Political Economy, Power, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World
  • Forthcoming June 2025/300 pages
  • A Project of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation

Political Economy, Power, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World

Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, editors
Hardcover: $95.00
ISBN: 979-8-89616-002-1
Paperback: $29.95
ISBN: 979-8-89616-004-5
The authors of this groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection are concerned with the growing politicization of cultural heritage in the Arab world. Adopting the unifying concept of political economy, they explore how regimes manipulate cultural heritage—and sometimes even deliberately erase it—to support their own legitimacy.
Hicham Alaoui is lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Robert Springborg is nonresident research fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and adjunct professor in the School of International Studies at Simon Fraser University.