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March 20, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
"The two-state solution has always been merely a cynical tool of conflict management never intended to actually resolve the conflict." Jeff Halper's succinct statement regarding international diplomacy over the...
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March 18, 2021
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Anjuman Rahman
"I had a politically active life and enjoyed a large circle of friends who, like me, came from other parts of the Arab world to be in Beirut, the...
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March 16, 2021
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Zakariya Othmani
"It's about time we realised that dictatorships are not responsible global partners and, if given space, will only create more instability," warn Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash in their...
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March 13, 2021
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Victoria Brittain
This book provides an original angle on the politics and character of Hamas by its focus on the movement's foreign policy from the early 1990s to the present through...
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March 2, 2021
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Usman Butt
Zana Gulmohamad's new book, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite, takes on the mammoth task of exploring and explaining how Iraq has...
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February 20, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
A look at Israeli colonisation from the inside requires a thorough reckoning. In Hagar Kotef's recent study, The Colonising Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, settlement narratives are...
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‘The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy’: Palestine Chronicle TV Hosts Daud Abdullah & Na’eem Jeenah
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February 12, 2021
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Usman Butt
Kelly A. Hammond's book China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II is published at a time when Islam in China is under intense scrutiny with...
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February 9, 2021
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Omar Ahmed
Michael Christopher Low's book Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj is a fascinating account of the Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city of Makkah ("Mecca") during...
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February 8, 2021
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Usman Butt
Laleh Khalili's book Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula is a surprisingly seductive read. A cross between history, geopolitics and economics, with a...
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The history of the Arabian Peninsula before the rule of the Al-Saud royal family is rich, diverse, cosmopolitan and largely forgotten. Rosie Bsheer's new book Archive Wars: The Politics...
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January 24, 2021
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Dr Begüm Burak
The media plays a key role, and not only in liberal democratic regimes. Ruling elites use media as a tool for propaganda to reproduce the dominant ideology in authoritarian...
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January 11, 2021
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Usman Butt
Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions by Oludamini Ogunnaike is a sweeping and ambitious book that operates on multiple levels with...
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Middle East Monitor takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa in 2020
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December 14, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
Identity and war are themes explored in Inaam Kachaci's novel, The American Granddaughter (Interlink Books, 2020). The main character is Zeina, an Iraqi-born US citizen, who is thoroughly immersed...
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December 9, 2020
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Anjuman Rahman
Muslims have become a convenient focus for the rage that the world feels after every terrorist act around the world. However, for the contributors to I Refuse to Condemn:...
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November 17, 2020
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Usman Butt
It is almost a year since Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was killed in a US drone attack near Baghdad International...
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November 16, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik
Life in a Country Album is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and above all, inspirational. Nathalie Handal's musings are divided into four regional parts: Album...
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November 12, 2020
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Nasim Ahmed
On the very day that Jerusalem came under Israeli occupation in 1967 "exile became a central reality in my life," recollects Kamal Boullata in the opening passages of the...
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November 11, 2020
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Usman Butt
Social anthropologist Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia looks at the conflicts taking place in the desert Kingdom both historically and under...
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November 11, 2020
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Amelia Smith
The Nahr we meet some way into Susan Abdulhawa's "Against the Loveless World" is a different one we imagine to the figure who sits in an Israeli jail cuffing her own...
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The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced yesterday following another year of strong submissions
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November 5, 2020
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Usman Butt
Ulrike Freitag's A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a seductively charming urban history of the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah,...
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November 2, 2020
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Usman Butt
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi's Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran takes us on an intellectual tour of post-Islamism and Islamic left thought in Iran. The early 1990s...
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October 30, 2020
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Omar Ahmed
Recent events in France have once again pushed the notion of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West onto centre stage. Last month the satirical magazine Charlie...
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October 29, 2020
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Usman Butt
Arzoo Osanloo's Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law and Victims' Rights in Iran takes us through a little discussed feature of the Iranian legal system, which has implications beyond the country...
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October 23, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
Haim Bresheeth Žabner's detailed study of the origins and role of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are based on one main observation: Israel is defined by its military. An...
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October 12, 2020
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Muhammad Hussein
Rashid Khalidi's telling of the story of the loss of his homeland and its gradual invasion is a deeply personal one, and is unlike other more detached accounts I...
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October 6, 2020
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Lauren Lewis
Translated 30 years after it was originally published in Arabic as Bab al-Saha, Sahar Khalifeh's Passage to the Plaza is a fast-paced novel that follows a multi-generational cast through...
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September 28, 2020
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Omar Ahmed
Whilst literature on Israel's state violence against Palestinian children is nothing new, there are apparent limitations on the current discourse which tends not to extend beyond theories of childhood...
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September 25, 2020
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Usman Butt
"Under these circumstances, talking to a Western reporter could be a death sentence. And yet here in Douma, as soon as people saw that I was a journalist, they...