Book Reviews

Darwish in Orbit: A Celebration of Longing, by Zaid Shlah

Sexual Identity and Practice: West versus East?, by Pamela Nice

A Major Contribution to Arab-American Studies, by Pauline Homsi Vinson

Haidar Haidar’s ‘Banquet for Seaweed’ Attempts Balancing Act Haidar Haidar’s ‘Banquet for Seaweed’ Attempts Balancing, by Mahmoud Saeed

Timely Hybridity: Writers Tackle Islamic Subjects in English, by Pauline Homsi Vinson

A Small Feast: Iraqi Satire Explores Lost Homeland, by Lynne Rogers

Hala Salaam Maksoud: Marking a Legacy with University Chair, Youth Foundation,

Book of Tributes, by Nancy Linthicum

Ghada Samman’s ‘The Night of the First Billion’, by Pauline Homsi Vinson

Two New Poetry Volumes by Arab Americans: Inner Voices in the Shadow of the Twin Towers Inner Voices in the Shadow of the Twin Towers, by Judith Gabriel

What's in a Word? By Andrea Stanton

Book Charts Arabic to English Impact BY JUDITH GABRIEL

In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country BY LYNNE ROGERS

The Facets of Palestinian Art By Doris Bittar

An Accidental Primer By Arlen Jones

Palestine: A Guide By Lynne Rogers

Palestine and Its Nemesis By Faisal Tbeileh

Cooking and Writing Arab America By Pauline Homsi Vinson

A Century of Immigration By Judith Gabrieh

West Is Best, East Is Least BY Paul Sullivan

Women Healers, Gendered Spiritual Space and Wahhabism: Eleanor Doumato’s “Getting God’s Ear,” by Rula Jurdi Abisaab

New Novel Chronicles Life, Love of Poet Ahmad Rami and Um Kulthum by Sami Asmar

First Novel Still Relevant

Palestine: A Guide by Lynne Rogers

Palestine and Its Nemesis by Faisal Tbeileh

Moving Toward the Light: A Century of Immigration From Assimilation to Emergence by Judith Gabriel

Cooking and Writing Arab America by Pauline Homsi Vinson

Injustice, Fear, Bombast Targets of Farzat’s Pen by Rana Kabbani

Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, by Jonathan Shannon.

Teta, Mother and Me, by Jean Said Makdisi. Reviewed by Pauline Homsi Vinson.

Political Cartoons by Ali Farzat

Anti-Arab Racism in the USA by Arlen Jones

New Fiction and the Post 9/11 Arab-American Experience by Pauline Homsi Vinson

The Facets of Palestinian Art by Doris Bittar

Burdened Histories  By Bhakati Shringarpure

Before Exile: Four Iraqi Narratives, by Lynne Rogers.

Why Beirut?  Reputation, Charm Fueled by Energy, Samir Kassir’s  History of Birûta, by Brigitte Caland.

The Mighty Weight of Love By Hanna Saadah

Between East and West: A Short History of Lebanese Painting By Carole Corm

West Is Best, East Is Least BY PAUL SULLIVAN

Repression and Power: Satirical Novel Recounts 1970s Egypt By Zeina Schlenoff

Coming of Age in Syria: Turbulence of Cultural Change By Silvia Chelala

‘Living Stones’: A Young Architect Looks at Old Cairo By Carel Bertram

The Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt The Sacred Geography of the Coptic Church By Carel Bertram

Tradition's Victims: Love and Marriage in Emily Nasrallah's 'Dormant Embers' By John Naoum Tannous

Egypt’s Troubles Reflected in Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Mirrors’ By PAUL SULLIVAN

Mourid Barghouti’s “I Saw Ramallah” By Kim Jensen

Palestinian Diaspora in Autobiographical Approach By KIM JENSEN

Anthology Reveals Quality, Variety of Today’s Arabic Short Fiction By KIM JENSEN

Literature of Emergency: Kanafani’s ‘Palestine’s Children’ By KIM JENSEN

Viruses and Epidemics of Futility by KIM JENSEN

Hanna Mina’s ‘Sun on a Cloudy Day’: Potential of Revolt Always Present by KIM JENSEN

RAWI Anthology Offers a Glimpse of Arab-American Literary Talent By KIM JENSEN

New book documents condemns, Iraqi Sanctions by KIM JENSEN

Controversial Mahfouz Allegory Published In New Translation By Judith Gabriel

A Portrait of American Muslims:Diversity, Dilemma and Debate Variations By Quintan Wiktorowicz

Juha, Donkeys and Thieves Wit and Wisdom of Folk Tradition By Pamela Nice

Mani: Mesopotamian Mystic and His Cry for Tolerance By Najat Rahman

Dismantling the Veils of Western Literature By Terri Deyoung

Persian Gardens & Iranian Prisons By Judith Gabriel

The Nobel Prize and the Fury of V. S. Naipaul By Judith Gabriel

A Century of Lebanese Literature: A Culture Viewed Through its Narratives By Samir Mattar

