James Ryan
James Ryan is the Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project
Kicking Off Delco Gives 2026-Support Our Work!
Dear Friends and Comrades, Today marks the beginning of Delco Gives, a fundraising campaign sponsored by the Foundation for Delaware County in which MERIP is participating. While much of MERIP’s work is spread out over the country and the globe, we relocated our base of operations as a 501(The MERIP Podcast Episode 20: The MERIP Roundtable, On the Iran War Part III
Today’s episode is the third installment of our MERIP Roundtable discussing the war on Iran, instigated by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, and its regional reverberations. This episode focuses on Israel’s expanded war on Lebanon. Following the assassination of Ali Khamanei, supreme leader ofThe MERIP Podcast Episode 19: The MERIP Roundtable, On the Iran War Part II
On today’s episode of the MERIP Roundtable our discussion focused on people’s experiences of the war on Iran and throughout the region two and a half weeks in. Much of the discussion of this war in the western media has centered on the strategic calculus of the UnitedThe MERIP Podcast Episode 17: Niema Alhessen
Today’s episode of the MERIP Podcast features an interview with Niema Alhessen, a Sudanese researcher based in Cairo who is focused on urban conflict and displacement. She is the author of “Burri Under Siege—How War Remade Everyday Life in a Sudanese Neighborhood” in our Winter 2025 issue ofThe MERIP Podcast Episode 16: Iman Ali
In today’s episode Iman Ali talks about her recently published article, “Repair Amid Ongoing Ruination—Rebuilding Dahiyeh Once More,” which appeared in our Winter 2025 issue, “Reconstruction and Ruin.” Iman Ali, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Cornell University, has been conducting fieldwork in Lebanon to investigate the impactsThe MERIP Podcast Episode 15: In the Archive with Brahim El Guabli
On this episode of our In the Archive series, MERIP’s Executive Director, James Ryan, speaks with Brahim El Guabli about his essay, “The Sub-Saharan Turn in Moroccan Literature,” which appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Middle East Report, “Maghreb from the Margins.” El Guabli speaks about how migration