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Book Review
Larry Garber
Yehuda Lukacs: Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond
Yehuda Lukacs: Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond. Amazon. 2025, 281 pp.
The Life and Writings of a Long-Time Observer of Israel-PalestineYehuda Lukacs’ book, Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond is one of an estimated 3.5 million that were self-...
Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026
Peter Eisentadt
Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual
Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2025
On Edward Said’s Life and WorkA key word in Nubar Hovsepian’s excellent study of the intellectual legacy Edward Said (1935–2003) is contrapuntal. Hovsepian writes that Said had “contrapuntal ins...
Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026
Yehuda Lukacs
Sabri Jiryis, The Foundations of Zionism
Sabri Jiryis The Foundations of Zionism. Translated and Edited by Fida Jiryis. Oxford: Liberated Texts / Ebb Books, 2025. 614 pp.
A Palestinian’s View of ZionismSabri Jiryis’s The Foundations of Zionism is now available in English for the first time, translated and edited by his daughter Fida Jiryis. This edition features a new ...
Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026
Lucy Nusseibeh
Galit Hasan-Rokem
The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land: Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah, Crown, 2026, 240 pgs.
Stories and MapsIt is not easy to write a joint book. The two authors, who also are tour guides, are presenting their shared vision for the future along with their accounts and views of the past and t...
Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026
Daniel Bar-Tal. Sinking into the Honey Trap of the Intractable Conflict: The Case ofthe Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Reviewed by Izhak Schnell
How does the dynamic of conflict mindsets change in the management of the conflict in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This is the main question posed by this book. It asks also questions...
Vol. 28 No. 3&4 2023
Yael Warshel, Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict- Children, PeaceCommunication and Socialization. Reviewed by Edy Kaufman
This book is an in-depth evaluation of the Arab and Hebrew language versions of the Sesame Street TV show. Sesame Street was created as an American educational children’s TV program that premiered on ...
Vol. 28 No. 3&4 2023
But Abu Ibrahim, We’re Family! by Lee Perlman, reviewed by Ari Roth
A theater lover and engaged Middle East observer approaches But Abu Ibrahim, We’re Family! with excitement and trepidation. The title invokes jocularity — a daring thing, given the ponderous tone ofte...
Vol. 23 No. 4 2018
Seizing Control of Space in East Jerusalem by Meir Margalit.
Reviewed by Itamar Haritan
Meir Margalit's Seizing Control of Space in East Jerusalem is an important summary of the recent escalation of settlement activity inside Palestinian neighborhoods, a development that is dangerous fo...
Vol. 17 No. 1 2011
Jerusalem Syndrome: The Palestinian-Israeli Battle for the Holy City by Moshe Amirav.
Reviewed by Benjamin Pogrund
Jerusalem's dazzling light blinds all of its heroes and rulers. Memories of past glories and grandiose dreams for the future throw them off-balance. They liken themselves to the city's earlier conque...
Vol. 17 No. 1 2011
Paul Scham
1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
Looking at 1948 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris. New Haven: Yale University Press. 524 pp (including endnotes, bibliography and index). Hardcover, $32.50; ₤19.99. Paul Scham Paul Sch...
Vol. 15 No. 2 2008
