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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2006)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2006/06/editors-picks-summer-2006/
- Published: 2006-06-05T16:13:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:54:23.000Z
- Description: Aarts, Paul and Gerd Nonneman, eds. Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs (New York: New York University Press, 2005). Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson and Rita Leistner. Unembedded: Four Independent Photographers on the War in Iraq (White River Ju
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 239, #Special Reports

Aarts, Paul and Gerd Nonneman, eds. *Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs* (New York: New York University Press, 2005).

Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson and Rita Leistner. *Unembedded: Four Independent Photographers on the War in Iraq* (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005).

Baron, Beth. *Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender and Politics* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006).

Brand, Laurie. *Citizens Abroad: Emigration and the State in the Middle East and North Africa* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Fischbach, Michael. *The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2006).

Gerges, Fawaz. *Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy* (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006).

Gorenberg, Gershom. *The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977* (New York: Times Books, 2006).

Halper, Jeff. *Obstacles to Peace: A Reframing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict* (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions:  
Jerusalem, April 2005).

Human Rights Watch. *Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers in Morocco* (New York, December 2005).

Human Rights Watch. *Libya, Words to Deeds: The Urgent Need for Human Rights Reform* (New York, January 2006).

International Crisis Group. *France and Its Muslims: Riots, Jihadism and Depoliticization* (Paris/Brussels, March 2006).

International Crisis Group. *Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: The Long Road Ahead* (Nairobi/Brussels, March 2006).

International Crisis Group. *The Next Iraqi War? Sectarianism and Civil Conflict* (Amman/Brussels, February 2006).

Romano, David. *The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Vandewalle, Dirk. *A History of Modern Libya* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Visser, Reidar, ed. *Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq* (Somerset, NJ: Transaction Books, 2006).

Visser, Reidar. *Sistani, the United States and Politics in Iraq: From Quietism to Machiavellianism?* (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, March 2006).