NEWTON Summer Reading (2015 Edition)

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