Bustan: The Middle East Book Review
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A journal dedicated to review. Published by Penn State University Press and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
Tel Aviv
Joined February 2018
We noticed that Bloomsbury is reprinting Ilan Pappe's famous work from 1992: The Making of the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1947-1952. Daniel Pipes reviewed it shortly thereafter for Orbis (before our time). It's a masterful 300 word review of a seminal work. https://t.co/xgPWz8owTZ
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Teaser: in a month or so, we will have a new issue out (16.2, Winter 2025). Look for Open Access articles on the Iranian-Russian relationship, a radical new look at Sunni-Shi'a relations, and much more.
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Bruce Hoffman @hoffman_bruce did a great review in 2024 of @OrenKessler on the 1936 Palestinian Revolt Also note, Kessler wrote an article on Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner and Amin al-Husseini: https://t.co/FfEH3g4pGk See the review here: https://t.co/NK4pSZ2kj9
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” the American novelist William Faulkner famously wrote.1 Oren Kessler, in his superb book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt andd the Roots of the Middle...
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Ora Szekely "explores the competing narratives that factions use to justify their actions—whether in pursuit of political power, religious supremacy, or national identity." @ido_yahel reviews Syria Divided, now with Open Access @bfriedy @DayanCenter
https://t.co/1Hj6HLOgdc
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The Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, has grown into one of the most complex and devastating conflicts of the twenty-first century. What started as peaceful protests against the Asad regime...
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Did the El-Sisi regime represent a radical break in Egypt's history? Bosmat Yefet @BosmatYefet reviews Maged Mandour @MagedMandour's book “Egypt under El-Sisi." @BloomsburyBooks @J_d_parker
https://t.co/Mhil0UKfS6
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The fall of Bashar al-Asad’s brutal regime in Syria in December 2024 served as a stark reminder of both the fragility of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the complex outcomes of the Arab...
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Samuel Helfont @HelfontSamuel reviews Spencer Bakich’s @SpencerBakich The Gulf War (University Press of Kansas, 2024). An assessment of the conflict as a cornerstone of H.W Bush’s grand strategy to forge a liberal world order after the Cold War. https://t.co/HgSX85C3jv
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The Gulf War of 1990–91 was a major international conflict. It included the largest military coalition since World War II and saw a clash between some of the world’s largest armies. It also had a...
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Malte Fuhrmann reviews Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow’s “Late Ottoman Gaza,” tracing Gaza's final decades as an Ottoman Port town and unveiling overlooked layers of the strip's past. @dayancenter @CambridgeUP @J_d_parker
https://t.co/zE0VVZYGIy
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Following the unprecedented war crimes perpetrated by both sides in the conflict since late 2023, few places have provoked as heated reactions at their mere mention as the city and region of Gaza....
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Ariel Ahram reviews Alison Pargeter’s "Tribes and the State in Libya and Iraq." A fresh look at the interplay between enduring tribal dynamics and modern power structures. (Oxford University Press, 2023). Open Access! @J_d_parker @bfriedy @OxUniPress
https://t.co/eU3eENW7iw
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Tribes are having a day in the Middle East. A few ripped-from–the-headlines examples: New York Times travel and food writers, homebound during the pandemic, invited readers to witness “tribal”...
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Mike O’Sullivan reviews The Paradox of Islamic Finance by Ryan Calder, exposing how Islamic finance operates in the global financial system. Read here https://t.co/BFH4Iopk7o
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Ryan Calder has written a highly readable and sensitive ethnographic study of Islamic finance that merits a wide readership, not least for those with no investment—intellectual or monetary—in the...
