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# Editor's Picks (Spring 1997)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1997/03/editors-picks-spring-1997/
- Published: 1997-03-17T21:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:45:38.000Z
- Description: Accad, Evelyne. Wounding Words: A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996). Arab Coordinating Committee on Housing Rights/Israel. Housing for All: Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing for the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel (Nazareth, 1996). Alexander, Meena. The Sho
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Accad, Evelyne. *Wounding Words: A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia* (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996).  
  
 Arab Coordinating Committee on Housing Rights/Israel. *Housing for All: Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing for the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel* (Nazareth, 1996).  
  
 Alexander, Meena. *The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience* (Boston: South End Press, 1996).  
  
 Bakhtiari, Bahman. *Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).  
  
 Beinin, Joel and Joe Stork, eds. *Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
 Benvenisti, Meron. *City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).  
  
 Boroujerdi, Mehrzad. *Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996).  
  
 Brown, Daniel. *Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).  
  
 B’tselem. *Beatings, Maltreatment and Degradation of Palestinians by Police During June-July 1996* (Jerusalem, September 1996).  
  
 B’tselem. *Without Limits: Human Rights Violations Under Closure* (Jerusalem, April 1996).  
  
 Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine. *Beyond Rhetoric: Perspectives on a Negotiated Settlement in Palestine, Part Two* (Washington, DC, 1996).  
  
 Cooke, Miriam. *Women and the War Story* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).  
  
 Engineer, Asghar Ali. *The Rights of Women in Islam* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).  
  
 Gran, Peter. *Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996).  
  
 Ibrahim, Saad Eddin. *Egypt, Islam and Democracy: Twelve Critical Essays* (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1996).  
  
 Kearney, Michael. *Conceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).  
  
 Kingston, Paul. *Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).  
  
 Kossaifi, George F. *The Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return* (Washington, DC: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1996).  
  
 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. *Justice Undermined: Preliminary Report of a Mission to Turkey, September 1996* (New York, 1996).  
  
 Lazin, Frederick and Gregory Mahler, eds. *Israel in the Nineties: Development and Conflict* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).  
  
 Malley, Robert. *The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).  
  
 Metcalf, Barbara Daly. *Making Muslim Space* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).  
  
 Morady, Farhang. *Oil, the State and Industrial Development in Post-Revolutionary Iran*, Amsterdam Middle East Paper 7 (Amsterdam, 1996).  
  
 Nelson, Cynthia. *Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).  
  
 Norton, Augustus Richard, ed. *Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume Two* (New York: Brill, 1996).  
  
 Olson, Robert, ed. *The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990s: Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East* (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1996).  
  
 Parker, Richard. *The Six-Day War: A Retrospective* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).  
  
 Sonn, Tamara. *Interpreting Islam* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).  
  
 Talhami, Ghada Hashem. *The Mobilization of Muslim Women in Egypt* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996).  
  
 Walbridge, Linda. *Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shiism in an American Community* (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996).