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# Editor's Picks (Summer 2016)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2016/09/editors-picks-summer-2016/
- Published: 2016-09-26T12:11:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:02:47.000Z
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 279, #Special Reports

Achcar, Gilbert. *Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Abu-‘Uksa, Wael. *Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Al-Nakib, Farah. *Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Benjamin, Medea. *Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection* (New York: O/R Books, 2016).

Brumberg, Daniel and Farideh Farhi, eds. *Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).

Davidson, Christopher. *Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East* (London: Oneworld, 2016).

Gabiam, Nell. *The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz. *Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution and the Enlightenment* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

International Crisis Group. *Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq’s “Generation 2000”* (Baghdad/Brussels, August 2016).

Ishaq, Sara. *The Mulberry House* (Cinema Guild, 2013).

Jones, Reece. *Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move* (London: Verso, 2016).

Lockman, Zachary. *Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Lubin, Alex and Marwan Kraidy, eds. *American Studies Encounters the Middle East* (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Robson, Laura, ed. *Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016).

Roy, Sara. *The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development*, third ed. (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2016).

Sayigh, Rosemary. *Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon*, second ed. (Al-Mashriq, 2015).

Shehadeh, Raja and Penny Johnson, eds. *Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East* (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2016).

Tadros, Mariz. *Resistance, Revolt and Gender Justice in Egypt* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016).

Tawil-Souri, Helga and Dina Matar, eds. *Gaza as Metaphor* (London: Hurst, 2016).

Yaqub, Salim. *Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs and US-Middle East Relations in the 1970s* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016).

Yaycioglu, Ali. *Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Restoration* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Yousef, Hoda A. *Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing and the Emergence of the Modern Nation, 1870-1930* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).