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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2015)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2016/03/editors-picks-277/
- Published: 2016-03-15T03:13:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:02:22.000Z
- Description: Aarts, Paul and Carolien Roelants. Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril (London: Hurst, 2015). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015). Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Te
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Aarts, Paul and Carolien Roelants. *Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril* (London: Hurst, 2015).

Beinin, Joel. *Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).

Bennis, Phyllis. *Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer* (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2015).

Burwen, Daniel and Mike de Seve. *Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East* (London: Verso, 2015).

Curtis, Edward IV. *The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West* (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Deeb, Lara and Jessica Winegar. *Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).

Edwards, Brian. *After the American Century: The Ends of US Culture in the Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

Faust, Aaron M. *The Ba‘thification of Iraq: Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015).

Gendzier, Irene. *Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

Human Rights Watch. *No More Excuses: A Road Map to Justice for CIA Torture* (New York, December 2015).

Human Rights Watch. *Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Violations of Palestinian Rights* (New York, January 2016).

Human Rights Watch. *What Military Target Was in My Brother’s House: Unlawful Coalition Airstrikes in Yemen* (New York, November 2015).

International Crisis Group. *Algeria and Its Neighbors* (Algiers/Brussels, October 2015).

International Crisis Group. *The Prize: Fighting for Libya’s Energy Wealth* (Tripoli/Brussels, December 2015).

Kane, Eileen. *Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).

Malm, Andreas. *Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming* (London: Verso, 2015).

Razoux, Pierre. *The Iran-Iraq War* (trans. Nicholas Elliott) (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2015).

Rougier, Bernard and Stéphane Lacroix, eds. *Egypt’s Revolutions: Politics, Religion and Social Movements* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Schaar, Stuart and Mohsine El Ahmadi, eds. *The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing Middle East* (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2016).

Shenker, Jack. *The Egyptians: A Radical Story* (London: Allen Lane, 2016).

Zaman, Tahir. *Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria* (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).