MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2014) Al-Arian, Abdallah. Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Alexander, Anne and Mostafa Bassiouny. Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers in the Egyptian Revolution (London: Zed Books, 2014). Baram, Amatzia. Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1 (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Wretched Revolution “We live in a country where liberals renege on democracy, Islamists harm Islam and human rights activists champion oppression,” an Islamic television producer cynically remarked three months after Muhammad Mursi was ousted from Egypt’s presidency in July 2013. That summer, the televised images of mu Yasmin Moll • 17 min read
MER Article Starvation, Submission and Survival On December 23, 2012, following a week of imposed scarcity, the Syrian town of Halfaya received 100 sacks of flour from an Islamic charity. The town’s main bakery started churning out bread, an all too infrequent occurrence since violence between the Asad regime and opposition forces escalated earli Brent Eng, Jose Ciro Martinez • 14 min read
