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New Book Highlights:

ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

• South Yemen’s Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin (Nov 2021)
• The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak’s Egypt  by Marie Vannetzel (Dec 2020)
• Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles by Linda Herrera (Mar 2022)
• Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film and National Discourse edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno (Dec 2020)

HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

• When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 by Matthieu Rey (Feb 2022)
• Writing the History of Mount Lebanon: Church Historians and Maronite Identity by Mouannes Hojairi (Oct 2021)
• The Regency of Tunis, 1535-1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghreb by Leila Temime Bili (May 2021)
• The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley by Mohamed Shoair (Mar 2022)

ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING

• Rooted in the Body: Arabic Metaphor and Morphology by Lisa J. White, illustrated by Mahmoud Shaltout (Feb 2021)
• Advanced Arabic Through Discussion: 20 Debate-Centered Lessons and Exercises for MSA Students by Nevenka Korica Sullivan (Feb 2022)

FILM STUDIES

• Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry by Chihab El Khachab (Mar 2021)
• The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking by Magdy Mounir El-Shammaa (Jun 2021)
• Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa edited by Viola Shafik (Feb 2022)
• Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen (May 2022)

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon by Chahinda Karim (Dec 2021)
• A History of Arab Graphic Design by Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar (Dec 2020)

RELIGION

• Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil by Safaruk Chowdry (May 2021)
• The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac and Ethiopic Lives edited by Tim Vivian and Maged S.A. Mikhail (Jan 2022)

POLITICAL SCIENCE

• New Perspectives on Middle East Politics: Economy, Society, and International Relations edited by Robert Mason (May 2021)
• The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking since 1952 by Khalid Ikram  (July 2021, new in paperback)