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# Editor's Picks (Fall 1997)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1997/09/editors-picks-fall-1997/
- Published: 1997-09-13T22:36:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:46:09.000Z
- Description: B’tselem. A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1997). B’tselem. Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories as a Violation of Human Rights: Legal and Conceptual Aspects (Jerusalem, March 1997). B’tselem. The Quiet Deportation: Revoc
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B’tselem. *A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem* (Jerusalem, 1997).  
  
  
B’tselem. *Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories as a Violation of Human Rights: Legal and Conceptual Aspects* (Jerusalem, March 1997).  
  
  
B’tselem. *The Quiet Deportation: Revocation of Residency of East Jerusalem Palestinians* (Jerusalem, 1997).  
  
  
Celik, Zeynep. *Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz. *The Price of Wealth: Economics and Institutions in the Middle East* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Davis, Joyce. *Between Jihad and Salam: Profiles in Islam* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Dirlik, Arif. *The Post-Colonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Esfandiari, Haleh. *Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran’s Islamic Revolution* (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Guazzone, Laura, ed. *The Middle East in Global Change: The Politics and Economics of Interdependence vs. Fragmentation* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Gunter, Michael M., ed. *The Kurds and the Future of Turkey* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Hann, Chris and Elizabeth Dunn, eds. *Civil Society: Challenging Western Models* (London: Routledge, 1997).  
  
  
Hoodfar, Homa. *Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Jreisat, Jamil E. *Politics Without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997).  
  
  
Khadduri, Majid and Edmund Ghareeb. *War in the Gulf, 1990-1991: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Kreyenbroek, Philip and Christine Allison, eds. *Kurdish Culture and Identity* (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zen Books, 1997).  
  
  
Lee, Robert D. *Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
McDowell, David. *A Modern History of the Kurds* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Melhem, Hisham. *Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy* (Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1997).  
  
  
Plotkin, Lori. *Jordan-Israel Peace: Taking Stock, 1994-1997* (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1997).  
  
  
Tibi, Bassam. *Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).