Asem Khalil (Birzeit): The Enactment of Constituent Power in the Arab World. From the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, Aisha Gill (Roehampton): Patriarchal Violence in the Name of "Honour". A dishonorable affair: How the murder of Zahra al-Azzo, a 16-year-old rape victim, has led Syrians to rethink the widespread acceptance of honor killing. A review of The Truth About Syria by Barry Rubin. While Dubai reaches for a glittering, globalised future, its cheap foreign workers live in squalid labour camps and work behind barbed wire. An interview with Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future. A review of The Persians: An Introduction by Maria Brosius. A review of Olivier Roy's Secularism Confronts Islam. A review of The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy.
