Sami Zubaida publishes ‘Beyond Islam; a new understanding of the Middle East'.
Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology Sami Zubaida publishes ‘Beyond Islam; a new understanding of the Middle East’ (IB Tauris, 2011)
In a classic series of texts, Sami Zubaida examines processes of modernity, identity formation, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the Middle East, arguing that to see the region and its peoples through a static prism of Islam is to misunderstand it.