MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2002) Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Antoun, Richard T. Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Peasants (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Gender and Islamism in the 1990s In response to the patriarchal tendencies of the Islamist cultural revolution, a small group of Islamist and other Muslim women have reclaimed Qur’anic and other textual interpretation for their own purposes. The result is a new space for women within the Islamic tradition. Mervat Hatem • 13 min read
MER Article Refugees in Their Own Country Six bodies uncovered in February during construction on an old Iraqi army base in Iraqi Kurdistan were grim reminders of the Ba'th regime's past genocidal policies towards the Kurds. "The past is ever present in Kurdistan," as one Kurdish journalist says. But little reminder is needed of past atroci Maggy Zanger • 11 min read
MER Article Afghan Women When we are hungry, nobody listens, but when we are fighting, they send us loads of firearms and artillery. Why? -- Zubaida (April 1998) Saba Gul Khattak • 11 min read
