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# Editor's Picks (Fall 2015)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2015/12/editors-picks-fall-2015/
- Published: 2015-12-05T23:41:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:02:09.000Z
- Description: Abulhawa, Susan. The Blue Between Sky and Water (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015). Agrama, Hussein Ali. Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Alajaji, Sylvia Angelique. Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for
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Abulhawa, Susan. *The Blue Between Sky and Water* (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Agrama, Hussein Ali. *Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Alajaji, Sylvia Angelique. *Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015).

Atwan, Abdel Bari. *Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015).

Commins, David. *Islam in Saudi Arabia* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).

Crews, Robert. *Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation* (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2015).

Dale, Stephen Frederic. *The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

Darweish, Marwan and Andrew Rigby. *Popular Resistance in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance* (London: Pluto Press, 2015).

Entessar, Nader and Kaveh Afrasiabi. *Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Accord and Détente since the Geneva Agreement of 2013* (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).

Gilbert, Mads. *Night in Gaza* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2015).

Human Rights Watch. *Targeting Saada: Unlawful Coalition Airstrikes on Saada City in Yemen* (New York, June 2015).

Human Rights Watch. *“They Burned It All”: Destruction of Villages, Killings and Sexual Violence in Unity State, South Sudan* (New York, July 2015).

International Crisis Group. *No Exit? Gaza and Israel Between Wars* (Gaza City/Jerusalem/Ramallah/Brussels, August 2015).

International Crisis Group. *Reform and Security Strategy in Tunisia* (Tunis/Brussels, July 2015).

Jones, Toby Craig. *Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water and Environmental Crisis* (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015).

Massaad, Barbara Abdeni, ed. *Soup for Syria* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2015).

McCants, William. *The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015).

Mundy, Jacob. *Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Anti-Politics* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).

O’Malley, Padraig. *The Two-State Delusion* (New York: Viking, 2015).

Perugini, Nicola and Neve Gordon. *The Human Right to Dominate* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Salloukh, Bassel et al. *The Politics of Sectarianism in Post-War Lebanon* (London: Pluto Press, 2015).

Schaar, Stuart. *Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

Seikaly, Sherene. *Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).

Shehabi, Ala’a and Marc Owen Jones, eds. *Bahrain’s Uprising* (London: Zed Books, 2015).

Shehadeh, Raja and Penny Johnson, eds. *Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East* (London: Profile Books, 2015).

Smith, Benjamin. *Market Orientalism: Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Wuthrich, F. Michael. *National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics and the Party System* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015).