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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2008)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2008/03/editors-picks-spring-2008/
- Published: 2008-03-26T16:11:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:55:48.000Z
- Description: B’tselem/Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron (Jerusalem, May 2007). Colla, Elliott. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).
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B’tselem/Association for Civil Rights in Israel. *Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron* (Jerusalem, May 2007).

Colla, Elliott. *Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).

Drieskens, Barbara, Franck Mermier and Heiko Wimmen, eds. *Cities of the South: Citizenship and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century* (London: Saqi Books, 2007).

El Shakry, Omnia. *The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).

Fagen, Patricia Weiss. *Iraqi Refugees: Seeking Stability in Syria and Jordan* (Doha/Washington, DC: Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar/Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, 2007).

Fuller, Graham E. *The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Rot Here or Die There: Bleak Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon* (New York, December 2007).

Human Rights Watch. *Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan* (New York, December 2007).

International Crisis Group. *Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families* (Jerusalem/Brussels, December 2007).

International Crisis Group. *Shiite Politics in Iraq: The Role of the Supreme Council* (Baghdad/Istanbul/Brussels, November 2007).

Ismael, Tareq Y. *The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Kechichian, Joseph A. *Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies: A Reference Guide* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008).

Niblock, Tim with Monica Malik. *The Political Economy of Saudi Arabia* (London: Routledge, 2007).

Ottaway, Marina and Julia Choucair-Vizoso, eds. *Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World* (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008).

Roston, Aram. *The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi* (New York: Nation Books, 2008).

Schlumberger, Oliver, ed. *Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Non-Democratic Regimes* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).

Stone, Christopher. *Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation* (London: Routledge, 2007).