Books Received for Review from the
November 2003 Newsletter

The Gulf: Future Security and British Policy. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 61pp. PB $19.50 ISBN 1-85043-382-8

Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 367pp. PB $26.95 ISBN 0-7914-5700-1

Adamec, Ludwig W. The A to Z of Islam. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. 336pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-8108-4505-9

Agius, Dionisius. In the Wake of the Dhow: The Arabian Gulf and Oman. Portland: Ithaca, 2002. 252pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-259-8

Alikhani, Alinaghi. The Diaries of Asadollah Alam, Volume V. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishing, 2003. HB $34.00 ISBN 1-58814-022-9

Allievi, Stefano and Jorgen S. Nielsen. Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 332pp. HB $111.00 ISBN 90-04-12858-1

Al-Ramli, Muhsin. Scattered Crumbs. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2003. 136pp. PB $16.95 ISBN 1-55728-750-3

Alterman, Jon B. Egypt and American Foreign Assistance: 1952-1956, Hopes Dashed. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 200pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 0-312-29621-5

Ameli, Saied Reza. Globalization, Americanization and the British Muslim Identity.

New York: Saqi Books, 2003. 308pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 1-90406-302-0

Amuzegar, Hooshanh and Farideh Amuzegar. How to Speak, Read and Write Persian:

A Complete Course with 3 Cassettes. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2003.

285pp. PB $50.00 ISBN 0-936347-05-8

Arabi, Ibn. Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries. Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2001. 128pp. HB £18.50 ISBN 0-9534513-4-8

Arnold, Dieter. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. New York: I.B.

Tauris, 2003. 274pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-691-11488-9

Arsuzi-Elamir, Delal. Arabischer Nationalismus in Syrien: Zaki al-Arsuzi und die arabisch-nationale Bewegung an der Periherie Ale. Hamburg: LIT, 2003. 338pp. PB $39.90 ISBN 3-8258-5917-7

as-Sadir, Muhammad Baqir. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. 208pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 1-85168-324-0

Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid ud-Din Attar. New York: Interlink Publishing Group, 2003. 94pp. HB $19.95ISBN 1-56656-480-8

Bacevich, Andrew J. and Efraim Inbar, The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered.         Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 186pp. PB $26.50 ISBN 0-7146-8305-1

Balaghi, Shiva and Lynn Gumpert. Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. 141pp. PB $29.50 ISBN 1-86064-883-5

Bass, Warren. Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East And the Making of the U.S.-Israeli Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 335pp. HB $30.00 ISBN 0-19-516580-2

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Arabic Language Handbook. Washington, DC: Georgetown  University Press, 2003. 144pp. PB $22.50. ISBN 0-87840-386-8

Behar, Cem. A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in  the Kasap Ilyas Mahalle. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 224pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7914-5682-X

Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid, Occupation, Terrorism and the   Future. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 173pp. PB $17.50 ISBN 1-84277-273-2

Bligh, Alexander. The Israeli Palestinians: An Arab Minority in the Jewish State. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 324pp. PB $26.50 ISBN 0-7146-8345-0

Bonner, Michael, Mine Ener and Amy Singer. Poverty and Charity in the Middle East. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2003. 345pp. PB $23.95 ISBN 0-7914-5738-9

Bonwick, James. The Great Pyramid of Giza: History and Speculation. Mineola: Dover, 2003. 230pp. PB $9.95 ISBN 0-486-42521-5

Boosahda, Elizabeth. Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Family. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 284pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-292-70920-X

Bournoutian, George A. The Journal of Zak’aria of Agulis: Annotated Translation with   Commentary. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2003. 241pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 1-56859-107-1

Bowker, Robert. Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity and the Search for Peace. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003. 265pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 1-58826-202-2

Boxberger, Linda. On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 292pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 0-7914-5218-2

Boyle, Francis A. Palestine: Palestinians and International Law. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, Inc, 2003. 205pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 0-932863-37-X

Bregman, Ahron. A History of Israel. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 320pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 0-333-67631-9

Brenner, Michael. Zionism: A Brief History. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2003. 192pp. PB $18.95 ISBN 1-55876-301-5

Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen. The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 200pp. HB $50.00 ISBN 0-19-515385-5

Buell, Paul D. Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. 388pp. HB $80.00 ISBN 0-8108-4571-7

Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins. Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 300pp. HB $96.00 ISBN 90-04 -3196-5

Bushrui, Suheil. The Wisdom of the Arabs. Oxford: Oneworld Publishing, 2002. 253pp. HB $15.95 ISBN 1-85168-283-X

Butalia, Urvashi. Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 315pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 1-84277-209-0

Caesar, Judith. Writing off the Beaten Track: Reflections on the Meaning of Travel and Culture in the Middle East. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 180pp. HB $29.95 ISBN 0-8156-2957-5

Carre, Olivier. Mysticism and Politics: A Critical Reading of Fi Zilal al-Qur’an by Sayyid Qutb. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 363pp. HB $124.00 ISBN 90-04-12590-6

Carroll, Katherine Blue. Business as Usual: Economic Reform in Jordan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. 330pp. HB $80.00 ISBN 0-7391-0505-1

Chaitani, Youssef. Dissension Among Allies: Ernest Bevin’s Palestine Policy Between Whitehall and the White House. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. 156pp. HB $45.00 ISBN 0-86356-599-9

Charette, Francoise. Mathematical Instrumentation in 14th Century Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated Treatise of Najm al-Din al-Misri. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 422pp. HB $181.00 ISBN 90-04-13015-2

Chase, Kenneth. Firearms: A Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 290pp. HB $30.00 ISBN 0-521-82274-2

Choueiri, Youssef M. Modern Arab Historiography: Historical discourse and the nation-state. New York: Routledge, 2003. 239pp. PB $27.95 ISBN 0-7007-1650-5

Citino, Nathan J. From Arab Nationalism to Opec: Eisenhower, King Saud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. 264pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-253-34095-0

Coates, Peter. Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Talking Metaphysics Seriously. Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2002. 203pp. PB £13.95 ISBN 0-9534513-7-2

Cook, David. Studies in the Muslim Apocalyptic. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 2002. 470pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-87850-142-8

Cordesman, Anthony.  Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century (2 volumes). Westport: Praeger, 2003. 567pp. HB $115.00 ISBN 0-275-98091-X

Cronin, Stephanie. The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah,1921-1941. New York: Routledge, 2003. 279pp. HB $90.00 ISBN 0-415-0284-6

Darwish, Mahmoud. Unfortunately, It was Paradise: Selected Poems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 210pp. PB $16.95 ISBN 0-520-23754-4

Daulet, Shafiga.  Kazan and Moscow: Five Centuries of Crippling Coexistence Under Russian Imperialism. Hudson, NH: Kase Press, 2003. 826pp. PB $55.00 ISBN 0-615-12254-X

Di Cosmo, Nicola, Devin Deweese and Caroline Humphrey. The Letters of Khwaja Ubayd Alla Ahrar and his Associates. Boston: Brill, 2002. 449pp. HB $127.00 ISBN 90-04-12603-1

Diba, Bahman Aghai. The Caspian Sea in the Twenty-first Century: The Positions and Views of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan. Bethesda: Ibex Publishers, 2003. 182pp. HB $38.00 ISBN 1-5881-4027-X

Dihlawi, Jamali-yi. The Mirror of Meanings: A Parallel English-Persian Text. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2002. 133pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 1-56859-104-7

Diskin, Abraham. The Last Days in Israel: Understanding the New Israeli Democracy. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003. 192pp. PB $27.50 ISBN 0-7146-8383-3

Doumani, Beshara. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York, 2003. 340pp. PB $29.95 ISBN 0-7914-5680-3

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Marsha Pripstein Posusney. Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003. 295pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 1-58826-134-4

Driesch, Wolfgang. Islam, Judentum und Israel: Der judische Anspruch auf das Heilige Land aus muslimischen Perspective. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2003. 137pp. PB €15.00 ISBN 3-89173-078-0

Dundes, Alan. Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur’an. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 104pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-7425-2672-0

El Fadl, Khaled Abou. Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 391pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-521-79311-4

El Katsha, Samiha and Susan Watts. Gender, Behavior and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. 230pp. PB $27.50 ISBN 977-424-728-0

El-Kholy, Heba Aziz Morsi. Defiance and Compliance: Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. 256pp. PB $17.00 ISBN 1-57181-391-8

El-Mikawy, Noha and Heba Handoussa. Institutional Reform and Economic Development in Egypt. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. 197pp. PB $29.50 ISBN 977-424-702-7

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Privatization and Deregulation in the Gulf Energy Sector. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 155pp. HB $25.00 ISBN 1-86064-411-2

Enani, Mohamed. Angry Voices: An Anthology of the Off-Beat New Egyptian Poets.Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. 160pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 1-55728-743-0

Ergene, Bogac A. Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Legal Practice and Dispute Resulution in Cankiri and Kastamonu (1652-1744).Leiden: Brill, 2003. 236pp. HB $84.00 ISBN 90-04-12609-0

Erickson, Edward J. Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 403pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-275-97888-5

Ernst, Carl W. and Bruce B. Lawrence. Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chisti Order in South Asia and Beyond. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 241pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 1 -4039-6027-5

Faath, Sigrid. Neue geopolitische Konstellationen im Nahen Osten nach 11. September 2001. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2003. 345pp. PB €16.00 ISBN 3-89173-079-9

Falk, Richard. Unlocking the Middle East: The Writings of Richard Falk. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2003. 324pp. PB $17.95 ISBN 1-56656-461-1

Fasih, Mehmed. Gallipoli 1915: Bloody Ridge (Lone Pine) Diary. Istanbul: Denizler Kitabevi, 1997. 210pp. PB $35.00 ISBN 975-94818-3-9

Fayez, Sherief. Despotism and the Struggle against Despotism in Afghanistan in the Court. Bethesda: Ibex Publishers, 2003. PB $12.00 ISBN 1-58814-004-0

Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. New York: Verso, 2003. 287pp. PB $20.00 ISBN 1-85984-442-1

Firro, Kais. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 274pp. HB $59.50 ISBN 1-86064-857-6

Fisher, Michael M. J. Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. PB $21.95 ISBN 0-299-18474-9

Fleischmann, Ellen L. The Nation and its "New Women: The Palestinian Women’s Movement 1920-1948. Berkeley, CA:University of California Press, 2003. 335pp. PB $29.95 ISBN 0-520-23790-0

Floor, Willem. Traditional Crafts in Qajar Iran, 1800-1925. Costa Mesa: Mazda Press 2003. 507pp. PB $45.00 ISBN 1-56859-147-0

Fouskas, Vassilis. Zones of Conflict: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. 177pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7453-2029-5

Fox, Joshua. Semitic Noun Patterns. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003. 361pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 1-57506-909-1

Friedmann, Yohanan. Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 233pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-82703-5

Fuller, Graham E. The Future of Political Islam. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 227pp. HB $29.95 ISBN 1-4039-6136-0

Ganji, Manoucherehr. Defying the Iranian Revolution: From A Minister to the Shah to a Leader of Resistance. Westport, Praeger, 2002. 312pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-275-97187-2

Gat, Moshe. Britain and the Conflict in the Middle East, 1964-1967: The Coming of the Six-Day War. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 261pp. HB $69.95 ISBN 0-275-97514-2

Golshiri, Houshang. Black Parrot, Green Crow: A Collection of Short Fiction. Washington: Mage Publishers, 2003. 233pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 0-934211-74-4

Goodman, Lenn E. Islamic Humanism. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. 273pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 0-19-513580-6

Gordon, Haim, Rivca Gordon, and Taher Shriteh. Beyond Intifada: Narratives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 162pp. HB $44.95 ISBN 0-275-97129-5

Goren, Haim. Germany and the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003. 350pp. HB ISBN 965-493-159-1

Gorman, Anthony. Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation. New York: Routledge, 2003. 276pp. HB $90.00 ISBN 0-415-29753-2

Griffin, Michael. Reaping the Whirlwind: Afghanistan, Al Qa’ida and the Holy War. London: Pluto Press, 2003. 421pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-7453-1915-7

Grosbard, Ofer. Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 195pp. PB $21.95 ISBN 0 7914-5606-4

Habibian, Simin K. 1001 Persian-English Preverbs. Bethesda: Ibex Publishing, 2002. 272pp. PB $17.50 ISBN 1-58814-021-0

Haddad, Simon. The Palestinian Impasse in Lebanon: The Politics of Refugee Intergration. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. $52.00 ISBN 1-903900-46-8

Haddad, Yousif and Jack Ingle. Simple Arabic: A Comprehensive Course. London: Saqi, 2002. 198pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-86356-342-2

Haeri, Shahla. No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 454pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-8156-2979-6

Hamid, Abdul Ali. Moral Teachings of Islam: Prophetic Traditions from Al-Adab Al-Mufrad by Imam al-Bukhari. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2003. 152pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-7591-0417-4

Hamzeh, Muna and Todd May. Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. 199pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-7453-2063-5

Handoussa, Heba and Zafiris Tzannatos. Employment Creation and Social Protection in the Middle East and North. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. 282pp. PB $27.50 ISBN 977-424-700-0

Hanna, Nelly. Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. 294pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 1-86064-699-9

Harrell, Richard S., Mohammed Abu-Talib, and William S. Carroll. A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics. Washington. DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 416pp. PB $27.50 ISBN 0-87840-387-6

Harris, William. The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2003. 240pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 1-55876-265-5

Hass, Amira. Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in and Occupied Land. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003. 213pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 1-58435-019-9

Haykel, Bernard. Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 265pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 0-521-52890-9

Hogendijk, Jan P. and Abdelhamid I. Sabra. The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003. 408pp. HB $45.00 ISBN 0--262-19482-1

Hopfinger, Hans and Raslan Khadour. Economic Development and Investment Policies in Syria. Eichstaett: Geobuch, 1998. 269pp. PB ISBN 3-87707-521-5

Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 565pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-674-01017-5

Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism. Westport: Praeger, 2002. 256pp. PB $49.95 ISBN 0-275-7902-4

Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution. Westport, Praeger, 2003. 125pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-275-97858-3

Huff, Toby E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 425pp. PB $30.00 ISBN 0-521-52994-8

Hutchins, William Maynard. Tawfiq al-Hakim: A Reader’s Guide. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003. 266pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-89410-885-9

Ibhar Interactive. A Journey to Explore Islam. Chandler, AZ: IBHAR, 2002.  CDROM, $9.95

Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 405pp. HB $27.95 ISBN 0-333-61386-4

Inati, Shams C. Iraq: Its History, People, and Politics. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003. 322pp. HB $26.00 ISBN 1-59102-096-4

Inayatullah, Sohail and Gail Boxwell. Islam, Post Modernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. 374pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7453-1984-X

Jabali, Fu’ad. The Companions of the Prophet: A Study of Geographical Distribution and Political Alignments. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 522pp. HB $170.00 ISBN 90-04-12923-5

Jacoby, Tami Amanda and Brent E. Sasley. Redefining Security in the Middle East. New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. 176pp. HB $74.95 ISBN 0-7190-6233-0

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology. Northampton: Interlink Publishing Group, 2003. 480pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 1-56656-469-7

Johns, Jeremy. Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 389pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-521-81692-0

Kahf, Mohja. E-Mails From Scheherazad. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003. 102pp. PB $12.95 ISBN 0-8130-2621-0

Kahl, Oliver. Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 237pp. HB $95.00 ISBN 90-04-12996-0

Karsh, Efraim. Israeli Politics and Society Since 1948: Problems of Collective Identity.  Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. 261pp. PB $26.50 ISBN 0-7146-8022-2

Karsh, Efraim. Rethinking the Middle East. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 208pp. PB $26.50 ISBN 0-7146-8346-9

Karsh, Efraim and P.R. Kumaraswamy. Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 215pp. PB $26.50 ISBN 0-7146-8355-8

Kaschl, Elke. Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 335pp. HB $130.00 ISBN 90-04-13238-4

Kennan, George. Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. 265pp. HB $30.00 ISBN 0-295-98250-0

Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 454pp. PB $15.95 ISBN 0-674-01090-6

Kepel, Gilles. Bad Moon Rising: A Chronical of the Middle East Today. London: Saqi, 2003. 139pp. PB $13.95 ISBN 0-86356-303-1

Khalidi, Tarif. The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 245pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 0-674-01115-5

Khan, M.A. Muqtedar. American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 2003. 193pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 1-59008-012-2

Khatib, Hisham. Palestine and Egypt Under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. HB $85.00 ISBN 1-86064-888-6

Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. New York:Verso, 2003. 234pp. HB $22.00 ISBN 1-85984-517-7

Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 568pp. PB $17.95 ISBN 0-674-01129-5

King, Stephen J. Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 161pp. PB $21.95 ISBN 0-253-21583-8

Kober, Avi. Coalition Defection: The Dissolution of Arab Anti-Israeli Coalitions in War and Peace. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 218pp. HB $64.95 ISBN 0-275-97722-6

Kook, Rebecca B. The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2002. 232pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7391-0442-X

Kronish, Amy and Costel Safirman. Israeli Film: A Reference Guide. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 261pp. HB $79.95 ISBN 0-313-32144-2

Kyle, Keith. Suez: Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 684pp. PB $27.50 ISBN 1-86064-811-8

Leick, Gwendolyn. Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. 216pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 0-8108-4649-7

Lesch, David W. The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, 3rd Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. 507pp. PB $48.00 ISBN 0-8133-3940-5

Levtzion, Nehemiah and Jay Spaulding. Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003. 126pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 1-55876-305-8

Levy, Avigdor. Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 395pp. PB $34.95 ISBN 0-8156-2941-9

Mahdi, Kamil A. Iraq’s Economic Predicament. Reading, UK: Ithaca, 2002. 388pp. HB $49.40 ISBN 0-86372-276-8

Mahfouz, Naguib. Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. 96pp. HB $16.95 ISBN 977-424-758-2

Majaj, Lisa Suhair and Amal Amireh. Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2002. 221pp. PB $28.50 ISBN 0-7864-1072-8

Majaj, Lisa Suhair, Paula W. Sunderman and Therese Saliba. Intersections: Gender,        Nation, and Community in Arab Women’s Novels. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 287pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-8156-2976-1

Majd, Mohammad Gholi. The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc, 2003. 158pp. PB $31.00 ISBN 0-7618-2633-5

Marwick, Arthur. The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language. Chicago: Lyceum Books, 2001. 334pp. PB $44.95 ISBN 0-925065-61-7

McLoughlin, Leslie. In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century. Portland: Ithaca, 2002. 288pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-288-1

McNamara, Robert. Britain, Nasser and the Balance of Power in the Middle East 1952-   1967: From the Egyptian Revolution to the Six Day War. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 303pp. HB $57.50 ISBN 0-7146-5397-7

Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians     Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. 330pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 0-316-56688-8

Meri, Josef W. The Cult of Saints Among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 327pp. HB $85.00 ISBN 0-19-925078-2

Michaels, Paula. Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 264pp. HB $34.95 ISBN 0-8229-4197-X

Mirsepassi, Ali, Amrita Basu, and Frederick Weaver. Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 264pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-8156-2982-6

Mirzadegi, Shokooh. That Stranger Within Me: A Foreign Woman Caught in the Iranian Revolution. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2002. 186pp. PB $16.99 ISBN 0-936347-83-X

Miyoshi, Masao and H.D. Harootunian. Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 408pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 0-8223-2840-2

Moghadam, Valentine M. Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003. 323pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 1-58826-171-9

Mohammadi, Ali. Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. 264pp. HB $100.00 ISBN 0-415-30827-5

Morony, Michael G. Manufacturing and Labor. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2003. 346pp. HB $137.95 ISBN 0-86078-707-9

Moslem, Mehdi. Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 366pp. PB $29.95 ISBN 0-8156-2978-8

Mostyn, Trevor. Censorship in Islamic Society. London: Saqi, 2002. 216pp. PB $24.50 ISBN 0-86356-041-5

Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji. Historical Dictionary of Somalia: New Edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. 304pp. HB $80.00 ISBN 0-8108-4344-7

Nabavi, Negin. Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse, and the Dilemma of Authenticity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 272pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 0-8130-2590-7

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Nayar, Baldev R. India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-52875-5

Nevo, Yehuda D. and Judith Koren. Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. 462pp. HB $32.00 ISBN 1-59102-083-2

Newman, Andrew J. Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 419pp. HB $141.00 ISBN 90-04-12774-7

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Norell, Magnus. A Dissenting Democracy: The Israeli Movement 'Peace Now’. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. 160pp. PB $24.50 ISBN 0-7146-8287-X

Nowar, Maan Abu. The Jordanian-Israeli War, 1948-1951: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2002. 515pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-286-5

O’Donnell, Terence. Garden of the Brave War: Recollections of Iran. Washington: Mage Publishers, 2003. 248pp. PB $19.99 ISBN 0-934211-80-9

O’Shea, Raymond. The Sand Kings of Oman: Being the Experiences of an R.A.F. Office in the Little Known Regions. London, Kegan Paul International, 2000. 209pp. HB $110.00 ISBN 0-7103-0675-X

Parsinejad, Iraj. A History of Literary Criticism in Iran: 1866-1951. Bethesda, Ibex Publishing, 2003. 350pp. HB $45.00 ISBN 1-58814-0016-4

Pearlman, Wendy. Occupied Voices: Stories of Loss and Longing From the Second Intifada. New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2003. 250pp. PB $14.95 ISBN 1-56025-530-7

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Powell, Eve M. Troutt. A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the     Mastery of the Sudan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 260pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-520-23317-4

Pugh, Sheenagh. Folk Music. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 2001. 168pp. PB $16.95 ISBN 1-85411-268-6

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