Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Tessa Farmer

Tessa Farmer is an assistant professor in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the Global Studies Program at the University of Virginia.

MER Article

An Interview with Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, an assistant professor of anthropology at Bard College, is the author of Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020), which won the Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association in 2020. Tessa Far

Tessa Farmer • 11 min read

Current Analysis

The Humble Tomato

In early February 2011, shortly after the beginning of the January 25 revolution that toppled Husni Mubarak, I made a phone call to a friend in an informal area of Cairo. I wanted to check on her wellbeing, and was interested to hear her perspective on reports that some of the thugs hired by the gov

Tessa Farmer • 3 min read