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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2013)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2013/06/editors-picks-summer-2013/
- Published: 2013-06-02T16:13:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:00:17.000Z
- Description: Abrahamian, Ervand. The Coup: 1953, the CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations (New York: New Press, 2012). Allen, Lori. The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Palestine (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013). Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, ed., Mirror for the Muslim
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Abrahamian, Ervand. *The Coup: 1953, the CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations* (New York: New Press, 2012).

Allen, Lori. *The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Palestine* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, ed., *Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013).

Chayut, Noam. *The Girl Who Took My Holocaust: Notes from an Israeli Life* (London: Verso, 2013).

El Hamel, Chouki. *Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Göknar, Erdağ. *Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel* (London: Routledge, 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *Hostages of the Gatekeepers: Abuses Against Internally Displaced in Mogadishu, Somalia* (New York, March 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *“This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him”: Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan* (New York, March 2013).

Khajehpour, Bijan, Reza Marashi and Trita Parsi. *Never Give In and Never Give Up: The Impact of Sanctions on Tehran’s Nuclear Calculations* (Washington, DC: National Iranian American Council, March 2013).

Ruebner, Josh. *Shattered Hopes: The Failure of Obama’s Middle East Peace Process* (London: Verso, 2013).

Sallam, Hesham, ed., *Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011-2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena* (Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing, 2013).

Scahill, Jeremy. *Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield* (New York: Nation Books, 2013).

Telhami, Shibley. *The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East* (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

Thompson, Elizabeth. *Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).

Tripp, Charles. *The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Vora, Neha. *Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013).

Woertz, Eckart. *Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).