MER Article Refusing to Forgive In 2015, Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi proposed a draft economic reconciliation law to forgive graft and other corrupt acts committed by civil servants and businessmen under the regime of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in exchange for closed-door confessions and return of ill-gotte Lana Salman, Laryssa Chomiak • 15 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2016) Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul. A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Contosta, David R. America’s Needless Wars: Cautionary Tales of US Involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017). Dahi, Omar and Firat Demir. South-South Trade and (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article BDS in a Time of Precarity The University of Toronto is not known as a particularly progressive institution. Like many universities, it has adopted neoliberal thinking and practice, becoming part of Academia, Inc. But two seemingly unrelated events during the 2014-2015 academic year showcased the increasing political activity of the school’s graduate student body. In Omar Sirri • 14 min read
