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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2016)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2016/04/editors-picks-spring-2016/
- Published: 2016-04-22T00:54:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:02:36.000Z
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 278, #Reviews

Abboud, Samer. *Syria* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016).

Abu Saif, Atef. *The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary* (Boston: Beacon Press, 2016).

Al-Hardan, Anaheed. *Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).

Alper, Loretta and Jeremy Earp. *The Occupation of the American Mind* (Media Education Foundation, 2016).

Anderson, Betty S. *A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels and Rogues* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Carapico, Sheila, ed. *Arabia Incognita: Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2016).

Chalcraft, John. *Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Ekmekçioğlu, Lerna. *Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. *Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Glass, Charles. *Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe* (London: Verso, 2016).

International Crisis Group. *Exploiting Disorder: Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State* (Brussels, March 2016).

Jaffrelot, Christophe, ed. *Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).

Kraidy, Marwan. *The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Mahmood, Saba. *Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).

Martin, Kevin W. *Syria’s Democratic Years: Citizens, Experts and Media in the 1950s* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).

McKee, Emily. *Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Naghibi, Nima. *Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Tuğal, Cihan. *The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism* (London: Verso, 2016).

Varzi, Roxanne. *Last Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Vine, David. *Base Nation: How US Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World* (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2016).

Yassin-Kassab, Robin and Leila al-Shami. *Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War* (London: Pluto Press, 2016).

Zia-Ebrahimi, Reza. *The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).