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# Editor's Picks Spring 2018
- URL: https://www.merip.org/2018/10/editors-picks/
- Published: 2018-10-13T23:27:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T13:03:51.000Z
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- Tags: MER Article, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 286, #Reviews

Baconi, Tareq. *Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance*(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).

Berda, Yael. *Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank*(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017).

Blumi, Isa. *Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018).

Ellis, Matthew H. *Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya* (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).

Hermez, Sami. *War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon*(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

International Crisis Group. *Saudi Arabia: Back to Baghdad* (Brussels, Belgium. May 22, 2018).

Lackner, Helen. *Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State* (London: Saqi Books, 2017).