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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 50 - February 2016

Book Review

Abdullah Al-Arian . Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat's Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx + 298 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-0-19-993127-9.

Douglas Scott Brookes and Ali Ziyrek . Harem Ghosts: What One Cemetery Can Tell Us About the Ottoman Empire. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2016. xvii + 310 pages, maps and photos, acknowledgements, glossary, references and sources, index. Cloth US$86.95 ISBN 9781558766105

Amy Young Evrard . The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. x + 274 pages. Cloth US$39.95. ISBN 978-0-8156-3350-1.

Hanadi Al-Samman . Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma Authorship and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. ix + 256 pages, works cited, index. Cloth US$39.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3402-7.

Seema Alavi . Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 504 pages. Cloth US$45.00. ISBN 9780674735330.

T. G. Fraser , ed. The First World War and Its Aftermath: The Shaping of the Modern Middle East. London: Gingko Library, 2015. 350 pages, index. Cloth $80.00 ISBN 978–1909942752.

Michael M. Gunter . The Kurds: A Modern History. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2016. xvii + 236 pages, references and sources, index. Cloth US$26.95 ISBN 978-1-55876-615-0.

Paul Amar , ed. The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. vii + 355 pages, contributors and index. Paper US$30.00 ISBN 978-0-253-01227-2.

Paul Cobb . The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxii + 335 pages, endnotes, bibliographic sketch, index. Cloth US$29.95 ISBN 978-0-19-935811-3.

James H. Meyer . Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856–1914. London: Oxford University Press, 2014. xi + 211 pages, figures, acknowledgements, transliteration note, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$99 ISBN 978-0-19-872514-5.

Kenneth M. Cuno . Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. xxi + 305 pages, footnotes, select bibliography, index. Cloth US$39.95. ISBN 978-0-8156-3392-1.

Jacob Mundy . Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 280 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$90.00 ISBN 9780804788496.

Miri Shefer-Mossensohn . Science Among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. xvi + 246 pages, preface, note on transliteration, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$ 55.00 ISBN: 978-1-4773-0359-7.

Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk , eds. Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. viii + 282 pages, acknowledgements, notes, index. Paper US$28.00. ISBN 978-0-253-01085-8.

Nile Green . Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pages. Cloth US$37.50 ISBN 978-0-1902-2253-6.

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Tawfiq Al-Hakim . Return of the Spirit. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2012. Translated by William Hutchins. 295 Pages. Paper US$22.00. ISBN 978–1588268174.

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Sherine Hamdy . Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 370 pages. Paper US$29.95 ISBN 9780520271760. Cloth US$ $68.95 ISBN 9780520271753. E-book US$29.95 9780520951747.

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Assad Al-Saleh . Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xiii + 243 pages, foreword, acknowledgements, bibliography. Paper US$22.95 ISBN 978-0-2311-6319-4.

Banu Bargu . Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvii + 459 pages, acknowledgments, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$65.00 ISBN 978-0-231-16340-8.

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Michelle Hartman . Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. xviii + 368 pp. Cloth US$44.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3356-3.

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