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# Editor's Picks (Fall 1999)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1999/09/editors-picks-fall-1999/
- Published: 1999-09-24T16:20:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:48:24.000Z
- Description: Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999). Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999). Batatu, Hanna. Syria’s Peasantry,
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 212, #Reviews

Abrahamian, Ervand. *Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999).

Bales, Kevin. *Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999).

Batatu, Hanna. *Syria’s Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables and Their Politics* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).

Behbehani, Simin. *A Cup of Sin: Poems Translated from the Persian by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999).

B'tselem/Hamoked. *Captive Corpses* (Jersualem, March 1999).

Bystydzienski, Jill and Joti Sekhon, eds. *Democratization and Women’s Grassroots Movements* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

Chomsky, Noam. *The New Militarism: Lessons Learned from Kosovo* (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1999).

Diwan, Ishac and Radwan A. Shaban, eds. *Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Authority in Transition* (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999).

Haddad, William W., Ghada Talhami and Janice Terry, eds. *The June 1967 War After Three Decades* (Washington, DC: Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1999).

Harney, Desmond. *The Priest and the King: An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution* (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999).

Hiro, Dilip. *Sharing the Promised Land: A Tale of Israelis and Palestinians* (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1999).

Hoodfar, Homa. *Volunteer Health Workers as Social Activists: Can “Governmental Non-Governmental Organizations” Be Agents of Democratization?* Occasional Paper 10, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 1999.

Hovannisian, Richard G. and Georges Sabagh. *The Persian Presence in the Islamic World* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Louvish, Simon. *The Days of Miracles and Wonders: An Epic of New World Disorder* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 1999).

Kahf, Mohja. *Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999).

Meriwether, Margaret L. *The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999).

Meriwether, Margaret L. and Judith Tucker, eds. *A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).

Poulsen-Schade, Marc. *Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999).

Said, Edward. *Out of Place: A Memoir* (New York: Knopf, 1999).

Tomlinson, John. *Globalization and Culture* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Usher, Graham. *Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Peace Process* (London: Pluto Press, 1999).

US Committee for Refugees. *Trapped on All Sides: The Marginalization of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon* (Washington, DC, 1999).

Wedeen, Lisa. *Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).