MER Article What is Activism? In early 2011, the world watched as millions of people took to the streets across the Arab world to demand the fall of regimes, or at least substantial political reforms. As the weeks and then months unfolded, the broadcast media adopted split screens to show simultaneous live footage of crowds in m Kevan Harris, Jillian Schwedler • 11 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Winter 2016) As the baleful administration of President Donald Trump bumbles from one scandal to the next, a set of deeply disturbing patterns have emerged in the domestic politics and foreign policy of the United States. Chris Toensing • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks Babar, Zahra, ed. Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC (London: Oxford University Press, 2016). Bassiouni, M. Cherif. Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath, 2011-2016 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Behrouzan, Orkideh. Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016). Campbell, Madeline The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Barbara Harlow I first met Professor Barbara Harlow (1948-2017) in the autumn of 1992, while conducting field research in Egypt, when she gave her talk at the American University in Cairo on her new book, Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention (Wesleyan University Press, 1992). This book examined the struggle of Kamran Asdar Ali • 4 min read
MER Article Open Hillel Lodge 5 at Swarthmore College is a dignified building in gray stone, the aesthetic match of much of the rest of the bucolic campus located 20 miles outside Philadelphia. The structure houses three floors supporting Jewish student life: a kosher kitchen, a lounge and a library whose walls are heavy w Mimi Kirk • 14 min read
MER Article The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back In January 2015, Christie’s announced that a painting by the Palestinian Suleiman Mansour, Camel of Burdens II (Jamal al-Mahamil), would be the highlight of its annual auction of modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish art held in Dubai. The piece was listed as the second version of the 19 Dina Ramadan • 12 min read
