Letter (July-September 1984) Christopher Hitchens’ article “Uncorking the Genie: The Cyprus Question and Turkey’s Military Rule” (MERIP Reports 122) must be commended for approaching the complex issue of Cyprus from the vantage point of regional politics, rather than the more usual and not very enlightening arguments involving (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2013) Albrecht, Holger. Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013). Al-Rasheed, Madawi. A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religions in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Antoon, Sina The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Graham Usher MERIP mourns Graham Usher, our long-time correspondent and contributing editor. Below are his obituary and two remembrances from our editors. (Author not identified) • 8 min read
MER Article Letter (Fall 2013) In her article, “A Makeover: Baghdad, the 2013 Arab Capital of Culture [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer266/makeover]” (MER 266), Nada Shabout gives a description of arts and culture initiatives being developed in three Iraqi “zones.” There are a few discrepancies regarding the non-profit Sada (Echo) fo (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Rerouted Trafficking in Eritrean Refugees When Sheikh Muhammad ‘Ali Hasan ‘Awad learned that nine kidnapped “Africans” -- eight Eritreans and one Ethiopian -- were being beaten, raped and starved in a compound in Sheikh Zuwayd, a Sinai village near the Israeli border, he wasted little time. Firing AK-47s in the air, the sheikh and his Bedou Dan Connell • 13 min read
