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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2006)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2006/03/editors-picks-spring-2006/
- Published: 2006-03-06T17:15:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:54:09.000Z
- Description: Aghaie, Kamran Scot, ed. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005). Bahgat, Gawdat. Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006). Balaghi, Shiva.
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 238, #Special Reports

Aghaie, Kamran Scot, ed. *The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005).

Bahgat, Gawdat. *Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006).

Balaghi, Shiva. *Saddam Hussein: A Biography* (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005).

Beinin, Joel and Rebecca L. Stein, eds. *The Struggle Over Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993–2005* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Bennis, Phyllis. *Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2005).

Brown, Kenneth, ed. *L’Irak de la crise au chaos: Chroniques d’une invasion* (Paris: Éditions Ibis Press, 2004).

Davison, Andrew. *Conquering Hearts and Minds: The American War Ideology in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, 1990–2003* (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2006).

Devji, Faisal. *Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).

Doumani, Beshara, ed. Academic Freedom After September 11 (New York: Zone Books, 2006).

Edwards, Brian. *Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).

Hammoudi, Abdellah. *A Season in Mecca* (translated by Pascale Ghazaleh) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).

International Crisis Group. *In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency* (Amman/Brussels, February 2006).

Lynch, Marc. *Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera and Middle East Politics Today* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).

Mater, Nadire. *Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with Kurdish Guerrillas* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Meital, Yoram. *Peace in Tatters: Israel, Palestine and the Middle East* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005).

Muttitt, Greg. *Crude Designs: The Ripoff of Iraq’s Oil Wealth* (London, New York and Washington: Platform and Global Policy Forum et al, 2005).

Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh, ed. *On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era* (New York: The Feminist Press, 2005).

Orfalea, Gregory. *The Arab Americans: A History* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2006).

Rogers, Paul. *Iran: Consequences of a Wa*r (Oxford Research Group, February 2006).

Solidarity Center/AFL-CIO. *Justice for All: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in Jordan* (Washington, February 2006).

Scham, Paul, Walid Salem and Benjamin Pogrund, eds. *Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue* (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2005).

Wheeler, Deborah L. *The Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005).

Yaghmaian, Behzad. *Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West* (New York: Delacorte Press, 2005).