MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2012) Bush, Ray and Habib Ayeb, eds. Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt (London: Zed Books, 2012). Castner, Brian. The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows (New York: Doubleday, 2012). Coll, Steve. Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power (New York: Penguin, 2012). Collins, John. G The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Brownlee, Democracy Prevention Jason Brownlee, Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Chris Toensing • 4 min read
MER Article Big Empire, Little Minds Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (Knopf, 2012). Christian Parenti • 9 min read
MER Article Lessons from Egypt's Tax Collectors In December 2007, employees from the Real Estate Tax Authority in Egypt staged the largest occupation of a downtown Cairo area prior to the uprising that unseated Husni Mubarak. Angry about their working conditions, 8,000 tax collectors slept in front of the Ministers’ Council building on Husayn Hig Jean Lachapelle • 10 min read
MER Article The Emergence of a New Labor Movement in Jordan Although Jordan may appear little affected by the Arab uprisings, as early as January 2011 Jordanians were in the streets for the same reasons Tunisians and Egyptians were: protesting against economic conditions and privatization of state resources, demanding the resignation of the prime minister an Fida Adely • 11 min read
MER Article A Tale of Two Secessions in the Sahara The March 2001 destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan, Afghanistan, introduced a new loanword into the Euro-American political vocabulary. The Taliban’s new explosion into world consciousness catalyzed, until September of that year, more hand wringing than substantive investigation of their social ori George R. Trumbull • 9 min read
