Bustan Vol.14, No.2 (December 2023)

Bustan Vol.14, No.2 (December 2023).

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Articles

• Who Is Responsible for US Policy toward Israel?
  We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight over Israel by Eric Alterman; The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead.
  Review by: Michael J. Koplow
   
• Ottoman Landscapes: Over Mountains, Plains, and Waterways
  Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire By Faisal H. Husain; The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier by Chris Gratien.
  Review by: James M. Gustafson

• Jews and Muslims Competing for Sacred Space
  Jews and the Qur’an by Meir M. Bar-Asher; Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount by Yitzhak Reiter and Dvir Dimant.
  Review by: Jacob Lassner

Book Reviews

• Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt by Andrew Simon
  Review by: Andrea Stanton
   
• The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf by Abdullah Hamidaddin
  Review by: Casey Coombs
   
• Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State by Shirin Saeidi
  Review by: Michelle Quay
   
• The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy by Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar
  Review by: Salim Cevik
   
• Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn Leffler
  Review by: Melissa Willard-Foster
   
• The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras
  Review by: Erol Ülker
   
• Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850–1948 by Awad Halabi
  Review by: Louis Fishman
   
• The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States by Karen Young
  Review by: Jim Krane
   
• Jihadi Politics: The Global Jihadi Civil War, 2014–2019 by Tore Hamming
  Review by: Craig Whiteside