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# Editor's Picks (Fall 2006)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2006/09/editors-picks-fall-2006/
- Published: 2006-09-02T16:16:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:54:36.000Z
- Description: Alagha, Joseph. The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology and Political Program (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006). Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State (London: Pluto Press, 2006). Deeb, Lara. An Enchanted
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Alagha, Joseph. *The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology and Political Program* (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).

Cook, Jonathan. *Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State* (London: Pluto Press, 2006).

Deeb, Lara. *An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).

Hashim, Ahmed S. *Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *Fatal Strikes: Israel’s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon* (New York, August 2006).

International Crisis Group. *Iraq and the Kurds: The Brewing Battle Over Kirkuk* (Amman/Brussels, July 2006).

International Crisis Group. *Iraq’s Muqtada al-Sadr: Spoiler or Stabilizer?* (Amman/Brussels, July 2006).

Kepel, Gilles. *The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba and Richard Tapper. *Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006).

Nomani, Farhad and Sohrab Behdad. *Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter?* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006).

Schwedler, Jillian. *Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Shadoud, Suhail. *Burning in the Past Tense* (Beirut: Ashkal Alwan/Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, 2005).

Stewart, Rory. *The Places in Between* (New York: Harcourt, 2006).

Tolan, Sandy. *The Lemon Tree* (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006).

Utvik, Bjørn Olav. *Islamist Economics in Egypt: The Pious Road to Development* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006).

Varzi, Roxanne. *Warring Souls: Youth, Media and Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Iran* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

Watenpaugh, Keith David. *Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism and the Arab Middle Class* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).