December 2005

REVIEW ARTICLE

Leo Strauss: Philosopher and Neither Straussian nor Imperialist
Reflections on Anne Norton Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
By Charles E.Butterworth

Eva Hanebutt-Benz, Dagmar Glass, and Geoffrey Roper
Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution. A cross cultural encounter. A catalogue and companion to the Exhibition
Reviewed by Natalie Zemon Davis                                                                    

Fruma Zachs
The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut 
Reviewed by Leila Hudson                                                                     

Ariel Salzmann
Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire. Rival Paths to the Modern State
Reviewed By Nora Lafi                                                                          

Fikret Adanır and Suraiya Faroqhi (editors)
The Ottomans and the Balkans: A Discussion of Historiography
Reviewed by Ryan Gingeras                                                                               

Mark LeVine
Overthrowing Geography; Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948
Reviewed by Jens Hanssen                                                                     

Halliday, Fred
Two Hours that Shook the World--September 11, 2001: Causes & Consequences
Reviewed By Amir Asmar                                                                     

Jean-David Mizrahi
Genèse de l’Etat mandataire, Service des Renseignements et bandes armées en Syrie et au Liban dans les années 1920

Toby Dodge
Inventing Iraq. The failure of Nation-building and a History Denied

Reviewed by Edouard Méténier

REVIEWS

Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp and Stefan Weber, (Eds)
The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire
Reviewed by Hala Fattah

Asma Moalla
The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814: Army and government of a North-Africa Ottoman eyalet at the end of the eighteenth century
Reviewed by Nora Lafi

Ludmila Hanisch
Die Nachfolger der Exegeten. Deutschsprachige Erforschung des Vorderen Orients in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Reviewed by Sukanya Kulkarni

Nelly Hanna
In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Leila Hudson

Janine A. Clark
Islam, Charity, and Activism. Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen
Reviewed by Albrecht Abdullah Ali Metzger

Samir Khalaf
Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict
Reviewed by Sean Monaghan

Nadine Méouchy & Peter Sluglett (eds.)
The British and the French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives
Reviewed by Leyla Dakhli

Kais Firro
Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State under the Mandate
Reviewed by Paul Kingston

Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires.
Reviewed by David Biale

Isa Blumi
Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918
Reviewed by Ryan Gingeras

Samir Kassir
Histoire de Beyrouth
Reviewed by Jens Hanssen

Bülent Özdemir
Ottoman Reforms and Social Life, Reflections From Salonica 1830-1850
Reviewed by Feryal Tansuğ

Robinson, C. F. (ed.)
A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra
Reviewed by Edward J. Keall

Bernard Heyberger
Hindiyya: Mystique et criminelle (1720-1798)
Reviewed by Stefan Winter

Eugene Rogan (ed.)
Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East
Reviewed by John T. Chalcraft

Luis Martinez (tr. Jonathan Derrick)
The Algerian Civil War 1990-1998
Reviewed by Amandeep Sandhu

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi`
Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History
Reviewed by Salam Kitmitto

Edhem Eldem
French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Drew Armstrong

Frederick N. Bohrer
Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Reviewed by Magnus T. Bernhardsson

Edward W. Said and David Barsamian
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said
Reviewed by Sean Monaghan

Naseer H. Aruri
Dishonest Broker: The US Role in Israel and Palestine
Reviewed by Markus Bouillon

Nathan J. Brown
Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine
Reviewed by Markus Bouillon

A. Holly Shissler
Between Two Empires: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the New Turkey
Reviewed by James H. Meyer

Anne Wolff
How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, from 1300 to 1640
Reviewed by John Hayden

Julia Clancy-Smith (editor)
North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War
Reviewed by Sean Monaghan

Jean Bethke Elshtain
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
Reviewed by Robert Blecher

Saghie, Hazim (ed.)
The Predicament of the Individual in the Middle East
Reviewed by Abdel Razzaq Takriti

Thomas Philipp
Acre; the Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831
Reviewed by James Reilly

Joseph Massad
Colonial Effects
Reviewed by John T Chalcraft

Yvonne Haddad (ed.)
Muslims in the West; From Sojourners to Citizens
Reviewed by Sean Monaghan

Gregor Schoeler
Écrire et transmettre dans les débuts de l’islam
Reviewed by Andrew J. Lane

Ali Mirsepassi
Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran
Reviewed by Mangol Bayat

Marilyn Booth
May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt
Reviewed by Antje Ziegler

Hassan, Riaz
Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society
Reviewed by Reza Pirbhai

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
The Global Political Economy of Israel
Reviewed by Markus R. Bouillon

Amin Maalouf
Ports of Call
Translated from French by Alberto Manguel
Reviewed by Tony Cheung

Marc Gopin
Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
Reviewed by Markus R. Bouillon

Aykut Kansu / Kemal Karpat (editor)
Politics in Post-Revolutionary Turkey, 1908-1913 / Ottoman Past and Turkey’s Today
Reviewed by Ryan Gingeras

Korsholm Nielsen, Hans Chr. and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
Middle Eastern Cities, 1900-1950, Public Places and Public Spheres in Transformation
Reviewed by Jens Hanssen

Christoph Schuman
Radikalnationalismus in Syrien und Libanon; Politische Sozialisation und Elitenbildung, 1930-1958
Reviewed by Jens Hanssen

Jonathan P. Berkey
Popular Preaching & Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East
Reviewed by John Curry

Hilmar Kaiser
Imperialism, Racism, and Development Theories
Reviewed by As`ad AbuKhalil

Mohammed A. Bamyeh
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind Economy, Discourse
Reviewed by Robert Gleave

Nicola Christine Pratt
The Legacy of the Corporatist State: Explaining Workers' Responses to Economic Liberalization in Egypt
Reviewed by Imad Harb

Great Need Over the Water: The Letters of Theresa Huntington Ziegler, Missionary to Turkey 1898-1905
Edited with an introduction and Commentary by Stina Katchadourian
Reviewed by Zeynep Kezer

Schade-Poulsen, Marc
Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï
Reviewed by David McMurray

Elaine Sciolino
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Reviewed by Paul Sullivan

Gordon Thomas
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
Reviewed by Amir Asmar

Barry Rubin
The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State Building
Reviewed by Husam Mohamad

Weaver Mary Anne
A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam
Reviewed by Amir Asmar

Tom Najem
The Collapse and Reconstruction of Lebanon
Reviewed by Guilain Denoeux

Matthias Struwe
The Policy of 'Critical Dialogue': An Analysis of European Human Rights Policy Towards Iran from 1992 to 1997
Reviewed by Ali Akbar Mahdi

Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
Reviewed by Joseph Massad

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan
Review Essays in Israel Studies, Vo. V
Reviewed by Eric Zakim

Mamoun Fandy
Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent
Reviewed by Jefferson Gray