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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2010)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2010/05/editors-picks-summer-2010/
- Published: 2010-05-29T16:10:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:57:44.000Z
- Description: Abisaab, Malek. Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010). Backmann, René. A Wall in Palestine (New York: Picador, 2010). Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). DiMaggio, Anthony.
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 255, #In Memoriam

Abisaab, Malek. *Militant Women of a Fragile Nation* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).

Backmann, René. *A Wall in Palestine* (New York: Picador, 2010).

Barfield, Thomas. *Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

DiMaggio, Anthony. *When Media Goes to War* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010).

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. *Two Years of Sectarian Violence: What Happened? Where Do We Begin?* (Cairo, April 2010).

Finkelstein, Norman. *“This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion* (New York: O/R Books, 2010).

Gordon, Joy. *Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Hertog, Steffen. *Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).

Hirst, David. *Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East* (New York: Nation Books, 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *Slow Reform: Protection of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia and the Middle East* (New York, April 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *Turning a Blind Eye: Impunity for Laws-of-War Violations During the Gaza War* (New York, April 2010).

International Crisis Group. *Tipping Point? Palestinians and the Search for a New Strategy* (Ramallah/Jerusalem/Washington/Brussels, April 2010).

Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham. *The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010).

Majaj, Lisa Suhair. *Geographies of Light* (Washington, DC: Del Sol Press, 2009).

Mirsepassi, Ali. *Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture and Political Change* (New York: New York University Press, 2010).

Salisbury, Stephen. *Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland* (New York: Nation Books, 2010).

Shaham, Ron. *The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Stephan, Maria J., ed. *Civilian Jihad: Non-Violent Struggle, Democratization and Governance in the Middle East* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).