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
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
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, and Frank Barat, On Palestine
Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think?
Safinaz El Tarouty, Businessmen, Clientelism, and Authoritarianism in Egypt
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
Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine
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
Jeffrey Sacks, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
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