TY - JOUR AU - Sayigh, Yezid AB - BOOK REVIEWS | 211 ening” (p. 93). The future, she contends, depends on the interplay between these opposing forces. Ilan Peleg’schapter on majority‐minority relations in deeply divided democratic societies contextualizes the political meaning of the demo- cratic backsliding in Israel—in a country defined as Jewish and democratic, the slippage of the second element means an intensification of the first, ethno‐ national element. Joel Migdal’schapter takesusawayfromIsraeltothe fasci- nating history of the American city, highlighting the time of everyday practices and their role in turning diverse groups into a public. The third and final section of the book makes the strongest approach to the arts, and to non‐linear time. Yael Zerubavel brings to the fore the past‐ present dynamics of collective memory work through her analysis of the book by Israeli journalist Meir Shalev, The Bible Now. Roland Vazquez fo- cuses on aesthetic politics in the Basque Autonomous Region of Spain and its potential to open a space to come to terms with the past and transform its meanings. Jan Kubik analyzes the role of avant‐garde theatre in Poland in offering alternative visions of the nation and its historical narratives. In each chapter, the past does not lay passively behind the TI - Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies by Hicham Bou Nassif. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 304 pp. Paper, $34.99. JF - Political Science Quarterly DO - 10.1002/polq.13306 DA - 2022-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/endgames-military-response-to-protest-in-arab-autocracies-by-hicham-6t4PPO2qwf SP - 211 EP - 213 VL - 137 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -