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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2013)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2013/03/editors-picks-spring-2013/
- Published: 2013-03-27T16:12:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:00:04.000Z
- Description: Aarts, Paul and Francesco Cavatorta, eds. Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013). Al-Ali, Nadje and Deborah Al-Najjar, eds. We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013). Al-Am
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 266, #In Memoriam

Aarts, Paul and Francesco Cavatorta, eds. *Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013).

Al-Ali, Nadje and Deborah Al-Najjar, eds. *We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013).

Al-Amin, Esam. *The Arab Awakenings Unveiled* (Washington, DC: American Educational Trust, 2013).

Al-Naffati, al-Tayyib. *Mujtama‘ al-Watan al-Qibli Zaman al-Isti‘mar al-Faransi: Dirasa fi Waqi‘ Fuqara’ al-Aryaf, 1881-1956* (Tunis: Kulliyat al-‘Ulum al-Insaniyya wa al-Ijtima‘iyya, 2012).

Al-Rasheed, Madawi. *A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Alsultany, Evelyn and Ella Shohat, eds. *Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora* (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013).

Bryant, Rebecca. *The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).

B’tselem. *Arrested Development: The Long-Term Impact of Israel’s Separation Barrier in the West Bank* (Jerusalem, October 2012).

El-Husseini, Rola. *Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Post-War Lebanon* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Hajjar, Lisa. *Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights* (London: Routledge, 2012).

Hilal, Leila. *Reorienting America’s Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings* (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, February 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *Why They Left: Stories of Iranian Activists in Exile* (New York, December 2012).

International Crisis Group, *Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions* (Washington/Brussels, February 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Syria’s Kurds: A Struggle Within a Struggle* (Erbil/Damascus/Brussels, January 2013).

Jamal, Amaney. *Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Kamrava, Mehran, ed. *The Nuclear Question in the Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

Khoury, Dina Rizk. *Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom and Remembrance* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

McMurray, David and Amanda Ufheil-Somers, eds. *The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013).

Meijer, Roel and Edwin Bakker, eds. *The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

Mikhail, Alan, ed. *Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Schielke, Samuli. *The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Sowers, Jeannie. *Environmental Politics in Egypt: Activists, Experts and the State* (London: Routledge, 2012).