Human figures are carved into a dead cedar tree in the Lamartine section of the forest of cedars, Lebanon, 2008. Jamal Saidi/Reuters MER Article Nature and Politics The coronavirus pandemic vividly highlights the fundamental links between people, health and the environment. This issue of Middle East Report on nature and politics probes these co-constituted relationships between people and their environments in the Middle East. The Editors of Issue #296 • 4 min read
Female Kurdish Peshmerga participate in their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan, 2016. Ari Jalal/Reuters MER Article Securitizing Citizenship and Politicizing Security in Iraqi Kurdistan It was 8 am on a scorching hot summer day. I was sitting inside a public notary office in a Kurdish border town, two kilometers away from the no-fly zone declared by the US-led coalition in 1991, and which separated the Kurdish autonomous zone from the rest of Kerem Can Uşşaklı • 16 min read
