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# New and Recommended Reading Summer 2018
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2018/10/new-and-recommended-reading/
- Published: 2018-10-13T23:24:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:04:04.000Z
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Abboud, Samer. *Syria* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018).

Adalet, Begum. *Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey* (Stanford: Stanford University press, 2018).

Abul-Magd, Zeinab. *Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Ahmad, Attiya. *Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Workers in Kuwait* (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).

Ayatollahi Tabaar, Mohammad. *Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Behrouzan, Orkideh. *Prozac Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran* (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Ben-Yehoyada, Naor. *The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation Between Sicily and Tunisia Since World War II* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Dewachi, Omar. *Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq* (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Dietrich, Christopher R. W. *Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Ketchley, Neil. *Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Khosravi, Shahram. *Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

Maghbouleh, Neda. *The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race* (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Mirsepassi, Ali. *Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Silverstein, Paul A.. *Postcolonial France: Race, Islam and the Future of the Republic* (London: Pluto Press, 2018).