Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Sarah J Graham-Brown

Sarah Graham-Brown has written extensively on the Middle East. She is the author of Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq [New York: St. Martins Press].

Orientalism in Color

Mary Anne Stevens, ed., The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse -- The Allure of North Africa and the Near East (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1984).

Sarah J Graham-Brown • 9 min read

MER Article

Report from the Occupied Territories

Snow fell seven times on the hill towns north of Jerusalem this past winter, and the warmth of spring did not come until after the middle of April. But the welcome spring did not bring relief from the harshness of the Israeli occupation. In the town centers, Israeli troops were a constant reminder o

Sarah J Graham-Brown • 19 min read

MER Article

Islam in the News

Edward W. Said, Covering Islam (London: Routledge & Regan Paul, 1981). Edward Said’s Covering Islam is one part of his project to analyze aspects of the Western view of Islam and the Middle East. Orientalism, the first and most substantial of these books, traced the evolution of European attitudes

Sarah J Graham-Brown • 7 min read