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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2008)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2008/12/editors-picks-winter-2008/
- Published: 2008-12-26T17:10:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:56:28.000Z
- Description: Barenboim, Daniel. Music Quickens Time (London: Verso, 2008). Bilal, Wafaa and Kari Lydersen. Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (San Francisco: City Lights, 2008). Dostal, Jörg Michael and Anja Zorob. Syria and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Fife, Scotland: University of
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 249, #In Memoriam

Barenboim, Daniel. *Music Quickens Time* (London: Verso, 2008).

Bilal, Wafaa and Kari Lydersen. *Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun* (San Francisco: City Lights, 2008).

Dostal, Jörg Michael and Anja Zorob. *Syria and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership* (Fife, Scotland: University of St. Andrews Centre for Syrian Studies, 2009).

Feldman, Ilana. *Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008).

Filkins, Dexter. *The Forever War* (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).

Gellman, Barton. *Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency* (New York: Penguin, 2008).

Gordon, Neve. *Israel’s Occupation* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).

Hanhimäki, Jussi M. *The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Disappearances and Arbitrary Arrests in the Armed Conflict with Huthi Rebels in Yemen* (New York, October 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *The Ismailis of Najran: Second-Class Saudi Citizens* (New York, September 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Torture and Impunity in Jordan’s Prisons* (New York, October 2008).

Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz. *Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan* (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008).

Maloney, Suzanne. *Iran’s Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World* (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2008).

Powell, Sara R., ed. *Israel’s Vicious Circle: Uri Avnery, Ten Years of Writings on Israel and Palestine* (London: Pluto Press, 2008).

Schwartz, Michael. *War Without End: The Iraq War in Context* (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008).

Shaery-Eisenlohr, Roschanack. *Shiite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

Sottimano, Aurora and Kjetil Selvik. *Changing Regime Discourse and Reform in Syria* (Fife, Scotland: University of St. Andrews Centre for Syrian Studies, 2009).

Stein, Rebecca L. *Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians and the Political Lives of Tourism* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008).

Sultan-I-Rome. *Swat State (1915-1969): From Genesis to Merger* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Tamari, Salim. *Mountains Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).

Tepe, Sultan. *Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008).

Tucker, Judith E. *Women, Family and Gender in Islamic Law* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Wedeen, Lisa. *Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).