The MDC is pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue of Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Vol. 16., No. 2 (December, 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.
ARTICLES
Clément Therme: Russia and Iran in the Shadow of Ukraine: Ontological Security, Authoritarian Regionalism, and the Politics of Alignment
Arie M. Dubnov: Storytelling Matters: On Sonja Mejcher-Atassi’s An Impossible Friendship
Martin Thomas Riexinger: Research on Sunni-Shiʿi Relations: A Big Step Forward and a Few Steps Back
Book Reviews
Limor Lavie: Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt
David Romano: Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan
Allen Fromherz: Qatar’s Foreign Policy: Geography, Politics and Strategy since 1971
Moshe Elad: The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process: A Personal Insider’s Account
Carl Yonker: Sectarianism, Siege and Displacement: The Memoir of al-Fuʿah and Kafriya
Michael M. Gunter: Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period
Joel Parker: Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny
Ronen Yitzhak: Jordan, Palestine, and the Politics of Collective Identity
Christopher Houston: Political Violence in Turkey, 1975–1980. The State at Stake
Shay Har-Zvi: Axis of Resistance: Asymmetric Deterrence and Rules of the Game in Contemporary Middle East Conflicts
Geraint Hughes: Oman’s Transformation after 1970
Richard Nephew: How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
Elizabeth Perego: Response to Jakob Krais’s review of Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021