MER Article From the Editor (Winter 2008) The sheer symbolic power of the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States is difficult to capture in words. It is not only that a black man has won the highest office of a nation that, at its inception, defined close to every black man or woman as three fifths of a (Author not identified) • 5 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2008) Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Bayoumi, Moustafa. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (New York: Penguin, 2008). Bensahel, Nora et al. After Saddam: Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq (Santa Monica, (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Cohen, Army of Shadows Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 (translated by Haim Watzman)(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008). Sherene Seikaly • 4 min read
MER Article Evans and Phillips, Algeria Martin Evans and John Phillips, Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). Jacob Mundy • 6 min read
MER Article The Great Ports Panic of 2006 It is possible, in reviewing opinion polls, to pinpoint the incident that swung a divided US electorate firmly and permanently against President George W. Bush. That occurrence was not Hurricane Katrina—two weeks after the storm hit New Orleans, a CBS News poll found the country remained split on “B Benjamin Smith • 14 min read
MER Article It's Never Time “It is our great and historic responsibility,” intoned Egyptian President Husni Mubarak on December 26, 2006, “to achieve the essential goal of developing our democracy and political life, while avoiding drifting into uncalculated steps that could threaten the stability of our country and the succes Bassam Haddad • 3 min read
MER Article The UAE's Space Race At a 2007 Harvard workshop focusing on sustainable architecture in the Persian Gulf, the assembled academics and practitioners quizzed a public relations official from a large Abu Dhabi real estate developer. The workshop participants, among them experts in the field of sustainable development, were Ahmed Kanna, Arang Keshavarzian • 13 min read
