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Book review: Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon

"Lucia Volk’s Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon sheds much needed light on the fraught politics of commemoration in a nation haunted by a history of inter-confessional violence." —International Journal of Islamic Architecture

Book review: Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon

"Volk presents a wonderful narrative of key turning points in the history of modern Lebanon. ... [A] rigorous study and a pleasure to read." —H-Urban

5 IU Press books named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011

We are pleased to announce that five of our books have been chosen as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011! This selective list includes just under 10 percent of the 7,000 titles that Choice reviewed in 2011. IU Press honorees are:

African American Actresses
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East
Jane Campion
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa
West African Narratives of Slavery

For a complete lists of titles, visit Choice Reviews Online.

Book review: Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace

"Intended to provide a framework for diplomats to apply and students to learn, the book is an ambitious effort to understand and codify 'the still unfinished business of Arab-Israeli peacemaking.'" —Middle East Journal

Author event: Mark Allen Peterson to speak at University of Kentucky

Connected in Cairo author Mark Allen Peterson will give the first of three addresses in this year’s annual anthropology colloquium at the University of Kentucky.

Peterson's talk is entitled “Egyptian Youth in Urban and Virtual Spaces” and will be held Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. in the Student Center.

The colloquium theme is “Youth and Urban Spaces in the Middle East.”

For more information on the event, read this University of Kentucky news release or click on the flyer below:

Book review: A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights

"El-Shamy’s motif index will certainly be helpful for students of The Thousand and One Nights in finding their way through the ever-expanding corpus of material." —Journal of American Folklore

 

Book review: Berbers and Others

"[The editors bring] together some of the very best of the new generation of scholars working on Berber issues from a variety of perspectives ... North Africanists and all those interested in the nexus between ethnicity, culture, politics, and history, will drive much benefit and pleasure from this elegant and informed volume."  —H-Africa

Book reviews: Islamic Central Asia

"[T]his is a fascinating and much-needed collection, one that I read more thoroughly than I intended because I could not put it down." —Central Asian Survey

"[T]he anthology is set up in an exemplary manner and the sources describe the extensive history ... [It] will occupy an important place in studies on the history of Central Asia, the expansion of Islam, and the relationship between the peoples in the Islamic cultural world ..." —Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques

Book review: Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion

"This is an important informative and analytical study examining opinions, dilemmas, and activities of both sides. It provides clear analysis of past events and clues for understanding future developments." —Jewish Book World

Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Book Award

The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Book Award has been established by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) to recognize and promote excellence in the fields of Middle East women’s or gender studies, broadly defined. The JMEWS Book Award will be offered annually to a scholar within these fields for a solo-authored book. Books published (copyrighted) in 2010 will be considered for the 2011 award. The competition is open only to books published in English.

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