Reviews

Author:

Markus Ritter, Staci G. Scheiwiller, eds.

Reviewer:

Mira Xenia Schwerda

Schwerda on Ritter and Scheiwiller, 'The Indigenous Lens? Early Photography in the Near and Middle East'

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)

Author:

Suheyla Takesh, Lynn Gumpert, eds.

Reviewer:

Michael Ernst

Ernst on Lynn Gumpert and Suheyla Takesh, 'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s' and Takesh and Gumpert, 'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s'

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.

Author:

Afaf Zurayk, Sarah Rogers, ed.

Reviewer:

Kareem Estefan

Estefan on Zurayk and Rogers, 'Afaf Zurayk: Return Journeys'

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

Author:

Peter H. Christensen

Reviewer:

Emily Neumeier

Neumeier on Christensen, 'Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure'

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

Author:

Sam Bardaouil

Reviewer:

Riad Kherdeen

Kherdeen on Bardaouil, 'Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group'

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)

Author:

Elisabeth A. Fraser

Reviewer:

Erin Hyde Nolan

Nolan on Fraser, 'Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839'

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)

Author:

Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich, eds.

Reviewer:

Rebecca Wolff

Wolff on Estefan and Kuoni and Raicovich, 'Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production'

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)

Author:

Marie Grace Brown

Reviewer:

Taylor Moore

Moore on Brown, 'Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan'

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

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51035

Author:

Prita Meier

Reviewer:

Emily Williamson

Williamson on Meier, 'Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere'

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

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=49697

Author:

New York Museum of Modern Art

Reviewer:

Kirsten Scheid

Scheid on Museum of Modern Art, 'Installation Following the Executive Order of January 27, 2017'

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

Author:

Mohammed Gharipour, ed.

Reviewer:

Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi

Demerdash-Fatemi on Gharipour, 'Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World'

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

Author:

Stephen Sheehi

Reviewer:

Tina Barouti

Barouti on Sheehi, 'The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910'

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

Author:

Kamran Rastegar

Reviewer:

Lara Fresko

Fresko on Rastegar, 'Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East'

Kamran Rastegar. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 248 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-939017-5; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-939016-8.

Reviewed by Lara Fresko (Cornell University) Published on H-AMCA (May, 2016) Commissioned by Berin Golonu

Author:

Talinn Grigor

Reviewer:

Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan

Rahimi-Golkhandan on Grigor, 'Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio'

Talinn Grigor. Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. 296 pp. Illustrations. $39.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78023-270-6.

Reviewed by Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan Published on H-AMCA (September, 2015) Commissioned by Sarah-Neel Smith

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Author:

Sarah A. Rogers, Eline Van Der Vlist, eds.

Reviewer:

Holiday Powers

Powers on Rogers and Van Der Vlist, 'Arab Art Histories: The Khalid Shoman Collection'

Sarah A. Rogers, Eline Van Der Vlist, eds. Arab Art Histories: The Khalid Shoman Collection. Amman: Khalid Shoman Foundation, 2014. 464 pp. $45.50 (paper), ISBN 978-90-821484-0-4.

Reviewed by Holiday Powers (VCU Qatar) Published on H-AMCA (August, 2015) Commissioned by Berin Golonu

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Schwerda on Ritter and Scheiwiller, 'The Indigenous Lens? Early Photography in the Near and Middle East'

Ernst on Lynn Gumpert and Suheyla Takesh, 'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s' and Takesh and Gumpert, 'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s'

Estefan on Zurayk and Rogers, 'Afaf Zurayk: Return Journeys'

Neumeier on Christensen, 'Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure'

Kherdeen on Bardaouil, 'Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group'

Nolan on Fraser, 'Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839'

Wolff on Estefan and Kuoni and Raicovich, 'Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production'

Moore on Brown, 'Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan'

Williamson on Meier, 'Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere'

Scheid on Museum of Modern Art, 'Installation Following the Executive Order of January 27, 2017'

Demerdash-Fatemi on Gharipour, 'Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World'

Barouti on Sheehi, 'The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910'

Fresko on Rastegar, 'Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East'

Rahimi-Golkhandan on Grigor, 'Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio'

Powers on Rogers and Van Der Vlist, 'Arab Art Histories: The Khalid Shoman Collection'

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