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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2002)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2002/06/editors-picks-summer-2002/
- Published: 2002-06-15T16:19:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:51:04.000Z
- Description: Abdul-Jabar, Faleh. Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Arkoun, Mohammed. The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Barlow, Maude and Tony Clarke. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft
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Abdul-Jabar, Faleh. *Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq* (London: Saqi Books, 2002).

Arkoun, Mohammed. *The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought* (London: Saqi Books, 2002).

Barlow, Maude and Tony Clarke. *Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water* (New York: New Press, 2002).

Council on American-Islamic Relations. *The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2002* (Washington, April 2002).

Danielson, Virginia, Scott Marcus and Dwight Reynolds, eds. *The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East* (New York: Routledge, 2002).

Hinnebusch, Raymond. *Syria: Revolution from Above* (London: Routledge, 2001).

Human Rights Watch. *In a Dark Hour: The Use of Civilians During IDF Arrest Operations* (New York, April 2002).

Human Rights Watch. *Jenin: IDF Military Operations* (New York, May 2002).

Lumpe, Lora. *US Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power and Oversight Issues*, Foreign Policy In Focus Special Report, May 2002\. Available online at:  
http://www.fpif.org/papers/miltrain/index.html

Kelly, Laurence. *Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia* (New York: I. B.Tauris, 2002).

Kepel, Gilles. *Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).

Khalaf, Samir. *Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).

Khater, Akram Fouad. *Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001).

Mack, Rosamond. *Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002).

Mahajan, Rahul. *The New Crusade: America’s War on Terrorism* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002).

Monk, Daniel Bertrand. An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).

Ossman, Susan. *Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).

Saghie, Hazim, ed. *The Predicament of the Individual in the Middle East* (London: Saqi Books, 2001).

Shindler, Colin. *The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream* (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002).

Shiva, Vandana. *Water Wars: Pollution, Privatization and Profit* (Boston: South End Press, 2002).

**Video**  
*In My Own Skin: The Complexity of Living as an Arab in America* (Nikki Byrd and Jennifer Jajeh) San Francisco and New York, 2001.