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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2007)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2007/06/editors-picks-summer-2007/
- Published: 2007-06-26T16:15:12.000Z
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- Description: Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006). Ansari, Ali M. Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change (second edition) (London: Chatham House, 2006). Benvenisti, Meron. Son of the Cypresses (Be
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Akçam, Taner. *A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility* (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).

Ansari, Ali M. *Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change* (second edition) (London: Chatham House, 2006).

Benvenisti, Meron. *Son of the Cypresses* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).

Boullata, Kamal and Kathy Engel, eds. *We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2007).

Carr, Matthew. *The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to al-Qaeda* (New York: New Press, 2007).

Cook, David. *Martyrdom in Islam* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Cook, Steven. *Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria and Turkey* (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starrett, eds. *Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Faroqhi, Suraiya, ed. *The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Gisha. *Disengaged Occupiers: The Legal Status of Gaza* (Tel Aviv, January 2007).

Khatib, Lina. *Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006).

Lybarger, Loren D. *Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle Between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Khalili, Laleh. *Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Makdisi, Ussama and Paul Silverstein, eds. *Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).

Mejia, Camilo. *Road from ar-Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia* (New York: New Press, 2007).

Norton, Augustus Richard. *Hezbollah: A Short History* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Özyürek, Esra, ed. *The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007).

Segev, Tom. *1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East* (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007).

Shohat, Ella. *Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).