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NEWTON 2015 Year in Review

NEWTON 2015 Year in Review

By : Anthony Alessandrini and Bassam Haddad

Since it was first launched in the fall of 2011, the New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) Page has been honored to have the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books, articles, special issues of journals, and films for Jadaliyya readers. This past year was no exception. With authors generously agreeing to discuss their new works, offer background information on their research, and allow us to post excerpts from their books and articles, we have been able to offer first looks at some of the most important new work in the field, from established names and rising stars alike.

As we say goodbye to 2015, with a new set of texts on the horizon in 2016, this is an opportune moment to look back at the previous year on NEWTON. The fifty-five books and articles listed below span disciplines, regions, and methodological and theoretical approaches. We offer links to these works for scholars working in the field, as well as teachers and students looking for recently published sources in Middle East studies.

As always, if you wish to recommend a book to be featured in New Texts Out Now, or if you have just published a book, a peer-reviewed article, or the special issue of a journal, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com. See you in 2016.

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: Hidden Geographies

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

Moustafa Bayoumi, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror

Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail

Jonathan A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy

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

Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt

Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think?

Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

Anthony Downey, editor, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

Maha El Said, Lena Meari, and Nicola Pratt, editors, Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World

Safinaz El Tarouty, Businessmen, Clientelism, and Authoritarianism in Egypt

Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Filling the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement”

Ilana Feldman, Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule

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

Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian, editors, Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community

Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine

Hamza Hamouchene and Mika Minio-Paluello, editors, The Coming Revolution in North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice

Raymond Hinnebusch, editor, From Arab Spring to Arab Winter: Explaining the Limits of Post-Uprising Democratization

Raymond Hinnebusch, The International Politics of the Middle East

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

Jeanette S. Jouili, Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

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

Joris Luyendijk, Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers

Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism

Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism

David McDonald, editor, 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

Kermit Roosevelt, Allegiance

Jeffrey Sacks, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

Wadie E. Said, Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions

Robert Saliba, editor, Urban Design in the Arab World: Reconceptualizing Boundaries

Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine

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
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Anthony Alessandrini, Bassam Haddad, Maren Milligan, and Suzanne Saleeby By :
Anthony Alessandrini, Bassam Haddad, Maren Milligan, and Suzanne Saleeby

NEWTON 2014 Year in Review

Once again this year, as the editors of the New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) Page, we have been honored to have the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books, articles, special issues of journals, and films for Jadaliyya readers in 2014. With authors generously agreeing to discuss their new works, offer background information on their research, and allow us to post excerpts from their books and articles, we have been able to offer first looks at some of the most important new work in the field, from established names and rising stars alike.

Here on the eve of 2015, with a new set of texts on the horizon, we have an opportune moment to look back at the previous year on NEWTON. The work below spans disciplines, regions, and methodological and theoretical approaches. We offer it for scholars working in the field, as well as teachers and students looking for recently published sources in Middle East studies.

As always, if you wish to recommend a book to be featured in New Texts Out Now, or if you have just published a book, a peer-reviewed article, or the special issue of a journal, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com. See you in 2015.

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

Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt`s Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings

Niki Akhavan, Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution

Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt

Anthony Alessandrini, Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics

Anthony Alessandrini, Nazan Ustundag, and Emrah Yildiz, “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey

VJ Um Amel, “A Digital Humanities Approach: Text, the Internet, and the Egyptian Uprising”

Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World

Hani Bawardi, The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to US Citizenship

Claire Beaugrand, Amélie Le Renard, et Roman Stadnicki, Villes et dynamiques urbaines en péninsule Arabique / Cities and Urban Dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula

Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

Shampa Biswas, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

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

Melani Cammett, Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon

Sheila Carapico, Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy Promotion, Justice, and Representation

Reem Charif, Mohamad Hafeda, and Joumana al Jabri, Creative Refuge

Jean-Claude David et Thierry Boissiere, Alep et ses territoires. Fabrique et politique d’une ville (1868-2011)

Muriam Haleh Davis, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution

Ahmed El Shamsy, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

Gulcin Erdi-Lelandais, Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature

Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East

Linda Herrera, Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

Linda Herrera, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East

Annika Marlen Hinze, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space

Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond

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

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, “Alliances and Perception Profiles in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997 to 2005”

John Tofik Karam, “On the Trail and Trial of a Palestinian Diaspora: Mapping South America in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1967–1972”

Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce

Andrea Khalil, Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya

Andrea Khalil, Women, Gender, and the Arab Spring

Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, and Atef Alshaer, The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication

Kurdish Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1

Reinoud Leenders, Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon

Mark LeVine, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 (Special Issue of Middle East Critique)

Elisabeth Longuenesse et Cyril Roussel, Developper en Syrie. Retour sur une experience historique

Sunaina Maira and Piya Chatterjee, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Nazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire

Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change

Pascal Menoret, Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Revolt

Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer (Revised and Updated Edition)

Leila Piran, Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policy

Erin Runions, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty

Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa

Nimer Sultany, “Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism”

Lisa Wedeen, “Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria”

Isabelle Werenfels, “Beyond Authoritarian Upgrading: The Re-Emergence of Sufi Orders in Maghrebi Politics”