Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Sharif Elmusa

Sharif Elmusa is associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, currently visiting at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service-Qatar.

Current Analysis

Damietta Mobilizes for Its Environment

In 2008, Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Damietta saw escalating protest against EAgrium, a Canadian consortium building a large fertilizer complex in Ra’s al-Barr. Ra’s al-Barr sits at the end of an estuary, where the Damietta branch of the Nile River joins the Mediterranean. It is a prime desti

Sharif Elmusa, Jeannie Sowers • 16 min read

MER Article

Two Poems About Palestine

In the Refugee Camp The huts were of mud and hay, their thin roofs feared the rain, and walls slouched like humbled men. The streets were laid out in a grid, as in New York, but without the dignity of names or asphalt. Dust reigned. Women grew pale chickens and children feeding them fables from the

Sharif Elmusa, Nizar Qabbani • 1 min read

MER Article

Books on Arab Economies

Samir Amin, The Arab Economy Today (London: Zed Press, 1982). Ismail-Sabri Abdalla et al, eds., Images of the Arab Future (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983). (Translated from Arabic) Adda Guecioueur, ed., The Problems of Arab Economic Development and Integration (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 198

Sharif Elmusa • 3 min read