The Quest for Modernity in the Middle East and the Islamic World
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern
Iraq, Eric Davis, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp.
xi, 385.The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, Brendan O'Leary, John
McGarry and Khaled Salih, eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2005, pp. xxi, 355Nationalism and Minorities Identities in Islamic Societies,
Maya Schatzmiller, ed., Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press,
2005, pp. xiii, 346Muslims and Modernity: An Introduction to the Issues and
Debates, Clinton Bennett, London, New York: Continuum, 2005, pp.
xviii, 286These four books encapsulate a range of political issues that have
shaped the formation of states and ideologies in the Middle East and North
Africa since the beginning of the modern encounter between Europe and the
Islamic world, from the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt through the
post-World War I demise of the Ottoman world up to the American invasion
of Iraq in 2003.
Book Review: Daniel K. Cortese, Are We Thinking Straight? The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 213 pp. ISBN 0—415—97701—0. £45.00