Events Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC November 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Issue 315-316 Issue 315/316 (Summer/Fall 2025) Masthead Middle East Report, “The Material Politics of Normalization,” Summer/Fall 2025, No. 315/316, Vol. 54 No. 2–3 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Billie Jeanne Brownlee bbrownlee@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Senior Staff Editor & Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@ (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Issue 315-316 A Note on the Masthead Over the summer, MERIP’s executive editor Katie Natanel rotated off the editorial team after three and a half years. Katie joined at the beginning of MERIP’s partnership with Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, stepping into what was then a new position within the organization. Behind (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Sara Qaed Issue 315-316 A Note on the Cover Image The cover of MER’s Summer/Fall double issue, “The Material Politics of Normalization,” features a 2020 illustration by Bahraini artist Sara Qaed. The image—a pair of scissors bent into the Arabic word for “no” (la)—was published on Qaed’s Instagram two days before the signing of the (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Events Syria at the Crossroads: Regional Politics and the Movement for Palestine June 23 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Events Syria at the Crossroads: Unpacking Sectarianism and the Crisis in Suweida August 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Issue 314 (Spring 2025) Masthead Middle East Report, “New Gender Frontlines,” Spring 2025, No. 314, Vol. 54 No. 1 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Katie Natanel katienatanel@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@merip.org Staff Editor Alyssa Bivins bivins@gwu.edu Issue (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Installation view of Raed Issa’s Faces From My Homeland, 2024, at Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan. Photograph courtesy of Darat al Funun. MER Article A Note on the Cover Image Raed Issa’s 2024 series, Faces from My Homeland, illuminates the cover of MER issue 314 “New Gender Frontlines.” The work—a mix of charcoal, coffee, pomegranate and hibiscus painted on repurposed medicine packages from Gaza—depicts a grid of women’s faces, spanning generations and conditions: from martyr, to (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Events ISSUE LAUNCH: New Gender Frontlines June 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Issue 313 (Winter 2024) Masthead Middle East Report, “Resistance—The Axis and Beyond,” Winter 2024, No. 313, Vol. 53 No. 4 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Katie Natanel katienatanel@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@merip.org Staff Editor Alyssa Bivins bivins@gwu. (Author not identified) • 1 min read
“Inherited Memories,” by Samar Hussaini. MER Article A Note on the Cover Image While MER issue 313 grapples with the question of resistance to Israeli-US domination in light of a weakened regional axis, its cover centers the intimate, everyday textures of life that continue to animate the struggle for liberation. Samar Hussaini’s “Inherited Memories” works through media of acrylic, ink, graphite, image (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Issue 301 (Winter 2021) Masthead Middle East Report, “Revolutionary Afterlives,” Winter 2021, No. 301, Vol. 5 No. 4 Executive Director Mandy Terc mandyterc@merip.org Managing Editor & Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@merip.org Issue Editors Arang Keshavarzian Stacey Philbrick Yadav Atef Said Pete Moore Format: Online ISSN 3065-744X (Author not identified) • 1 min read