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# Editor's Picks (Winter 2016)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2017/05/editors-picks-winter-2016/
- Published: 2017-05-16T04:14:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:03:10.000Z
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 281, #Articles

Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul. *A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Contosta, David R. *America’s Needless Wars: Cautionary Tales of US Involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq* (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017).

Dahi, Omar and Firat Demir. *South-South Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence* (New York: Anthem Press, 2016).

Hashemi, Nader and Danny Postel, eds. *Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Jewish Voice for Peace. *On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine* (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017).

Love, Erik. *Islamophobia and Racism in America* (New York: New York University Press, 2017).

Khosravi, Shahram. *Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

McMahon, Sean F. *Crisis and Class War in Egypt* (London: Zed Books, 2016).

Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih. *Us&Them* (Stanford, CA: Redwood Press, 2017).

Pappe, Ilan. *Ten Myths About Israel* (London: Verso, 2017).

Peteet, Julie. *Space and Mobility in Palestine* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).

Robson, Laura. *States of Separation: Transfer, Partition and the Making of the Modern Middle East* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Rosen, Brant. *Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity* (second ed.) (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2017).

Shafir, Gershon. *A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Siamdoust, Nahid. *Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Skare, Erik. *Digital Jihad: Palestinian Resistance in the Digital Era* (London: Zed Books, 2016).