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Interesting and highly relevant new study on the principle of 'Brotherly Preservation' by Shadi Halabi for the publication Al-Durziyya, a quarterly publication focused on studies related to Druze communities and religion. Open access, https://t.co/i1UvPovibw
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How extreme violence, ultranationalism, and imperial legacies shaped modern Turkey. Ümit Kurt reviews Hans-Lukas Kieser's "Turkeys Violent Formation"—a study of state-building, memory, and power (I.B. Tauris, 2024). @PSUPress @J_d_parker @bfriedy
https://t.co/6Fwh4pF6Be
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In his seminal work, The Age of Extremes, Eric Hobsbawm depicts the period between 1914 and 1991 as a historical context in which a series of historical actions characterized by political and...
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In Madeline Zilfi's exploration of “Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa,” she calls for serious public attention to this enduring injustice. Read here https://t.co/rgMzX5BcU2
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An international conference on modern slavery at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was the impetus for the present collected volume, Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. The...
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Steven Wagner @StevenWagner85 reviews Mahmoud Muhareb's new book: The Jewish Agency and Syria during the Arab Revolt in Palestine Secret Meetings and Negotiations (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access. @bfriedy @J_d_parker
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In his book about the Jewish Agency’s clandestine diplomacy and influence campaign in Syria during the late 1930s, Mahmoud Muhareb argues that the Jewish Agency intended to weaken the Arab revolt by...
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How did civil war in Crete catalyze decentralization processes in the Ottoman World in the late-19th century? Laura Robson delves into Uğur Zekeriya Peçe's work on this question in Island and Empire (Stanford UP, 2024). @stanfordpress @bfriedy @ugurZp
https://t.co/VwzP3sAB9Q
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Ottomanists have spent the past couple of decades methodically dismantling an old historiographical tradition that has enjoyed a remarkably long if clearly undeserved half-life: narratives about the...
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In yet another groundbreaking work, Hans-Lukas Kieser looks at the early state building project in Turkey, and what it meant for minorities in particular. Ümit Kurt offers his sharp analysis here. Open to all. @mitSelimKurt1 @bfriedy @DayanCenter
https://t.co/6Fwh4pFEqM
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In his seminal work, The Age of Extremes, Eric Hobsbawm depicts the period between 1914 and 1991 as a historical context in which a series of historical actions characterized by political and...
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"On the progressive left today, antizionism has become increasingly fashionable among people who angrily reject any charge of antisemitism." Joseph Spoerl tackles the problem of contemporary antisemitism. @routledgebooks
@JeffreyHerf @bfriedy @DavidHirsh
https://t.co/KdXSWCR1lL
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ABSTRACT. The three volumes reviewed in this article survey the ways in which left-wing antizionism incorporates key antisemitic themes. Contemporary leftist antizionism owes a large and generally...
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Bustan: The Middle East Book Review is now fully Open Access! Our latest issue features a review essay by Heather Sharkey on the 1860 Damascus events, discussing new books by Eugene Rogan and Rana Abu-Mounes. @bfriedy @DayanCenter @J_d_parker @PSUPress
https://t.co/tTooEGWJZ0
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ABSTRACT. In July 1860, a mob tore through two neighborhoods of Damascus and targeted Christians in a rampage of murder, rape, looting, abduction, and arson. Worried that European powers would...
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Excited to be sending out more detailed excerpts in the coming days on our brand new Issue, 15.2. We have three longform essays and 16 reviews of new books out on the Middle East and North Africa. https://t.co/1MuY44Bqpd
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When it comes to elections and the headlining politics, sometimes it helps to understand the trends that led us here. Colin Shindler @ColinShindler summed it up Israeli trends very well in this long-form essay on works by Avi Shilon and Tal Elmaliach. https://t.co/Zwri20sYy3
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ABSTRACT. The decline of the Labor Party is one of the great mysteries of Israeli politics. From achieving forty-seven seats in the 1981 election, it attained a mere seven seats in the March 2021...
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The Bustan journal's archives contains Eyal Zisser's essay "Israelis Confront the Second #Lebanon War" He examines the Israeli collective memory of the 2006 war and the early assessment in its aftermath of what went wrong. It's worth revisiting today. https://t.co/eUSRu5y7Wh
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