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The Enduring Question of Palestine — MERIP Reports, no. 116, July-August 1983. Cover by Jim Richter.

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The Enduring Question of Palestine

The guiding mission of MERIP’s founders was not centered around cultivating a better understanding of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Rather, their magazine consciously emphasized the range and diversity of progressive and revolutionary struggles throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Yet the centrality of the Palestinian cause

Mouin Rabbani • 5 min read

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MERIP's Unfinished Mission

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was established in 1971 by young anti-war activists who sought to push the New Left to engage with the region through the same analytical lenses that it used to challenge US policy in Southeast Asia and Latin America. In this issue,

The Editors of Issue #300 • 11 min read

Rethinking Whiteness in Turkey Through the AKP’s Foreign Policy in Africa South of the Sahara — Senegal’s president Macky Sall welcomes Turkey’s counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, January 2020. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

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Rethinking Whiteness in Turkey Through the AKP’s Foreign Policy in Africa South of the Sahara

There is a new investment in whiteness in contemporary Turkey, and it is not by those who have traditionally been identified as “White Turks,” but by their long-standing critics, the so-called Black Turks.

Ezgi Güner • 11 min read

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The Limits of Confronting Racial Discrimination in Tunisia with Law 50

In 2018, Tunisia became the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to pass a law that criminalizes racial discrimination. In a society that has long denied the existence of racism, the law—popularly known as Loi 50 or Law 50—has been applauded by local activists and international human ri

Shreya Parikh • 11 min read