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# Editor's Picks
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2016/10/editors-picks-2/
- Published: 2016-10-05T20:12:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:02:57.000Z
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 280, #In Memoriam

Babar, Zahra, ed. *Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC* (London: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Bassiouni, M. Cherif. *Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath, 2011-2016* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Behrouzan, Orkideh. *Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Campbell, Madeline Otis. *Interpreters of Occupation: Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network* (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016).

Daulatzai, Sohail. *Fifty Years of* The Battle of Algiers*: Past as Prologue*(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Guirguis, Laure. *Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Haddad, Toufic. *Palestine, Ltd.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2016).

Hoffman, Sophia. *Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis Before the Storm*(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016).

Khalil, Osamah F. *America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Kirby, Emma Jean. *The Optician of Lampedusa* (New York: O/R Books, 2017).

Kubasak, Theresa and Gabe Huck. *Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2016).

Lauzière, Henri. *The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).

Moreau, Odile and Stuart Schaar, eds. *Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).

Parsa, Misagh. *Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Prashad, Vijay. *The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).

Salaita, Steven. *Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Sassoon, Joseph. *Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics*(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Shami, Seteney and Cynthia Miller-Idris, eds. *Middle East Studies for the New Millennium* (New York: New York University Press, 2016).

Sonn, Tamara. *Is Islam an Enemy of the West?* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016).

Wilson, Alice. *Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

Yildirim, A. Kadir. *Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).