NEWTONs You May Have Missed

As we begin to round the corner towards winter, 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 reading lists for the spring semester. If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON, please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com.

ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe

Reem Abou-El-Fadl, editor, Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles

Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture

Luca Anceschi, Gennaro Gervasio, and Andrea Teti, editors, Informal Power in the Greater Middle East

Elisabeth Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom

Beth Baron, The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail

Jonathan A. C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy

Francesco Cavatorta and Paola Rivetti, “EU–MENA Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings”

Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt

Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think?

Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

Anthony Downey, editor, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

Maha El Said, Lena Meari, and Nicola Pratt, editors, Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance

Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising”

Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America

Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism

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

Raymond Hinnebusch, editor, From Arab Spring to Arab Winter: Explaining the Limits of Post-Uprising Democratization

Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, “Mass Mobilization and the Democracy Bias”

Ali Issa, Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq

Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror

Wolfgang Kaleck, Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West

Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, editors, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution

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

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?

Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age

Olfa Lamloum and Mohamed Ben Zina, Jeunes de Douar Hicher et d’Ettadhamen. Une enquête sociologique

Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture

Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism

Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism

David McDonald, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth

Negar Mottahedeh, #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life

Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate

Vijay Prashad, editor, Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation

Najat Rahman, In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish

Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East

Jeffrey Sacks, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

Wadie E. Said, Crimes of Terror

Kabir Tambar, The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey

Keith David Watenpaugh, Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism

Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World