MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2016) Abboud, Samer. Syria (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016). Abu Saif, Atef. The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (Boston: Beacon Press, 2016). Al-Hardan, Anaheed. Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016). Alper, Loretta and Jeremy Earp. The Occupation of the American Mind (Media (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Becoming Arab American Scholars have long found that while pan-Arab organizations in the United States called themselves Arab American, few individuals adopted that appellation as a personal identity, preferring Iraqi, for instance, or Syrian. So I was struck, while interviewing 45 Palestinian Americans attending high school in Palestine, that so many of them Louise Cainkar • 10 min read
MER Article Financial Citizenship and the Hidden Crisis of the Working Class in the "New Turkey" Substantial political, economic and social changes have taken place in Turkey since the early 2000s. Much of this transformation has happened on the watch of the Justice and Development Party (best known by its Turkish acronym, AKP), which has been in power since 2002. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, founder of the Basak Kus • 12 min read
