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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2005)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2005/03/editors-picks-spring-2005/
- Published: 2005-03-06T17:15:26.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:53:20.000Z
- Description: Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Beck, Lois and Guity Nashat, eds. Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004). Btselem. Forbidden Roads: Israel’s Discrimin
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 234, #Articles

Abu-Lughod, Lila. *Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Beck, Lois and Guity Nashat, eds. *Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic* (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004).

Btselem. *Forbidden Roads: Israel’s Discriminatory Road Regime in the West Bank* (Jerusalem, August 2004).

Burbach, Roger and Jim Tarbell. *Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire* (New York: Zed Books, 2004).

Connell, Dan. *Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners* (Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2005).

Davidson, Christopher M. *The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005).

Hajjar, Lisa. *Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).

Al-Hout, Bayan Nuwayhed. *Sabra and Shatila: September 1982* (London: Pluto Press, 2004).

Human Rights Watch. *Divorced from Justice: Women’s Unequal Access to Divorce in Egypt* (New York, December 2004).

Human Rights Watch. *Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip* (New York, October 2004).

“In the Name of Security,” *Adalah’s Review* 4 (Spring 2004).

Johnson, Chris and Jolyon Leslie. *Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace* (London: Zed Books, 2005).

Kurzman, Charles. *The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).

Mada al-Carmel. *Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2003* (Haifa, October 2004).

Mahmood, Saba. *Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Mamdani, Mahmood. *Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror* (New York: Pantheon, 2004).

Mojab, Shahrzad and Nahla Abdo, eds. *Violence in the Name of Honor: Theoretical and Political Challenges* (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2004).

Moore, Pete W. *Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Pollack, Kenneth. *The Persian Puzzle* (New York: Random House, 2004).

Pollard, Lisa. *Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).

Potter, Lawrence G. and Gary G. Sick. *Iran, Iraq and the Legacies of War* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Rejwan, Nissim. *The Last Jews of Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004).

Rosenfeld, Maya. *Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Silverstein, Paul. *Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004).