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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2005)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2005/12/editors-picks-winter-2005/
- Published: 2005-12-31T17:17:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:53:56.000Z
- Description: Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam (London: Penguin, 2004). Brecher, Jeremy, Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith, eds. In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005). Dajani, Souad. The Untold Story: The Cost of Israel’s Occupat
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 237, #Reviews

Burke, Jason. *Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam* (London: Penguin, 2004).

Brecher, Jeremy, Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith, eds. *In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond* (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005).

Dajani, Souad. *The Untold Story: The Cost of Israel’s Occupation to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip* (Washington, DC: Jerusalem Fund, 2005).

Elyachar, Julia. *Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development and the State in Cairo* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).

Farber, Seth. *Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel* (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2005).

Finkelstein, Norman. *Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).

Gerges, Fawaz. *The Far Enemy: Why the Jihad Went Global* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Gelvin, James. *The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Halliday, Fred. *100 Myths About the Middle East* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).

Human Rights Watch. *A Face and a Name: Civilian Victims of Insurgent Groups in Iraq* (New York, October 2005).

International Crisis Group. *Reforming Egypt: In Search of a Strategy* (Brussels/Cairo, October 2005).

International Crisis Group. *The Unmaking of Iraq: A Constitutional Process Gone Awry* (Brussels/Amman, September 2005).

LeVine, Mark. *Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil* (Oxford: OneWorld, 2005).

Packer, George. *The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq* (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).

Salvatore, Armando and Mark LeVine, eds. *Religion, Social Practice and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Shadid, Anthony. *Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War* (New York: Henry Holt, 2005).

Shahin, Mariam. *Palestine: A Guide* (with photographs by George Azar) (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2005).

Stein, Rebecca and Ted Swedenburg, eds. *Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).