Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military, by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 112 pages. Afterword to p. 125. Acknowledgments to p. 131. Notes to p. 181. Bibliography to p. 213. $24.95 hard.

Nahla Abdo teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University and is the author of Women and Poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Some Conceptual and Methodological Notes (UNESCO, 2007).