MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2016) [su_heading align="left"]The international legal regime created after World War II to deal with refugees is no remedy for inequalities of state power, on either the regional or the international level.[/su_heading] The Middle East is once again the world’s biggest producer of refugees, The Editors • 6 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2015) Aarts, Paul and Carolien Roelants. Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril (London: Hurst, 2015). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015). Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Te (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Mary Ann Tétreault Mary Ann Tétreault died peacefully in her sleep at home in Newport, Vermont on November 11, 2015. She was a spectacular human being, a gifted intellectual, and a generous mentor and friend. Mary Ann earned her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College and her masters and doctorate at Rice Univ Gwenn Okruhlik • 3 min read
MER Article Caught in the Crossfire of Climate and Politics Conscription into the army or other government service for years on end, fear of detention and torture for real or imagined transgressions with no legal recourse, no prospect of schooling or meaningful work, and no personal freedom: The reasons Afar refugees in eastern Ethiopia gave for fleeing thei Dan Connell • 12 min read
MER Article Garbage Politics In late July 2015, mounds of garbage began piling up across Beirut and the towns of Mount Lebanon to the capital’s east. While not without precedent in poorer neighborhoods, such heaps of rubbish had never appeared in more affluent areas. By mid-August, Lebanese government officials, businesspeople, Ziad Abu-Rish • 14 min read
MER Article On Failing to “Get It Together” Rain falls thick and heavy outside the window. Shadi sits in the near dark drinking sage tea, fighting the November chill, but more so the pessimistic vantage onto Syria from his refuge in neighboring Jordan. A vocal civil society activist in Homs during the early stages of the Syrian revolution, Sh Ali Nehmé Hamdan • 16 min read
