NEWTON Summer Reading

As we head into the summer, 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 during the 2013-2014 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. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section.

Happy summer reading!

Arabian Peninsula

Claire Beaugrand, Amélie Le Renard, Roman Stadnicki, editors, Villes et dynamiques urbaines en péninsule Arabique / Cities and Urban Dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula

Jacobin Magazine, “Special Section on the Gulf Cooperation Council”

Toby Matthiesen, Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

Cities

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

Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese, editors, The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion

Lara Deeb and Mona Harb, Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

Gulcin Erdi-Lelandais, editor, Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Farha Ghannam, Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

Annika Marlen Hinze, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space

Critical Currents in Islam

Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten, and Marat Shterin, editors, Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts

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

Asef Bayat, Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam

Ahmed El Shamsy, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament

Culture

Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer

Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

Erdag Goknar, Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel

Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle, editors, Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

Sunaina Maira, Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement

Eliane Raheb, Sleepless Nights

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

Egypt

Farha Ghannam, Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

Adel Iskandar, Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

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

Gender and Sexuality

Samia Errazzouki, “Working-Class Women Revolt: Gendered Political Economy in Morocco”

India: Wounded States (Special Issue of Warscapes)

Rebecca Joubin, The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

Andrea Khalil, editor, Women, Gender, and the Arab Spring

Eliane Raheb, Sleepless Nights

Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance

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

History

Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten, and Marat Shterin, editors, Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts

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

H. Erdem Cipa and Emine Fetvaci, editors, Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future

Ahmed El Shamsy, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond

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

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

Iran

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

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

Iraq

Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer

Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance

Law

Derya Bayir, Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law

Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani, editors, Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures

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

Elizabeth Thompson, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

Lebanon

Lara Deeb and Mona Harb, Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

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

Eliane Raheb, Sleepless Nights

Maghreb

Ray Bush, editor, Turmoil in North Africa: A Radical Assessment of the Uprisings Since the End of 2010

Samia Errazzouki, “Working-Class Women Revolt: Gendered Political Economy in Morocco”

Andrea Khalil, editor, Women, Gender, and the Arab Spring

Media

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

Linda Herrera, editor, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East

Adel Iskandar, Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

Rebecca Joubin, The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance

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

Palestine

Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani, editors, Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures

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

Sunaina Maira, Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement

Political Economy

Nelida Fuccaro, editor, Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East

Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East

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

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

Regional Analysis

Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese, editors, The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion

Gulcin Erdi-Lelandais, editor, Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Nelida Fuccaro, editor, Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East

Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle, editors, Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East

Linda Herrera, editor, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East

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

Elizabeth Thompson, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

Syria

Rebecca Joubin, The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

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

Turkey

Anthony Alessandrini, Nazan Ustundag, and Emrah Yildiz, editors, “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey

Derya Bayir, Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law

H. Erdem Cipa and Emine Fetvaci, editors, Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future

Erdag Goknar, Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel

Annika Marlen Hinze, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space

Kurdish Studies (Volume 1, Issue 1)

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

Uprisings

Anthony Alessandrini, Nazan Ustundag, and Emrah Yildiz, editors, “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey

Ray Bush, editor, Turmoil in North Africa: A Radical Assessment of the Uprisings Since the End of 2010

India: Wounded States (Special Issue of Warscapes)

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

Toby Matthiesen, Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't

Nathan Schneider, Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse