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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2012)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2012/03/editors-picks-spring-2012/
- Published: 2012-03-10T17:14:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:59:15.000Z
- Description: Abbas, Rauf and El-Dessouky, Assem. The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 (ed. Peter Gran) (trans. Amer Mohsen and Mona Zikry) (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012). Achy, Lahcen. Tunisia’s Economic Challenges (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for Internationa
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 262, #In Memoriam

Abbas, Rauf and El-Dessouky, Assem. *The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952* (ed. Peter Gran) (trans. Amer Mohsen and Mona Zikry) (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Achy, Lahcen. *Tunisia’s Economic Challenges* (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 2011).

Anderson, Betty. *The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education* (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011).

Bonnefoy, Laurent. *Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalism and Religious Identity* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

Clark, Peter. *Istanbul: A Cultural History* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2012).

Evans, Martin. *Algeria: France’s Undeclared War* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Filiu, Jean-Pierre. *The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising* (London: Hurst, 2011).

Gelvin, James. *The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Ghazaleh, Pascale. *Held in Trust: Waqf in Islamic Law* (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011).

Haddad, Bassam. *Business Networks in Syria: The Politics of Authoritarian Resilience* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Hatem, Mervat. *Literature, Gender and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Human Rights Watch. *“By All Means Necessary!” Individual and Command Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity in Syria* (New York, December 2011).

Human Rights Watch. *“Forget About Him, He’s Not Here”: Israeli Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza* (New York, February 2012).

Human Rights Watch. *“Steps of the Devil”: Denial of Women’s and Girls’ Right to Sport in Saudi Arabia* (New York, February 2012).

International Crisis Group. *Holding Libya Together: Security Challenges After Qaddafi* (Tripoli/Brussels, December 2011).

Kern, Karen. *Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Khalil, Ashraf. *Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012).

Khater, Akram Fouad. *Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Laurence, Jonathan. *The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Lyons, Jonathan. *Islam Through Western Eyes* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

Munayyer, Yousef. *When Settlers Attack* (Washington, DC: Palestine Center, February 2012).

Sassoon, Joseph. *Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Soueif, Ahdaf. *Cairo: My City, Our Revolution* (London: Bloomsbury, 2012).