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# Editor's Picks (Summer 1998)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1998/06/editors-picks-8/
- Published: 1998-06-28T22:25:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:46:56.000Z
- Description: Arat, Zehra F. Deconstructing Images of “the Turkish Woman” (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). Bengio, Ofra. Saddam’s Words: Political Discourse in Iraq (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Carapico, Sheila. Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambrid
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 207, #Reviews

Arat, Zehra F. *Deconstructing Images of “the Turkish Woman”* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).  
  
Bengio, Ofra. *Saddam’s Words: Political Discourse in Iraq* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).  
  
Carapico, Sheila. *Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).  
  
Chubin, Shahram and Charles Tripp, eds. *Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order*, Adelphi Paper 307 of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).  
  
Deringil, Selim. *The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998).  
  
Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain and Neil Caplan. *Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998).  
  
El-Bisatie, Mahamed. *A Lost Glass of Tea and Other Stories* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998).  
  
Ezrahi, Yaron. *Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).  
  
Hamdi, Mohamed Elhachmi. *The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan al-Turabi* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).  
  
Peres, Shimon and Robert Littell. *For the Future of Israel* (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).  
  
Richani, Nazih. *Dilemmas of Democracy and Political Parties in Sectarian Societies: The Case of the Progressive Socialist Party in Lebanon, 1949-1996* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).  
  
Sabbagh, Suha, ed. *Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998).  
  
El-Shazly, Nadia El-Sayed. *The Gulf Tanker War: Iran and Iraq's Maritime Swordplay* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).  
  
Tucker, Judith E. *In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998).  
  
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. *Peacewatch/Policywatch Anthology 1997* (Washington, DC, 1998).  
  
Yiftachel, Oren and Avinoam Meir. *Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).