MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2002) Abdo, Nahla and Ronit Lentin, eds. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002). Amin, Camron M. The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 (Gainesville, (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2002) Abdul-Jabar, Faleh. Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Arkoun, Mohammed. The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Barlow, Maude and Tony Clarke. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2002) Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Antoun, Richard T. Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Peasants (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2001) Aruri, Naseer, ed. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (London: Pluto Press, 2001). Afshari, Reza. Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). B’Tselem. Standard Routine: Beatings and Abuses of Palestinians by Israeli Securit (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2001) Books Booth, Marilyn. May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001). B’Tselem. Tacit Consent: Israeli Law Enforcement on Settlers in the Occupied Territories (Jerusalem, March 2001). Charrad, Mounira M. States and Women’s (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Iraqi Klondike Talk of a "new Middle East" was very much in vogue in the early 1990s. With a seeming Pax Americana reigning over the region after the Gulf war, and with Israel and its neighbors apparently nearing a comprehensive settlement, it looked as if economic interests, not political rivalries, (Author not identified) • 14 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2001) Ahmad, Eqbal. Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian (Boston: South End Press, 2000). Akash, Munir and Moore, Daniel, eds. Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (Syracuse, NY: Jusoor/Syracuse University Press, 2000). Al-Ali, Nadje. Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Letters (Fall 2000) Kuwait MERIP's Iraq issue (MER 215) represented an opportunity to shape the magazine according to the needs of the new activism challenging Washington's policy towards Iraq-the movement against crippling economic sanctions, thrice-weekly bombings, the undermining of the United Nations and the regio (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article Americans Against the Sanctions As US policy supporting the continuation of sanctions on Iraq becomes ever more isolated abroad, domestic criticism of sanctions also mounts. Opponents of sanctions gained new visibility in February 1998 at Ohio State University, when pointed questions from the audience disrupted the Clinton adminis (Author not identified) • 7 min read
MER Article "Existing Political Vessels Cannot Contain the Reform Movement" Sai’id Hajjarian, a leading theorist of the democratic Islamist new left, is one of President Khatami’s closest political advisers. In 1998 he ran for the Tehran City Council, receiving the second largest number of votes. Hajjarian is also the official permit holder for the daily Sobh-e Emrooz and s (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article Document: Forced Evictions and Destruction in Villages in Turkish Kurdistan This document is excerpted from a longer report by the Netherlands Kurdistan Society, Forced Evictions and Destruction of Villages in Dersim (Tunceli) and the Western Part of Bingöl, Turkish Kurdistan, September-November 1994 (Amsterdam, 1995). (Author not identified) • 8 min read
