MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2005) There is one cliché about the killing field that is US-occupied Iraq that rings true. There is no “good option,” no magic wand that will make the violence bedeviling the country disappear. The question ought to be which of the bad options offers the best hope for achieving a sovereign Iraq with a mi The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2005) Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Beck, Lois and Guity Nashat, eds. Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004). Btselem. Forbidden Roads: Israel’s Discrimin The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2005) Not so long ago, commentators were fond of noting how Samuel Huntington’s “third wave of democracy” had shattered upon the adamantine breakwater of Arab despotism. Today, with Palestinians, Iraqis and male Saudi Arabians all going to the polls in the space of a month, with Egyptians and Lebanese taking The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2004) American Friends Service Committee. When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel (Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 2004). Cohen, Stephen P. The Idea of Pakistan (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004). Collins, John. Occupied by Memo The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 2004) One has to wonder what whimsical bard in the bowels of the Pentagon conceived the name Operation Phantom Fury for the second Marine invasion of the Iraqi city of Falluja in early November. Was it a reference to the screams of bloodied, bereaved or homeless Iraqis that have been broadcast The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2004) Achcar, Gilbert. Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004). Amin, Samir. The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004). Bass, Warren. Support Any Friend: Kennedy The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 2004) It is not hard to understand why the judiciously written and copiously footnoted report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States debuted to widespread acclaim in July 2004. Coming as it did amid the febrile US presidential campaign season, the report rode the quadrennial wave of Deborah J. Gerner, Chris Toensing, The Editors • 10 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2004) Abou El Fadl, Khaled et al. Islam and the Challenge of Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004). Bird, Christiane. A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004). Bozarslan, Hamit. Violence in the Middle East: From Political Strugg The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2004) Israel's bloody military campaign in Rafah in May was but the latest blow to the infrastructure of Palestinian society in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the fall of 2000. It has been clear for some time that these assaults, coupled with the contemporaneous expansion of The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2004) Brown, Nathan. Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003). Cook, Catherine, Adam Hanieh and Adah Kay. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children (London: Pluto Press, 2004). Diamond, Larry, The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2004) "An educated wife and mother is a better wife and mother. No husband is better off because she is chained by ignorance. No son is better off because his mother cannot read." Students of Middle East history might guess that these are the words of Qasim Amin, the Egyptian lawyer whose writings at the The Editors • 7 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 2003) "If Saddam had nuclear weapons, Iraq's geographic location at the head of the Persian Gulf would allow him to threaten the destruction of a number of targets of great importance to the United States. The Saudi oilfields are a particularly worrisome target." These lines do not come from a pilfered Ha The Editors • 5 min read
