MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2005) Afary, Janet and Kevin B. Anderson. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Dodge, Toby. “Iraq’s Future: The Aftermath of Regime Change.” Adelphi Paper 372 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005). The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Said, Science and Politics in Egypt Rushdi Said, Science and Politics in Egypt: A Life’s Journey (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004). Jennifer Derr • 3 min read
MER Article Persons of Interest Persons of Interest (Allison Maclean and Tobias Perse). New York: First Run/ Icarus Films, 2004. Louise Cainkar • 3 min read
MER Article Reading Culture, Identity and Space in US Foreign Policy Inundated by “theories” about the putative role of Islamic and Arab culture in shaping Middle East politics, one might ask: what role does American culture play in US foreign policy? In recent years, some of the most innovative contributions to the study of US relations with the Middle East have com Waleed Hazbun • 9 min read
MER Article Jordan's New "Political Development" Strategy “We have a problem here. There is no real [opposition] party except for the Muslim Brotherhood.” [1] So an official of Jordan’s new Ministry of Political Development and Parliamentary Affairs summed up the raison d’etre of his place of employment. Anne Baylouny • 11 min read
MER Article A Landscape of Uncertainty The events following the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri and Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon have not discernibly changed the situation of Palestinians in Lebanon. While a surprising government edict has made it easier for Palestinians to get clerical and manual jobs, calls for disarming them and pe Laleh Khalili • 14 min read
MER Article Of Specters and Disciplined Commodities “Lebanon was built with Syrian muscles,” declared an elderly Lebanese in the early 1990s. He was referring to the hundreds of thousands of semi- and unskilled Syrians who have worked in Lebanon on a temporary basis in construction, agriculture, manufacturing and services since the mid-twentieth cent John Chalcraft • 15 min read
MER Article Beirut Diary: April 2005 PREFACE Like most places in the world that, time and time again, have been fit into the journalist's script or forced into the novelist's frame, Lebanon has been tirelessly taxed with metaphors and allegories. Simultaneously, it has been presented as the terrain for metaphorical and allegorical con Rasha Salti • 14 min read
