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Cemil Aydin

Cemil Aydin is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an editor of Middle East Report.

Current Analysis

Region, Race and Some Ironies of History

In the forthcoming issue [http://www.merip.org/mer/latest] of Middle East Report, “China in the Middle East,” I write about the often forgotten history [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer270/changing-modes-political-dialogue-across-middle-east-east-asia-1880-2010] of political, intellectual and cultural t

Cemil Aydin • 3 min read

MER Article

Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010

East Asia’s relationship with the Middle East today is based mainly on economics and is devoid of grand political projects of solidarity and intellectual dialogue. Countries such as China, Japan and Korea present the Middle East with a model of neoliberal economic development. At the same time, the

Cemil Aydin • 14 min read