Lebanon : A Focal Point for Unsolved Tensions By Paul Sullivan

Coming of Age, Exile, and War By Pauline Homsi Vinson

Of Lions and Storytelling By Wail S. Hassan

The Perennial Refugees: Steadfastness in a World of Forgetfulness By Doris Bittar

The Paradox of Religious Democracy By Faisal Tbeileh

Mapping the Syrian Consciousness By Bhakti Shringarpure

Arabic, English and Context in the Narratives of Arab Women By Lynne Rogers

A Difference a Scholar Made By Hamoud SalhiA Moroccan Cinema of Proximity by Pamela Nice

Love: Leading Character in the Theater of War by Elisabeth Marie

A Thousand Years of Autobiography in Arabic by Issa J. Boullata

Women’s Prison: Literally and Figuratively by Michelle Reale

Extremism Born of Politics Not Religion by George Tarabishi

A War of Opinions Post 9-11 By Carole Corm

Arab Detroit : A Panorama of In-Betweenness By Judith Gabriel

"The Note Held Strong" Poetry as the Language of Arrival By Lisa Suhair Majaj

The Situe Stories: A Century of Arab Americans By Judith Gabriel

Documenting Arab Women's Literature BY Issa J. Boullata

Beyond the Rupture: Reconciling Islam with Modernity By George Tarabishi

The Many Voices of Arab Women in America By Judith Gabriel

Legacy of Noted Lebanese Critic Collected in Book: Nizar Mruweh Offers Candid Thoughts on Lebanese and Arabic Music By Ibrahim Al-Ariss

In the Beginning Was Beirut, and Beirut Was the Wor(l)d By Elisabeth Marie

Oasis of Storytelling: Narrative as a Tool for Change in Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue 
By Doris Bittar

Dialogue With Hassan al-Turabi Reveals Enigmatic, Complex Islamist Intellectual

by Mahmood Ibrahim

Caskets and Rape: The Prison in Iran's Islamic Republic, a review of Chahla Chafiq's "The New Islamist Man: The Political Prison in Iran" by George Tarabishi

The Road to Barbarism: What Constitutes Civilization? Two Books ' Leaving Beirut,' 'Baghdad Diaries' Explore Dark Side of War By Mona Fayad

Youssef Chahine by Ibrahim Fawal Reviewed by Pamela Nice

Abandoned Children in Modern-Day Crisis By Susan Muaddi Darraj

The Stories of the Forgotten By Silvia Chelala

Ghada Samman's 'Beirut '75' Unmasks Gender and Class in Post-Colonial Society  by Kim Jensen

Keeping "An Ear to the Ground" Reviewed by Mona Fayad

"Houses Behind the Trees"  Reviewed by Kim Jensen

Robert Stone's Damascus Gate Reviewed by Christopher McCabe

Moroccan Sufism and the Literature of Miracles Reviewed by William Young

Miriam Cooke's Women and the War Story Reviewed by Judith Gabriel

The Enchanting and Ossified Past: Visiting Lebanon with Roseanne Saad Khalaf  Reviewed By Malek Abisaab

Ghada Samman's 'The Square Moon': Ghostly Warnings of the Past  By Christopher McCabe

"Woman at Point Zero": A Bid for Survival, a Review of Ghada Samman's 'Beirut Nightmares',
by Mona Fayad

Anouar Majid's UNVEILING TRADITIONS: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World,
Reviewed by Pamela Nice

Scott C. Davis's THE ROAD FROM DAMASCUS: A Journey Through Syria,  Reviewed by Tom D'Evelyn

John G. Moses' THE LEBANESE IN AMERICA, Reviewed by Samir Mattar

Oliver Weber's AFGHANISTAN: ASSASINATED MEMORY,  Reviewed by George Tarabishi

Michel Fani's BEIRUT'S ALPHABET,  Reviewed by Elisabeth Marie

A Searing Look at Iraqi Politics in the 60s: Fuad al-Takarli's 'Long Way Back' By Susan Muaddi Darraj

Iraq's Marion and Peter Sluglett: A Clamorous History By Malek Abisaab

Grace Feuerverger's OASIS OF DREAMS, Reviewed by Doris Bittar

Ahlam Mostaghanemi's MEMORY IN THE FLESH,  Reviewed Kim Jensen

Books in Brief

Fall 1998 Books In Brief By Judith Gabriel

Spring 1999 Books In Brief  Dilip Hiro

Spring 1999 Books In Brief Samar Attar

Winter 2000 Books In Brief By Judith Gabriel

Spring 2000 Books In Brief By Judith Gabriel

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