As we head into the heart of summer, Jadaliyya would like to remind you of some of the most creative and groundbreaking works in the field that we have featured on our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page during the 2014-2015 academic year. Whether you are an instructor thinking about texts for the fall, a student doing research, or a reader making a summer reading list, you will find a wealth of interviews about and excerpts from works across a range of topics and disciplines.
We have provided a list of all the NEWTONs we have published since last summer, divided into categories according to topic and region. If you have suggestions about new texts that you would like to see featured on NEWTON, please send us an email at reviews@jadaliyya.com.
Happy summer reading!
Arabian Peninsula
Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism
Cities
Myriam Ababsa, Atlas of Jordan: History, Territories, and Society
Jean-Claude David et Thierry Boissiere, Alep et ses territoires. Fabrique et politique d’une ville (1868-2011)
Olfa Lamloum and Mohamed Ben Zina, Jeunes de Douar Hicher et d’Ettadhamen. Une enquête sociologique
Elisabeth Longuenesse et Cyril Roussel, Developper en Syrie. Retour sur une experience historique
David McDonald, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South
Critical Currents in Islam
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists
Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt
Jonathan A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy
Edmund Burke III, The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, and Atef Alshaer, The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism
Nimer Sultany, “Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism”
Isabelle Werenfels, “Beyond Authoritarian Upgrading: The Re-Emergence of Sufi Orders in Maghrebi Politics”
Culture
Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Anthony Alessandrini, Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics
Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail
Reem Charif, Mohamad Hafeda, and Joumana al Jabri, Creative Refuge
Anthony Downey, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
Vijay Prashad, Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
Erin Runions, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
Diaspora and Migration
Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Hani Bawardi, The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to US Citizenship
Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
Egypt
Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt's Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles
Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt
Laurie A. Brand, Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Linda Herrera, Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias”
Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution
Gender and Sexuality
Elisabeth Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
Andrea Khalil, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring
Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Erin Runions, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
History
Jonathan A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy
Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Muriam Haleh Davis, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution
Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce
Nazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Kabir Tambar, The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Iran
Mohammad Ali Kadivar, “Alliances and Perception Profiles in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997 to 2005”
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
Law and Conflict
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, and Frank Barat, On Palestine
Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”
Wolfgang Kaleck, Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West
Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate
Nimer Sultany, “Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism”
Keith David Watenpaugh, Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria
Myriam Ababsa, Atlas of Jordan: History, Territories, and Society
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists
Jean-Claude David et Thierry Boissiere, Alep et ses territoires. Fabrique et politique d’une ville (1868-2011)
Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”
Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, and Atef Alshaer, The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
Elisabeth Longuenesse et Cyril Roussel, Developper en Syrie. Retour sur une experience historique
Maghreb
Laurie A. Brand, Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
Edmund Burke III, The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
Muriam Haleh Davis, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
Hamza Hamouchene and Mika Minio-Paluello, The Coming Revolution in North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice
الثورة القادمة إلى شمال أفريقيا: الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية
Andrea Khalil, Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya
Andrea Khalil, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring
Olfa Lamloum and Mohamed Ben Zina, Jeunes de Douar Hicher et d’Ettadhamen. Une enquête sociologique
Isabelle Werenfels, “Beyond Authoritarian Upgrading: The Re-Emergence of Sufi Orders in Maghrebi Politics”
Media
Anthony Downey, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Linda Herrera, Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, and Atef Alshaer, The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Palestine
Reem Charif, Mohamad Hafeda, and Joumana al Jabri, Creative Refuge
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, and Frank Barat, On Palestine
Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”
Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine
Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce
Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer (Revised and Updated Edition)
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate
Vijay Prashad, Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
Regional Analysis
Luca Anceschi, Gennaro Gervasio, and Andrea Teti, Informal Power in the Greater Middle East
Elisabeth Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Shampa Biswas, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order
Francesco Cavatorta and Paola Rivetti, “EU–MENA Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings”
Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias”
Wolfgang Kaleck, Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West
David McDonald, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South
Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
Keith David Watenpaugh, Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
Turkey
Nazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Kabir Tambar, The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Uprisings
Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt's Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles
Francesco Cavatorta and Paola Rivetti, “EU–MENA Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings”
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, and Frank Barat, On Palestine
Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine
Hamza Hamouchene and Mika Minio-Paluello, The Coming Revolution in North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice
الثورة القادمة إلى شمال أفريقيا: الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية
Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias”
Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution
Andrea Khalil, Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya
Andrea Khalil, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring