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Abisaab, Rula Jurdi and Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizbullah’s Islamists, Syracuse University Press, 2014. [Munira Khayyat,The American University in Cairo]
Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today, Bloomsbury, 2013. [Setrag Manoukian, McGill University]
Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, ed., A Critical Introduction to Khomeini, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [Dustin J. Byrd, Olivet College]
Aghaie, Kamran Scot and Afshin Marashi, eds., Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity, University of Texas Press, 2014. [Omid Payrow Shabani, University of Guelph]
Ahmed, Sara, Willful Subjects, Duke University Press, 2014. [Michelle Hartman, McGill University]
Alessandrini, Anthony C., Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different, Lexington Books, 2014. [Corey McCall, Elmira College]
Alkhateeb, Firas, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past, Hurst & Co., 2014. [Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
al-Musawi, Muhsin J., The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. [Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University]
Al-Qasim, Samih, All Faces but Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim, trans. ‘Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a, Syracuse University Press, 2015. [Salam Mir, Independent Scholar]
Al-Tamamy, Saud M.S., Averroes, Kant, and the Origins of the Enlightenment: Reason and Revelation in Arab Thought, I. B. Tauris, 2013. [Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut]
Amer, Sahar, What is Veiling?, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. [Falguni A. Sheth, Emory University]
Antoon, Sinan, The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. [Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University]
Asatrian, Garnik S. and Victoria Arakelova, The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World, Acumen, 2014. [Richard Foltz, Concordia University, Montréal]
Atanasoski, Neda, Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity, University of Minnesota Press, 2013. [Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin]
Azoulay, Ariella, The Civil Contract of Photography, MIT Press, 2012. [Matthew J. Goodwin, Nothern Arizona University]
Badiou, Alain, The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose, trans. Bruno Bosteels, Verso, 2014. [Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania]
Bahrani, Zainab, The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity, Reaktion Books, 2014. [Manolis Mikrakis, National Technical University of Athens]
Balibar, Étienne, Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy, trans. G.M. Goshgarian, Columbia University Press, 2015. [Bryan Lueck, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
Balso, Judith, Affirmation of Poetry, trans. Drew S. Burk, Univocal, 2014. [Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania]
Barber, Daniel Colucciello, Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence, Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [Daniel Tutt, Global Center for Advanced Studies]
Bardakjian, Kevork B. and Sergio La Porta, eds., The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective, E.J. Brill, 2014. [David Cook, Rice University]
Baring, Edward and Peter E. Gordon, eds., The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion, Fordham University Press, 2014. [Mahdi Tourage, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario]
Beecroft, Alexander, An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day, Verso Books, 2015. [Alexa Firat, Temple University]
Biles, Jeremy and Kent L. Brintnall, eds., Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion, Fordham University Press, 2015. [Tarek R. Dika, University of Notre Dame]
Bilgrami, Akeel and Jonathan R. Cole, eds., Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?, Columbia University Press, 2014. [Matthew Abraham, University of Arizona]
Bulliet, Richard W., Cotton, Climate and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History, Columbia University Press, 2011. [S. Sayyid, University of Leeds]
Butler, Judith, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, Harvard University Press, 2015. [Rima Dunn, University of Southampton]
Caloz-Tschopp, Marie-Claire, ed., Violence, politique et civilité aujourd’hui: La Turquie aux prises avec ses tourments, L’Harmattan, 2014. [Bryan Lueck, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
Centlivres-Demont, Micheline, ed., Afghanistan: Identity, Society and Politics since 1980, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [M. Jamil Hanifi, Michigan State University]
Chamayou, Grégoire, A Theory of the Drone, trans. Janet Lloyd, The New Press, 2015. [Lisa Hajjar, University of California Santa Barbara]
Chaudhuri, Shonini, Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship, Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
Chérif, Mustapha, Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 2008. [Bryan Lueck, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
Chowdhury, Aniruddha, Post-deconstructive Subjectivity and History: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and Postcolonial Thought, Brill, 2014. [Rosa Vasilaki, London School of Economics and Political Science]
Coles, Romand, Mark Reinhardt, and George Shulman, eds., Radical Future Pasts: Untimely Political Theory, University Press of Kentucky, 2014. [Bettina Koch, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University]
Commins, David, The Gulf States: A Modern History, I.B. Tauris, 2014. [Victoria Hightower, University of North Georgia]
Crawford, Michael, Ibn `Abd al-Wahhab, Oneworld, 2014. [David Commins, Dickinson College]
Crockett, Clayton, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffery W. Robbins, eds., The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion, Indiana University Press, 2014. [Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University]
