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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2010)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2011/01/editors-picks-winter-2010/
- Published: 2011-01-13T17:13:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:58:13.000Z
- Description: Allin, Dana H. and Steven Simon. The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America and the Rumors of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Alterman, Jon and Michael Dziuban. Clear Gold: Water as a Strategic Resource in the Middle East (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 20
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 257, #Reviews

Allin, Dana H. and Steven Simon. *The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America and the Rumors of War* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Alterman, Jon and Michael Dziuban. *Clear Gold: Water as a Strategic Resource in the Middle East* (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2010).

Arslan, Savaş. *Cinema in Turkey: A Critical History* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Ashour, Radwa. *Specters* (trans. Barbara Romaine) (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2010).

Çalışkan, Koray. *Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

Campos, Michelle. *Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Casier, Marlies and Joost Jongerden, eds. *Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey* (London: Routledge, 2010).

Davis, Rochelle. *Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Gibson, Bryan R. *Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988* (New York: Praeger, 2010).

Harb, Mona. *Le Hezbollah (1985-2005): de la banlieue à la ville* (Paris: IFPO-Karthala, 2010).

Hashemi, Nader and Danny Postel, eds. *The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future* (London: Melville House, 2011).

Hasso, Frances. *Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *Looser Rein, Uncertain Gain: A Human Rights Assessment of Five Years of King Abdullah’s Reforms in Saudi Arabia* (New York, September 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories* (New York, December 2010).

Human Rights Watch. *We Are a Buried Generation: Discrimination and Violence Against Sexual Minorities in Iran* (New York, December 2010).

International Crisis Group. *Loose Ends: Iraq’s Security Forces Between US Drawdown and Withdrawal* (Baghdad/Washington/Brussels, October 2010).

Jones, Toby Craig. *Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Paglen, Trevor. *I Could Tell You, But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World* (London: Melville House, 2010).

Paglen, Trevor and A. C. Thompson. *Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights* (London: Melville House, 2010).

Peterson, Scott. *Let the Swords Encircle Me: A Journey Behind the Headlines in Iran* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010).

Rosen, Nir. *Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World* (New York: Nation Books, 2010).

Quigley, John. *The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Saleh, Nivien. *Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Visser, Reidar. *A Responsible End? The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Press, 2010).

Wanis-St. John, Anthony. *Back-Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).

Weiss, Max. *In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi‘ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).