The MDC is pleased to announce the publication of our first Open Access issue of "Bustan: The Middle East Book Review", Vol.16, No.1 (June 2025).
The MDC is pleased to announce the publication of our first Open Access issue of Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Vol.16, No.1 (June 2025).
Bustan: The Middle East Book Review publishes scholarly reviews of new literature in Middle East and Islamic Studies through state of the field essays, review essays, and traditional book reviews. It is a bi-annual journal, published in June and December in partnership with Penn State University Press.
Bustan is hosted online by the Scholarly Publishing Collective and indexed on SCOPUS, as well as archived on JSTOR.
- Letter from the Editors: Open Access, Brandon Friedman and Joel Parker
Articles:
- Damascus, Syria, 1860: Clues and Lessons from the Scene of a Crime, Heather J. Sharkey
- Antizionism and Antisemitism, Joseph S. Spoerl
Book Reviews:
- Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World, Laura Robson
- The Jewish Agency and Syria during the Arab Revolt in Palestine Secret Meetings and Negotiations, Steven Wagner
- Turkey’s Violent Formation: New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire, Ümit Kurt
- Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa: Exploitation and Resistance from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Madeline C. Zilfi
- The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism, Michael O’Sullivan
- Tribes and the State in Libya and Iraq: From the Nationalist Era to the New Order, Ariel I. Ahram
- Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post–Cold War Order, Alissa Walter
- Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation, Malte Fuhrmann
- Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy, Marina Eleftheriadou
- The Gulf War: George H. W. Bush and American Grand Strategy in the Post–Cold War Era, Samuel Helfont
- Syria Divided Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War, Ido Yahel
- Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge, Bosmat Yefet