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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2003)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2003/03/editors-picks-spring-2003/
- Published: 2003-03-13T17:13:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:51:41.000Z
- Description: Ahmad, Aisha and Roger Boase. Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (London: Saqi Books, 2003). Alem, Raja. Fatma: A Novel of Arabia (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002). Alnasrawi, Abbas. Iraq’s Burdens: Oil, Sanctions and Underdevelopment (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002). B
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Ahmad, Aisha and Roger Boase. *Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier* (London: Saqi Books, 2003).

Alem, Raja. *Fatma: A Novel of Arabia* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002).

Alnasrawi, Abbas. *Iraq’s Burdens: Oil, Sanctions and Underdevelopment* (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002).

Baroud, Ramzy. *Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion* (Seattle: Cune Press, 2003).

Bishara, Marwan. *Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid* (London: Zed Books, 2002).

Cole, Juan. *Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi‘ite Islam* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002).

Doumato, Eleanor and Marsha Pripstein Posusney, eds. *Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003).

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed. *Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002).

Haeri, Shahla. *No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002).

Lynch, Marc. “Beyond the Arab Street: Iraq and the Arab Public Sphere,” *Politics and Society* 31/1 (March 2003).

Majaj, Lisa, Paula Sunderman and Therese Saliba, eds. *Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women’s Novels* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002).

Mayer, Ann Elizabeth. *Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics* (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003).

Mitchell, Timothy. *Rule of Experts: Egypt, Technopolitics, Modernity* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002).

Mirsepassi, Ali, Amrita Basu and Frederick Weaver, eds. *Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003).

Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza. *Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Perthes, Volker, ed. *Germany and the Middle East* (Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2002).

Reed, Betsy, ed. *Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror* (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002).

Roberts, Hugh. *The Battlefield: Algeria, 1988-2002* (London: Verso, 2003).

Rogan, Eugene, ed. *Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle Eas*t (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002).

Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary. *Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor and the Law* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003).