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    Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance

    Jan 25, 2023

    Khalil E. Jahshan interviews Ramsey Hanhan to discuss his recent book, Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance, a slightly fictionalized liter…

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    Understanding Revolutions – Opening Acts in Tunisia by Azmi Bishara

    Sep 21, 2022Mouldi Lahmar

    The first decade since the onset "Arab Spring" has occasioned tens of thousands of articles, books and studies; thousands of academic seminars and conferences;…

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    ‘Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia,’ by Rosie Bsheer

    Feb 3, 2021Imad K. Harb

    In her book, Rosie Bsheer argues that the Saudi state’s material politics shows how the regime wants to reengineer the social order in the kingdom away from re…

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    How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, by Elizabeth F. Thompson

    Jun 30, 2020Imad K. Harb

    Elizabeth ​F. Thompson's book​, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs​, is a welcome re-telling of how the people of the eastern Mediterranean were cheat…

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    Bunker Diplomacy by Nabeel Khoury

    Feb 10, 2020Imad K. Harb

    In his review of Nabeel Khoury’s book, Bunker Diplomacy: An Arab-American in the U.S. Foreign Service, Imad K. Harb highlights the author’s frankness about sen…

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    Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine by Dana El Kurd

    Jan 2, 2020Jonathan Adler

    Dana El Kurd argues that Palestinians in the West Bank are more polarized and less mobilized than ever before and that local grassroots organizing has disappea…

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    Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump by Khaled Elgindy

    Nov 11, 2019Jonathan Adler

    Khaled Elgindy argues that Trump’s approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the culmination of remarkably consistent policies across both Republican and…

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    Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher

    Jul 9, 2019Joe Macaron

    “Assad or we Burn the Country” was a slogan sprayed in big, bold, and black letters in the city of Homs during a critical juncture of Syria’s modern history. S…

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    Justice for Some by Noura Erakat

    May 14, 2019Imad K. Harb

    Erakat provides an expansive yet succinct analysis of the history and development of the question of Palestine since the early decades of the 20th century.

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    Inside the Arab State by Mehran Kamrava

    Jan 22, 2019Imad K. Harb

    Examining what spurred the Arab Spring, what it wrought, and how the Arab political order fights change, Kamrava’s book is a good example of required, informat…

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