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# Editor's Picks (Fall 2010)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2010/09/editors-picks-fall-2010/
- Published: 2010-09-20T16:14:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:57:59.000Z
- Description: Abi-Mershed, Osama. Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010). Albrecht, Holger. Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 201
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 256, #In Memoriam

Abi-Mershed, Osama. *Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Albrecht, Holger. *Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism* (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010).

Asadi, Houshang. *Letters to My Torturer: Love, Revolution and Imprisonment in Iran* (New York: Oneworld Publications, 2010).

Bayoumi, Moustafa, ed. *Midnight on the Mavi Marmara* (New York: O/R Books, 2010).

B’tselem. *By Hook and by Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank* (Jerusalem, July 2010).

Danspeckgruber, Wolfgang, ed. with Robert P. Finn. *Building State and Security in Afghanistan* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

Findley, Carter Vaughn. *Turkey, Islam, Nationalism and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).

Gisha. *Electricity Shortage in Gaza: Who Turned Off the Lights?* (Tel Aviv, May 2010).

Gardner, Andrew. *City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).

Hafez, Kai. *Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Hegghammer, Thomas. *Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism Since 1979* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Herrera, Linda and Asef Bayat, eds. *Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *A Wasted Decade: Human Rights in Syria During Bashar al-Asad’s First Ten Years in Power* (New York, July 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *Democracy on Hold: Rights Violations in the April 2010 Sudan Elections* (New York, June 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *“I Lost Everything”: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property During Operation Cast Lead* (New York, May 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *“They Took Me and Told Me Nothing”: Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan* (New York, June 2010).

International Crisis Group. *Drums of War: Israel and the “Axis of Resistance”* (Beirut/Jerusalem/Damascus/Brussels, August 2010).

Kemp, Geoffrey. *The East Moves West: India, China and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East* (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2010).

Levy, Gideon. *The Punishment of Gaza* (London: Verso, 2010).

Limbert, Mandana. *In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory and Social Life in an Omani Town* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Natali, Denise. *The Kurdish Quasi-State: Development and Dependency in Post-Gulf War Iraq* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).

Schwedler, Jillian and Laleh Khalili, eds. *Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion* (London: Hurst, 2010).

Scott, Rachel. *The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Zilfi, Madeleine. *Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Zunes, Stephen and Jacob Mundy. *Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).