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# Editor's Picks (Summer 1999)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1999/06/editors-picks-summer-1999/
- Published: 1999-06-26T16:22:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:48:06.000Z
- Description: Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997). Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing (Northampton, MA: Interlink Book
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 211, #In Memoriam

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. *Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).

Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. *Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 1999).

Baaklini, Abdo, Guilain Denoeux and Robert Springborg. *Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999).

Botman, Selma. *Engendering Citizenship in Egypt* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

El-Karanshawy, Samer. *Class, Family and Power in an Egyptian Village* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Ennaji, Mohammad. *Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

Fandy, Mamoun. *Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

Fuccaro, Nelida. *The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq* (New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999).

Gran, Peter. *Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999).

Gunter, Michael M. *The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

Hopkins, Nicholas S. and Kirsten Westergaard, eds. *Directions of Change in Rural Egypt* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. *Islam and Equality: Debating the Future of Women's and Minority Rights in the Middle East and North Africa* (New York, 1999).

Lesch, Ann Mosely. *The Sudan: Contested National Identities* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999).

Petry, Carl F. *Egypt, Volume I: Islamic Egyt, 640-1517* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Shah-Kazemi, Reza, ed. *Algeria: Revolution Revisited* (New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999).

Tamari, Salim, ed. *Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and Their Fate in the War* (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 1999).

Volpi, Elena and Doaa Abdel Motaal. *The Zabbalin Community of Muqattam* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Zuhur, Sherifa, ed. *Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts in the Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).