MER Article From the Editor (Fall 1999) A quarter of a century ago, MERIP Reports, the forerunner of this magazine, received wide acclaim for its incisive and politically accurate reporting on Iran in the years leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Two decades after the culmination of the tumultuous events that redefined Iranian soci The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1999) Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997). Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing (Northampton, MA: Interlink Book The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Summer 1999) Although a decade has passed since President George Bush proclaimed the dawn of a “new world order” characterized by global US military and economic supremacy, it is increasingly obvious that the leaders of the new world order understand less about its dangers and contradictions than do those at its The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editorial (Spring 1999) People throughout the Middle East have long contended with political systems that neither represent them nor serve their interests. With the advent of neoliberalism as the world’s defining economic trend, however, governments and citizens alike in the Middle East are now subject to a global economic The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Arcs of Crises Between the confrontations with Iraq in February and November, and the Cruise missile salvos directed at Afghanistan and Sudan in August, 1998 has been rather busy for the gunboat section of the US diplomatic corps. Twice, the UN secretary-general averted US military action by securing promises that The Editors • 6 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Fall 1998) Five years ago on the White House lawn, President Bill Clinton assumed he had achieved a monumental Middle East policy coup. Since then, the overall situation in the Middle East has worsened, largely due to the ignorance and arrogance that characterize US policy making in the region. In the face of The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 1997) The construction of a new Jewish settlement at Jabal Abu Ghunaym is but the latest effort by the Israeli government to assert its sovereignty over East Jerusalem and preempt the “final status” talks on the city’s future. In addition to completing the inner ring of Jewish settlements around East Jeru The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 1997) The last four months in Algeria have left more than 650 civilians dead and significantly more wounded. During the month of Ramadan alone (January 10-February 7, 1997) the latest wave of car bombings and massacres killed more than 350. As many as 60,000 have died in the civil war triggered when the a The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 1996) Three years ago, a handshake in Washington was to have ushered in an unprecedented era of peace in the Middle East. While the return of the Likud to power has focused the attention of mainstream media on the questionable future of this “peace process,” it would be a grave error The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 1996) This, our two-hundredth issue of Middle East Report, addresses the sensitive topic of minorities in the Middle East. The articles examine the relations of power that create and preserve or challenge and displace the politics of difference in a variety of contexts. National, ethnic, religious and sectarian differences make conflict The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1996) Abdalla, Ahmad. Parliamentary Elections in Egypt: What Elections? What Parliament? And Which Egypt? Amsterdam Middle East Papers 1/3 (Amsterdam, 1995). Adelson, Roger. London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996). Appiah, The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 1996) B’tselem. Incidents of Death and Injury Resulting from Exploding Munitions Remnants (Jerusalem, 1995). Colonna, Fanny. Les versets d’invincibilite: Permanence et changements religieux dans l’Algerie contemporaine (Paris: Presse de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1995). Darweish, Ma The Editors • 1 min read
