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David McMurray

An editor of this magazine, David McMurray teaches anthropology at Oregon State University.

Current Analysis

Hybrid Loyalties at the World Cup

The World Cup raises nationalist (make that nativist) sentiment to a fever pitch all around the Mediterranean Sea basin. But nowhere does the temperature run higher than in France and Algeria (as Martin Evans discusses at length in this article [http://www.historytoday.com/martin-evans/patriot-games

David McMurray • 6 min read

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North Africans Go Long-Distance Shopping

George Trumbull’s recent blog entry [http://www.merip.org/seven-places-you-didnt-know-were-part-middle-east] about Middle Eastern outposts in other parts of the world rightly mentioned Marseille and the Italian islet of Lampedusa [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer261/lampedusa], with its now closed migra

David McMurray • 3 min read

The Arab Revolts

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The Arab Revolts

Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East

David McMurray, Amanda Ufheil-Somers • 1 min read

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North African Commonalities (part two)

Bill Lawrence is director of the North Africa Project for the International Crisis Group. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer (Morocco), Fulbright scholar (Tunisia), development consultant (Egypt), State Department official, Arabic translator and filmmaker (Marrakech Inshallah, Moroccans in Boston)

David McMurray • 7 min read

Current Analysis

North African Commonalities (part one)

Bill Lawrence is director of the North Africa Project for the International Crisis Group. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer (Morocco), Fulbright scholar (Tunisia), development consultant (Egypt), State Department official, Arabic translator and filmmaker (Marrakech Inshallah, Moroccans in Boston)

David McMurray • 9 min read

Current Analysis

The Bouazizi Effect in Morocco

On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian itinerant seller named Mohamed Bouazizi had a minor run-in with the cops. It was just another of many, but at this last indignity, the now world-famous produce vendor snapped. Later that day, in protest against his interminable humiliation at the hands of the p

David McMurray • 3 min read

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Lamped USA

Amanda Ufheil-Somers has ably described [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer261/lampedusa] how refugee flows from the uprisings in North Africa to the Italian island of Lampedusa have pushed the strained infrastructure and the residents’ hospitality to the breaking point. The islanders aren’t the only ones

David McMurray • 5 min read