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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2009)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2009/06/editors-picks-summer-2009/
- Published: 2009-06-12T16:21:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:56:55.000Z
- Description: Bakalian, Anny and Mehdi Bozorgmehr. Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009). Bashkin, Orit. The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009). Benedict, Helen. The Lonely
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 251, #Articles

Bakalian, Anny and Mehdi Bozorgmehr. *Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009).

Bashkin, Orit. *The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Benedict, Helen. *The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq* (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).

Browers, Michaelle L. *Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

B’Tselem. *Access Denied: Israeli Measures to Deny Palestinians Access to Land Around Settlements* (Jerusalem, September 2008).

Dawisha, Adeed. *Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).

Gasper, Michael Ezekiel. *The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants and Islam in Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *Far from Justice: Syria’s Supreme State Security Court* (New York, February 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps* (New York, December 2008).

Human Rights Watch. *Iran: Freedom of Expression and Association in the Kurdish Regions* (New York, January 2009).

International Crisis Group. *Engaging Syria? US Constraints and Opportunities* (Damascus/Washington/Brussels, February 2009).

International Crisis Group. *Nurturing Instability: Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps* (Beirut/Brussels, February 2009).

International Crisis Group. *Oil for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds* (Kirkuk/Brussels, October 2008).

Maasri, Zeina. *Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009).

Mokhtari, Shadi. *After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Newcomb, Rachel. *Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Potter, Lawrence G., ed. *The Persian Gulf in History* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Rivlin, Paul. *Arab Economies in the Twenty-First Century* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Terrio, Susan J. *Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Yavuz, M. Hakan. *Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).