Author: 
Jessica Barnes
Reviewer: 
Chama Kaluba Jickson

Kaluba Jickson on Barnes, 'Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt'

Jessica Barnes. Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 320 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1852-0; $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1586-4.

Reviewed by Chama Kaluba Jickson (University of the Free State) Published on H-Environment (May, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Paul Johstono
Reviewer: 
Aaron Beek

Beek on Johstono, 'The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 BC: An Institutional and Operational History'

Paul Johstono. The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 BC: An Institutional and Operational History. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2020. Illustrations. xxxi + 344 pp. $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4738-3383-8

Author: 
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Reviewer: 
Burak Sayim

Sayim on Kassab, 'Enlightenment on the Eve of the Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates'

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab. Enlightenment on the Eve of the Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 240 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-17633-0.

Reviewed by Burak Sayim (Graduate Institute Geneva) Published on H-Socialisms (May, 2021) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Author: 
Łukasz Stanek
Reviewer: 
Diana Wylie

Wylie on Fincher and Iveson and Leitner, 'Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities' and Prestel, 'Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910' and Smith, 'Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of ...

Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner. Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 264 pp. Ill., tables. $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-9464-8.Joseph Ben Prestel. Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 288 pp. $93.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879756-2.Constance Smith. Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging.

Author: 
Shana Elizabeth Minkin
Reviewer: 
Christopher S. Rose

Rose on Minkin, 'Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt'

Shana Elizabeth Minkin. Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiii + 199 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0892-4.

Reviewed by Christopher S. Rose (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Empire (June, 2020) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Author: 
Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Reviewer: 
Matthew Ellis

Ellis on Abou-El-Fadl, 'Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War'

Reem Abou-El-Fadl. Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War. The Global Middle East Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 384 pp. $84.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-57019-0; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-47504-4.

Reviewed by Matthew Ellis (Sarah Lawrence College) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Jennifer L. Derr
Reviewer: 
George M. La Rue

La Rue on Derr, 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt'

Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0965-5

Reviewed by George M. La Rue (Clarion University) Published on H-Africa (May, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)

Author: 
Gerald M. Steinberg, Ziv Rubinovitz
Reviewer: 
Jørgen Jensehaugen

Jensehaugen on Steinberg and Rubinovitz, 'Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism'

Gerald M. Steinberg, Ziv Rubinovitz. Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 378 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03952-1.

Reviewed by Jørgen Jensehaugen (Peace Research Institute Oslo) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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