We have had the opportunity to highlight an extraordinary series of books and articles on New Texts Out Now this year. Before we make our way into the new year, here are all of the NEWTONs that we published in 2012. Enjoy, and see you in 2013.
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser’s Egypt”
Ali Ahmida, “Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship, and the Challenge for Democracy”
Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najar, We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
Nezar AlSayyad, Cairo: Histories of a City
Betty S. Anderson, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
Amahl Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics
Jason Brownlee, Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance
Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber, Speaking About Torture
Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union
Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion
Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey
Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
James Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know
Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Pascale Ghazaleh, Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World
Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish, The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order?
Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600-1800)
Jens Hanssen, “Kafka and Arabs”
Linda Herrera, “Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt”
Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Karima Khalil, Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt’s Revolution
Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Akram Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East
Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir, Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel
Anne Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics
Farzaneh Milani, Words not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Hakan Özoğlu, From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic
Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora
Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman, “Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb”
Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel
Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation
Joshua Stacher, Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage, and Women in the Muslim World
Elisabeth Weber, Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace
Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy