Book Reviews

By James A. Harmon, Cornelius Queen, and Mark Warren. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2026. 240 pp.; $35.00 (hardcover)

Book Review by Patrick Clawson
By David Commins. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. 384 pp.; $28.99 (hardcover); $16.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by Jacob Goldberg
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
By Dalia Dassa Kaye. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 236 pp.; $60.00 (hardcover)

Book Review by Sophie Baron
By Aaron Magid. Irvine & Boca Raton: Universal Publishers, 2025. 254 pp.; $29.95 (paperback); $9.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by Asher Susser
By Martin Shaw. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2025. 224 pp.; $110 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback).

Book Review by A. J. Caschetta
By Roy K. Altman. Charleston, S.C.: Advantage Books, 2026, 304 pp.; $32.00 (hardcover), $9.99 (Kindle).

Reviewed by Judith Friedman Rosen
By Craig Considine. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2025. 256 pp.; $69.95 (hardback); $24.95 (paperback)

Book Review by Mark Durie
Edited by Mustafa Akyol. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2026. 184 pp.; $24.95 (hardcover).

Review by Dexter Van Zile
By Suzy Hansen. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026. 368 pp. $30.00 (hardcover)

Book Review by Robert Ellis
By Eli Sharabi. Translated by Eylon Levy. New York: Harper Influence, 2025. 208 pp.; $20.74 (hardcover); $14.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by A. J. Caschetta
By Amit Segal. New York: Wicked Son, 2025. 248 pp.; $23.41 (hardcover); $14.99 (Kindle)

Reviewed by Alex Selsky
By Margaret Peacock. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. 326 pp.; $82.75 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback); $28.45 (Kindle)

Reviewed by Jeffrey Herf
By Neta Oren. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2025. 169 pp.; $95 (hardcover); $95 (e-book)

Book Review by Martin Sherman
By Charles Glass. New York: OR Books, 2025. 294 pp.; $17.01 (paperback); $9.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by Jonathan Spyer
By Danny Burmawi. N.P.: Gerasa Books, 2025. 252 pp.; $19.99 (hardcover); $16.99 (paperback); $9.99 (Kindle)

Book Review by Dexter Van Zile
Translated by Jane Kuntz. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2025. 282 pp.; $89.95 (hardcover)

Book Review by Daniel Pipes
By Mustafa Aksakal. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2026. 264 pp.; $26.66 (hardcover); $17.60 (Kindle)

Book Review by Efraim Karsh
By Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow. London: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 206 pp.; $88.36 (hardcover); $110 (e-book)

Book Review by Donna Robinson Divine

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

Reviewed by Judith Friedman Rosen
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
By Rahaf Aldoughli. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 224 pp.; $130 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Zainab Al-Suwaij
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 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 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 Edwin Black • Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2025. 131pp., $30.00 (hardcover); $25.00 (paperback)

Review by Efraim Inbar
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