Book Review: Nakash,Y. (2006). Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press

Brunner, R. (Ed.). (2001). The twelver Shi'a in modern times: Religious culture and political history. Boston: Brill .

Dodge, T. (2005). Iraq's future: The aftermath of regime change . New York: Routledge .

Shanahan, R. (2005). The Shi'a of Lebanon: Clans, parties and clerics . New York : Tauris Academic Studies .