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# Editor's Picks (Winter 1997)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1997/12/editors-picks-10/
- Published: 1997-12-10T20:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:46:26.000Z
- Description: Abi-Aad, Naji and Michel Grenon. Instability and Conflict in the Middle East: People, Petroleum and Security Threats (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997). Amanat, Abbas. The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Pr
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 205, #Reviews

Abi-Aad, Naji and Michel Grenon. *Instability and Conflict in the Middle East: People, Petroleum and Security Threats* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Amanat, Abbas. *The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Amnesty International. *Saudi Arabia Behind Closed Doors: Unfair Trials in Saudi Arabia* (London, November 1997).  
  
  
Anscombe, Frederick. *The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Barkey, Henri, ed. *Reluctant Neighbor: Turkey’s Role in the Middle East* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 1997).  
  
  
Beinin, Joel and Joe Stork, eds. *Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua and Moshe Davis, eds. *Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948* (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).  
  
  
Biswas, Asit K. et al. *Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Bonine, Michael, ed. *Population, Poverty and Politics in the Middle East* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Brown, Nathan J. *The Rule of Law in the Arab World* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).  
  
  
B'tselem. *Prisoners of Peace: Administrative Detention During the Oslo Process* (Jerusalem, July 1997).  
  
  
Burgat, Francois and William Dowell. *The Islamic Movement in North Africa* (Austin, TX: Center for Middle East Studies, University of Texas, 1997).  
  
  
Caesar, Judith. *Crossing Borders: An American Woman in the Middle East* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Cordesman, Anthony and Ahmed Hashim. *Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Daneshvar. Parviz. *Revolution in Iran* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Elon, Amos. *A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Esposito, John, ed. *Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism or Reform?* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Faksh, Mahmoud A. *The Future of Islam in the Middle East: Fundamentalism in Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia* (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).  
  
  
Farsoun, Samih with Christine Zacharia. *Palestine and the Palestinians* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Gomaa, Salwa Sharawi. *Environmental Policy Making in Egypt* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Goodwin, Godfrey. *The Private World of Ottoman Women* (London: Saqi Books, 1997).  
  
  
Gorst, Anthony and Lewis Johnman. *The Suez Crisis* (London: Routledge, 1997).  
  
  
Greenwood, Ned. *The Sinai: A Physical Geography* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997).  
  
  
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson, eds., *Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Hammoudi, Abdellah. *Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).  
  
  
Harik, Iliya. *Economic Policy Reform in Egypt* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Harris, William et al. *Challenges to Democracy in the Middle East* (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1997).  
  
  
Hibbard, Scott and David Little. *Islamic Activism and US Foreign Policy* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 1997).  
  
  
Howe, Kathleen Stewart and Patricia Ruth, eds. *Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Jabar, Faleh A., ed. *Post-Marxism and the Middle East* (London: Saqi Books, 1997).  
  
  
Jaber, Hala. *Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Jansen, Johannes J. G. *The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Johnson, James Turner. *The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions* (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Jreisat, Jamil. *Politics Without Process: Administrative Development in the Arab World* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Karl, Terry Lynn. *The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Kaufman, Ilana. *Arab National Communism in the Jewish State* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Kayali, Hasan. *Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
  
Kimball, Michelle R. and Barbara R. von Schlegell. *Muslim Women Throughout the World: A Bibliography* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997).  
  
  
Kuklick, Bruce. *Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).  
  
  
LaTeef, Nelda. *Women of Lebanon: Interviews with Champions of Peace* (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997).  
  
  
Le Gall, Michel and Kenneth Perkins, eds. *The Maghrib in Question: Essays in History and Historiography* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997).  
  
  
Mason, Mike. *Development and Disorder: A History of the Third World Since 1945* (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997).  
  
  
Meir, Avinoam. *As Nomadism Ends: The Israeli Bedouin of the Negev* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Moussavi, S. A. *The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study* (Surrey: Curzon, 1997).  
  
  
“Palestinians in Lebanon,” *Journal of Refugee Studies* 10/3 (September 1997).  
  
  
Reimer, Michael J. *Colonial Bridgehead: Government and Society in Alexandria, 1807-1882* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
  
  
Rugh, Andrea B. *Within the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Shapland, Greg. *Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Sick, Gary G. and Lawrence Potter, eds., *The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays on Politics, Economy, Security and Religion* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).  
  
  
Stone, Martin. *The Agony of Algeria* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Strobel, Warren. *Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 1997).