MER Article Writing Palestinian Politics in Israel's Prisons Before Oslo Since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, around three quarters of a million Palestinians have been arrested, sometimes for actions taken against Israeli soldiers or civilians, but at other times for association with others or for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the early Rebecca Granato • 9 min read
MER Article Gaza as an Open-Air Prison In February, the well-known British street artist Banksy went to the Gaza Strip to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians in the aftermath of the devastating Israeli assault the previous summer. With regard to the murals he painted around the Strip, he wrote: “Gaza is often described as ‘the w Ilana Feldman • 7 min read
MER Article "A Beast That Took a Break and Came Back" Aida Seif al-Dawla is a psychiatrist whose fight for citizens’ rights and dignity in Egypt has taken many forms since her days as a student activist in the 1970s. In 1993, she founded the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, of which she remains executive director Lina Attalah • 10 min read
MER Article Eritrean Refugees' Trek Through the Americas TAPACHULA, MEXICO—It is not hard to find the Eritreans in this low-key town near the Pacific coast a few miles north of the Guatemalan border. They gather on the front steps of the Palafox Hotel with the only other Africans here—Somalis, Ethiopians, a handful of Ghanaians, all of them migrants—or th Dan Connell • 9 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2015) No publication based in Washington should write about prisons without first noting that America leads the world in incarceration. Amanda Ufheil-Somers, Chris Toensing • 9 min read
