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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2014)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2014/12/editors-picks-winter-2014/
- Published: 2014-12-02T01:41:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:01:32.000Z
- Description: Al-Arian, Abdallah. Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Alexander, Anne and Mostafa Bassiouny. Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers in the Egyptian Revolution (London: Zed Books, 2014). Baram, Amatzia. Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1
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Al-Arian, Abdallah. *Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Alexander, Anne and Mostafa Bassiouny. *Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers in the Egyptian Revolution* (London: Zed Books, 2014).

Baram, Amatzia. *Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968-2003: Ba‘thi Iraq from Secularism to Faith* (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Bengio, Ofra, ed. *Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).

Bennoune, Karima. *Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism* (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013).

B’Tselem. *The Invisible Walls of Occupation: Burqa, Ramallah District—A Case Study* (Jerusalem, October 2014).

Burde, Dana. *Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

Conetta, Carl. *Something in the Air: “Isolationism,” Defense Spending and the US Public Mood* (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, October 2014).

Curtis, Edward E., IV. *The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora* (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

Devi, Gayatri and Najat Rahman, eds. *Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema* (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014).

Erlich, Reese. *Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect* (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014).

Falk, Richard. *Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hop*e (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2014).

Fawaz, Leila Tarazi. *A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).

Haider, Najam. *Shi‘i Islam: An Introduction* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Human Rights Watch. *“Make Their Lives Miserable”: Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel* (New York, September 2014).

Human Rights Watch. *Turkey’s Human Rights Rollback* (New York, September 2014).

International Crisis Group. *Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question* (Jerusalem/Ramallah/Gaza City/Brussels, October 2014).

Merabet, Sofian. *Queer Beirut* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).

Murray, Williamson and Kevin Woods. *The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Piper, Karen. *The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014).