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# Editor's Picks (Summer 1997)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1997/09/editors-picks-12/
- Published: 1997-09-13T19:20:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:45:53.000Z
- Description: Ben-Ari, Eyal and Yoram Bilu, eds. Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997). Boyarin, Jonathan and Daniel, eds. Jews and Other Differences: New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 199
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Ben-Ari, Eyal and Yoram Bilu, eds. *Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997).  
  
 Boyarin, Jonathan and Daniel, eds. *Jews and Other Differences: New Jewish Cultural Studies* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).  
  
 B’tselem. *Legitimizing Torture: The Israeli High Court of Justice Rulings in the Bibeisi, Hamdan and Mubarak Cases* (Jerusalem, January 1997).  
  
 Deshen, Shlomo and Walter P. Zenner, eds. *Jews Among Muslims: Communities in the Precolonial Middle East* (New York: New York University Press, 1996).  
  
 Douglass, William and Joseph Zuleika. *Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Faces and Foibles of Terrorism* (London: Routledge, 1996).  
  
 Dumper, Michael. *The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
 Göle, Nilüfer. *The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling* (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996).  
  
*Kicking the Water Habit: Israel, Palestine and the New Water Order*, Amsterdam Middle East Papers 8 (December 1996).  
  
 Khalidi, Rashid. *Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
 Kuklick, Bruce. *Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).  
  
 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. *Islam and Justice: Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa* (New York, 1997).  
  
 Longva, Anh Nga. *Walls Built on Sand: Migration, Exclusion and Society in Kuwait* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
 Menashri, David. *Revolution at the Crossroads: Iran’s Domestic Politics and Regional Ambitions* (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, 1997).  
  
 Palestine Human Rights Monitoring Group and B’tselem. *Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Since the Oslo Accords: Status Report* (Jerusalem, 1997).  
  
 Ranstorp, Magnus. *Hizballah in Lebanon: The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
 Robinson, Glenn E. *Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997).  
  
 Shahin, Emad Eldin. *Political Assent: Contemporary Islamist Movements in North Africa* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
 Shryock, Andrew. *Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).