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
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51035
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
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
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
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
Untitled [Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandran on Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio]
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
Monique Bellan. Dismember Remember: Das anatomische Theater von Lina Saneh und Rabih Mroué. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2013. 240 pp. EUR 59.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-89500-982-2.
Reviewed by Yvonne Albers (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Published on H-AMCA (June, 2015) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz
Audio: Ok... But what are you guys trying to do with theatre?
Artist: We’re doing theatre.
Christiane Gruber, Sune Haugbolle, eds. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Illustrations. xxvii + 343 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-00884-8; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-00888-6.
Reviewed by James Ryan Published on H-AMCA (May, 2015) Commissioned by Sarah-Neel Smith
"Moving" Images: Relocating Visual Analysis in the Modern Middle East
Anthony Downey, ed. Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. London: IB Tauris, 2014. 256 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78453-035-8.
Reviewed by Sascha Crasnow Published on H-AMCA (May, 2015) Commissioned by Sarah-Neel Smith
Ali Behdad, Luke Gartlan, eds. Photography's Orientalisms: New Essays on Colonial Representation. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013. vii + 215 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60606-151-0.
Reviewed by Sandra Williams Published on H-AMCA (May, 2015) Commissioned by Sarah-Neel Smith
