Books received 2005-2006

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Summer-Fall, 2006

ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS

Gerges, Fawaz A. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hardcover $27.00.

Fattah, Moataz A. Democratic Values in the Muslim World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. Hardcover $49.95.

Jamieson, Alan. Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2006. Hardcover $29.95.

Lawrence, Bruce (Ed). Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. New York, NY: Verso, 2005. Paper $16.95.

Nakash, Yitzhaq. Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Paper 19.95.

Pintak, Lawrence. Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2005. Hardcover $26.95.

Shanavas, T. O. Creation and/ or Evolution: An Islamic Perspective. Philadelphia, PA: LIBRIS, 2005. Hardcover, no price indicated.

Vahide, Sukran. Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Albany, NY. State University of New York, 2005. Paper $24.95.

PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Agmon, Iris. Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Palestine. Syracuse University Press, 2006. Hardcover $39.95.

Farsakh, Leila. Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Hard Cover, no price indicated.

Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Hardcover $22.50.

Hasso, Francis. Resistance Repression and Gender: Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Paper $24.95.

Lesch, Ann M. and Ian S. Lustick. (Ed). Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Hardcover $45.00.

Nadan, Amos. The Palestinian Peasant Economy Under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Press, 2006. Paper $19.95.

Rabinowitz, Dan and Khawla Abu-Baker. Coffins on our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Paper $19.95.

Rose, Jacqueline. The Question of Zion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paper $19.95.

Shenhav, Yehouda. The Arab Jews: A Post Colonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. $60.00.

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY

Brand, Laurie A. Citizens Abroad: Emigration and the State in the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover $85.00.

Harbury, Jennifer K. Truth, Torture and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2005. Paper $14.00.

Jasanoff, Maya. Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover $27.95.

Nydell, Margaret K. Understanding Arabs: A guide for Modern Times. Boston, MA: Intercultural Press, 2006. Paper $19.95.

Wheeler, Deborah L. The Internet in the Middle East Global Expectations and Local Immaginations in Kuwait. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. Paper $24.95.

POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC STUDIES OF THE ARAB WORLD

Cohen, Dalia and Ruth Katz. Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Paper $60.00.

Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph To Despair. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paper $19.95

Fisk, Robert. The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover, no price indicated.

Lynch, Mark. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq,, Al-Jazeera and Middle East Politics Today. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006. Hardcover $24.00.

Rugh, William A. American Encounters with Arabs: The "Soft Power" of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Hardcover $49.95.

Sonbol, Amira El Azhary. (Ed). Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Paper $ 45.00.

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Allen, Roger and D. S. Richards (Eds.). Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover $190.00.

Ankori, Gannit. Palestinian Art. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2006. Paper $35.00.

Barakat, Hoda (translated by Marilyn Booth). Disciples of Passion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Hardcover $19.95.

Berlin, Howard M. The Coins and Banknotes of Palestine Under the British Mandate, 1927-1947. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publications, 2005. Paper $35.00.

Doumani, Beshara (Ed). Academic Freedom after September 11. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.

Khoury, Elias (Translated by Ammiel Alcalay). 1001 Palestinian Nights: Gate to the Sun. Brooklyn NY: Archipelago Books, 2006. Hardcover $ 26.00.