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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2007)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2007/03/editors-picks-spring-2007/
- Published: 2007-03-01T17:14:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:55:00.000Z
- Description: B’Tselem. Act of Vengeance: Israel’s Bombing of the Gaza Power Plant and Its Effects (Jerusalem, September 2006). B’Tselem. Barred from Contact: Violation of the Right to Visit Palestinians Held in Israeli Prisons (Jerusalem,September2006). Eyal, Gil. The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in
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B’Tselem. *Act of Vengeance: Israel’s Bombing of the Gaza Power Plant and Its Effects* (Jerusalem, September 2006).

B’Tselem. *Barred from Contact: Violation of the Right to Visit Palestinians Held in Israeli Prisons* (Jerusalem,September2006).

Eyal, Gil. *The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Herring, Eric and Glen Rangwala. *Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *A Question of Security: Violence Against Palestinian Women and Girls* (New York, November 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *The “Hoax” That Wasn’t: The July 23 Qana Ambulance Attack* (New York, December 2006).

Human Rights Watch. *“The Silent Treatment”: Fleeing Iraq, Surviving in Jordan* (New York, November 2006).

International Crisis Group. *Iran: Ahmadinejad’s Tumultuous Presidency* (Amman/Brussels, February 2007).

International Crisis Group. *Somalia: The Tough Part Is Ahead* (Nairobi/Brussels, January 2007).

International Medical Corps. *Iraqis on the Move: Sectarian Displacement in Baghdad* (Santa Monica, January 2007).

Ismail, Salwa. *Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Keshavarz, Fatemeh. *Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran* (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

Khalid, Adeeb. *Islam and Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).

Lawson, Fred. *Constructing International Relations in the Arab World* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Lubeck, Paul, Michael Watts and Ronnie Lipschutz. *Convergent Interests: US Energy Security and the “Securing” of Nigerian Democracy* (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, February 2007).

Postel, Danny. *Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism* (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006).

Pratt, Nicola. *Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World* (Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Al-Rasheed, Madawi. *Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Smith, Philip. *Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Vitalis, Robert. *America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Yesh Din. *A Semblance of Law: Law Enforcement Upon Israeli Civilians in the West Bank* (Tel Aviv, June 2006).