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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2002)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2002/03/editors-picks-spring-2002/
- Published: 2002-03-15T17:12:12.000Z
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- Description: Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Antoun, Richard T. Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Peasants
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Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif. *Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics* (New York: Palgrave, 2000).

Antoun, Richard T. *Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements* (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001).

Beinin, Joel. *Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Bill, James A. and John Alden Williams. *Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and Politics* (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. *Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002).

Boling, Gail J. “Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return: An International Law Analysis,” Badil Information and Discussion Brief 8 (Bethlehem, January 2001).

Bornstein, Avram S. *Crossing the Green Line: Between the West Bank and Israel* (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

Brown, Nathan. *Democracy, History and the Contest Over the Palestinian Curriculum* (Washington, DC: Adam Institute, November 2001).

Conetta, Carl. “Strange Victory: A Critical Appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan War,” Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph 6 (Cambridge,  
January 2002).

Dagher, Carole. *Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon’s Post-War Challenge* (New York: Palgrave, 2000).

Dumper, Michael. *The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002).

Halliday, Fred. *Two Hours that Shook the World: September 11, 2001, Causes and Consequences* (London: Saqi Books, 2002).

Henry, Clement and Robert Springborg. *Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Hroub, Khaled. *Hamas: Political Thought and Practice* (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000).

Human Rights Watch. *Second Class: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools* (New York, September 2001).

Khalaf, Samir. *Cultural Resistance: Global and Local Encounters in the Middle East* (London: Saqi Books, 2001).

Kimmerling, Baruch. *The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001).

Kramer, Martin. *Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America* (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001).

Masters, Bruce. *Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Potter, Lawrence and Gary Sick, eds. *Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles and the Search for Consensus* (New York: Palgrave, 2002).

Slyomovics, Susan, ed. *The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History* (London: Frank Cass, 2001).

St. Germain, Mary and Charlene Constable, tr. *The Committee* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001).

Vogelsang, Willem. *The Afghans* (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).

Yaghamian, Behzad. *Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance and New Movements for Rights* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002).