NEWTONs You May Have Missed

With the spring semester coming to an end, we wanted to take an opportunity to remind you of some of the amazing NEWTON posts we have posted since January that you might have missed the first time around—especially those of you starting to think about your summer reading list. If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com.

Niki Akhavan, Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution

Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World

Claire Beaugrand, Amélie Le Renard, Roman Stadnicki, editors, 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

Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism 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

John Tofik Karam, “On the Trail and Trial of a Palestinian Diaspora: Mapping South America in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1967–1972”

Kurdish Studies (Volume 1, Issue 1)

Reinoud Leenders, Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon

Mark LeVine, editor, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 (Special Issue of Middle East Critique)

Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change

Leila Piran, Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policy

Laila Shereen Sakr / VJ Um Amel, "A Digital Humanities Approach: Text, the Internet, and the Egyptian Uprising"

Lisa Wedeen, “Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria”