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The Winter 2019 issue of Middle East Quarterly covers the Czechs and U.S. envoy James G. McDonald's roles in the birth of Israel; politics, theology, and religion in Jihadist violence; and the use of films and television by Egyptian Islamists to spread reactionary and revisionist history.

The Birth of Israel: Prague’s Crucial Role

by Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta

Czech war material was vital for rebuffing the Arab assault

The Birth of Israel: U.S. Envoy McDonald’s Tireless Efforts

by Shlomo Slonim

An American diplomat was critical in preventing the new state’s loss of the Negev

Politics, Theology and Religion in Jihadist Violence

by Jonathan Cole

The West confronts a potent “theopolitical” dogma in global jihadism

Egyptian Islamists Fight Back on Screen

by Sariel Birnbaum

They use films and TV to spread a reactionary, revisionist history

Brief Reviews

 

Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine 

By Sunaina Maira

Reviewed by Cinnamon Stillwell
 

Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran 

By Michael Axworthy

Reviewed by Michael Rubin
 

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North

By William R. Polk

Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim
 

Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon

By Sarah Marusek

Reviewed by Hilal Khashan
 

The Future of Iran’s Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered

By Neguin Yavarim

Reviewed by Michael Rubin
 

Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War against Women

By Phyllis Chesler

Reviewed by Ida Lichter
 

The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking since 1952

By Khalid Ikramm

Reviewed by Patrick Clawson

 

 

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