"Baya Mahieddine," February 25-July 31, 2021, Sharjah Art Museum. . .
Reviewed by Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle University) Published on H-AMCA (January, 2022) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57247
Joanna Ahlberg, ed. Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête (Drawing Papers 145). New York: Drawing Center, 2021. 183 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-942324-33-4.Claire Gilman, curator. Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête. New York: Drawing Center, June 11–September 19, 2021. .
Reviewed by May Makki (Bard College)
Published on H-AMCA (January, 2022)
Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas)
Anneka Lenssen.
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria.
Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 296 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-34324-5. 
Reviewed by Ambra D'Antone (Courtauld Institute of Art) Published on H-AMCA (May, 2021) Commissioned by Nisa Ari (University of Houston)
Markus Ritter, Staci G. Scheiwiller, eds. The Indigenous Lens? Early Photography in the Near and Middle East. Studies in Theory and History of Photography Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. Illustrations. 372 pp. $80.99 (pdf), ISBN 978-3-11-059087-6; $80.99 (paper), ISBN 978-3-11-049135-7.
Reviewed by Mira Xenia Schwerda (Harvard University) Published on H-AMCA (February, 2021) Commissioned by Alessandra Amin (UCLA)
Lynn Gumpert, Suheyla Takesh. Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s. New York: Grey Art Gallery, January 14–April 4, 2020. Exhibition. Suheyla Takesh, Lynn Gumpert, eds. Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2020. Illustrations. 256 pp. $45.49 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-7774-3428-5.
Afaf Zurayk, Sarah Rogers, ed. Afaf Zurayk: Return Journeys. Beirut: Twig Collaborative/Saleh Barakat Gallery, 2019. 96 pp.
Reviewed by Kareem Estefan (Brown University)
Published on H-AMCA (May, 2019)
Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53863
Peter H. Christensen. Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. 204 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22564-8.
Reviewed by Emily Neumeier (Temple University) Published on H-AMCA (January, 2019) Commissioned by Nisa Ari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52242
Sam Bardaouil. Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. Illustrations. 320 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78453-651-0.
Reviewed by Riad Kherdeen (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-AMCA (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sarah Dwider (Northwestern University)
Elisabeth A. Fraser. Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 320 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-07320-0.
Reviewed by Erin Hyde Nolan (Maine College of Art) Published on H-AMCA (April, 2018) Commissioned by Nisa Ari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich, eds. Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production. New York: OR Books, 2017. 273 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-944869-43-4.
Reviewed by Rebecca Wolff (UCLA) Published on H-AMCA (March, 2018) Commissioned by Alessandra Amin (UCLA)
Marie Grace Brown. Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 240 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0264-9.
Reviewed by Taylor Moore (Rutgers University) Published on H-AMCA (February, 2018) Commissioned by Alessandra Amin
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Prita Meier. Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 230 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01915-8.
Reviewed by Emily Williamson (Boston University) Published on H-AMCA (December, 2017) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz
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New York Museum of Modern Art. Installation Following the Executive Order of January 27, 2017. . .
Reviewed by Kirsten Scheid (American University of Beirut)
Published on H-AMCA (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz
The MoMA Visa: Modern Art after the Trump Ban
Mohammed Gharipour, ed. Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxxviii + 542 pp. $254.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-27906-3.
Reviewed by Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi (Princeton University) Published on H-AMCA (April, 2017) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz
Pluralism, Difference, Contestation, and Tolerance: Sacred Spaces of Non-Muslim Communities in the Islamic World
Stephen Sheehi. The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910. Princeton University Press, 2016. pages cm. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15132-8.
Reviewed by Tina Barouti (Boston University) Published on H-AMCA (January, 2017) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz
