MER Article Revealing State Secrets through FOIA Research Making FOIA requests for classified government documents can be a powerful way to breach the wall of secrecy regarding state actions that would otherwise stay secret or await future historians to uncover. The basics of filing a FOIA request are simple and learning how to press for unredacted or with David H. Price • 4 min read
MER Article Protest Camp as Counter-Archive at a Moroccan Silver Mine Eight years ago, residents of Imider in Morocco's rural southeast shut down a silver mining company's water pipe on a nearby mountain to protest the damages to their health and livelihoods. This direct action turned into the longest sit-in protest encampment in Moroccan history. Perched on a rugged Zakia Salime • 13 min read
MER Article Uncovering Protection Rackets through Leaktivism The small Gulf Arab state of Bahrain is using digital-era tools of surveillance, deception and repression to quell popular dissent. But a group of well-meaning tech-savvy geeks are mobilizing new digitally enhanced methods to expose who is behind this repression and how it operates today. Ala’a Shehabi • 17 min read
MER Article Exposing Jordan’s Gas Deal with Israel The Jordanian government has gone to great lengths to hide information about its 2014 multi-billion dollar gas deal with Israel from the public. But the government’s attempt to keep the public in the dark has only energized a popular campaign demanding full disclosure of its terms. Hisham Bustani • 11 min read
