​Researcher Ziad Muna reviews a selection of recent publications: “Marginalization in Arab Societies: Repression and Release”; “Desert Tourism: Development of the Desert in the Arab Homeland”; “The Kurds and the Armenian Question 1877-1920”; “The Empire of al-Mahdi and the Rise of the Fatimids 875-973”; “Palestinians in Israel: Isolation, Discrimination, and Democracy”; “Gulf Thrones and Climate Change: Abu Dhabi and Qatar in the Age of Natural Imbalance”; and “Arab Spring, Libyan Winter.”