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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2008)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2008/06/editors-picks-summer-2008/
- Published: 2008-06-26T16:10:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:56:00.000Z
- Description: Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence (London: Oneworld, 2006). Al-Jawaheri,Yasmin Husein. Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008). An-Na‘im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Islam and the Secular State:
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Ali, Kecia. *Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence* (London: Oneworld, 2006).

Al-Jawaheri,Yasmin Husein. *Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008).

An-Na‘im, Abdullahi Ahmed. *Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari‘a* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Azimi, Fakhreddin. *The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).

B’tselem. *Ground to a Halt: Denial of Palestinians’ Freedom of Movement in the West Bank* (Jerusalem, August 2007).

Human Rights Watch. *Adults Before Their Time: Children in Saudi Arabia’s Criminal Justice System* (Washington, DC, March 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan* (Washington, DC, April 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia* (Washington, DC, April 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Precarious Justice: Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials in the Deficient Criminal Justice System of Saudi Arabia* (Washington, DC, March 2008).

International Crisis Group. *Iraq After the Surge I: The New Sunni Landscape* (Baghdad/Istanbul/Damascus/Brussels, April 2008).

International Crisis Group. *Iraq After the Surge II: The Need for a New Political Strategy* (Baghdad/Istanbul/Damascus/Brussels, April 2008).

International Crisis Group. *Ruling Palestine I: Gaza Under Hamas* (Gaza/Jerusalem/Brussels, March 2008).

International Crisis Group. *Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Beyond the Crisis* (Nairobi/Brussels, March 2008).

Jamal, Amaney and Nadine Naber, eds. *Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008).

Juergensmeyer, Mark. *Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al-Qaeda* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).

Lawrence, Quil. *Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East* (New York: Walker, 2008).

Mottahedeh, Negar. *Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008).

Pemberton, Miriam and William D. Hartung, eds. *Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War* (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008).

Shaheen, Jack G. *Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs After 9/11* (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008).

Shehadeh, Raja. *Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape* (New York: Scribner, 2008).

Shindler, Colin. *A History of Modern Israel* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Wittes, Tamara Cofman. *Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy* (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2008).

Zoubir, Yahia H. and Haizam Amirah-Fernández. *North Africa: Politics, Region and the Limits of Transformation* (London: Routledge, 2008).