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

Review Articles

Film Reviews

MESA 2007 FilmFest Panel Using Middle Eastern Film in the Classroom: Media Literacy

The Noble Struggle of Amina wadud (USA)2006 Color 29 min. In English W/ English subtitles as needed. Director: Elli Safari; Producer: Kino Safari; Distributor: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY 10013 (tel: 212 925–2052; info@wmm.com; www.wmm.com).

Book Reviews

Kamran Scot Aghaie. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 304 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 0-292-70959-5

Nadje Sadig Al-Ali. Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 271 pages, endnotes, photographs, bibliography, index. Paper US$75 ISBN 1-84277-745-9

Iqbal Al-Qazwini. Zubaida’s Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile. Translated by Azza El Kholy and Amira Nowaira. Afterword by Nadje Al-Ali. New York: Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 2008. 137 pages. Cloth US $19.95/ CAN $24.00 ISBN 978-155861572

Lars Erslev Andersen. Innocence Lost: Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order. Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007. 178 pages, bibliography. Paper US$24.99 ISBN 978-87-7674-200-3

Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, eds. Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey. Emeryville: Seal Press, 2006. 293 pages, index. Paper US$15.95 ISBN 1-58005-155-3

Beth Baron. Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2007. 287 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-520-25154-0

Asef Bayat. Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. x + 291 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Paper US$21.95 978-0804755955

William O. Beeman. The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2005. 298 pages, endnotes, comprehensive bibliography, index. Cloth US$51.95 ISBN 0-275-98214-9

Clifford Edmund Boswokth. An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark’s Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609–21. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 184 pages, index. Cloth US$89.95 ISBN 0-7546-5708-6

David Cook. Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 272 pages, works cited and index. Cloth US$34.95 ISBN 0-8156-3058-1

Delia Cortese and Simonetta Calderini. Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 269 pages, index. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN 0-7486-1732-9. Paper US$28.00 ISBN 0-7486-1733-7

Lara deeb. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon. New York: Princeton University Press, 2006. 275 pages, photos, footnotes, bibliography, and index. Paper US$26.95 ISBN 978-0-691-12421-6

Eleanor A. Doumato and Gregory Starrett, eds. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2007. 267 pages, illustrations, bibliography, contributor biographies, index. Hardcover US$55.00 ISBN 978-1-58826-450-3

Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Steven Wright, eds. Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2008. International Specialized Book Services. 309 pages, endnotes, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth &S$54.50 ISBN 0-8637-2323-0

Katherine Pratt Ewing, ed. Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States since 9/11. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 215 pages, index. Paper US$32.50 ISBN 978-0-87154-328-8

Ilana Feldman. Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. 324 pages, maps, illustrations. Cloth US$22.95 ISBN 978-0-8223-4240-3

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