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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2010)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2010/03/editors-picks-spring-2010/
- Published: 2010-03-24T16:12:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:57:32.000Z
- Description: Baer, Marc David. Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in the Ottoman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Baer, Marc David. The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries and Secular Turks (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009). Bayat, Asef. Life as Poli
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 254, #In Memoriam

Baer, Marc David. *Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in the Ottoman Empire* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Baer, Marc David. *The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries and Secular Turks* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Bayat, Asef. *Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Bennis, Phyllis and David Wildman. *Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2010).

B’Tselem. *Without Trial: Administrative Detention of Palestinians by Israel and the Internment of Unlawful Combatants Law* (Jerusalem, October 2009).

Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem. *Dispossession and Eviction in Jerusalem: The Cases and Stories of Sheikh Jarrah* (Jerusalem, December 2009).

Cohen, Hillel. *Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948–1967* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009).

Conetta, Carl. *An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending* (Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute, January 2010).

Di-Capua, Yoav. *Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009).

Gause, F. Gregory. *The International Relations of the Persian Gulf* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Hinnebusch, Raymond, Marwan Kabalan, Bassma Kodmani and David Lesch. *Syrian Foreign Policy and the United States* (Fife, Scotland: St. Andrews Center for Syrian Studies, 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria* (New York, November 2009).

Human Rights Watch. *Truth and Justice Can’t Wait: Human Rights Developments in Libya Amid Institutional Obstacles* (New York, December 2009).

Jaramillo, Deborah L. *Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Kholoussy, Hanan. *For Better, for Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Laor, Yitzhak. *The Myths of Liberal Zionism* (London: Verso, 2009).

Martin, Richard C. and Abbas Barzegar, eds. *Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

Ophir, Adi, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi, eds. *The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories* (New York: Zone Books, 2009).

Pedahzur, Ami and Arie Perliger. *Jewish Terrorism in Israel* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

Perry, Mark. *Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies* (New York: Basic Books, 2010).

Primakov, Yevgeny. *Russia and the Arabs* (New York: Basic Books, 2009).

Shehata, Samer. *Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009).

Solidarity Center. *Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt* (authored by Joel Beinin) (Washington, DC: AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, February 2010)