Muna reviews a number of recently published books in Arabic and English: “The Educational System in the Ottoman Arab Mashreq: A Statistical Historical Study in Light of Ottoman Documents” by Fadel Bayyat; “Development and Funding in Palestine: A Study in the Fields of Social and Economic Policy” by Eyad al-Rabahi; Tahsin Olayyan and Firas Jaber; “Life at the Crossroads: History of Gaza” by Ibrahim Darwish; and History in the Arab Skies: Aviation Impact on the Middle East by Gerald Butt.