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# Editor's Picks (Fall 2013)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2013/09/editors-picks-fall-2013/
- Published: 2013-09-28T16:13:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:00:29.000Z
- Description: Albrecht, Holger. Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013). Al-Rasheed, Madawi. A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religions in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Antoon, Sina
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 268, #In Memoriam

Albrecht, Holger. *Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013).

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

Antoon, Sinan. *The Corpse Washer* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013).

Bayat, Asef, ed. *Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Bröning, Michael. *Political Parties in Palestine: Leadership and Thought* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Campbell, Horace. *Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya* (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013).

Ghannam, Farha. *Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2013).

Hendrick, Joshua. *Gülen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World* (New York: New York University Press, 2013).

Honig-Parnass, Tikva. *False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine* (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011).

Huber, Matthew. *Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *“Interfere, Restrict, Control”: Restraints on Freedom of Association in Bahrain* (New York, June 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *“It’s Part of the Job”: Ill Treatment and Torture of Vulnerable Groups in Lebanese Police Stations* (New York, June 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Buying Time: Money, Guns and Politics in the West Bank* (Jerusalem/Ramallah/Brussels, May 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Great Expectations: Iran’s New President and the Nuclear Talks* (Washington/Brussels, August 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Make or Break: Iraq’s Sunnis and the State* (Baghdad/Brussels, August 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Syria’s Metastasizing Conflict* (Damascus/Cairo/Brussels, June 2013).

Joubin, Rebecca. *The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama* (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).

Kamrava, Mehran. *Qatar: Small State, Big Politics* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013).

Keenan, Jeremy. *The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa* (London: Pluto Press, 2013).

Kingston, Paul. *Reproducing Sectarianism: Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon* (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013).

Massoud, Mark Fathi. *Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Matthiesen, Toby. *Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Milas, Seifulaziz. *Sharing the Nile: Egypt, Ethiopia and the Geopolitics of Water* (London: Pluto Press, 2013).

Pierret, Thomas. *Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Robinson, Shira. *Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Visweswaran, Kamala, ed. *Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in the Middle East and South Asia* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).

Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky. *The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).

Willis, Michael J. *Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Yilmaz, Hale. *Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013).