Chad Elias. Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post–Civil War Lebanon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. xvi + 243 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4710-1; $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4766-8.
Sofian Merabet. Queer Beirut. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. 307 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-292-76096-7.
Reviewed by Pelle V. Olsen (University of Chicago) Published on H-Levant (September, 2018) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek (Assistant Professor, Modern Arabic Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Shira Robinson. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State. Stanford: Stanford Univeristy Press, 2013. 352 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8654-6; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-8800-7.
Reviewed by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) Published on H-Levant (August, 2018) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek (Assistant Professor, Modern Arabic Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Marwan M. Kraidy. The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73708-2.
Reviewed by Hatim El-Hibri (George Mason University ) Published on H-Levant (September, 2017) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Kifah Hanna. Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel. Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 198 pp. $95.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-349-71489-6.
Reviewed by Rania Said (State University of New York, Binghamton) Published on H-Levant (August, 2017) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib. A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9979-9.
Reviewed by Naz Yucel (George Washington University) Published on H-Levant (August, 2017) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Ikram Masmoudi. War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-9655-0.
Reviewed by Levi Thompson (UCLA) Published on H-Levant (May, 2017) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Ikram Masmoudi Gives Voice to Iraqi War Narratives
Keith David Watenpaugh. Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 272 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-27932-2; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-27930-8.
Reviewed by Lori Allen (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Published on H-Levant (May, 2016) Commissioned by Laila Parsons
Zeina Maasri. Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008. Illustrations. 168 pp. $33.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84511-951-5.
Reviewed by Nadine Sinno (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Levant (May, 2016) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Kamran Rastegar. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 248 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-939017-5; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-939016-8.
Reviewed by Zeina G. Halabi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-Levant (April, 2016) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
Specters of Postcolonial Traumas
Syrine Hout. Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 259 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-4342-4.
Reviewed by Omar Zahzah (UCLA) Published on H-Levant (April, 2016) Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek
At Home in Diaspora: Mapping Affiliation in Syrine Hout's Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Stefan Winter. The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii + 204 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-76584-8.
Reviewed by James Grehan Published on H-Levant (September, 2015) Commissioned by Laila Parsons
Andrea Stanton. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. 270 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-292-74749-4.
Reviewed by Martin Bunton (University of Victoria) Published on H-Levant (May, 2015) Commissioned by Laila Parsons
Setrag Manoukian. City of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Iran: Shiraz, History and Poetry. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012. xi + 259 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-78328-6; $48.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-138-78944-9.
Reviewed by Derek Mancini-Lander (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Published on H-Levant (April, 2015) Commissioned by Laila Parsons
Janet Afary. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 423 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-89846-1; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-72708-2.
Reviewed by Setrag Manoukian (Institute of Islamic Studies) Published on H-Levant (January, 2013) Commissioned by Wilson C. Jacob
Sentimental Education in the Age of Anxiety: A Tale about Sex in Modern Iran
