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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 49 - Issue 1 - February 2015

Book Review

Maia Carter Hallward . Transnational Activism and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 260 pages, notes, index, bibliography. Hardcover US$105.00 ISBN 978-1-1373-4985-9.

Maria Holt and Haifaa Jawad . Women, Islam, and Resistance in the Arab World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. ix + 211 pages, preface, bibliography, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-1-58826-925-6.

Mohammad Hassan Khalil , ed. Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages, acknowledgments, note on conventions, contributors, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$36.95 ISBN 978-0-1999-4541-2.

Robert Lang . New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014. 448 pages, preface, acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, filmography, glossary, index. Paper US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-231-16507-5.

Khaled Mattawa . Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. xvii + 197 pages, acknowledgements, notes on translation and transliteration, references, index. Cloth US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3361-7.

Sophia Pandya . Muslim Women and Islamic Resurgence: Religion, Education and Identity Politics in Bahrain. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. ix + 226 pages, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth ₤58.00 ISBN 978-1-84885-824-4.

David S. Powers . Zayd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xii + 175 pages, preface, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-4617-9.

Behnam Sadeghi . The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. vii + 234 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$99.99 ISBN 978-1-1070-0909-7.

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol , ed. Gulf Women. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 454 pages, forward, bibliography, glossary, index. Paper US$39.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3309-9.

Neha Vora . Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. xi + 245 pages, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8223-5393-5.

John M. Willis . Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past, 1857–1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvi + 273 pages, maps, tables and illustrations, notes on translations and transliterations, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-0-2317-0131-0.

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Michael Quentin Morton . Buraimi: The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xvii + 285, maps, glossary, references, bibliography, index. Cloth US$36.92 ISBN 978-1-84885-818-3.

John Tolan , Gilles Veinstein , and Henry Laurens . Europe and the Islamic World: A History. Translated by Jane Marie Todd . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013. xi + 404, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$39.50 ISBN 978-0-6911-4705-5.

Reese Elrich . Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect. New York: Prometheus Books, 2014. 313 pages, foreword, acknowledgements, photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$25.00 ISBN 978-1-61614-948-2.

Pascal Menoret . Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiii + 210 pages, notes, bibliography, photographs, index. Paper US$32.99 ISBN 978-1-107-64195-2.

Ofra Bengio . The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2012. 346 pages, list of acronyms, bibliography, index. Cloth US$68.50 ISBN 978-1-5882-6836-5.

Joseph Sassoon . Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxi + 336, appendices, notes on sources, bibliography, index. Paper US$27.99 ISBN 978-0-521-14915-0.

Zulkifli Hasan . Shariʿah Governance in Islamic Banks. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. xiv + 312 pages, figures, tables, list of statutes, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth US$49.95 ISBN 978-0-7486-4557-2.

Zaid Al-Ali . The Struggle for Iraq's Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. viii + 256, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-300-18726-7.

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