Bustan Vol. 14, No. 1 (July 2023).
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Articles
- Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Friends and Enemies, Partners and Rivals
Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies: Borders, Tribes and a History Shared by Joshua Yaphe; A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq by Katherine Harvey
Review by: Thomas W. Lippman
- Al-Qaʿida Revisited
The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family by Nelly Lahoud; The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden by Peter Bergen
Review by: Brynjar Lia
- US-Saudi Relations: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’Est La Même Chose
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance by Victor McFarland; Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of U.S. Empire, 1967–1988 by David M. Wight
Review by: Gerald Feierstein
Book Reviews
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Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home by Fida Jiryis
Review by: Ephraim Lavie -
A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam by Thomas Bauer
Review by: Derek Lief -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870–1920 by Neil Faulkner
Review by: Richard Reid -
Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
Review by: Mohamad AlDhuhoori -
Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach Syrian-Israeli Peace by Frederic C. Hof
Review by: Asher Kaufman -
The Islamic Movement in Israel by Tilde Rosmer
Review by: Inbal Tal -
Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq by Ashley Jackson
Review by: Andrew Stewart -
Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba‘thist Syria by Max Weiss
Review by: Joel D. Parker -
Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria by Gönül Tol
Review by: Remi Daniel -
Sunnis and Shi‘a: A Political History by Laurence Louër
Review by: Oliver Scharbrodt -
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards by Annie Tracy Samuel
Review by: Omer Carmi -
The Iraqi Kurds and the Cold War: Regional Politics, 1958–1975 by Hawraman Ali
Review by: Yaniv Voller -
Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times by Emily Gottreich
Review by: Daniel Zisenwine