Men sweep debris from a damaged pharmacy, located near the site of a car bomb attack, in the city of Hilla, 2014. Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters MER Article Iraqibacter and the Pathologies of Intervention Omar Dewachi traces the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria in war-related wounds—which US military doctors labelled Iraqibacter—to the biological legacy of decades of sanctions, war and intervention in Iraq. Omar Dewachi • 14 min read
MER Article The Globalized Unmaking of the Libyan State The current disorder in Libya is not merely the result of a failed humanitarian intervention, which allegedly collapsed the state. Global currents and processes have also combined with local forces to unmake the Libyan state. Like the other cases of globalized state unmaking in the region, a new pha Jacob Mundy • 14 min read
MER Article The New Landscape of Intervention Even as the 2000’s saw the return of traditional forms of imperial intervention—with the US deployment of military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq in pursuit of a quixotic and unwinnable War on Terror—there are increasingly new forms of intervention that must be understood, assessed and mapped. The Editors • 5 min read
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
