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# Editor's Picks (Fall 2004)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2004/09/editors-picks-fall-2004/
- Published: 2004-09-06T16:13:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-04T22:08:21.000Z
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 232, #Special Reports

Achcar, Gilbert. *Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

Amin, Samir. *The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

Bass, Warren. *Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the US-Israel Alliance* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Balaghi, Shiva and Lynn Gumpert, eds. *Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution* (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002).

Chalcraft, John. *The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004).

Cumings, Bruce, Abrahamian, Ervand and Moshe Ma’oz. *Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran and Syria* (New York: The New Press, 2004).

Gelbspan, Ross. *Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster* (New York: Basic Books, 2004).

Halper, Stephan and Jonathan Clarke. *America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Human Rights Watch. *Claims in Conflict: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq* (New York, August 2004).

Human Rights Watch. *Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan* (New York, May 2004).

International Crisis Group. *Islamism, Violence and Reform in Algeria: Turning the Page* (Amman/Brussels, July 2004).

International Crisis Group. *Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself?* (Amman/Brussels, July 2004).

Jewish Voice for Peace. *Reframing Anti-Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives* (Oakland, CA: Jewish Voice for Peace, 2004).

Owen, Roger. *Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Perthes, Volker, ed. *Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004).

Sanbonmatsu, John. *The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy and the Making of a New Political Subject* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

Singh, Amritjit and Bruce G. Johnson, eds. *Interviews with Edward Said* (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004).