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Issue 306 (Spring 2023) Masthead

Middle East Report, “The State of Iraq–20 Years After the Invasion,” Spring 2023, No. 306, Vol. 52 No. 1 Executive Director Mandy Terc mandyterc@merip.org Executive Editor Katie Natanel katienatanel@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@merip.org Staff Editors

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Issue 305 (Winter 2022) Masthead

Middle East Report, “Peripheries and Borderlands,” Winter 2022, No. 305, Vol. 51 No. 4 Executive Director Mandy Terc mandyterc@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 Michael Kaplan kaplan_m@gwu.edu

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Issue 304 (Fall 2022) Masthead

Middle East Report, “Football—Politics and Passions,” Fall 2022, No. 304, Vol. 51 No. 3 Executive Director Mandy Terc mandyterc@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 Michael Kaplan kaplan_m@gwu.

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Issue 303 (Summer 2022) Masthead

Issue 303 (Summer 2022) Masthead

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Issue 302 (Spring 2022) Masthead

Masthead for Middle East Report 302 (Spring 2022)

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Rethinking US Policy Toward Iran: A Forum

While US relations with Iran have been adversarial since the 1979 Islamic revolution, President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) in 2018 and his belligerent implementation of a “maximum pressure” policy has on more than one occasion risked escalation. Even though Trump seems to want to

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In Appreciation of Chris Toensing, Steve Niva and Jimmy Bishara

At this time of uncertainty, disruption and rebuilding, MERIP would like to offer our deep gratitude to several members of our family whose contributions over the past two decades have allowed MERIP to survive and thrive against all odds. For nearly 50 years, MERIP has been committed to providing high

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Editor's Picks Spring 2018

Baconi, Tareq. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Berda, Yael. Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017). Blumi, Isa. Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World (Berkeley: University of

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New and Recommended Reading Summer 2018

Abboud, Samer. Syria (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018). Adalet, Begum. Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford: Stanford University press, 2018). Abul-Magd, Zeinab. Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Ahmad, Attiya. Everyday Conversions: Islam,

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Editor's Picks (Spring 2017)

Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). Bashkin, Orit. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bayat, Asef. Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bridge, Gavin and

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Current Analysis

An Open Letter by Senior Middle East Scholars to the New York Times Regarding its Thomas Friedman's column, "Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, At Last."

We write as scholars of the Middle East and the Muslim world with long, collective experience on Gulf and Arabian Peninsula policy issues to express our amazement, concern and anger that the New York Times would publish Thomas Friedman's recent essay "Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring,

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Editor's Picks (Winter 2016)

Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul. A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Contosta, David R. America’s Needless Wars: Cautionary Tales of US Involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017). Dahi, Omar and Firat Demir. South-South

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