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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2013)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2014/01/editors-picks-winter-2013/
- Published: 2014-01-25T01:16:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:00:41.000Z
- Description: Abu Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). Amar, Paul and Vijay Prashad, eds. Dispatches from the Arab Spring (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Atia, Mona. Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in
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Abu Lughod, Lila. *Do Muslim Women Need Saving?* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).

Amar, Paul and Vijay Prashad, eds. *Dispatches from the Arab Spring* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

Atia, Mona. *Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egyp*t (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

Carapico, Sheila. *Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy Promotion, Justice and Representation* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Cooke, Miriam. *Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf* (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014).

Davis, Rochelle and Mimi Kirk, eds. *Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-First Century* (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013).

Deeb, Lara and Mona Harb. *Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shiite South Beirut* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).

Emery, Christian. *US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Fowden, Garth. *Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).

Hanieh, Adam. *Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East* (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013).

Hart, Kimberly. *And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Hashemi, Nader and Danny Postel, eds. *The Syria Dilemma* (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013).

Hegland, Mary Elaine. *Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Human Rights Watch. *Unwelcome Guests: Iran’s Violation of Afghan Refugee and Migrant Rights* (New York, November 2013).

International Crisis Group. *Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict* (Brussels/Jerusalem, November 2013).

Kabha, Mustafa. *The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty and State* (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013).

Lubin, Alex. *Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary* (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

Maira, Sunaina. *Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip-Hop, Youth Culture and the Youth Movement* (Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing, 2013).

Marzouki, Nadia and Olivier Roy, eds. *Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

McDonald, David. *My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013).

Mikhail, Alan. *The Animal in Ottoman Egypt* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Seeley, Nicholas. *A Syrian Wedding* (Amazon Kindle Singles, October 2013).

Shamir, Ronen. *Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

Wilford, Hugh. *America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East* (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

Yetiv, Steve. *National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts US Foreign Policy* (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).