New Texts Out Now: January 2013 Back to School Edition

New Texts Out Now: January 2013 Back to School Edition

New Texts Out Now: January 2013 Back to School Edition

By : Anthony Alessandrini, Bassam Haddad, and Suzanne Saleeby

As we kick off the spring 2013 semester, Jadaliyya would like to remind you of some of the most creative and groundbreaking works in Middle East studies that we have featured in our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page. Since we launched this page in 2011, we have had the opportunity to share with you unique interviews by authors and excerpts from their new and forthcoming publications.

Here you will find a list divided by topic of some of these texts that you may find particularly useful pedagogically. We encourage you to integrate these into your curricula during this semester and beyond. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section.

We wish you the best in the new semester!

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Arabs and Muslims in America

Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims

Arab Uprisings

Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism

James Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know

Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish, The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order?

Egypt

Nezar AlSayyad, Cairo: Histories of a City

Ziad Fahmy, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

Mervat Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Gender

Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present

Nicola Pratt, “The Gender Logics of Resistance to the "War on Terror"

Iraq

Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar, We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War

Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein`s Ba`th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime

Iran

Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran

Islam

Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women`s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent

Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion

Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam

Palestine/Israel

Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans

Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir, Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel

Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Saudi Arabia

Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia

Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

Torture and Detainment

Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber, Speaking about Torture

Lisa Hajjar, Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights

Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

Yemen

Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union

John M. Willis, Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past, 1857-1934

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Since we first launched our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page a little more than a year ago,  we have had the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books and articles for Jadaliyya readers. 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.

This seemed like an opportune moment to look back at the previous year and offer a review of some of the most significant work that has been featured in NEWTON. This is work that 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 or a peer-reviewed article, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com.

Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent

Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, “Between Nationalism and Women’s Rights: The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Iraq”

Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ‘Men in Crisis,’ Industries of Gender in Revolution”

Jason Brownlee, Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance

Julie A. Carlson and Elisabeth Weber, Speaking About Torture

Ayça Çubukçu, “On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq”

Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism

Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

Stephen Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled Union

Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion

Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey

Belén Fernández, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work

Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915

Adam Hanieh, Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States

Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North

Karima Khalil, Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypt’s Revolution

Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life

Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

Zakia Salime, Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco

Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime

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

Saadia Toor, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan