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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2009)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2009/12/editors-picks-winter-2009/
- Published: 2009-12-26T17:10:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:57:19.000Z
- Description: Abboud, Samer and Salam Said. Syrian Foreign Trade and Economic Reform (Fife, Scotland: St. Andrews Center for Syrian Studies, 2009). Anderson, Liam and Gareth Stansfield. Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Arjoman
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 253, #Reviews

Abboud, Samer and Salam Said. *Syrian Foreign Trade and Economic Reform* (Fife, Scotland: St. Andrews Center for Syrian Studies, 2009).

Anderson, Liam and Gareth Stansfield. *Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Arjomand, Said Amir. *After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Braverman, Irus. *Planted Flags: Trees, Land and the Law in Israel-Palestine* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Burnett, David. *44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World* (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2009).

B’tselem. *Foul Play: Neglect of Wastewater Treatment in the West Bank* (Jerusalem, June 2009).

Euben, Roxanne L. and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., *Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).

Gran, Peter. *The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009).

Hallaq, Wael. *An Introduction to Islamic Law* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Hermann, Tamar. *The Israeli Peace Movement: A Shattered Dream* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Hopkins, Ben. *The Making of Modern Afghanistan* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Hopkins, Nicholas S., ed. “Political and Social Protest in Egypt,” *Cairo Papers in Social Science* 29/2-3 (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *Denied Dignity: Systematic Discrimination and Hostility Toward Saudi Shia Citizens* (New York, September 2009).

International Crisis Group. *Afghanistan: What Now for Refugees?* (Kabul/Islamabad/Brussels, August 2009).

International Crisis Group. *Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents* (Nairobi/Brussels, September 2009).

Jarrar, Randa. *A Map of Home* (New York: Penguin, 2009).

Mansour, Ahmed. *Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story* (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2009).

Mehrez, Samia. *Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice* (London: Routledge, 2008).

Metcalf, Barbara, ed., *Islam in South Asia in Practice* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).

Monshipouri, Mahmood. *Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests and Human Rights* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Rogan, Eugene. *The Arabs: A History* (New York: Basic Books, 2009).

Sand, Shlomo. *The Invention of the Jewish People* (London: Verso, 2009).