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# Editor's Picks (Spring 2017)
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2017/12/editors-picks-spring-2017/
- Published: 2017-12-13T04:08:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:03:21.000Z
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Bargu, Banu. *Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

Bashkin, Orit. *Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Bayat, Asef. *Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Bridge, Gavin and Philippe Le Billon. *Oil* (second ed.) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017).

Bucar, Elizabeth. *Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).

Clarno, Andy. *Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa After 1994* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Cook, Steven A. *False Dawn: Protest, Democracy and Violence in the New Middle East* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Drif, Zohra. *Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter* (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2017).

Dudoignon, Stéphane A. *The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran: From Tribal to Global* (London: Hurst, 2017).

Fields, Gary. *Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Gürsoy, Yaprak. *Between Military Rule and Democracy: Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey and Beyond* (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017).

Harris, Kevan. *A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Isakhan, Benjamin, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, eds., *State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship Under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratization* (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017).

Kermani, Navid. *Upheaval: The Refugee Trek Through Europe* (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017).

Laron, Guy. *The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017).

Mathew, Johan. *Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Nassar, Maha. *Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World* (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Pappe, Ilan. *The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories* (London: Oneworld, 2017).

Schayegh, Cyrus. *The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).

Thrall, Nathan. *The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine* (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2017).

Youmans, William. *An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera’s Struggles in America* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).