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# Editor's Picks (September/October 1995)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1995/09/editors-picks-september-october-1995/
- Published: 1995-09-05T16:15:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:44:05.000Z
- Description: Agha, Hussein J. and Ahmad S. Khalidi. Syria and Iran: Rivalry and Cooperation (London: Pinter, 1995). Amnesty International. Syria: Repression and Impunity (London, 1995). Archibugi, Daniele and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 199
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 196, #Reviews

Agha, Hussein J. and Ahmad S. Khalidi. *Syria and Iran: Rivalry and Cooperation* (London: Pinter, 1995).

Amnesty International. *Syria: Repression and Impunity* (London, 1995).

Archibugi, Daniele and David Held, eds. *Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).

Arrighi, Giovanni. *The Long Twentieth Century* (London: Verso, 1994).

Barakat, Halim. *Democracy and Social Justice* (Ramallah, 1995). \[Arabic\]

Budeiri, Musa, ed. *A Critical Perspective on Palestinian Democracy* (Ramallah, 1995). \[Arabic\]

Burgat, Francois. *The Political Transition in Algeria: Elements for an Analysis* (Amsterdam: Middle East Research Associates, 1994).

Chadriji, Rifat. *The Photography of Kamil Chadirji: Social Life in the Middle East, 1920-1940* (Surrey: LAAM, 1991).

Cortright, David and George Lopez, eds. *Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post Cold-War World?* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).

Doughty, Dick and Mohammed El Aydi. *Gaza: Legacy of Occupation, A Photographer’s Journey* (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1995).

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. *Egyptians in the Gulf: Captives of the Sponsorship System* (Cairo, 1995).

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. *Freedom of Opinion and Belief: Restrictions and Dilemmas* (Cairo, 1995).

Elmusa, Sharif. *A Harvest of Technology: The Super-Green Revolution and the Jordan Valley* (Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1994).

Esposito, John, ed. *The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

George, Susan and Fabrizio Sabelli. *Faith and Credit: The World Bank’s Secular Empire* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

Gocek, Fatma Muge and Shiva Balaghi, eds. *Constructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

Heper, Metin and Ahmet Evin, eds. *Politics in the Third Turkish Republic* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

Hippler, Jochen, ed. *The Democratization of Disempowerment: The Problem of Democracy in the Third World* (London: Pluto Press, 1995).

Iranian Refugees Alliance. *Evading Scrutiny: Does UNHCR’s Refugee Determination Procedure Measure Up to International Standards?* (New York, 1995).

Kafadar, Cemal. *Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995).

Keddie, Nikki. *Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution* (New York: New York University Press, 1995).

Mernissi, Fatima, ed. *Women and Violence* (Marrakesh: Editions Pumag, 1993). \[French\]

Mayer, Ann Elizabeth. *Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).

Miliband, David, ed. *Reinventing the Left* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).

Mundy, Martha. *Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1995).

Nasrallah, Emily. *The Fantastic Strokes of Imagination* (Cairo: Elias Modern Publishing House, 1995).

Peretz, Don. *Palestinian Refugee Compensation* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1995).

Richard, Yann. *Shiite Islam* (Oxford: Blackwwell, 1995).

Roberts, Hugh. “Algeria’s Ruinous Impasse and the Honorable Way Out,” *International Affairs* 71/2 (1995).

Sharabi, Hisham, ed. *The Palestine National Authority: A Critical Appraisal* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1995).

Watkins, Kevin. *The Oxfam Poverty Report* (London: Oxfam, 1995).

Westergaard, John. *Who Gets What? The Hardening of Class Inequalities in the Late Twentieth Century* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).

Zizek, Slavoj, ed. *Mapping Ideology* (London: Verso, 1995).

Zubaida, Sami. “Ernest Gellner’s Sociology of Islam,” *Economy and Society* 24/2 (May 1995).