MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2011) Cairoli, M. Laetitia. Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011). Dabashi, Hamid. Shi‘ism: A Religion of Protest (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2011). Dahlgren, Susanne. Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Evolutionary Constant Nadav Shelef, Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity and Religion in Israel, 1925–2005 (Cornell, 2010). Zachary Lockman • 5 min read
MER Article Hizballah in the Sights Thanassis Cambanis, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (Free Press, 2010). Lara Deeb • 20 min read
MER Article Conspiracy of Near Silence Shortly before the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the administration of President George W. Bush began paying a great deal of public attention to the suffering of Iraqi women under the regime of Saddam Hussein. In speeches and meetings with Iraqi women in exile, the Bush Nadje Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt • 13 min read
MER Article Tunisian Labor Leaders Reflect Upon Revolt The Tunisian revolution of January 2011 drew upon the participation of nearly every social stratum. Organized labor threw its weight into the struggle early on, in an important sign of the breadth and depth of opposition to the rule of the dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In mid-March, the Sacrame Chris Toensing • 7 min read