Dabashi, Hamid, Can Non-Europeans Think?, Zed Books, 2015. [Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University]
Dabashi, Hamid, Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene, Harvard University Press, 2015. [Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine]
Darweish, Marwan and Andrew Rigby, Popular Protest in Palestine: The History and Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance, Pluto Press, 2015. [Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University]
Das, Veena, Affliction, Fordham University Press, 2015. [Cortney Hughes Rinker, George Mason University]
Delphy, Christine, Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror, Verso, 2015. [Kecia Ali, Boston University]
De Sondy, Amanullah, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, Bloomsbury, 2015. [Linda G. Jones, Universitat Pompeu Fabra]
Devji, Faisal, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea, Harvard University Press, 2013. [Sadia Abbas, Rutgers University]
Downey, Anthony, ed., Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North African and the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, 2014. [Hanan Toukan, Free University of Berlin]
Dunlap, Aron, Lacan and Religion, Acumen, 2014. [Nathan Gorelick, Utah Valley University]
El-Desouky, Ayman A., The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. [Maya Issam Kesrouany, American University of Sharjah]
Elling, Rasmus Christian, Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity After Khomeini, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. [Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Exeter]
El Said, Maha, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt, eds., Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World, Zed Books, 2015. [Monica Mookherjee, Keele University]
El Shamsy, Ahmed, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History, Cambridge University Press, 2015. [Tarek R. Dika, University of Notre Dame]
Emon, Anver, Mark Ellis, and Benjamin Glahn, eds., Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground?, Oxford University Press, 2012. [Cyra Akila Choudhury, Florida International University]
Ertürk, Nergis, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey, Oxford University Press, 2013. [Ian Almond, Georgetown University in Qatar]
Esposito, Roberto, Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Fordham University Press, 2015. [Adam Kotsko, Shimer College]
Fassin, Didier and Mariella Pandolfi, eds., Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, Zone Books, 2013. [Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin]
Fawaz, Leila Tarazi, A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War, Harvard University Press, 2014. [Matthew A. Sharp, University of Pennsylvania]
Feldman, Keith P., A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, University of Minnesota Press, 2015. [Anthony C. Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center]
Fernando, Mayanthi L., The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism, Duke University Press, 2014. [Jeanette S. Jouili, University of Pittsburgh]
Filiu, Jean-Pierre, Gaza: A History, trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Richard Falk, Princeton University]
Fleet, Kate and Ebru Boyar, eds., Ottoman Women in Public Space, Brill, 2016. [Elizabeth Matsushita, University of Illinois]
Fotouhi, Sanaz, The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity since the Iranian Revolution, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [Michael Craig Hillmann, University of Texas at Austin]
Fraenkel, Carlos, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World, Princeton University Press, 2015. [Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin]
Friedman, Susan Stanford, Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Columbia University Press, 2015. [Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University]
Gana, Nouri, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning, Bucknell University Press, 2011. [Karim Mattar, University of Colorado at Boulder]
Ganor, Boaz, Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World, Columbia University Press, 2015. [Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illinois University]
Ghobadzadeh, Naser, Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity University]
Golkar, Saeid, Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran, Columbia University Press, 2015. [Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University]
Goodman, Lenn E., Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [Angus M. Slater, Lancaster University]
Griffith, Sidney H., The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the ‘People of the Book’ in the Language of Islam, Princeton University Press, 2013. [Rana Issa, University of Oslo]
Grigor, Talinn, Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio, Reaktion Books, 2014. [Michael Craig Hillmann, University of Texas at Austin]
Guénoun, Denis, A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria, Columbia University Press, 2014. [Lia Nicole Brozgal, University of California, Los Angeles]
Haddad, Samir, Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy, Indiana University Press, 2013. [Bryan Lueck, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
Haddad Yvonne Y. and Jane I. Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of American Islam, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Aminah McCloud, DePaul University]
Hallaq, Wael B., The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament, Columbia University Press, 2012. [Daniel Tutt, Global Center for Advanced Studies]
Halper, Jeff, War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification, Pluto Press, 2015. [Richard Falk, Princeton University]
Hamdar, Abir, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature, Syracuse University Press, 2014. [R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens College, The City University of New York]
Hamza, Agon, ed., Repeating Žižek, Duke University Press, 2015. [Jamil Khader, Bethlehem University]
Hartman, Michelle, Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon, Syracuse University Press, 2014. [Yasmine Khayyat, Rutgers University]
Hassan, Waïl S., Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University]
Hayek, Ghenwa, Beirut, Imagining the City: Space and Place in Lebanese Literature, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [Michelle Hartman, McGill University]
Hidayatullah, Aysha A., Feminist Edges of the Qur’an, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Fatima Seedat, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal]
Homayounpour, Gohar, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran, MIT Press, 2012. [Nathan Gorelick, Utah Valley University]
Hughes, Aaron W., Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction, Acumen, 2014. [Vernon James Schubel, Kenyon College]
Hussein, Mahmoud, Understanding the Qur’an Today, Saqi Books, 2013. [Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University]
Hyldig Dal, Mikala, ed., Cairo: Images of Transition–Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013, Transcript-Verlag, 2013. [Mark R. Westmoreland, Stockholm University]
Kanwal, Aroosa, Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. [Muhammad Sheeraz, International Islamic University Islamabad]
Katz, Marion Holmes, Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice, Columbia University Press, 2014. [Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington]
Kotef, Hagar, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, Duke University Press, 2015. [Nasser Abourahme, Columbia University]
Kozma, Liat, Cyrus Schayegh, and Avner Wishnitzer, eds., A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality, and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania]
Kraidy, Marwan M. The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World, Harvard University Press, 2016. [John Lennon, University of South Florida]
Krämer, Gudrun and Sabine Schmidtke, eds., Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies, Brill, 2014. [Amr Osman, Qatar University]
Kundnani, Arun, The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror, Verso, 2014. [Stephen Sheehi, College of William and Mary]
Laruelle, François, Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem, Columbia University Press, 2015. [Michael Saunders, Kingston University]
Latré, Stijn, Walter van Herck, and Guido Vanheeswijck, eds., Radical Secularization?: An Inquiry into the Religious Roots of Secular Culture, Bloomsbury, 2014. [Maxwell Kennel, McMaster University]
Lawrence, Bruce B., Who Is Allah?, The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. [Todd Lawson, University of Toronto]
LeVine, Mark and Mathias Mossberg, eds., One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States, University of California Press, 2014. [Yara Asi, University of Central Florida]
Levy, Lital, Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, Princeton University Press, 2014. [Anna Bernard, King’s College London]
Lyotard, Jean-François, Why Philosophize?, trans. Andrew Brown, Polity Press, 2013. [François-Xavier Plasse-Couture, University of Hawaii at Manoa]
Malhotra, Anshu and Farina Mir, eds., Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, Oxford University Press, 2012. [Rajbir Singh Judge, University of California, Davis]
Mann, Bonnie, Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Amanullah De Sondy, University of Miami]
Mattawa, Khaled, Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Syracuse University Press, 2014. [Najat Rahman, Université de Montréal]
Merabet, Sofian, Queer Beirut, University of Texas Press, 2014. [Jolanda Guardi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona]
Mirsepassi, Ali and Tadd Graham Fernée, Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University]
Moazami, Behrooz, State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. [Tanzeen Rashed Doha, University of California, Davis]
Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak, The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions, Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought, Bloomsbury, 2012. [Youssef Yacoubi, The Ohio State University]
Mojab, Shahrzad, ed., Marxism and Feminism, Zed Books, 2015 [Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Australian Catholic University]
Moosa, Ebrahim, What Is a Madrasa?, The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. [Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University]
Naguib, Nefissa, Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt, University of Texas Press, 2015. [Omar Foda, Independent Scholar]
Ouyang, Wen-Chin, Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition, Edinburgh University Press, 2013. [Karim Mattar, University of Colorado at Boulder]
Pappé, Ilan, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso, 2014. [Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin]
Pappé, Ilan, ed., Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid, Zed Books, 2015. [Marjorie N. Feld, Babson College]
Park, Peter K. J., Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830, SUNY Press, 2013. [Mohammad Azadpur, San Francisco State University]
Pouillon, François and Jean-Claude Vatin, eds., After Orientalism: Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-appropriations, Brill, 2015. [Ansev Demirhan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]
Prashad, Vijay, ed., Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation, Verso, 2015. [Maimuna Islam, The College of Idaho]
Qā’em-Maqāmi, Ālam-Tāj, Mirror of Dew: The Poetry of Ālam-Tāj Zhāle Qā’em-Maqāmi, translated (with introduction) by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Ilex Foundation, 2014. [Saeed Yousef, University of Chicago]
Rabb, Intisar A., Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law, Cambridge University Press, 2015. [Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore]
Rabinow, Paul and Anthony Stavrianakis, Designs on the Contemporary: Anthropological Tests, University of Chicago Press, 2014. [Michael M.J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Rahimieh, Nasrin, Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity, Routledge, 2016. [Claudia Yaghoobi, Georgia College and State University]
