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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 42 - Issue 1-2 - Summer/Winter 2008

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Michael R. Fischbach. The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims, Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution. United States Institute of Peace Press2006. 151 pages, endnotes, works cited, index. Paper US$14.95 ISBN 1-929223-80-3

James F. Goode. Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919–1941. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 293 pages, index. Paper US$22.95 ISBN 978-0-292-71498-4

Sumaiya A. Hamdani. Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 210 pages, index. Cloth US$45.00 ISBN 1-85043-882-X

Stephen Hirtenstein and Martin Notcott, eds. Divine Sayings: The Mishkat al-Anwãr of Ibn ArabiOxford: Anqa Publishing, 2004. x + 206 pages, indices. Cloth US$32.95 ISBN 0-9534513-5-6

Nubar Hovsepian, ed. The War on Lebanon: A Reader. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008. 405 pages, index. Paper US$20.00 ISBN 978-1-56656-680-3

Toby E. Huff. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 425 pages, footnotes, selected bibliography, index. Paper US$32.99 ISBN 0-521-52994-8

Ibn Warraq. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 556 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$29.98 ISBN 978-1-59102-484-2

Raphael Israeli. Islamic Radicalism and Political Violence: The Templars of Islam and Sheikh Ra’id Salah. London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008. 175 pp., bibliography, notes, index. Paper US$30 ISBN 978-085303730-9

Mustafa Kabha. The Palestinian Press as Shaper of Public Opinion, 1929–1939: Writing Up a Storm. Forward by Israel Gershoni. London & Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xxvii + 292 pages, endnotes, appendices, references, index. Paper US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-85303-672-2

Deborah Kapchan. Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 325 pages, 19 b/w illus, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$75.00 ISBN 0-8195-6851-1, Paper US$27.95 ISBN0-8195-6852-X

Richard C. Keller. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 320 pages, notes, 10 photographs, bibliography, index. Paper US$25 ISBN 978-0-226-42973-1

Bernard Lewis. From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 438 pages. Paper US$19.99 ISBN 978-0195182538

Ze’Ev Maghen. Virtues of the Flesh: Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2005. x + 298 pages, index. Cloth US$124/92€ ISBN 90-04-14070-0

Jonathan Orr-Stav. Learn to Write the Hebrew Script: Alef through the Looking Glass. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 158 pages, index. Paper US$26 ISBN 0-300-10841-9

Susan Ossman, ed. The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 230 pages. Paper US$31.95 ISBN 978-0-7391-1709-5

Kenneth J. Perkins. A History of Modem Tunisia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 249 pages. Maps, illustrations, notes, suggested readings, index. Paper US$27.99 ISBN 978 0521009720

Elie Podeh and Asher Kaufman, eds. Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Resolution? Essays in Honour of Professor Moshe Ma’oz. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. xiv, 379 pages, index. Cloth US$69.50 ISBN 978-1903900680

Paul R. Powers. Intent in Islamic Law: Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunni Fiqh. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 236 pages, bibliography, index. US$115 ISBN 9004145923

Michael Provence. The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism. Texas Modern Middle East Series 22. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 209 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$21.95 ISBN 0-292-70680-4

Margaret Rausch. Bodies, Boundaries and Spirit Possession: Moroccan Women and the Revision of Tradition. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2000. Distributed by Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, NJ. 265 pages, footnotes, bibliography, glossary. Paper US$39.95 ISBN 3-933127-46-7

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