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# Editor's Picks (Winter 1996)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1996/12/editors-picks-winter-1996/
- Published: 1996-12-21T19:28:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:45:19.000Z
- Description: Aswad, Barbara and Barbara Bilge, eds. Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996). Ayubi, Nazih. Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996
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Aswad, Barbara and Barbara Bilge, eds. *Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants* (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996).

Ayubi, Nazih. *Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996).

Boyarin, Jonathan. *Thinking in Jewish* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Center for Economic and Social Rights. *Unsanctioned Suffering: A Human Rights Assessment of UN Sanctions on Iraq* (New York, May 1996).

Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine. *Beyond Rhetoric: Perspectives on a Negotiated Settlement in Palestine* (Washington, DC, August 1996).

Cooke, Miriam. *War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996).

Finkelstein, Norman. *The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

Human Rights Watch. *Syria: The Silenced Kurds* (New York, October 1996).

Jennings, Anne. *The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996).

Khalidi, Walid. *Islam, the West and Jerusalem*, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Occasional Paper (Washington, DC, 1996).

Khoury, Nabil and Valentine Moghadam, eds. *Gender and Development in the Arab World: Women’s Economic Participation, Patterns and Policies* (London: Zed Books, 1996).

Kubursi, Atif. *Palestinian Losses in 1948: The Quest for Precision* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1996).

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

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. *Critique: Review of the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995* (New York, 1996).

Mallat, Chibli. *The Middle East Into the Twenty-First Century* (New York: Ithaca Press, 1996).

Nonneman, Gerd, Tim Niblock and Bogdan Szajkowski, eds. *Muslim Communities in the New Europe* (New York: Ithaca Press, 1996).

Physicians for Human Rights. *Torture in Turkey and Its Unwilling Accomplices* (Boston, 1996).

Ravanipur, Moniru. *Satan’s Stones* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996).

Sabbagh, Suha, ed. *Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 1996).

Singerman, Diane and Homa Hoodfar, eds. *Development, Change and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996).

Simons, Geoff. *Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).

El-Solh, Raghid. *Britain’s Two Wars with Iraq, 1941 and 1991* (New York: Ithaca Press, 1996).

Stauffer, Thomas. *Water and War in the Middle East: The Hydraulic Parameters of Conflict* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1996).

Wikan, Unni. *Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).