Razoux, Pierre, The Iran-Iraq War, trans. Nicholas Elliott, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. [Ervand Abrahamian, City University of New York]
Rodinson, Maxime, Marxism and the Muslim World, with a foreword by Gilbert Achcar, Zed Books, 2015. [Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Australian Catholic University]
Rose, Kenneth, Pluralism: The Future of Religion, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. [Nicholas P. Andersen, Brown University]
Rotbard, Sharon, White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, MIT Press, 2015. [Léopold Lambert, Architect and Editor in Chief of The Funambulist]
Roudinesco, Élisabeth, Revisiting the Jewish Question, Polity Press, 2014. [Gil Z. Hochberg, University of California, Los Angeles]
Rovner, Adam, In the Shadow of Zionism: Promised Lands before Israel, New York University Press, 2014. [Shaul Magid, Indiana University Bloomington]
Sacks, Jeffrey, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish, Fordham University Press, 2015. [Karim Mattar, University of Colorado at Boulder]
Sahner, Christian C., Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Rana Issa, University of Oslo]
Salama, Mohammad R., Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun, I.B. Tauris, 2011. [Ian Almond, Georgetown University in Qatar]
Sayigh, Rosemary, ed., Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist and Palestinian Patriot – A Fractured Life Story, American University in Cairo Press, 2015. [Sarah Kuhail, Independent Scholar]
Seyed-Ghorab, Ali-Asghar, ed., Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah, A History of Persian Literature XI, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [Michael Craig Hillmann, University of Texas at Austin]
Shamlu, Ahmad, Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu, trans. Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Contra Mundum Press, 2015. [Samad Alavi, University of Washington]
Shults, F. LeRon, Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism, Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [Daniel Tutt, Global Center for Advanced Studies]
Sirriyeh, Elizabeth, Dreams & Visions in the World of Islam: A History of Muslim Dreaming and Foreknowing, I.B. Tauris, 2015. [Younes Saramifar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
Smith, Anthony Paul, A Non-Philosophical Theory of Nature: Ecologies of Thought, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. [Mark William Westmoreland, Villanova University]
Soroush, Abdulkarim, The Expansion of Prophetic Experience: Essays on Historicity, Contingency and Plurality in Religion, Brill, 2009. [Alireza Shomali, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)]
Soske, Jon and Sean Jacobs, eds., Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, Haymarket Books, 2015. [Marjorie N. Feld, Babson College]
Sperlinger, Tom, Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation, Zero Books, 2015. [Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin]
Sreberny, Annabelle and Massoumeh Torfeh, eds., Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, 2013 . [Babak Rahimi, University of California San Diego]
Stone, Lucian, ed., Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging, Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought, Bloomsbury, 2014. [Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University]
Sunar, Lutfi, Marx and Weber on Oriental Societies: In the Shadow of Western Modernity, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series, Ashgate, 2014. [Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University]
Svirsky, Marcelo, After Israel: Towards Cultural Transformation, Zed Books, 2014. [François-Xavier Plasse-Couture, University of Hawaii at Manoa]
Thum, Rian, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, Harvard University Press, 2014. [Eric T. Schluessel, Harvard University]
Tolan, John Victor, Gilles Veinstein and Henry Laurens, Europe and the Islamic World: A History, Princeton University Press, 2013. [Abdessamad Belhaj, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
Turner, Mandy and Omar Shweiki, eds., Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy: De-development and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 [Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University]
Vattimo, Gianni and Michael Marder, eds., Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics, Bloomsbury, 2013. [Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College]
Weber, Elisabeth, ed., Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace, Fordham University Press, 2013. [Bryan Lueck, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]
Williams, Jeffrey, How To Be An Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, & the University, Fordham University Press, 2014 [Matthew Abraham, University of Arizona]
Wishnitzer, Avner, Reading Clocks, Alla Turca, University of Chicago Press, 2015. [M. Alper Yalçınkaya, Ohio Wesleyan University]
Yacobi, Haim, Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography, Routledge, 2016. [François-Xavier Plasse-Couture, University of Hawaii at Manoa]
Yavari, Neguin, Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam, Oxford University Press, 2014. [Alireza Shomali, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)]
Zafzaf, Muhammad, Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s Short Stories, trans. Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen, Syracuse University Press, 2014. [Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College]
Zelkovitz, Ido, Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics, Routledge, 2014. [Heidi Morrison, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse]
Ziter, Edward, Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. [Samer Al-Saber, Florida State University]
Žižek, Slavoj, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Verso, 2012. [Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Babson College]
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