Table Of Content

Policing and Prisons in the Middle east Policing and Prisons in the Middle east Formations of Coercion Edited by laleh Khalili and Jillian schwedler hUrst & coMPanY, london First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by c. hurst & co. (Publishers) ltd., 41 great russell street, london, Wc1B 3Pl © laleh Khalili and Jillian schwedler 2010 all rights reserved. Printed in india the right of laleh Khalili and Jillian schwedler to be identified as the editors of this publication is asserted by them in accordance with the copyright, designs and Patents act, 1988. a cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British library. isBn: 978-1-84904-057-0 hardback 978-1-84904-058-7 paperback this book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. www.hurstpub.co.uk For Our Parents, Khadijeh Tamaddon and Hedayat Khalili and Marvin and Diana Schwedler contents Acknowledgements ix Contributors xi introduction Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler 1 Part i ‘coercion FroM colonialisM to neoliBeralisM’ 1. Policing the desert: coercion, consent and the colonial order in syria Dan Neep 41 2. israeli Biopolitics, Palestinian Policing: order and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territories 57 Nigel Parsons 3. tangled Webs of coercion: Parastatal Production of Violence in abu ghraib Laleh Khalili 77 4. Barring the algerian subject: carcerality and resistance under Market-statism Sayres S. Rudy 97 5. Post-colonial Policing and the “Woman” Question: a history of the Women’s Police directorate in Bahrain 119 Staci Strobl 6. the Police organization in turkey in the Post-1980 Period and the re-construction of the social Formation 137 Biriz Berksoy Part ii ‘constitUting states and citiZens’ 7. confining Political dissent in egypt before 1952 157 Anthony Gorman vii contents 8. observing the everyday: Policing and the conditions of Possibility in gaza (1948–1967) Ilana Feldman 175 9. riot Police and Policing Protest in turkey Ayssen Uysal 191 10. incarcerated Women, honorable Women 207 Roberta Micallef Part iii ‘reFUsals, resistances, and Protests’ 11. the Victim’s tale in syria: imprisonment, individualism, and liberalism Sune Haugbolle 223 12. spectacles of death: dignity, dissent, and sacrifice in turkey’s Prisons Banu Bargu 241 13. refusing Mercy: challenging the state’s Monopoly on Violence in iran Arzoo Osanloo 263 14. locating dissent: space, law, and Protest in Jordan 279 Jillian Schwedler and Sam Fayyaz Index 295 viii acKnoWledgeMents First and foremost, we would like to thank our contributors, all of whom have been extraordinary intellectual interlocutors, and whose punctuality, patience, and hard work has made the job of editing this book a pleasure. this volume emerged out of a series of conferences, and we are grateful to the Middle east studies association of the United states for holding the first of them. We also especially thank the robert schuman centre for advanced studies at the european University institute for generously holding our panel as part of their eighth Mediterranean research Meeting. Paul amar, John collins, Katharina lenner, esmail nashif, Kent schull, and Özge serin presented their excellent research at the panels at Mesa or the Mediterranean Meeting, but their contri- butions, for one reason or another, were regretfully not included here. We also would like to extend a special thanks to dan neep who went far beyond the call of duty at the Mediterranean Meeting and trans- lated from French for us. lori allen, Paul amar, Jill crystal, Khaled Fahmy, adrienne leBas, and Yezid sayigh have read the introduction, and given cogent suggestions and encouragement. We thank them, and apologise if some of their suggestions were not fully incorporated. We are also grateful to our very perceptive and generous anonymous referee whose suggestions were excellent and we have done our best to address them. laleh is grateful to John chalcraft whose companionship, support, humour and saintly fortitude has carried her all these years, and is pleased that working on the grim stories of prisons and prisoners seems not to have affected the joyous laughter of her lovely daughter May or the serene and sunny disposition of her son Pablo whom she ix acKnoWledgeMents carried through the latter stages of working on this volume. laleh also thanks her co-editor Jillian whose lively wit, intelligence and joie-de- vivre makes any joint project a pleasure. Jillian schwedler wishes to thank Joel sherman for his endless patience and support, and her beau- tiful little gentlemen, Jake and nick ronin, who have made her life richer and more joyous. sam Fayyaz provided remarkable research assistance throughout this project. Jillian would also like to thank laleh for a wonderful collaborative experience. x