MER Article Virtual Space and Collective Action in Egypt Traffic crawls as usual through Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, making its noisy way around the 65-foot pole flying the Egyptian flag newly erected in the middle of the plaza. It is hard to imagine that in January 2011 this very spot was the epicenter of the grassroots revolution that toppled Presi Sherine Hafez • 11 min read
MER Article Palestinian Workers Campaign for Social Justice On the hot afternoon of April 19, 2016, thousands of workers and unemployed took to the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah in protest the labor policies of the Palestinian Authority (PA). As the sun beat down on their shoulders, the marchers remained defiant, shouting “Haramiyya! (Thieves!),” N. Alva • 15 min read
MER Article Reviving Activism in Jordan In January 2011, hundreds and sometimes thousands of Jordanians began protesting like clockwork on Friday afternoons; they continued to do so for nearly two years. The crowds were small compared to those in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Bahrain, but the turnout was sustained and marked a significant upt Curtis Ryan • 10 min read
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
