10.17192/meta.2018.10.7794 Nolte, Amina Amina Nolte Özdemir, Ezgican Ezgican Özdemir Infrastructuring Geographies: Histories and Presents in and of the Middle East and North Africa Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 10 (2018) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2018 North Africa infrastructure Middle East materiality Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2019-01-14 2018-06-14 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/192/7794 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-192-77949 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/192/7794/7794.png 2196-629X application/pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The 10th issue of Middle East – Topics and Arguments engages with infrastructure studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It presents different empirical cases and theoretical discussions that take infrastructural formations and their effects both to the center stage and as the analytical focus. In this editorial, we first discuss two epistemic locations from which infrastructure can be studied. Then, we highlight the featured authors and the way each of them make compelling cases through the lenses of material and social infrastructures in different MENA contexts. In light of these, we argue that infrastructures, as the material conditions of modern human life, have shaped and continue to shape geographical constructs of the Middle East and North Africa. Lastly, we call for further social and historical research to investigate how infrastructural systems as material and symbolic networks of imperial expansion and exploitation have contributed to the geographical and political entities that make up the construct called MENA. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 10 (2018)