ASQ books received 2003-2004

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Fall, 2004

ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS

Bunt, Gary R. Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2003. Paper $24.95.

Foltz, Richard C., Frederick M. Denny, and Azizan Baharuddin (Eds.). Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2003. Paper $28.95.

Halliday, Fred. Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris, 2003. Paper $22.50.

Karam, Azza (Ed.). Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2003. Paper $19.95.

Kuran, Timur. Islam & Mammon: The Economic Predicament of Islamism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Hardcover $35.00.

Malik, Iftikhar H. Islam and Modernity: Muslims in Europe and the United States. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper $24.95.

Schmidt, Garbi. Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004. Paper $22.95.

PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Cook, Catherine, Adam Hanieh and Adah Kay. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper $22.50.

Marin-Guzman, Roberto. A Century of Palestinian Immigration into Central America: A Study of Their Economic and Cultural Contributions. San Jose, Costa Rica: Editorial De La Universidad De Costa Rica, 2000. Paper, no price indicated.

Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper $24.95.

Reporters Without Borders (Eds.). Israel/Palestine: The Black Book. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2003. Paper $19.95.

Talhami, Ghada Hashem. Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors. New York: Nova, 2003. Hardcover $59.00.

Wagner, Donald E. Dying in the Land of Palestine: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000. London, U.K.: Melisende, 2003. Hardcover $21.95.

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY

Boyle, Francis A. Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before And After September 11. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2004. Paper $14.95.

Pintak, Lawrence. Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2003. Paper $22.50.

Shaban, Fuad. For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in American Culture (Arabic). Damascus: Dar al-Fikr, 2003. Hardcover, no price indicated.

POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC STUDIES OF THE ARAB WORLD

Abu-Rabi', Ibrahim M. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2003. Paper $39.95.

Baali, Fuad. Arab Unity and Disunity: Past and Present. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004. Paper $16.00.

Bayoumi, Moustafa and Andrew Rubin. The Edward Said Reader. New York: Vintage Books, 2000, Paper $15.00.

Perthes, Volker (Ed.). Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. Hardcover $59.95.

Todd, Emmanuel. Apres l'Empire: Essai sur la decomposition du systeme Americain. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2002. Paper 18.50 ff.

COUNTRY AND REGIONAL STUDIES

The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf

AbuKhalil, As'ad. The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and GlobalPower. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. Paper $9.95.

Slot, Ben J. (Ed.). Kuwait: The Growth of a Historic Identity. Portland. OR: International Specialized Book Services, 2003. Hardcover $45.00.

The Arab East and Pakistan

Al-Askari, Jafar Pasha. A Soldier's Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq. Portland, OR: International Specialized Book Services, 2004. Hardcover $39.95.

Atarodi, Habibollah. Great Powers, Oil and the Kurds in Mosul: Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq, 1910-1925. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. Hardcover $66.00.

Everest, Larry. Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. Monroe, Main: Common Courage Press, 2004. Paper $19.95.

Ismael, Tareq Y. and William W. Haddad (Eds.). Iraq: The Human Cost of History London, U.K.: Pluto press, 2004. Hardcover $45.00.

Ismael, Tareq Y. & Jacqueline S. Ismael. The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper, no price indicated.

Long, Jerry M. Saddam's War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2004. Paper $22.95.

Miller, David (Ed.). Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper $19.95.

Verkaaik, Oscar. Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2004. Paper $17.95.

Egypt

Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Hardcover $29.95.

Dunne, Michele Durocher. Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse. Amsterdam, Holland: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. Hardcover $80.00.

Khatib, Hisham. Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans. Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts. London: I.B.Tauris, 2003. Hardcover $85.00.

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