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# Editor's Picks (Spring 1998)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1998/06/editors-picks-9/
- Published: 1998-06-08T18:20:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:46:39.000Z
- Description: Abul-Husn, Latif. The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998). Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform (Syracuse, NY: syracuse University Press, 1997). Bagader, Abubaker, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 206, #Special Reports

Abul-Husn, Latif. *The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998).  
  
  
Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. *Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform* (Syracuse, NY: syracuse University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Bagader, Abubaker, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff and Deborah S. Akers, eds. *Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998).  
  
  
Banuri, Tariq, Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Moazam Mahmood, ed. Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Bayat, Asef. *Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Carapico, Sheila. *Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).  
  
  
Danielson, Virginia. *The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).  
  
  
Dowty, Alan. *The Jewish State: A Century Later* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998).  
  
  
Entelis, John P., ed. *Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998).  
  
  
Gheissari, Ali. *Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998).  
  
  
Ghoussoub, Mai. *Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within* (London: Saqi Books, 1998).  
  
  
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and John Esposito, eds. *Islam, Gender and Social Change* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).  
  
  
Jankowski, James and Israel Gershoni, eds. *Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Jerichow, Anders. *Saudi Arabia: Outside Global Law and Order* (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998).  
  
  
Karam, Azza M. *Women, Islamists and the State: Contemporary Feminisms in Egypt* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998).  
  
  
Magnus, Ralph and Eden Naby. *Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).  
  
  
Meital, Yoram. *Egypt’s Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1977* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997).  
  
  
Noam, Eli M. *Telecommunications in Western Asia and the Middle East* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Perthes, Volker. *The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998).  
  
  
*Popular Music* 15/3 (October 1996); special issue on the Middle East.  
  
  
Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. *Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions and Economic Restructuring* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  
  
  
Qa‘id, Yusuf. *War in the Land of Egypt* (New York: Interlink Books, 1998).  
  
  
Starrett, Gregory. *Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics and Religious Transformation in Egypt* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998).  
  
  
Zubaida, Sami. “Cosmopolitanism in the Middle East,” *Amsterdam Middle East Papers* 12 (1997).