NEWTON Summer Reading (2015 Edition)

NEWTON Summer Reading (2015 Edition)

NEWTON Summer Reading (2015 Edition)

By : Anthony Alessandrini and Bassam Haddad

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

 

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”