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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2006)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2006/12/editors-picks-winter-2006/
- Published: 2006-12-02T17:12:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:54:47.000Z
- Description: Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Geneaology (London: Routledge, 2006). Ansari, Ali M. Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East (New York: Basic Books, 2006). Golan-Agnon, Daphna. Next Y
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Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. *The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Geneaology* (London: Routledge, 2006).

Ansari, Ali M. *Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East* (New York: Basic Books, 2006).

Golan-Agnon, Daphna. *Next Year in Jerusalem* (New York: New Press, 2006).

Hirschkind, Charles. *The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *Stemming the Flow: Abuses Against Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees* (New York, September 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordan’s Rule of Law Problem* (New York, September 2006).

Keshet, Yehudit Kirstein. *Checkpoint Watch: Testimonies from Occupied Palestine* (London: Zed Books, 2006).

Khalidi, Rashid. *The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood* (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006).

Malone, David M. *The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

McDougall, James. *History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Nakash, Yitzhak. *Reaching for Power: The Shi‘a in the Modern Arab World* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).

Özyürek, Esra. *Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

Suskind, Ron. *The One Percent Doctrine* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006).

“The Sixth War: Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon,” *MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies* 6 (Summer 2006).

Tripp, Charles. *Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Winegar, Jessica. *Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).

**Film**  
*Arabs and Terrorism* (Bassam Haddad) Washington, 2006.