MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2006) Aghaie, Kamran Scot, ed. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005). Bahgat, Gawdat. Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006). Balaghi, Shiva. The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article He Didn't Do It For Them Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (New York: Harper Collins, 2005). When I first encountered Eritrea in 1976, I was deeply impressed with the movement heading up the former Italian colony’s 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia. During those Dan Connell • 11 min read
