Books received 2006-2007

ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS

Abu Zayd, Nasr. Reformation of Islamic Thought." A Critical Historical Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. Paper $52.50.

Ahmed, Akbar S. Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Hardcover $28.95.

Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Fear." Egypt and the New Islamist Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Paper $17.95.

Cook, David. Martyrdom in Islam. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paper $24.99.

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starrett. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2006. Hardcover $55.00.

El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Islamic Finance." Law, Economics, and Practice. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover $60.00.

Gottschalk, Peter and Gabriel Greenberg. Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. Hardcover $19.95.

Hefner, Robert W. and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Editors. Schooling Islam: The Culture of Politics of Modern Muslim Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Paper $19.95.

Jackson, Roy. Fifty Key Figures in Islam. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.

Kamrava, Mehran. Editor. New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Paper $24.95.

Kepel, Gilles. (Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh). War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Paper $15.95.

Tamimi, Azzam. Hamas: A History from Within. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2007. Paper $20.00.

PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Benvenisti, Meron. Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Polical Life. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Hardcover $27.50.

Bose, Sumantra. Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmire, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri-Lanka. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover $27.95.

Honig-Pamass, Tikva and Toufic Haddad. Editors. Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, The Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror". Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2007. Paper $17.00.

Isac, Jad and, Fida' Abdul-Latif. Jerusalem & the Geopolitics of DePalestinsation. Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, 2007. Paper, no price indicated.

Ismael, Jacqueline S. and William W. Haddad. Editors. Barriers to Reconciliation: Case Studies on Iraq and the Palestine-Israel Conflict. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2007. Paper $42.00.

Lassner, Jacob and S. Ilan Troen. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 20706. Paper $29.95.

Pappe, Ian. Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007. Paper $14.95.

Yiftachel, Oren. Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Philadelphia, PN: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Hardcover $69.95.

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY

Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $21.95.

Hilterman, Joost R. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover $29.00.

Makdisi, Ussama and Paul A. Silverstein. Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Paper $24.95.

POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC STUDIES OF THE ARAB WORLD

Alsanea, Rajaa. Girls of Riyadh. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2007. Paper $24.99.

Baron, Beth. Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Paper $24.95.

El-Shamy, Hassan M. A Motif Index of the Thouzand and One Nights. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Hardcover $65.00.

Grabar, Oleg. The Dome of the Rock. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover $22.95.

Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim (Translated by Ghassan Nasr). The Journals of Sarab Affan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Hardcover $22.95.

Lawson, Fred H. Constructing International Relations in the Arab World Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Hardcover $45.00.

Pratt, Nicola. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. Paper $22.00.

Springborg, Robert. Editor. Oil and Democracy in Iraq. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $29.95.

Strum, Philippa. Editor. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. American Arabs and Political Participation. Division of United States Studies. Paper, no price indicated.

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Translated by Kevin Michel Cape & Hazel Rowley). The Last Friend New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2007. Paper $13.00.

Tillion, Germaine. My Cousin, My Husband: Clans and Kinship in Mediterranean Societies. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $21.95.

Yavuz, Hilmi (Translated by Walter G. Andrews). Seasons of the Word. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Paper $16.95.

COUNTRY AND REGIONAL STUDIES

Aym, Zighen. Still Moments: A Story about Faded Dreams & Forbidden Pictures. Mossville, IL: ZAWP, Inc, 2005. Paper $10.95.

Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig. Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present. New York, NY: Zed Books Ltd, 2007. Hardcover $75.00.

Borneman, John. An American in Syria. Princeton, NT: Princeton University, 2007. Hardcover $27.95.

Cooke, Miriam. Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Paper $21.95.

Erlich, Haggai. Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity, and Politics Entwined Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2007. Hardcover $49.95.

Furtig, Henner. Iran's rivalry with Saudi Arabia between the Gulf Wars. Ithaca Press, 2006. Paper $19.99.

Jamil, Dahr. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2007. Paper $20.00.

Keshavarzian, Arang. Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover $85.00.

Marsot, Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid. A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paper $24.99.

Merdin, Serif. Religion, Society and Modernity in Turkey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Hardcover $85.00.

Peterson, J.E. Oman's Insurgencies: The Sultanate's Struggle for Supremacy. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Hardcover $85.00.

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Abu-Deeb, Kamal. The Imagination Unbound: Al-Adab al-'Aja'ibi and the Literature of the Fantastic in the Arabic Tradition. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Hardcover $60.00.

Caton, Steven C. Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2005. Paper $16.00.

Salaita, Steven. Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes from and What it Means for Politics Today London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.

Salaita, Steven. The Hold Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.

Shatanawi, Mirjam. Editor. Tehran Studio Works: The Art of Khosrow Hassanzadeh. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $22.95.

Sorek, Tamir. Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover $85.00.

NORTH AFRICA

Cohen, Shana & Larabi Jaidi. Morocco: Globalization and Its Consequences. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.

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