Come join us for the virtual book launch of “Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century” on Friday 12 March, at 12pm Chicago time (8pm Cairo time) which will feature a discussion by the editors/authors Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, as well as a number of the book’s authors including Amro Ali, Ahmed Kanna, Khaled Fahmy, Hamid Dabashi, Ted Swedenburg, Laleh Khalili, Fatemeh Keshavarz, John Tofik Karam, Michael Frishkopf, Sami Zubaida, and Waleed Hazbun. The book is available through the University of California Press.