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Achili, L. (2015). Palestinian Refugees and Identity: Nationalism, Politics and the everyday. London & New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781780769110. $99.00

Al-Jawzi, I. and Cooperson, M. (ed) (2015). Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Vol. 2. New York and London: New York University Press. ISBN: 9780814738948 $40.00

Al-Rawi, R. (2015). Divine Names: The Healing names of the one love. Northampton, Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press. ISBN: 9781566569873. $ 25.00

Balkan, N., Balkan, E., and Öncü, A. (2015). The Neoliberal Landscape and the rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN: 9781782386384. $95.00

Behr, T and Tiilikainen. (eds) (2015). Northern Europe and the Making of the EU’s Mediterranean and Middle East Policies: Normative Leaders or Passive Bystanders? Burlington and Surrey, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN: 9781472430434. $ 119.95

Bennis, P. (2015). Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer. Northhampto,MA: Olive Branch Press. ISBN: 9781566560948. $15.00

Chehabi, H. E., Jafari, P. & Jefroudi, M. (2015) Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History. London & New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781784531348. $99.00

Cuno, K. M. (2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentienth-Century Egypt. New York: Syracuse Press. ISBN: 9780815633921. $39.95

Daechesel, M. (2015). Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan. U.K and USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107057173. $99.00

De Vries, D. Strike Action and Nation Building: Labour Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN: 9781782388098. $ 90.00

Erlich, H. (2015, pbk ed.). Saudi Arabia & Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity & Politics Entwined. Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62637-193-4, $25.00

Fábos, A. H and Isotalo, R. (Eds.) (2015). Managing Muslim Mobilities: Between Spiritual Geographies and the Global Security Regime (Religion and Global Migrations). New York: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9781137434869. $95.00

Fair, C. C. and Watson, S. J. (eds). (2015). Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812246902. $69.92

Farzaneh, M. M. (2015). The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and Clerical Leadership of Khurasani (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East). New York, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815633884. $49.95

Feldman, K. P. (2015). A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota press. ISBN: 9780816694501. $ 24.95

Fozi, N. (2015). Reclaiming the Faravahar: Zoroastrian survival in contemporary Tehran. Leiden University Press. ISBN: 9789087282141. $59.50-paperback

Geelhoed, F. (2014). Striving for Allah: Purification and Resistance among Fundamentalist Muslims in the Netherlands. The Hague, Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing. ISBN: 9789462364936. $61.00

Gilbert, M. (2015). Night in Gaza. Northampton, Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press. ISBN: 781566560757. $25.00

Gorman, A. and Kasbarian, S. (2015). Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 9780748686100. $120.00

Harel, Y. (2015). Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and Activity in the Jewish Community at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781780766706. $99.00

Hochberg, G. Z. (2015). Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822358879. $23.95

Hopper, M. S. (2015). Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Empire Age of Empire. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300192018. $85.00

Jamal, A. A. (2009). Barriers to Democracy: The other side of social capital in Palestine and the Arab world. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691140995. $23.95

Jarmakani, A. (2015). An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror. New York and London: New York University Press. ISBN: 9781479820863. $28.00(paperback) $89.00 (hardcover)

Joskowicz, A. and Katz, E. B. (2015). Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812247275. $65.00

Jouili. J. S (2015). Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804794664. $27.95

Khalifa, S. (2015). Egypt’s Lost Spring: Causes and Consequences. Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: Praeger. ISBN: 9781440834080. $58.00

Karakoc, J. (Ed) (2015). Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Before and After the Arab Uprisings. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9781137445544. $ 90.00

Kotef, H. (2015). Movement and the Ordering of Freedom. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822358558. Hard cover $ 84.95, Paperback $ 23.95

Kozma, L., Schayegh, C and Wishnitzer, A. (eds)(2015). A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Morden Age, 1880-1940. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781780769424 $-

Lavie, S. (2014). Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureautic Torture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN: 9781782382225. $ 39.95

Malik, A. I. (2015). US Foreign Policy and the Gulf Wars: Decision- making and International Relations. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781780768359. $99.00

Mohammadi, M. (2015). Political Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Shi’i Ideologies in Islamist Discourse. London & New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781848852761. $99.00

Molavi, S. C. (2014, pbk ed.). Stateless Citizenship: the Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books ISBN: 978-1-60846-383-1 $28.00

Motadel, D. (2014). Islam and Nazi Germany’s war. Cambridge, Massachutts London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0-674-72460-0, $35.00

Mottahedeh, N. (2015). #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life. Stanford, Calfonia: Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804795876. $12.99

Osoegawa, T. (2015) Syria and Lebanon: International Relations and Diplomacy in the Middle East. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781784532338. $25.00

Patrick, A. (2015). America’s Frogptten Middle East Initiative: The King-Crane Commission 1919. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 978178453274. 99.00

Peace, T. (2015). Muslims and Political Participation in Britain. New York and London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 9780415725316. $140

Pagès, M. (2014). From Martyr to Murder: Representations of the Assassins in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe. New York: Syracuse Press. ISBN: 9780815633709. $39.99

Possamai, A., Richardson, J. T. and Turner, B. S. (eds) (2015). The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the world (Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societis 1). New York, NY: Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 9783319096049. $129.00.

Rotbard, S. (2015). White City Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. London: Pluto Press. ISBN: 9780745335117. $-.-?

Shari-Yazidi, F. C. (2015). Arab_Iranian Rivalry in the Persian Gulf: Terrirorial Disputes and the Balance of Power in the Middle East. London & New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 9781848858220. $110.00