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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2015)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2015/04/editors-picks-spring-2015/
- Published: 2015-04-10T19:40:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:01:44.000Z
- Description: Abisaab, Rula Jurdi and Malek Abisaab. The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizballah’s Islamists (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015). Al-Saleh, Asaad. Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). Amar, P
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 274, #In Memoriam

Abisaab, Rula Jurdi and Malek Abisaab. *The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizballah’s Islamists* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Al-Saleh, Asaad. *Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

Amar, Paul, ed. *The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).

Bowen, Donna Lee, Evelyn A. Early and Becky Schulthies, eds. *Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East*, third edition (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).

Byrne, Malcolm. *Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power* (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014).

Cobb, Paul M. *The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Cole, Peter and Brian McQuinn, eds. *The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath* (London: Hurst, 2015).

Eigeland, Tor. *When All the Lands Were Sea: A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2015).

*Fellahin* (Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush, 2015).

Haeri, Shahla. *Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi‘i Iran* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014).

Herb, Michael. *The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014).

Hinnebusch, Raymond and Tina Zintl, eds. *Syria from Reform to Revolt*, vol. 1 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Human Rights Watch. *“I Already Bought You”: Abuse and Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates* (New York, October 2014).

Jeffries, J. M. N. *The Palestine Deception, 1915-1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration and the Jewish National Home* (ed. William N. Mathew) (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2015).

Lackner, Helen. *Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition* (London: Saqi Books, 2014).

Matthiesen, Toby. *The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Prashad, Vijay, ed. *Letters to Palestine* (London: Verso, 2015).

Sassen, Saskia. *Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy* (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014).

Shabout, Nada. *Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics* (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).