Book Reviews

Winter 2026 Book Reviews:
By Asaf Romirowsky and Donna Robinson Divine •
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 344 pp., $49 (hardcover and eBook)

Reviewed by Mitchell Bard
By Theo Padnos • New York: Scribner, 2022. 400 pp., $25.00 (paperback)

Reviewed by Jonathan Spyer
By Vali Nasr • Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. 376 pp., $35.00 (hardcover); $24.99 (eBook)

Reviewed by Patrick Clawson
By John David Ragan • New York and Cairo: The American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, 2025. 349 pp; $69.95 (hardback), $68.99 (PDF), $68.99 (EPUB)

Reviewed by Roger F. S. Kaplan
By Roxanne L. Euben • Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. 280 pp., $99.95 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Craig Considine
By Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan, and Ido Rosen • Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. 364 pp., $55.00 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Sariel Birnbaum
By İsmail Albayrak • Singapore: Springer, 2024. xx+144 pp., $109.99 (paperback), $84.99 (eBook)

Reviewed by Tom Gage
By Edwin Black • Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2025. 131pp., $30.00 (hardcover); $25.00 (paperback)

Review by Efraim Inbar

By Jonathan Harounoff • Castroville, Texas: Black Rose, 2025. 181 pp.; $25.95 (hardcover), $15.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Michael Rubin
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