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Book Reviews from the June/July Washington Report Issue

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In this midst of simplistic and antagonistic narratives regarding the U.S.-Iran relationship, historian John Ghazvinian provides a necessary dose of perspective. Right from the get-go, Ghazvinian makes his intent in writing the book explicit: to show that the U.S.-Iran relationship doesn’t have to be acrimonious. Through his reputable scholarly work, he hopes his readers digest more than random historical facts and anecdotes and come to see how the twists and turns of history show there is no etched-in-stone rule that the U.S. and Iran must be enemies.

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Read Walter L. Hixson's Review

Comprised of a sprightly collection of memories, interviews, travelogues, short essays and more extended philosophical treatises, the book assesses Edward Said’s political thought and activism as well as Hamid Dabashi’s own not inconsiderable intellectual contributions. Dabashi, an Iranian-born author, thinker, and Al Jazeera columnist, treasured Said as a close friend and intellectual confidante who “was always a catalyst in my thinking.”

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Read Steve France's Review

In this volume of essays, distinguished Muslims tell the world—and particularly Christians—what Jerusalem means to them: a shared holiness. They bear anguished witness to Israel’s ever deeper aggressions in occupied East Jerusalem. What also is striking, however, is how calm and confident the contributors are in making clear that Jerusalem simply can never be defined as the exclusive possession of any political power or any individual religion, and still be Jerusalem, however hard Israel and its devoted U.S. enabler may try.

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Cafés, cabarets and theaters flourished in 1920s Cairo in a way not seen before or since in the ancient land of the pharaohs. In his book, Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s, author Raphael Cormack spotlights the entrepreneurial women who drove this unprecedented entertainment scene on Emad El-Din street in Cairo’s lively Ezbekiyya neighborhood.

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Girl Decoded is the memoir of Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, a company that is humanizing artifical intelligence by analyzing human expressions and reactions. The AI start-up spun off from the MIT Media Lab. She discusses finding her voice in a scientific field that is overwhelmingly male during her trailblazing journey from Cairo to Cambridge to Boston.

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