Book Reviews

Spring 2026 Book Reviews
By Majid Oukacha. Independently published, 2025. 176 pp. $20 (Amazon paperback); $9.99 (Kindle).


Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim
By Yaacov Katz and Amir Bohbot. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2025. 336 pp.; $19.96 (hardcover); 14.99 (Kindle)

Reviewed by Jonathan Spyer
By Nubar Hovsepian. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2025. 317 pp.; $49.95 (hardcover); $24.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Craig Considine
By Shaherzad Ahmadi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 256 pp.; $55 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Michael Rubin
Translated and edited by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi. London: Routledge, 2025. 184 pp.; $142.50 (hardcover), $42.74 (Kindle)

Reviewed by Darío Fernández-Morera
By Rahaf Aldoughli. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 224 pp.; $130 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Zainab Al-Suwaij
By Nathan Thrall. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2023. 272 pp., $29.99 (hardcover)


Reviewed by Alex Safian
By Scott Anderson. New York: Doubleday, 2025. 512 pp.; $35 (hardcover).

Reviewed by Patrick Clawson
By David H. Stone. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2025. 248 pp., $69.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Judith Friedman Rosen
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