By DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

Review of THE ARAB UPRISINGS EXPLAINED: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East, edited by Marc Lynch and THE ARAB UPRISINGS: What Everyone Needs To Know, by James L. Gelvin

By AZIZ HUQ

Review of TEMPTATIONS OF POWER: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, by Shadi Hamid and THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution, by Patrick Cockburn