MER Article Roger Owen Roger Owen, a former contributing editor of Middle East Report who taught at Oxford University and Harvard University for over half a century, died on December 22, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 83. A specialist in the economic, political and social history of the modern Middle Arbella Bet-Shlimon • 4 min read
MER Article Progressive Surge Propels Turning Point in US Policy on Yemen The US House of Representatives passed a potentially historic resolution on February 13, 2019, calling for an end to US military support for the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen that began in 2015. This long overdue Congressional action to constrain executive war-making, however, would no Danny Postel • 12 min read
MER Article Roundtable: Three Women Activists Advancing Peace in Yemen The growing public awareness of the war in Yemen—and the historic Congressional invocation of the War Powers Act this winter—could not have occurred without the dedicated activism of Yemeni Americans and their allies. A contributing editor to this issue, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, spoke to three activi Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 12 min read
MER Article American Interventionism and the Geopolitical Roots of Yemen’s Catastrophe The region’s current pattern of violence is rooted in the repeated US efforts to re-make the region to its advantage through the use of coercive force since 2001. Washington’s interventions and proliferating counterterrorism operations around the region—along with the new Arab wars that followed the Waleed Hazbun • 13 min read
MER Article The Saudis Bring War to Yemen’s East A new phase of the war appears to be unfolding in al-Mahra, the far eastern governorate of southern Yemen on the Indian Ocean next to Oman. In 2017 Saudi Arabian troops suddenly rolled through the streets of al-Ghaydha, the governorate capital, taking over the regional airport and announcing that th Susanne Dahlgren • 15 min read
MER Article Ambitions of a Global Gulf From the wars in Syria and Libya to the catastrophic bombing campaign in Yemen, the Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been the main Arab forces involved in the region’s current conflicts. The Gulf also increasingly shapes the political and economic policies of other A Adam Hanieh • 13 min read
