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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2009)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2009/03/editors-picks-spring-2009/
- Published: 2009-03-26T16:20:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:56:45.000Z
- Description: Abdel-Latif, Omayma. In the Shadow of the Brothers: The Women of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2008). Al-Ali, Nadje and Nicola Pratt. What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (Berkeley, CA: University of Califor
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 250, #In Memoriam

Abdel-Latif, Omayma. *In the Shadow of the Brothers: The Women of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood* (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2008).

Al-Ali, Nadje and Nicola Pratt. *What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009).

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. *2003-2007 Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans* (Washington, DC, December 2008).

Ayoob, Mohammed and Hasan Kosebalaban, eds. *Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009).

Behrendt, Sven. *When Money Talks: Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Public Policy Discourse* (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2008).

Chalcraft, John. *The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Chatterjee, Pratap. *Halliburton’s Army: The Long, Strange Tale of a Private, Profitable and Out of Control Texas Oil Company* (New York: Nation Books, 2009).

Conetta, Carl. *Forceful Engagement: Rethinking the Role of Military Power in US Global Policy* (Cambridge, MA: Project on Defense Alternatives, December 2008).

Crawford, David. *Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village* (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008).

Faroqhi, Suraiya. *The Ottoman Empire: A Short History* (trans. Shelley Frisch) (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2008).

Haj, Samira. *Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality and Modernity* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Hazbun, Waleed. *Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008).

Hoffman, Adina. *My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *The Quality of Justice: Failings of Iraq’s Central Criminal Court* (New York, December 2008).

Human Rights Watch. “*So Much to Fear”: War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia* (New York, December 2008).

Kamrava, Mehran. *Iran’s Intellectual Revolution* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. *Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008).

Krause, Wanda. *Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism and Networks in the UAE* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Phillips, Sarah. *Yemen’s Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective: Patronage and Pluralized Authoritarianism* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Rutherford, Bruce K. *Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam and Democracy in the Arab World* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Ryan, Curtis R. *Inter-Arab Alliances: Regime Security and Jordanian Foreign Policy* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009).

Tehranian, John. *Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority* (New York: New York University Press, 2008).

Zeghal, Malika. *Islamism in Morocco: Religion, Authoritarianism and Electoral Politics* (trans. George Holoch) (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2008).