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# Editor's Picks (Summer 1996)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1996/06/editors-picks-summer-1996/
- Published: 1996-06-28T16:21:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:44:48.000Z
- Description: Abdalla, Ahmad. Parliamentary Elections in Egypt: What Elections? What Parliament? And Which Egypt? Amsterdam Middle East Papers 1/3 (Amsterdam, 1995). Adelson, Roger. London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996). Appiah,
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 199, #In Memoriam

Abdalla, Ahmad. *Parliamentary Elections in Egypt: What Elections? What Parliament? And Which Egypt?* Amsterdam Middle East Papers 1/3 (Amsterdam, 1995).

Adelson, Roger. *London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).

Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. *Identities* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Bennis, Phyllis. *Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 1996).

Center for Human Rights Legal Aid. *Mid-Year Report* (Cairo, 1996).

Chomsky, Noam. *Power and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order* (Boston: South End Press, 1996).

Choukri, Mohamed. *Streetwise* (trans. Ed Emery) (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 1996).

Faqir, Fadia. *Pillars of Salt* (London: Quartet Books, 1996).

Gilsenan, Michael. *Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).

Göçek, Fatma Müğe. *Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Gordon, Neve and Ruchama Morton, eds. *Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel* (London: Zed Books, 1995).

Halliday, Fred. *Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).

Henry, Clement. *The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).

Human Rights Watch. *Weapons Transfers and Violations of the Laws of War in Turkey* (New York, November 1995).

Human Rights Watch. *Civilian Pawns: Laws of War Violations and the Use of Weapons on the Israel-Lebanon Border* (New York, May 1996).

Kaminer, Reuven. *The Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinian Intifada* (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1996).

Kandiyoti, Deniz, ed. *Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996).

Khoury, Elias. *The Journey of Little Gandhi* (trans. Paula Haydar) (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

Laizer, Sheri. *Martyrs, Traitors and Patriots: Kurdistan and the Gulf War* (London: Zed Books, 1996).

Matar, Ibrahim. *Jewish Settlements, Palestinian Rights and Peace* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1996).

Mohi El-Din, Khalid. *Memories of a Revolution* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

Rahnema, Saeed and Sohrab Behdad, eds. *Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1995).

Roy, Sara. *The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development* (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995).

Scott, Catherine V. *Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1995).

Seif, Ahmad. *Hisba: Is Egypt a Civil or Religious State?* (Cairo: Center for Human Rights Legal Aid, 1996).

Swedenburg, Ted. *Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

Zahran, Yasmin. *A Beggar at Damascus Gate* (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1995).