Prof. Dr. Asef Bayat
- Associate Member of BIM and connected to the MERGE project
contact: abayat@illinois.edu
Profile
Prof. Dr. Asef Bayat is an Associate Member of Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt University of Berlin.
He is a Professor of Sociology, and Catherine & Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Asef taught at the American University in Cairo for many years; and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) where he held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
His research areas range from social movements and social change, to religion and public life, urban space and politics, and contemporary Middle Eastern societies. His latest books include „Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century“ (ed. With Linda Herrera) (University of California Press, 2021), and „Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“ (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Publications:
- Bayat, A. Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Bayat, A. Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, ed. with Linda Herrera, University of California Press, 2021
- Bayat, A. Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford University Press, 2017 (also in Arabic and Persian)
- Bayat, A. Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam, ed. Oxford Press, 2013 (also in Arabic, Turkish and Persian)
- Bayat, A. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Stanford University Press, 2013, 2nd edition (also in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, German, and Swedish editions).
- Bayat, A. Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North, ed. with Linda Herrera, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Bayat, A. Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007 (also in Turkish, Indonesian Bahasa)
- Bayat, A. Middle East and Its Subaltern: Politics and Movements, Istanbul, Iletisim Yayinlari, 2006 (in Turkish)
- Bayat, A. Street Politics: Poor Peoples Movements in Iran, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 (also in Turkish and Persian editions)
- Bayat, A. Work, Politics and Power, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991
- Bayat, A. Workers and Revolution in Iran, London: Zed Books, 1987 (also in Persian edition)
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