The Cairo West power plant near the Nile river, Cairo, Egypt, 2025. Islam Safwat/Bloomberg via Getty Images Issue 315-316 Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At first glance, it resembled countless other speculative development schemes, renderings of luxury resorts, free-trade zones and smart cities. Gaza, the plan insisted, Rafeef Ziadah • 11 min read
MER Article The UAE and the Infrastructure of Intervention Rafeef Ziadah investigates the rise of humanitarian logistics hubs such as Dubai International Humanitarian City, which, although ostensibly humanitarian, have become a key mechanism of intervention and increasingly a central element in the projection of power for the Gulf regimes such as the United Rafeef Ziadah • 9 min read
