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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2012)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2012/05/editors-picks-summer-2012/
- Published: 2012-05-26T16:11:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:59:27.000Z
- Description: Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. Post-BICI Report (Manama, March 2012). Brown, Nathan. When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012). Caridi, Paola. Hamas: From Resistance to Government (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012). Davis,
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 263, #Reviews

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. *Post-BICI Report* (Manama, March 2012).

Brown, Nathan. *When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).

Caridi, Paola. *Hamas: From Resistance to Government* (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012).

Davis, Diana K. and Edmund Burke III, eds., *Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa* (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012).

Elver, Hilal. *The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Esmeir, Samera. *Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012).

Feffer, John. *Crusade 2.0: The West’s Resurgent War on Islam* (San Francisco: City Lights, 2012).

Frank, Thomas. *Pity the Billionaire* (New York: Metropolitan, 2012).

Human Rights Watch. *In Cold Blood: Summary Executions by Syrian Security Forces and Pro-Government Militias* (New York, April 2012).

Human Rights Watch. *No Justice in Bahrain: Unfair Trials in Military and Civilian Courts* (New York, February 2012).

International Crisis Group. *China’s New Courtship in South Sudan* (Juba/Beijing/Nairobi/Brussels, April 2012).

International Crisis Group. *Dallying with Reform in a Divided Jordan* (Amman/Brussels, March 2012).

International Crisis Group. *In Heavy Waters: Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey* (Istanbul/Washington/Brussels, February 2012).

Marshall, Jonathan. *The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War and the International Drug Traffic* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012).

Owen, Roger. *The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).

Peled, Miko. *The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012).

Perlin, Ross. *Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy* (London: Verso, 2011).

Prashad, Vijay. *Arab Spring, Libyan Winter* (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2012).

Shadid, Anthony. *House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East* (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).

VanDeMark, Brian. *American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations and the Story of America’s Influence on the Middle East* (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2012).