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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2000)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2000/06/editors-picks-summer-2000/
- Published: 2000-06-02T16:25:14.000Z
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- Description: Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature 7 (Spring 2000). B'Tselem. Builders of Zion: Human Rights Violations of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories Working in Israel and the Settlements (Jerusalem: September 1999). B'Tselem. Legislation Allowing the Use of Physical Force and Mental Coerc
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*Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature* 7 (Spring 2000).

B'Tselem. *Builders of Zion: Human Rights Violations of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories Working in Israel and the Settlements* (Jerusalem: September 1999).

B'Tselem. *Legislation Allowing the Use of Physical Force and Mental Coercion in the Interrogations by the General Security Service* (Jerusalem: January 2000).

B'Tselem. *Case Study 9: Expulsion of Residents from the South Mt. Hebron Area, October-November 1999* (Jerusalem, February 2000).

Bayat, Mangol. *Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar lran* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Brynen, Rex. *A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2000).

Bush, Ray. *Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000).

Daif, Rashid. *Dear Mr. Kawabata* (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2000).

El Khazen, Farid. *The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).

El Kouloub, Out. *Three Tales of Love and Death* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Lawrence, Bruce B. *Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998).

Rashid, Ahmed. *Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).

Rosen, Lawrence. *The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled, eds. *The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000).

Steet, Linda. *Veils and Daggers: A Century of National Geographic's Representation of the Arab World* (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2000).

Talattof, Kamran. *The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Younis, Mona N. *Liberation and Democratization: The South African and Palestinian National Movements* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).