MER Article From the Editor (Fall 2003) August 2003 was a cruel month. Parties still unknown detonated a car bomb outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqis. Two weeks later, an unclaimed truck bomb devastated the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital, killing 23 people, including UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira de The Editors • 4 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Summer 2003) Two months after the welcome demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime, it has become customary to say that the US won the war and is losing the peace in Iraq. This formulation, coined to describe US neglect of Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, gives the Bush administration too much credit. The The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2003) Yes, Thomas Friedman admitted in early March of 2003, the costs of George W. Bush's increasingly unilateral Iraq adventure are beginning to mount. Friedman, along with ex-National Security Council man Kenneth Pollack, has been a reassuring voice of reason coaxing fellow Establishment liberals into what another New York The Editors • 8 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 2002) If there is to be a US-led conquest of Iraq, the American public and the world are entitled to know why. Unable to demonstrate that Iraq's putative weapons of mass destruction pose a "mortal threat" to the United States or to provide evidence implicating Iraq in The Editors • 9 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 2002) As this issue went to press, official Washington awaited George W. Bush's September 12 address to the United Nations, in which he was expected to end months of speculation over whether, and how, the US will act to produce "regime change" in Iraq. Despite White House The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2002) At least 700,000 people jammed the streets of New York on June 12, 1982 to demand full disarmament from the heads of state gathered to discuss nuclear policy at the United Nations. The raucous crowd's chants of "No nukes!" drew favorable comment from German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who praised the The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2002) Outside the Pentagon, the smoking rubble left when one wing of the Defense Department wasdestroyed by a hijacked airliner last September 11 is long since cleared. A scoreboard-sized digital clock counts down the days and hours until this coming September 11, when the Pentagon expects to have fully repaired the The Editors • 6 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Fall 2001) Upon its installment in the White House, the second Bush administration was universally expected to be the loyal handmaiden of Big Oil. The US oil and gas industry lavished $1,387,975 upon the hastily assembled committee which planned the inaugural festivities for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. BP- The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2001) Amin, Galal. Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000). Brumberg, Daniel. Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). B’Tselem, Illusions of Rest The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Summer 2001) This May's escalations in the long-since militarized confrontation in the Occupied Territories prompted the obligatory calls upon the US to intensify its diplomatic efforts. Secretary of State Colin Powell responded with the lackluster Mitchell Commission report and another attempt to broker a cease The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Spring 2001) On February 16, US and British warplanes bombed targets outside the no-fly zones for the first time since December 1998, prompting a brief media frenzy that refocused the world's attention on the low-level US-UK air war waged against Iraq since the 1990-1991 Gulf war. But the media mostly missed the The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2000) Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif, ed. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Arat, Zehra F., ed. Deconstructing Images of “The Turkish Woman” (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Armbrust, Walter, ed. Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Cul The Editors • 1 min read
