As we begin to round the corner towards winter, 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 reading lists for the spring semester. If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com.
ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, editor, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles
Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Luca Anceschi, Gennaro Gervasio, and Andrea Teti, editors, Informal Power in the Greater Middle East
Elisabeth Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Beth Baron, The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail
Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think?
Maha El Said, Lena Meari, and Nicola Pratt, editors, Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance
Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”
Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine
Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias”
Ali Issa, Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq
Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Wolfgang Kaleck, Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West
Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, editors, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution
Andrea Khalil, editor, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Olfa Lamloum and Mohamed Ben Zina, Jeunes de Douar Hicher et d’Ettadhamen. Une enquête sociologique
Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism
Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism
David McDonald, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South
Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth
Negar Mottahedeh, #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate
Vijay Prashad, editor, Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
Najat Rahman, In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish
Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
Jeffrey Sacks, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
Wadie E. Said, Crimes of Terror
Kabir Tambar, The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Keith David Watenpaugh, Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World