Book Reviews

Fall 2025 Book Reviews:
Book Reviews
Two Palestinian Memoirs Recall the Good Old Days
September 2, 2025
Book Reviews
White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class
September 2, 2025
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The national flags of India and Somaliland.
Middle East Forum Observer
Should India Officially Recognize Somaliland?
Somaliland and India Share Common History, and Both Embrace the Rules-Based Order and Democracy
September 2, 2026
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Abhinav Pandya
Press Releases
Fall Middle East Quarterly Exposes Iran’s Antisemitic Propaganda Industry
The Middle East Quarterly, MEF’s Journal Intended for Both Scholars and the Educated Public, Features Historical Articles and Book Reviews on Subjects Ranging From Religion to Politics
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law.
By Roy K. Altman. Charleston, S.C.: Advantage Books, 2026, 304 pp.; $32.00 (hardcover), $9.99 (Kindle).

Reviewed by Judith Friedman Rosen
September 1, 2026
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, whose leadership played a central role in the January 2026 statement by Jerusalem church leaders condemning Christian Zionism as a “damaging ideology.” The declaration sparked controversy over who speaks for Christians in the Holy Land and exposed a growing divide between the traditional church hierarchy and pro-Israel Christian voices. (Credit: Djampa/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Middle East Quarterly
Timeless Theology or Dhimmi Diplomacy?: Christian Zionism and Church Politics in the Holy Land
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences
By Brahim El Guabli. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. 300 pp.; $95.00 (hardcover); $34.95 (paperback)

Book Review by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy
By Dalia Dassa Kaye. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 236 pp.; $60.00 (hardcover)

Book Review by Sophie Baron
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan
By Aaron Magid. Irvine & Boca Raton: Universal Publishers, 2025. 254 pp.; $29.95 (paperback); $9.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by Asher Susser
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
By Suzy Hansen. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026. 368 pp. $30.00 (hardcover)

Book Review by Robert Ellis
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom.
Edited by Mustafa Akyol. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2026. 184 pp.; $24.95 (hardcover).

Review by Dexter Van Zile
September 1, 2026
Book Reviews
Beyond Dialogue: Building Bonds Between Christians and Muslims
By Craig Considine. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2025. 256 pp.; $69.95 (hardback); $24.95 (paperback)

Book Review by Mark Durie
September 1, 2026