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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2011)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2011/11/editors-picks-winter-2011/
- Published: 2011-11-28T17:11:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:59:03.000Z
- Description: Aloni, Udi. What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). Bier, Laura. Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser’s Egypt (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011). Booth, Ken and Tim Dunne. Terror in Our Tim
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Aloni, Udi. *What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Bier, Laura. *Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser’s Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Booth, Ken and Tim Dunne. *Terror in Our Time* (London: Routledge, 2011).

Center for American Progress. *Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in the United States* (Washington, DC, August 2011).

Cook, Steven. *The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Fekete, Liz. “Breivik, the Conspiracy Theory and the Oslo Massacre,” European Race Audit *Briefing Paper* 5 (London: Institute for Race Relations, September 2011).

Fahmy, Ziad. *Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Franzén, Johan. *Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Gerges, Fawaz. *The Rise and Fall of al-Qaeda* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Al-Haq. *Palestine’s UN Initiatives and the Representation of the Palestinian People’s Rights* (Ramallah, September 15, 2011).

Human Rights Watch. *“We Live As in War”: Crackdown on Protesters in the Governorate of Homs* (New York, November 2011).

International Crisis Group. *Breaking Point? Yemen’s Southern Question* (Sanaa/Brussels, October 2011).

International Crisis Group. *Curb Your Enthusiasm: Israel and Palestine After the UN* (Ramallah/Jerusalem/Washington/Brussels, September 2011).

International Crisis Group. *Failing Oversight: Iraq’s Unchecked Government* (Baghdad/Brussels, September 2011).

Lacroix, Stéphane. *Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia* (trans. George Holoch) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).

Mikhail, Alan. *Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Naficy, Hamid. *A Social History of Iranian Cinema*, vols. 1 and 2 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).

Phillips, Joshua. *None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture* (London: Verso, 2010).

Quandt, William B., ed. *Troubled Triangle: The United States, Turkey and Israel in the New Middle East* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Press, 2011).

Robben, Antonius, ed. *Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

Sadjadpour, Karim. *The Battle of Dubai: The United Arab Emirates and the US-Iran Cold War* (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 2011).

Slyomovics, Susan, ed. *Clifford Geertz in Morocco* (London: Routledge, 2010).

Tamari, Salim. *Year of the Locust: A Soldier’s Diary and the Erasure of Ottoman Palestine* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011).

Al-Werfalli, Mabroka. *Political Alienation in Libya: Assessing Citizens’ Political Attitude and Behavior* (Reading: Ithaca Press, 2011).