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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2000)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2000/03/editors-picks-spring-2000/
- Published: 2000-03-02T17:15:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:48:54.000Z
- Description: Abdella Doumato, Eleanor. Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Adelkhah, Fariba. Being Modern in Iran (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Alcalay, Ammiel. Memories of Our Future (San Francisco: City Lights Bo
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 214, #Reviews

Abdella Doumato, Eleanor. *Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Adelkhah, Fariba. *Being Modern in Iran* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Alcalay, Ammiel. *Memories of Our Future* (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1999).

Amery, Hussein A. and Aaron T. Wolf. *Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000).

Bamyeh, Mohammed A. *The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy and Discourse* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

*Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature* 6 (Autumn 1999).

Berberoglu, Berch. *Turmoil in the Middle East: Imperialism, War and Political Instability* (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).

B'Tselem. *Families Torn Apart: Separation of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territories* (Jerusalem, July 1999).

B'Tselem. *Jerusalem: Injustice in the Holy City* (Jerusalem, December 1999).

Center for Economic and Social Rights. *Applying Economic and Social Rights in Palestine* (New York, 2000).

Center for Economic and Social Rights. *Enforcing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights* (New York, 2000).

Center for Economic and Social Rights. *Human Rights Violations Under Oslo: Overview of CESR's Palestine Project* (New York, 2000).

Cobban, Helena. *The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-96 and Beyond* (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1999).

Deringil, Selim. *The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909* (London: I. B.Tauris, 1999).

Eickelman, Dale F. and Jon W. Anderson, eds. *New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

Esposito, John L. *The Oxford History of Islam* (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Euben, Roxanne L. *Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism* (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).

Heydemann, Steve. *Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970* (Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 1999).

Klieman, Aharon. *Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Koptiuch, Kristin. *A Poetics of Political Economy in Egypt* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. *Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran* (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).

Nizameddin, Talal. *Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

Ozbudun, Ergun. *Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation* (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000).

Rogan, Eugene L. *Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire* (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Rouyer, Alwyn. *Turning Water into Politics: The Water Issue in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

Shamir, Ronen. *The Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine* (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Silberstein, Lawrence. *Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture* (London: Routledge, 1999).

Spiro, David E. *The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony* (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).

Wolkinson, Benjamin W. *Arab Employment in Israel: The Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity* (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999).