With the spring semester coming to an end, we wanted to take an opportunity to remind you of some of the amazing NEWTON posts we have posted since January that you might have missed the first time around—especially those of you starting to think about your summer reading list. If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com.
Niki Akhavan, Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World
Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking
Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Annika Marlen Hinze, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
India: Wounded States (Special Issue of Warscapes)
Jacobin Magazine, “Special Section on the Gulf Cooperation Council”
Rebecca Joubin, The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Kurdish Studies (Volume 1, Issue 1)
Reinoud Leenders, Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon
Mark LeVine, editor, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 (Special Issue of Middle East Critique)
Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change
Lisa Wedeen, “Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria”