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Ziad Elmarsafy, Anna Bernard, David Attwell, Editors. Debating Orientalism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. xi + 268 pages, acknowledgements, notes on contributors, bibliography, index. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN 978-0-230-30352-2.

Bassam K. Frangieh. Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic. New Haven and London:Yale University Press, 2012. i–xix + 504 pages, appendix, glossary. Paper with DVD US$85.00 ISBN 978-0-300-14131-3.

Matthew Gray. Qatar: Politics and the Challenges of Development. Boulder, CO:Lynne Rienner, 2013. vii + 271 pages, tables, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$59.95 ISBN 978-1588269287.

Wael B. Hallaq. The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity's Moral Predicament. New York:Columbia University Press, 2013. xiv + 256 pages, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth US$37.50 ISBN 978-0-231-16256-2.

Nader Hashemi. Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies. Oxford, UK:Oxford University Press, 2012. New preface + 310 pages, endnotes, bibliographical references, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-19-992907-8.

Joy Totah Hilden. Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and its Neighbors. London:Arabian Publishing Ltd, 2010. 270 pages, maps, photographs, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$120.00 ISBN 978-0-9558894-0-0; Paper US$60.00 ISBN 978-09558894-8-6.

Syrine Hout. Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 202 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$105.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4342-4.

Mohamed M. Keshavjee. Islam, Sharia & Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms for Legal Redress in the Muslim Community. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xv + 237 pages, forward, acknowledgements, list of fi gures, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth UK£56.50 ISBN 978-1-84885-732-2.

Arash Khazeni. Tribes and Empire on the Margins of the Nineteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 304 pages, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$60.00 ISBN 9780295989945; Paper US$30.00 ISBN 9780295989952.

Nadine Naber. Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press, 2012. vii + 310 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$75.00 ISBN: 9780814758861; Paper US$25.00 ISBN 978-0814758878.

Fatima Sadiqi, Editor. Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean. New York: Routledge, 2013. x + 255 pages. Cloth US$145.00 ISBN 978-0-415-64210-1.

Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon. Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiv + 280 pages, end-notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-231-13864-2.

Elly Teman. Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xx + 361 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$27.95 ISBN 978-0-520-25964-5.

Martin van Bruinessen and Stefano Allievi. Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe. London and New York:Routledege, 2011. xii + 196 pages. Cloth US$140.00 ISBN 978-0-415-35592-6; Paper US$42.95 ISBN 978-0-415-66162-1.

Fariba Zarinebaf. Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800. Berkeley:University of California Press, 2010. xiv + 287 pages, maps, figures, appendix, endnotes, glossary, bibliography and index. Paperback US$26.95 ISBN 978-0-520-26221-8.

In Memoriam

Amin Banani 1927-2013

Suad Muhammad Gamal 1942-2013

Fawzi W. Khoury 1938-2013

A. I. Sabra 1924-2013

Christoph Schumann 1969-2013

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