Safranim shalom, Below you will find a list of relatively new books dealing Israel, the Palestinians, and the Middle East along with links to the reviews.
For those who use Elazar, I have included suggested classification numbers after the price of each book. All the best, David David Elazar Rishon LeZion, Israel [email protected] Home page http://www.geocities.com/d_elazar/ Weekly current events update http://www.geocities.com/d_elazar/MailingList_e-mail_me/ ARAB POLITICS, PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM, AND THE SIX DAY WAR by Moshe Shemesh Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. 346 pp. $75 828.2 or 891.5 Reviewed by Michael Rubin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2073/arab-politics-palestinian-nationalism-and-the-six CHURCHILL'S PROMISED LAND Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 352 pp. $35 827 Reviewed by Adam Pechter Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2074/churchills-promised-land ESCAPE FROM SADDAM The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom by Lewis Alsamari New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. 320 pp. $24.95 896 Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli and Ellen Raphaeli Middle East Media Research Institute, and Professor Emerita, Northern Virginia Community College Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2075/escape-from-saddam HISTORY UPSIDE DOWN The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression by David Meir-Levi New York: Encounter Books, 2007. 152 pp. $20 848.2 Hasbara - Explaining Israel (a new classification number) Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky Middle East Forum Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2076/history-upside-down IRAN AND THE BOMB The Abdication of International Responsibility by Th?r?se Delpech New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 160 pp. $26.95 897 Reviewed by Ilan Berman American Foreign Policy Council Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2077/iran-and-the-bomb IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS by Shahram Chubin Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006. 223 pp. $12.95, paper. 897 Reviewed by Ali Alfoneh University of Copenhagen, American Enterprise Institute Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2078/irans-nuclear-ambitions ISLAMIC LIBERATION THEOLOGY Resisting the Empire by Hamid Dabashi London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 304 pp. $35.95, paper. 293 Reviewed by Stephen Schwartz Center for Islamic Pluralism Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2079/islamic-liberation-theology THE LOOMING TOWER Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 469 pp. $27.95 ($15.95, paper). 891.81 Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Foundation for Defense of Democracies Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2080/the-looming-tower LOSING THE GOLDEN HOUR An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction by James Stephenson Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. 174 pp. $23.95 896 Reviewed by Michael Rubin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2081/losing-the-golden-hour ONCE UPON A COUNTRY A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. 542 pp. $27.50 890.6 Reviewed by Hillel Frisch Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2082/once-upon-a-country THE POLITICAL CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Olivier Roy New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 160 pp. $24.95 891 Reviewed by Michael Rubin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2083/the-politics-of-chaos-in-the-middle-east RADICAL ISLAM RISING Muslim Extremism in the West by Quintan Wiktorowicz Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. 245 pp. $82.50 ($28.95, paper). 293 Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Foundation for Defense of Democracies Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2084/radical-islam-rising THE SECRET OF COEXISTENCE Jews and Arabs in Haifa during the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948 Edited by Daphna Sharfman, Eli Nachmias, and Johnny Mansour. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007. 260 pp. $15.99 827.5 Reviewed by Yoav Gelber University of Haifa Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2085/the-secret-of-coexistence SWIMMING UP THE TIGRIS by Barbara Nimri Aziz Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007. 314 pp. $24.95 896 Reviewed by Michael Rubin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2086/swimming-up-the-tigris TEACHING ISLAM Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East Edited by Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Gregory Starrett. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. 267 pp. $55. 293.9 Reviewed by Gilbert T. Sewall American Textbook Council Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2087/teaching-islam TERROR IN BLACK SEPTEMBER The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings by David Raab New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 265 pp. $24.95 890.61 Reviewed by Barry Rosen Borough of Manhattan Community College Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2088/terror-in-black-september WAR AND DECISION by Douglas J. Feith New York: Harper, 2008. 674 pp. $27.95 896 Reviewed by Michael Rubin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2089/war-and-decision WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE? by Mitchell G. Bard New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 236 pp. $24.95 890 Reviewed by Moshe Dann Jerusalem Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009 http://www.meforum.org/2090/will-israel-survive --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
