these observations prompted the question framing this text: if the aims of many Middle East scholars and institutions are compatible with the aims of many political scientists and their association, why have they remained largely parallel, as suggested by scholars within both fields?
The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab Middle East
Introduction 1. Celebrating nation and state - a theoretical framework 2. Celebrations and ceremonies in Arab-Islamic lands 3. Egypt: changes within continuity 4. Iraq: changing regimes, changing celebrations 5. Jordan: preserving invented traditions 6. Lebanon: upholding the integrity of the state 7. Saudi Arabia: between religious and secular holidays.
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
1. The roots of supra-Egyptian nationalism in modern Egypt Part I. The Intellectual Formulation and Social Dissemination of New Supra-Egyptian Orientations and Ideologies: 2. 'Now is the turn of the East': Egyptian Easternism in the 1930s 3. 'The return of Islam': the new Islamic mood in Egypt 4. Egyptian Islamic nationalism 5. Integral Egyptian nationalism 6. Egyptian Arab nationalism Part II. Supra-Egyptianism in Egyptian Politics: 7. Egypt, Arab alliance, and Islamic Caliphate, 1936-1939 8. Palestine, public opinion, and Egyptian policy, 1936-1939 9. The road to the Arab League, 1939-1945 l0. Conclusion: from Egyptian territorial to supra-Egyptian nationalism.