Book:

  Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)

"And for a look at the broader impact of tourism on the Arab world, pick up a copy of the excellent Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World by Waleed Hazbun."

                     --Anthony Ham, Middle East, 6th edition (Lonely Planet, 2009), pp. 117-8

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Reviews: The Middle East Journal  63/2 (Spring 2009): 343-4 via MUSE; Choice (June 2009); MultiCultural Review (Summer 2009); H-Net Reviews: H-Levant (November 2009) html ; Anthropology Review Database (Dec. 2009) html;  Journal of Vacation Marketing (Jan. 2010): 75-7; Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 19, No. 1 (2010): 115-116; Arab  Studies Journal, Vol. 19, no. 1, (Spring 2011): 165-9.

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Articles, book chapters, review essays:

Political Science 450A: STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN THE THIRD WORLD "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 (Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 207-229. draft text in pdf
 
"Itineraries of Peace through Tourism: Excavating Territorial Attachments across the Arab/Israeli Frontier," Peace & Change 37, 1 (January 2012): 3-36.
 
"Revising itineraries of tourism and tourism studies in the Middle East and North Africa," Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change  Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 2010): 225-239.  abstract
 
"US Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Arab World," Geopolitics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2010): 239-262. pdf  abstract on Geopolitics website
 
"Re-Mapping Transnational Connections in the Middle East" (with Arang Keshavarzian), Geopolitics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2010): 203-9. intro to special section

 

"Modernity on the Beach: A Post-colonial View from Southern Shores,"Tourist Studies Vol. 9, No. 3 ( 2009) abstract
 
"Beyond the Bush Doctrine,"  Middle East Report No. 249 (Winter 2008). .doc   issue contents issue editorial  pdf

"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. pdf  Table of Contents

 

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

 

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

 

"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. article html

Edited Publications:

Guest editor (with Arang Keshavarzian), "Transnational connections: Political Economy, Security, and the Middle East," special section Geopolitics Vol. 15, No. 2  (2010). table of contents

Guest editor, special issue of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change on the politics and political economy of tourism in the Middle East and North Africa Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 2010) table of contents

Book reviews:

Review of Rebecca L. Stein,  Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism,  (Duke University Press, 2008) in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2010): 160-2.

Review of  Iain Chambers, Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (Duke 2008) in Journal of North African Studies Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2008): 565-7 .doc version

Review of  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

 

Review of  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

 

Review of 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

 

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