Book:

 

  Beaches, Ruins, Resorts:

  The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (Minnesota, 2008)  at Amazon.com

 

 
 
Articles and book chapters:
 

"The Middle East through the lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War," in Where is the Middle East?, edited by Michael E. Bonine, Michael Gasper, and Abbas Amanat. 

 

"Images of Openness, Spaces of Control: The Politics of Tourism Development in Tunisia." Arab Studies Journal  (Fall 2007 / Spring 2008): 10-35.  pdf.

 

"Explaining the Arab Middle East Tourism Paradox," The Arab World Geographer Vol. 9, No. 3 (Fall 2006) 201-14.  pdf (draft)
 
"The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook and the origins of organized tourism in Egypt," in The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History, edited by Phil Scranton and Jan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), pp. 3-33. See Table of Contents
 

"Globalization, Reterritorialization and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East" Vol. 9, No, 2 (2004): 310-341 Geopolitics abstract at Geopolitics website article in pdf

"International Tourism and the Politics of Reterritorialization in the Middle East," Precis: The Newsletter of the MIT Center of International Studies, Volume XI, Number 2 (Spring 2002). issue in pdf

"Mapping the Landscape of the 'New Middle East': The Politics of Tourism Development and the Peace Process in Jordan" in George Joffe, ed. Jordan in Transition, 1990-2000 (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 330-345. draft version in html

"Enclave Orientalism: The State, Tourism, and the Politics of Post-National Development in the Arab World," in Mike Robinson et al. , eds.Management, Marketing and the Political Economy of Travel and Tourism (Sunderland, UK: Business Education Publishers, 2000), pp. 191-205.

"Rethinking Anti-Colonial Movements and the Political Economy of Decolonization: The Case of Tunisia," Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 77-106.html

"Anatomy of an Uprising: The Social Mechanics of the Palestinian Uprising," Princeton International Forum, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Spring 1989).

Review essays and book reviews:

"Beyond the Bush Doctrine,"  Middle East Report No. 249 (Winter 2008).  issue contents issue editorial .doc version 

Review essay  about  US grand strategy in the Middle East and expectations for the future under an Obama  Administration. 

 Iain Chambers, Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (Duke 2008) in Journal of North African Studies .doc version

Roxanne Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, (Princeton, 2006) in Political Theory Vol 36, No, 1 (Feb. 2008) pdf via Sage Press

"Hashemite Politics," A review of Betty S. Anderson, Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (Texas, 2005) and Russell E. Lucas, Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001 (SUNY, 2005), in Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 35, No, 3 (Spring 2006) pdf via UC Press

"Reading culture, identity, and space in US Foreign Policy," Review essay, Middle East Report No. 236 (Fall 2005):44-6. pdf version‚ Middle East Report website

Jamal Nassar's Globalization and Terrorism:The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Vol. 25 No. 3 (2005): 396-7. via MUSE

Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts, edited by J. W. Wright Jr. (Palgrave, 2002) in Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 32, No. 3 (Spring 2003): 107-8.

Contribution to a review symposium of Mark Gottdiener's The Theming of America: American Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environment (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001, Second Edition), in Urban Affairs Review Vol. 38, No. 2 (November 2002): 282-4. draft version in html

"Deconstructing the Algerian 'Nation'" a review of Benjamin Stora,Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History (Cornell University Press, 2001) for H-NET BOOK REVIEW. Published at http://www.h-net.org/~africa/reviews/html version 

Selected conference paper and presentation archive:

“Mapping Transnational Networks of Travel and Tourism in the Middle East: Towards a Pluralist Understanding of Globalization,” presented at workshop on Mapping Transnational Networks in the Middle East: Local Logics & Global Processes held at the 9th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 12-15, 2008. 

"American Interests, US Foreign Policy and Middle East Studies: The challenges of policy relevant scholarship,” paper presented to MEST 301, the Core Seminar for the Masters’ Program in Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB), November 19, 2007. 

“Remapping the geopolitics of the globalization in the Middle East” paper presented at Is There a Middle East? conference sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 5-7, 2006.  

"A New Agenda for Tourism Development in the Arab World," paper prepared for The New Agenda: The Arab World in the 21st Century, organized by Ghayth Armanazi, League of Arab States, Cairo, 2004.  pdf version
 
"The Development of Tourism Industries in The Arab World: Trapped Between the Forces of Economic Globalization and Cultural Commodification," paper presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG), Washington, DC. November 1, 1997 html version

"The construction of global tourism spaces"paper delivered at Globalization, Americanization and Contemporary Popular Culture conference at the Goethe Institute sponsored by the University of Bahacesehir (Istanbul, Turkey) May 20-22, 2004. down load powerpoint presentation (notes: file = 6MB1), or see the slides 1-30 in html

"Landscape of Facades: The Tourist Commodification of Petra," paper and slide show presented at the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman, Jordan. April 18, 1998.

Newspaper op-eds:

"War Stories: Letter From Lebanon," Baltimore Sun, February 18, 2007; also posted at 3quarksdaily.com html
"Supporting pluralism is the only way to promote democracy in the Middle East," Co-Authored with Michelle Woodward

Distributed as "For arab world peace, more voices need attention," via MinutemanMedia.org, April 13, 2005‚ html Published in the Topeka Capital Journal (Topeka, Kansas) April 15, 2005; The Brinkley Argus, (Brinkley, Arkansas), April 13, 2005; Arts and Letters Magazine (Summer 2005).


"Political pluralism: a means to defuse the growth of militant challengers," Jordan Times, April 23-24, 2004 html An excerpt was published in the "Other Views" column of the International Herald Tribune April 26, 2004.

See also: Michael Hill "An irrelevant date" Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2004

"American security and Arab self-determination," Jordan Times, October 27, 2003 html

"Tourism--Learning the mechanisms of competitive growth," Jordan Times, August 20-21, 1998 html version

Letters and Media:

"Getting Iraq Wrong," New York Times Sunday Magazine August 26, 2007 html (go to second page)

"A sign of the problem," The International Herald Tribune, October 6, 2006 html

"U.S. inaction adds fuel to Mideast fire," The Baltimore Sun, July 18, 2006, letters page. html
Letter on Lebanon war, The International Herald Tribune, July 17, 2006; html

See also:
-WYPR Marc Steiner's Show Tuesday, August 22, 2006 "The Changing Middle East" Listen to podcast
-Michael Hill, "IDENTITY CRISIS: Lebanon's tangled past -- cosmopolitan but divided -- has set the stage for tragedy, again and again," Baltimore Sun, July 23, 2006. p. 1C (IDEAS section).

"The Palestinian middle class," International Herald Tribune, April 25, 2006.
 
"A failure to explain faith in port deal," Baltimore Sun, February 26, 2006.
 
"Find slogan that fits the complete city," Letter to the Editor, Baltimore Sun, November 14, 2005
 
Late summer 2005 Letters about the Iraq war: 
    "Perspectives on the War in Iraq," Washington Post, August 29, 2005.
    "Iraqi federalism," International Herald Tribune, August 24, 2005.
    "Impossible to put Iraq back together, Baltimore Sun, August 21, 2005.
    "Take the Long View on Terror," Baltimore City Paper, July 20, 2005.
         Read all four in html
         See also: Michael Hill "An irrelevant date" Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2004

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